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CATALOGUE OF THE NAMES 



OF THE 



EARLY PURITAN SETTLERS 



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COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 



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STANDING IN SOCIETY, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, CONDITION IN LIFE, WHERE FROM, 
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COLLECTED FROM RECORDS, 

BY ROYAL R. HINMAN, 

OF HARTFORD . 



HARTFORD: 

PRESS OF CASE, TIFFANY AND COMrANY. 

1852. 









Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by 
ROYAL R. HINMAN, 
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. 



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PREFACE. 



I 



In giving to the public a work like the one I now offer, imperfect as pub- 
lications of this kind generally must be, and depending upon all kinds of 
evidence, for proof of early days, such as town, court, probate and church 
records, often badly written two hundred years since, connected with an 
orthography, frequently difficult to decipher, and old books, with many 
obliterated margins, with femily records in ancient tattered Bibles, and 
tombstones with many of the words and figures obliterated by time, journals 
to which I have referred, Avith dates culled from odd numbers and broken 
volumes, may be some excuse for the comjjiler for such errors as necessarily 
will occur In works of this kind. I have Only to say to such fault-finders, 
serve yourselves better by collecting the genealogy and history of your own 
ancestors in this country. I have frequently been amused Avhen meeting 
men of intelligence, who were unable to give me the name of their great- 
grandfather, and many could not even inform me who was their grandfather, 
where he resided or where he died, or the maiden name of their grandmother. 
Indeed I found in one case, a gentleman of a liberal education, who was 
unable to inform me the month in which he was married, or the birth of any 
of his six children. Too much dependence has been placed upon family 
tradition, which is generally Avorse than no evidence. Ask most men what 
they know of their first ancestors in this country, and seven persons out of 
eight will honestly answer—" three brothers came over to this country 
together," and often give their names, when in fact there are not found In the 
whole colony of Connecticut but four cases, where three brothers came into 
the colony in the early settlement, except they were children who acconq)a- 
nled their parents. The errors which I committed in the five numbers, I 
before published, were owing more to my reliance upon family tradition than 
all other causes. I have devoted the five past years entirely to this subject, 
and now feel as though I had only commenced a task of twenty years. I have 
^examined some of the records of Long Island, of New Jersey, of Massachusetts, 
and very many in Connecticut, at an expense of money and time. Sev- 
eral of the first records in the state of New York are in the Dutch language, 
and in one town in New Jersey, the records have uniformly been kept 
in Dutch, until since A. D. 1800 — from the latter 1 glean nothing. I propose 
to publish once in two months, a number of 100 or more pages, until six num- 



3 PREFACE. I 

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bers have been given to the" public, at fifty cents a number, which will 
contain nearly three thousand of the early settlers of the Colony, and most 
of them the first of the name who came to Connecticut, with some genealogy 
and character of each, where I have been enabled to procure them. The 
names will be arranged and printed in alphabetical order, so as to be referred 
to in the volume with perfect ease. Where so many facts are collected, it 
will be impossible to give the authority for each, as the printed references 
would occupy too much space in the book. 
Hartford, Ct., 1852. 



INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL FACTS. 



It is calculated that about one-half of the present population (exclusive 
of foreigners who have come to New England, since 1800,) are the descend- 
ants of the Puritan settlers of the four first Colonies in New England. A 
large portion of the present population, within the old bounds of the Colony 
of Connecticut, have some curiosity to learn, who their first ancestors were 
in this country ; where and when they landed ; what was their condition to 
live in the wilderness, surrounded by savage men, more dangerous to their 
future welfare than the beasts of the forest. 

The object of the compiler, is to issue six numbers, revising the five num- 
bers before published, depending as little as possible, ujxjn tradition, but upon 
the Town, Church, Probate, Colony and Court Records, in different towns 
in the Colony, and giving to the public the names of the first settlers who lo- 
cated in the Connecticut Colony ; the ships they came in, where landed, their 
standing and condition in life, as far as discovered. 

Most of the settlers of New England, previous to 1 700, came first into the 
Plymouth or Massachusetts colonies, and those who afterwards settled in Con- 
necticut, removed from those two colonies. Many of the first settlers of 
Connecticut remained several years at Watertown, Newtown and Dorches- 
ter, in Massachusetts, before they removed to Connecticut. And it is yet 
quite difficult, from all the records discovered, to settle the point satisfactorily, 
what town was first settled by the white people in this colony. I am inclined 
to believe there is little question, that the first Dutch people were at 
Hartfoixl, before any English settlers were at either Windsor or Weth- 
ersfield, Both the English and Dutch claimed to have been the first dis- 
coverers of Connecticut River, and both purchased lands on the river. 
Mr. Winslow probably had information of the river before the Dutch, yet it 
appears from history that the Dutch had erected a fort at Dutch Point, 
in Hartford, probabl}- with the intention of holding the lands on the river, 
and as a trading-house. Tlie best evidence is, that tliis was as early as 1633. 
Gov. Winslo^tand Mr. Bradford visited Gov. Winthrop to induce him to join 
with the Plymouth Colony in a trade with the Indians in Connecticut, in 1G33, 
and erect a house for this purpose. Gov. Winthrop decUned the offer of 
uniting, and gave his reasons for so doing. The Plymouth people, Dr. Trum- 
bull says, " deti miined to undertake the enterprise at their own risk." 
In 1633, "John Oldham and three others with him," travelled through the 
woods to Connecticut, to view the country and trade with the Indians. It 
1* 



6 INTRODUCTION. 

appears by Dr. Trumbull's account of it, that the Dutch were Ibcated at Hart- 
ford, when Capt. William Holmes of Plymouth, with his vessel and company, 
with a frame and materials for a house, went up the river. The Dutchmen 
stood by their cannon and ordered Holmes to strike his colors, or they would 
fire upon him : Holmes assured the Dutch he had a commission from the 
•Tovernor of Plymouth to go up the river, and he must (and did) obey his 
orders. And the house was erected in Windsor, in October, 1633, and forti- 
fied against the Dutch and Indians by palisadoes. 

These facts show that the first white men, located settlers on the Connecti- 
cut, were the Dutch at Dutch Point, in Hartford, as early as October, 1633, 
and were there when Capt. Holmes went up the river with his company, to 
erect a trading-house at Windsor. Windsor appears to have been the first 
town settled by the English, and Wethersfield was probably the next, but it 
is by no means certain that the English were not in Hartford, nearly at the 
same time they were at Windsor and Wethersfield. AVe find Nicholas Clark 
the joiner, sent to Hartford by John Tallcot, Sen., to build him a framed 
house in Hartford, in 1635, a year previous to Mr. Hooker and his company 
removing to Hartford. (See Note A in Appendix.) Nicholas Clark is 
found at Hartford one of the first settlers, and a son of John Talcot, Sen., 
wrote these facts in his manuscript copy of the first history of Hartford, 
which is now, and ever since has been, in possession of his desee idants. 
Nicholas Clark in the summer of 1635, built the kitchen part of the house, 
and in 1636, the upright part adjoining the kitchen, &c. This he could not, 
or at any rate, would not have attempted to do alone or with a few men, if 
surrounded by savages and wild beasts. I am inclined to believe that these 
three towns had many inhabitants in each of them, as early as 1635.* The 
first Court Record now preserved, was held at Newtown, (Hartford,) April 
26, 1636 : this was about two months before Mr. Hooker and his company of 
Hartford settlers started upon their journey for Hartford. Yet we find the 
five Judges were chosen from the three new towns, Dorchester, Newtown, 
and Watertown, and appointed a constable for each of the three towns: not 
only so, if there had been no white English population before 1636 in Hart- 
ford, Mr. Hooker would not have brought his delicate wife on a litter, vipon 
men's shoulders, from Massachusetts to Connecticut, when he had no house 
provided for her, on their arrival. 

In 1621, and for many years after, all the settlers for New England landed 
in the colony of New Plymouth, or Massachusetts, and emigrated from thence 
to Connecticut. For several years after 1635, there were no settlements by 



• Dr. Trumbull, under date 1G36, remarks, "as soon as the spring advanced, and the travel- 
ling would admit, the hardy men began to return from Massachusetts, to their habitations on the 
river." Vol. I. page 64. It may be inferred from this remark that many settlers in tlie tliree 
towns on Connecticut River, had been the year previous, and built houses, and had returned to 
their families in the autumn of 1635, and returned to Connecticut in ihe spring of 1636. The 
first Court held in Hartford, was upon the 26th of April, 1636, and Mr. Hooker and his company 
did not start for Hartford, until June, 1636. Trumbull's record, and Winthrop. • 



INTRODUCTIOX. 7 

the English in Connccticnt, except In the towns of Windsor, Hartford and 
Wethersfield, and a few at Say brook. In 1634, some of the Watertown set- 
tlers came and erected a few houses in what is now Wethersfield. (Mr. 
Weeks in his manuscript claims Wethersfield to be the oldest town on the 
river.) In 1635 the congregation of Mr. Wareham, at Cambridge, settled 
upon moving to Connecticut, and some few had come to Windsor, and made 
preparations to move their families. The people of Watertown also many of 
them moved to Wethersfield, and the people of Newtown were preparing to 
move to Hartford in the spring of 1636 — though some had come in 1635. 
John Wintlirop, a son of Gov. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, arrived at Bos- 
ton in 1635, as agent for Sir Richard Saltonstall and others, for the purpose 
of erecting a fort at the mouth of Connecticut River, and was appointed by 
the Company, (whose agent he was,) Governor of the River Connecticut, for 
one year after his arrival. He soon built the fort and erected houses — which 
was the commencement of the building and settling Saybrook. Many of the 
Dorchester people who had settled in AVindsor, occupied land near the Plym- 
outh trading-house — this greatly disturbed Gov. Bradford, as the Plymouth 
people had purchased the land of the Indians, and taken 250ssession of it by 
building their trading-house upon the land. About October, 1635, the Dor- 
chester people commenced moving to Windsor; about 60 men, women and 
children started through the wilderness with their horses, cattle, swine, &c., 
without roads, bridges, or even huts to cover them, sleeping in the open air — 
but they arrived safely, though the journey was long and tedious. Much of 
their provisions and household furniture had been sent round by water for 
Dorchester, (Windsor,) and were cast away and lost. The sufferings in the 
Colony in the winter of 1635 were most severe ; — their provisions failed, and 
bedding lost, .so that many to save life returned to Boston for the winter. 
But those who remained in the Colony through the winter came near perish- 
ing by femine, notwithstanding all they could procure of the Indians and get 
by hunting. Much of the winter they subsisted on acorns, roots and grains. 
Many of their cattle died. 

In the spring of 1636 the emigration began again in companies from INIas- 
sachusetts to Connecticut, and sent their provisions by water. In June, 
1636, the Rev. Thomas Hooker, Mr. Samuel Stone and about one hundred 
others, of all ages and sexes, started through the wilderness, guided only by 
a compass, to Hartford — with no cover but the heavens, and no lodging but the 
ground, and subsisted on the milk of the cows which they drove with their other 
cattle, numbering one hundred and sixty in all. They carried their packs 
upon their backs, and their arms for protection in their hands. Mrs. Hooker 
was so feeble in health that she was carried the whole journey upon a litter, 
and they reached Newtown (Hartford) in about two weeks. In September, 
1636, as many of Mr. Warham's people had moved to Windsor, he started 
for Windsor to take charge of his church, but left his family at Dorchester, 
until he could prepare to receive them ; so that at this time the three towns 
upon the river were permanently settled by many inhabitants, with Mr. 



O INTRODUCTION. 

Warham in charge of the church at Windsor, Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone at 
Hartford. 

Rev. Mr. Philips who had been the minister for the emigrants to Wethers- 
field, at Watertown, Mass., did not remove to Watertown, Conn., with his 
people. Mr. Mather and Mr. Warham had amicably agreed with the church 
at Dorchester, that Mr. Mather should remain with the church at Dorchester, 
IMass., and Mr. Warham should remove with such of his church as preferred 
to remove with him to Dorchester, Conn. All emigrants to Connecticut 
firstly came to some one of the three old towns on the Connecticut River: in- 
deed after the first settlement at New Haven, some of their emigrants, 
passed from Massachusetts by land, on the track made by the Connecticut 
settlers from Boston to Hartford. 

It will be recollected by the reader, that Mr. Warham and Mr. Hooker 
had been ordained, one at Dorchester, and the other in Newtown, in Mass., 
before they and their churches moved to Dorchester and Newtown, in Con- 
necticut. They gave the towns where each resided in this Colony the same 
names of the towns from which they had removed ; Hartford was called New- 
town — and Windsor, Dorchester — and Wethersfield, Watertown. But at the 
General Court of the Colony, in February, 1637, (as time is now reckoned,) 
they gave the several towns their present names. 

It will be discovered then, that here were three towns located in the wil- 
derness, with a large number of inhabitants, (as many must have come into 
the colony, before either of the churches moved as a colony) without any 
law to govern them, either civil, military, or criminal ; and the principles and 
much less the practice and forms of an independent government, in a great 
measure unknown to men who had been educated under the crown of Eng- 
land and had learned only to obey. The first year (1635) no courts were 
organized, not even a town organization formed, and much less any thing 
like a General Court formed to enact laws and punish offences. The oflScers 
of the several churches governed their own members according to the rules 
and discipline of the church ; and as no other law existed in the Colony, all 
offenders, if any were tried befere 1636, must have been tried by the Mo- 
saic law, by the churches. But as the law of Moses made no provision to 
punish a white man for selling a gun to an Indian, it therefore became nec- 
essary that some civil body of men should be so organized as to enact such 
laws as would prevent or punish offences not provided for in the Bible. The 
placing of fire-arms in the possession of the Indians was considered one of 
the most culpable offences in the Colony, which endangered not only the 
property but the safety and lives of the English settlers. At this time it was 
discovered that Henry Stiles had traded a gun with the Indians for corn. 
Therefore on the 26th day of April, 1636, a court was organized by five of 
the best men in the Colony — whether they constituted themselves a court or 
were elected by the people, the record gives no account. The Court con- 
sisted of Roger Ludlow, as chairman, and Mr. Westwood, John Steel, An- 
drew Ward, and William Phelps, as his associates. The first act of the 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

Court was to try Stiles for the offence. He was found guilty, and ordered 
by the Court to regain the gun from the Indians in a fair and legal way, or 
the Court should take the case into further consideration. The Court then 
enacted a law, that from henceforth no one within the jurisdiction of the 
Court should trade with the Indians any piece or pistol, gun or shot, or pow- 
der, under such penalty as the Court should see meet to inflict. This was 
the first court, the first trial, and the first law ever enacted or had in 
Connecticut. 

As the members of the court resided in the three towns before mentioned, , 
they assumed the power (as no law had been enacted by them, and the Mo- 
saic law iKid not provided for it,) to appoint and swear constables for Dor- 
chester, Newtown and Watertown, for the then ensuing year, or until new 
ones should be chosen. This it appears was considered by the Court as an 
organization or incorporation of the three towns. For many years after, and 
long after the Confederation of Hartford, Windsor and Wetherefield, all that 
was done by the General Court to incoq)orate a plantation or town, was to 
appoint and swear a constable, and the remainder was left to the Inhabitants .., 
of the plantation to finish its organization or incorporation. Even as late as 
1662-3-4, in many of the towns upon Long Island, also at Westchester, 
where they were claimed by the Colony, or placed themselves under the 
government of Connecticut, a constable was appointed or approved by the 
General Court, and the towns at once became liable to be taxed by the Colo- 
ny, and had the privilege of being represented at the General Court. The 
Court thus formed for the trial of Henry Stiles was continued from session to 
session and from year to J^ar, and was called "The Corte, a Corte, in May, 
1637, it is recorded ' Generall Corte,' Apiil 11th, 1639, called ' General meet- 
ing of the Freemen,' " (The Court of Election.) The day the Charter 
(which bears date April 2Sd, 1662,) was -publicly read before the people of 
Connecticut, to wit, October 9, 1662, it is recorded the "General Assem- 
bly," (under the Charter.) Here the reader will see that the origin of the 
present General Assembly of the State of Connecticut was the formation of 
a Court of five men, in 1636, to try Henry Stiles criminally, (without law,) 
for selhng a gun to an Indian. 

The General Court soon discovered the propncty of adthng a House of 
Representatives to the first Court formed in 1636, particulai'ly upon great 
occasions. Therefore in May, 1637, the several towns were represented at 
the General Court by the name of Committee, by three from each town — 
and took their seats with the magistrates who had previously constituted the 
Court. The object at this time of enlarging the number of the General Court, 
was an event which has never been surpassed in importance to the Colony or 
State since. It was whether they should declare war against the most war- 
like and powerful tribe of Indians in New England. The future safety of 
property and life in the Colony depended upon the result. • The Pequots had 
stolen not only the property of the English, and murdered some of the in- 
habitants, but had abducted from Wethersfield two young ladies, and carried 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

them among the Indians by force. But not to add to this interesting narra- 
tive further. The General Court, feeble as the inhabitants were in numbers, 
and deficient in means, trusted in God for the result, and boldly declared war 
against the Pecjuots. Ninety men were ordered to be raised — munitions of 
war were at once prepared, — Rev. Samuel Stone was selected as Chaplain 
for the little but valorous army. They went down Connecticut River in 
three small vessels, with Captain Mason as commander, (and to be brief,) 
they met the enemy at the Mystic Fort ; and though the colonists lost two, 
with 4xteen wounded, they fought like men who were fighting for the future 
welfare of the Colony — for the lives of their wives, children, and their own 
lives and property. When all was closed nearly six hundred Indians lay 
dead ujjon the battle ground — about sixty or seventy wigwams burned to the 
ground, and the Fort in ashes. So valorous and complete was the victory 
that the Pequots became extinct as a nation. Sassicus fled with a few of his 
warriors to the Mohawks ; others imited with other tribes, particularly with 
the Mohegans. 

It will therefore be seen that what is now styled the Senate, originated, as 
has been stated ; and the formation of the House of Representatives origin- 
ated in the necessity of having more councillors in the declaration of war 
against the Pequot Indians. After which meeting of the Committee, in 
1637, the Committee met in the General Court as the House of Representa- 
tives, and the two houses were styled the Commissioners and Committee un- 
til after the union of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, in 1639, when 
the government was formed by adding a Governor and Deputy Governor. 
The Upper House was styled the House of Magistrates, and during 1639 the 
Lower House retained the name of Conmiittee; but in April, 1640, the 
Lower House, or popular branch, was styled the House of Deputies. 

From the organization of the General Court In the Colony, in 163G, to the 
confederation of the three towns upon Connecticut River, in 1639, being 
three years — there was no other court in the Colony, except the Particular 
Court of 1637, which did little business. The General Court took cognizance 
of divisions in churches — of all crmiinal offences — of all civil matters — the ap- 
pointment and confirmation of all officers in the jurisdiction — declared war — 
regulated commerce — formed and governed the militia ; — indeed every thing in 
the Colony came under their supervision. They ordered that no young unmar- 
ried man unless a public officer, or he kept a servant, should keep house alone, 
except by licence of the town, under a penalty of twenty shilhngs per week ; 
and that no head of a family should entertain such young man under a like 
penalty, without liberty from the town. The object of this law probably was, 
to compel early marriages, to aid in settling the colony, and to prevent their 
keeping bad company. 

As early as 1640, the General Court intended that the inhabitants should 
measure their apparel by the length of their purses — the court being the judg- 
es. The constable in each town was ordered to take notice of all persons, 
and if he judged any person exceeded their rank and condition in life, in 




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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



ABBE, (Abbie, Abbee, Abbey,) JOHN and Hannah his wife were 
at Windham, Conn., and had issue recorded there, viz: Richard, b. 
Feb. 9, 1682, d. July 10, 1737, aged 54; Mary, b. Sept. 16, 1684; 
Marcy, b. March 5, 1689; John, Jun , b. April 20, 1691 ; Hannah, 
b. Aug. 13, 1693; Lidia, b. May 21, 1696; Sarah, b. March 11, 
1699. John Abbe d. there Dec. 11, 1700. Thomas Abbe d. April 
1, 1700. His son John, Jun., was a proprietor in the drawing of the 
20 acre lots in 1707, 

ABBE, RICHARD, Esq., son of John and Hannah, m. Mary Gen- 
nings, Nov. 16, 1703, (probably removed.) 

*ABBE, SAMUEL, of Windham, m. Hannah Silsby, March 15, 
1710, and had issue: Samuel, Jun., b. Oct. 12, 1712, d. 1714. 
Samuel the father d. Jan. 15, 1736-7, aged about 61 years. 

ABBE, OBADIAH, of Windham, and Elizabeth his wife, had 
issue : Mercy, b. Oct. 5, 1702 ; Obadiah, b. April 10, 1704 ; Eliza- 
beth, b. April 1, 1706; Hannah, b. Dec. 1, 1707; Abigail b. Oct. 
25, 1709 ; Ruth b. Sept. 15, 1712 ; Joseph b. May 28, 1714 ; Rich- 
ard b. May, 1716; 2d Joseph b. Jan. 16, 1718-19. 

ABBE, SAMUEL, of Windham, d. there in 1698. His widow Ma- 
ry m. Abraham Mitchell, and slie administered on her first husband's 
estate. Samuel's children were, Mary, aged 25, Samuel 23, Thom- 
as 20, Ebenezer 16, Marcy 14, Sarah 13, Hepzibah 10, Abigail 8, 
John 7, Eleazer 8, Benjamin 6, and Jonathan 2. Elizabeth's estate, 
£58. 8s. 2d. 

ABBE, EBENEZER, of Windham, deeded land to John Fitch, 
of W^indham, Sept. 12, 1715. OBID ABBE gave a deed of land 



• Windham was incorporated May, 1692, though it commenced settling as early as 1639, 
when Capt. John Kates or Gates, and his servant, framed and raised the first house in Windham . 



14 GENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS. 

in Windham to Samuel Abbe, of Windsor, in 1714. JOHN ABBE, 
of Windham, d. Dec. 1700. He left a widow Hannah and children. He 
had married a widow, who had children by her first husband. 

ABBE, JOHN, who was born at Windham, settled in East Hart- 
ford soon after 1700 : he died in East Hartford, Oct. 30, 1790, aged 
109 years. 

ABBE, JONATHAN, of Willington, Conn., d. in 1760, and left 
children, viz : Anne, Mary, Jonathan, Samuel and Rebeccah. 

The Abbe's were also pioneers at Enfield. 

*ABBE, THOMAS, was an original proprietor and settler at En- 
field. He died at Enfield, in 1728, and left two sons, who settled 
there, viz : Thomas, Jun., b. 1686, m. Mary Pease, daughter of Capt. 
John Pease, 1714, d. 1745, had two sons, first, Obadiah, b. 17.28, d. 
1745 ; second, Thomas, b. 1731, m. Penelope Terry, widow of Dr. 
Ebenezer, d. 1811, aged 81 years, and left children : John, b. 1692. 
one of the first settlers of the upper part of " King's street," had 
four sons — John, b. 1717, m. Sarah Root, daughter of Timothy Root, 
of Somers, 1739, settled in the east part of the town, d. 1794, left 
two sons, who both settled and died in the east part of Enfield. 
Thomas, b. 1721, and Daniel, b. 1726, both died at Cape Breton, 
1745, without children. Richard, 4th son of John Abbe, b. 1735, 
m. Mary Bement, daughter of Capt. Dennis Bement, 1755, d. 1807, 
left children. This name is yet found at Enfield and Windham. 

ABBIE, SAMUEL, of Salem Village, Mass., freeman 1689-90. 
ABBY, JOHN, Sen., of Redding, Mass., freeman 1634. This was an 
early name at Cape Cod. 

Abbey has but one coat of arms. Five of this name have gradu- 
ated at Yale College. 

ABBOT, (Abbott, Abbit,) GEORGE, a servaM boy at Windsor, 
was fined £5, for selling a pistol and some powder to the Indians, 
and bound by the Court for his good behavior, and disposed of by the 
Court for farther service to his master, and to pay a fine, &c., 1640. 
He was in Court at Hartford, in 1647-8. In 1647 he was fined 12s. 
to Richard Lettin. 

ABBOTT, ROBERT, was a juror at the Particular Court in Hart- 



* Enfield began to Bettle in 1630, or '81, (the grant by Massachusetts to have it become a 
township, was in May, 1683,) and was incorporated in May, 1688. The town of Enfield was 
annexed to Connecticut, from Massachusetts, as were other towns, adjoining the north state 
line of Connecticut, as late as 1752. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 15 

ford, July 2, 1640, also Sept. 2, 1641 : he was probably as early as 
any other of the name in Connecticut. Yet I find JOHN ABBOTT 
at Wetliersfield, holding several lots of land there, as early as 1641. 
GEORGE ABBET, of Windsor, and John Moses, settled with the 
Indians of Massacoe,* (Simsbury,) for injury done to John Griffin of 
Windsor, by burning his tar and pitch, June 28, 1648 ; by the Indi- 
ans conveying their land at Massacoe, except two acres reserved by 
them for their own use. John Griffin, Dec. 23, 1661, assigned his 
Indian deed to the Committee, who had been appointed to dispose of 
the lands at Massacoe, for the use of the town of Windsor. GEORGE 
ABITT, Sen., and JOHN and JONATHAN ABBITT were all 
land holders in Norwalk, Conn., in 1687, George, Sen., was settled 
there as early as 1655. In 1672, he had seven children at Norwalk, 
and the town of Norwalk gave him ten acres of land for his service 
as a soldier. The Abbots formerly of Wallingford and Ridgefield, 
were son and grandsons of JOSEPH ABBOT, of New Haven, as 
early as 1681. 

ABBOTT, PHILLIP, of Windham, m. Abigail Bigford, Oct. 8, 
1723, and had issue born at Windham, viz: John, b. July 12, 1724 ; 
Abial, b. ]\Iarch 3, 1726 ; Stephen, b. April 21, 1728 ; Hannah, b. 
March 16, 1730 ; Mary, b. July 6, 1732 ; Zebediah, b., d. Dec. 

2, 1731. 

ABBOTT, JOHN, of Colchester, had a son John, baptized there 
Dec. 25, 1748 : Sarah, baptized May 27, 1750. 

t ABBOTT, JONATHAN, of Norwalk, m. Sarah, daughter of 
Lieut. John Olmsted, June 5, 1696, and had children born there, 
viz: Jonathan, Jr., b. April 6, 1697,; Sarah, b. June, 1699; 
Eunis, b. Jan. 23, 1702; Mary, b. July 8, 1704; Deborah, b. Dec. 

3, 1707 ; Keziah, b. April 17, 1711 ; Lemuel b. March 21, 1713-14 ; 



• Simsbury, (Indian name Massacoe,) began early to settle by the white people from Wind- 
sor. Several families were there about 164S, and the first settlers fled, during a part of Philip's 
War, though it was incorporated as early as May, 1G70. 

Farmer mentions ARTHUR, of Marblehead, an early inhabitant. DANIEL, freeman. 18th 
May. 1631, of Cambridge, in 10,14, fined 5k. for neglecting his watch in 1630. GEORGE, of Row- 
ley, died 1047. WALTER, a vintner of New Hampshire, in 1040. Jtobert, of Waterlown, 
Mass., freeman, in 1034, and several others, (see Farmer.) The name is spelt upon some of the 
records in Connecticut, " Abbit, Abbitt." 

t Norwalk originally included most of the present towns of Wilton, Westport. and New Ca- 
naan. The General Court of Connecticut Colony, gave Nathaniel Eli, and others, an order of 
settlement, in 1630, and in Sept., 16.') 1, incorporated the town. Though some of its settlers were 
there in 1050. Some of the early records call the town Norrwake, and some early records 
call Norwich, Xurridge. 



16 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Jane, b. Oct. 5, 1716, and Mindwell, b. Dec. 21, 1718. This name 
and blood yet continue in Fairfield County and other parts of Con- 
necticut. Thirty persons by the name of Abbot, and two by the 
name of Abbott, graduated at Harvard College, before 1849 ; and 
two by the name of Abbot, and three by the name of Abbott, at 
Yale College, before 1851. 

ABBOTT, EDWARD, and Henry Andrews of Taunton, Mass., 
were enrolled in 1643, as sthle to bear arms, between the ages of 16 
and 60 years. 

ABBOTT, JOHN, and MARIA ABBOTT, aged 16 years, em- 
barked in the Hopewell, for New England. 

ABBET, ROBERT, had three lots of land early recorded at Wa- 
tertown, Mass. 

The Coats of Arms of the name by Burk, are — Abbot (Lord 
Mayor of London, 1638,) has one. Abbot, (Baron Colchester, of Col- 
chester, Essex,) one. Abbot, (Baron Tentcrdon,) one. Abbot, 
(Shropshire,) one. Abbot, (Lincolnshire,) one. And three other 
Coats of Arms for the name. 

ABBOT, PAUL, of Andover, Mass., purchased lands in Wind- 
sor, of Richard Abbe of Windham, and James Richardson, in 1721, 
also of Nathaniel Hovey, in 1721. 

Robert Abbot, who is found in Connecticut, and is mentioned by 
Farmer, as admitted a freeman in Massachusetts, in 1634, was prob- 
ably the same man found a Juror at Hartford, July 2, 1640. 

ABELL, (Abel,) CALEB, was appointed to keep a tavern at 
Norwich, Conn., in 1694, for the year. In 1716, Caleb Abel re- 
ceived a deed of land in Windham, of Benajah Bushnell, merchant 
of Norwich. 

ABELL, JOSHUA, and Hugh Amos, were early settlers at Nor- 
wich, as soon as 1670, probably father of Caleb Abell. GEORGE 
ABELL was the first in Connecticut, as early as 1647. 

ABELL, ROBERT, desired to be made free at Boston, in 1630, 
and took the oath, May, 1631. 

ABELL, ROBERT, freeman at Weymouth, 1631 : his son Abra- 
ham was buried Nov., 1639. ELIJAH and JAMES ABELL 
graduated at Yale College, bef:)re 1851. This is an old name in 
Weymouth. Coats of Arms for the name. — The name Abell, (Es- 
sex,) has one. Abell or Abel (Kent and London,) the same as 
Abell of Essex. Abell, (Stapenhill, Co. Derby, visit, 1611,) and 
two other coats of arms. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 17 

ABERNETHE, (Ebernethe, Ebernathe, Ebernatha,) WILLIAM, 
a Scotchman, was early in Connecticut, first at Branford, and from 

thence to Wallingford. He first married Sarah Feb. 17, 1073, 

and married Elizabeth for his second wife. His children at 

Wallingford, were Elizabeth, b. Oct. 15, 1673 ; William, Jr., b. 
July 23, 1675; Sarah, b. Oct. 10, 1677 ; Mary, b. March 27, 1G79- 
80; Samuel, b. Jan. 10, 1683, d. March 14, 1723 ; Daniel, b. Sept. 
30, 1686, d. Oct. 31, 1723; Susannah, b. July 18, 1689; Damaris, 
daughter of William and Sarah, b. Aug. 31, 17 

ABERNETHE, SAMUEL,'son of William, Sen., married Eliza- 
beth Peck, Aug. 10, 1710; issue, Abraham, b. March 1, 1712; 
probably others. 

ABERNETHE, WILLIAM, Jr., and wife Mary, had children, 
Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1705; Caleb, b. Feb. 11, 1710; Ann, b. June 
7, 1706; John, b. Feb. 27, 1708; Susannah, b. April 28, 1712; 
Joseph, b. June 20, 1714; Hannah, b. Aug. 30, 17 — ; John, b. — 
Jemima, daughter of William and IMary, b. Aug. 29, 1702 ; per- 
haps others. 

ABERNATHE, ENOS, of Wallingford, married Beulah, and 
had issue : Samuel, b. May 5, 1738 ; Naomi, b. Oct. 6, 1739 ; Ben- 
jamin, b. Aug. 13. 1741 ; 2d Samuel, d. April 11, 1742, and Ben- 
jamin, d. Jan. 3, 1741-2 ; Naomi, d. June 2, 1742 ; 2d Naomi, d. Jan. 
4, 1743; 2d Samuel, b. Aug. 23, 1744; Beulah, b. March 28, 
1746 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 27, 1748. 

SUSANNAH, daughter of , m. Samuel Yale, March 11, 

1736. SARAH ABERNETHE, m. Thomas Doolittle, (by Capt. 
Yale,) May 27, 1730. ELIZABETH EBENETHE, was m. by 
Capt. Hall, to Wm. Hough, Dec. 14, 1726. SUSANNA ABER. 
NETHA, m. George Merriman, Jan. 8, 1713. JEMIMA, daughter 
of William, Jr., and Mary, m. John Curtis, June 17, 1723. ELIZA- 
BETH ABERNATHA, m. John Ward, May 11, 1736. MARTHA 
ABERNATHA, m. Job Brockett, Feb. 27, 1750-1, by Rev. Phile- 
mon Robbins. ABIGAIL ABERNATHA, m. Robert Collins, May 
4, 1736. ANNA d. Nov. 23, 1726. JOHN, son of William and 
Mary Abernatha, " was struck dead, by thunder," &c. May 12, 
1727. WILLIAM EBERNATHA, d. Feb. 17, 1728. JESSE 
ABERNETHE, d. Dec. 2, 1741. JARED, son of Caleb, m. Lois 
Thompson, daughter of Dea. Gideon, of Goshen, May 26, 1766, and 
had a son Cyrus, b. there, June 11, 1767. WAITE ABERNETHE 
and DAMARIS ABERNETHE witnessed the will of Mathew Bel- 
lamy, of Wallingford, in 1744. 
2* 



18 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ABERNATHA, CALEB, son of William and Mary, m. Lois 
Gaylord, of Wallingford, (by Capt. Yale,) Sept. 26, 1733. Issue, 
William, b. July 1, 1734; Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1736, d. Nov. 29, 
1736 ; John, b. July 2, 1738 ; 2d Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1739; Jared, b. 
Oct. 31, 1741. 

About 1743, the above Caleb and Lois removed to Farmington, 
(in that part of the town now Bristol,) where the following children 
are recorded, viz : Giles, b. Dec. 3, 1744 ; VVaite, b. Dec. 16, 1745 ; 
Caleb, Jr., b. April 8, 1748, d. 1751 ; Lois, b. April 10, 1750, m. 

William ; Ann, b. March 15, 1754; Mary, b. , m. Daniel 

Bacon, Oct. 24, 1765 ; Caleb, d. 1759. His son John was execu- 
tor of his will. The foregoing are the ancestors of those of the 
name, at Harwinton, Torringford, Washington, Woodbury, Bridge- 
port, and other towns in Connecticut. As imperfect as the forego- 
ing list is, it may aid them in perfecting a full roll of their ances- 
tors. Four of the name had graduated at Yale College, before 1851. 

ABERNETH has one coat of arms. ABERNETHY has three 
coats of arms. 

This name is often found upon the records, spelled Ebernathe, 
Ebernatha, and Ebernetha, &c. 

ABORN, (Abborn,) SAMUEL, yeoman of Tolland, will dated 
Nov. 1st, 1743 — wife, Martha — sons, John and Samuel, and daugh- 
ters, Elizabeth Woodward and Abigail Aborn. Abigail to have of 
his estate £160, (old tenor,) when married or 21 years of age. 
Samuel also under the age of 21 — the sons had all of his real es- 
tate, and paid legacies to the daughters. Inventory over £500. He 
was probably at Tolland soon after the town was settled in 1713, 
and while it was a part of Hartford County, and perhaps when it 
was called Skungaimig, by the Indians. 

ASHBORN, JOSEPH, had lands in Milford, Conn., before 1700— 
perhaps the same name. 

ACCORLY, (Acerly,) HENRY, (perhaps Ackley) was an early 
settler at Stamford, he went to Stamford about the same time, and 
perhaps in company with Capt. Underbill and Slauson, as early as 
1641 or '2. The first twenty fiimilies were from Wethersfield, to 
Stamford, and were first purchasers and settlers there. Accorly was 
in the 3d company of settlers. Tlie first now found upon the first 
record at Siamford — are Rev. Richard Dentan, Thurston Raiiier, 
Jonas Wood, Jonas Wood, Jr., John Jessup, John Northend, Thom- 
as Weekes, Mathew Mitchell, Robert Coe, Samuel Sherman, Jere- 
miah Jagger, Vincent Simking, Edmond Wood, Henry Smith, An- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 19 

drew Ward, Richard Gildersleve, John Seaman, Daniel Finch, Sam- 
uel Clark, Jeremiah Wood. These all came according to their agree- 
ment. With the above, or soon after, the following persons removed 
and settled at Stamford, viz: Ricliard Law, Ferris, Robert Bates, 
John Whitman, John Reinolds, Thomas Morehouse, Francis Bell, 
Richard Crabb, and Robert Fisher: these last settled there in 1641, 
some of them from Wethersfield, some from Hartford, and two of 
them from Milford. The descendants of many of them now reside 
in Stamford. 

Henry Accorly, died at Stamford, June 17, 1650. The Inventory 
of his estate, dated Jan. 4th, 1658. He was by trade a " house-car- 
penter and farmer." 

Ackerly, Robert, was one of the petitioners in 1659, at Setauket, 
on L. I., to be united to the Colony of Connecticut, upon the same 
terms with South and East Hampton, L. I. He was made free by 
Connecticut, in 1664. 

ACKLEY, NICHOLAS, was located on lot No. 42 Trumbull 
street, in Hartford, in 1665, and was chimney viewer in Hartford in 
1662 — he for a time lived at 30 Mile Island, at the lower end of the 
Cove, and had a 6 acre lot toward Saybrook. Hannah Ackley, 
widow of THOMAS, son of Nicholas, in 1704, presented the inven- 
tory of Thomas Ackley's estate, and took administration on her hus- 
band's said estate. In 1705, Benjamin Trowbridge married the 
widow, and in right of his wife Hannah, accounted to the court for 
her administration on her first husband's estate. Thomas Ackley's 
children were Thomas, Job, Hannah and Ann. John and Nathan- 
iel Ackley were appointed guardians for the children. He had lived 
east of the river and died Jan. 16, 1703-4. 

The children of Nicholas, Sen., of Iladdam, were Nicholas, Jr., 
John, Samuel, Benjamin, James, Nathaniel and Thomas, and daugh- 
ters, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Lydia — the sons of Nich- 
olas, Sen., settled east of the Connecticut river. JOB, son of Thomas 
Ackley, and JAMES, son of James, settled at Colchester. JOB and 
JOHN each had a child baptized at Colchester in 1740. 

ACKLEY, NICHOLAS, and Jerusha his wife, of Colchester, had 
Jeremiah, b. Sept. 26, 1742 ; Jerusha, b. Dec. 30, 1744 ; and Sarah, 
b. Nov. 5, 1749. 

ACKLEY, JAMES, and Sarah his wife, of Colchester, had a 
daugliter Sarah, b. Sept. IS, 1743. 

ACKLEY, NATHANIEL, and Sarah his wife, of Colchester, had 
Sarah, born there Sept. 4, 1743. 



20 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ACKLEY, JOB, and Elizabeth, of Colchester, had Phebe, b. 
Aug. 15,1742; Ezra, b. May 13, 1744; Job, b. July 1748; Ed- 
ward, b. July 22, 1753 — all descendants of Nicholas Ackley, first 
of Hartford and afterwards of Haddam. 

This name is found in many towns in Connecticut ; it was an 
early name in Kent. Benjamin Ackley was a deputy to the legis- 
lature in 1781 and 1782 — also Chester, of Washington, in 1829 and 
1840. 

ADAMS, JEREMY, was at Cambridge, Mass., in 1632. He 
probably came to Hartford with Rev. Mr. Hooker's company in 1636. 
In 1638 he was one of a committee with Capt. John Mason, appoint- 
ed by the General Court of Connecticut, to trade with the Indians 
for corn. In 1644, he was ordered to appear at the next Particular 
Court, and receive from the court, such censure as he deserved for his 
resistance of an officer — his passionate speeches — loud language and 
unmannerly conduct in the face of the court. He had 30 acres of 
land, in the land division at Hartford in 1639. In 1640 he had a 
house lot in Hartford, south of Little River, bounded west by Joseph 
Easton, east by James Ensign, and north and south by roads. In 
1661-2 the General Court granted said Adams 300 acres of upland 
and 40 of meadow, where he had kept his cattle the previous winter, 
(going to Monhegin.) In 1661-2 lie kept an ordinary at Hartford. 
In 1663, Mr. Adams was established custome master for Hartford ; and 
the power given Jonathan Gilbert by the particular court repealed, 
respecting his customing his own wines, liquors, &c. {Col. Rec.) 
Mr. Adams was constable in Hartford in 1639. In 1660, he was the 
only person in Hartford allowed to sell wine in a less quantity than 
a quarter cask, or other liquors less than an ancor. Mr. Adams was 
juror, representative to the General Court, and held other places of 
trust and honor in the town and colony. He married Rebekah, the 
widow of Samuel Greenhill, and possessed the Greenhill estate. 
He had children, viz : John, d. 1669 ; Ann ; Samuel, baptized Nov. 
23, 1645; Willet; Rebeckah, b. 1658; Abigail, b. 1660. Jeremy 
Adams made free in Massachusetts, May 6, 1635. Mr. Adams d. 
Aug. 11. 1683, Nathaniel Willet, executor: he gave his property 
to his grandchildren, Zechariah Sanford and others — estate £243, 
bs. Gd. The house of his executor was burned and in it, all the 
books and papers of the deceased. 

ADAMS, EDWARD, resided at Fairfield in 1653 ; he purchased 
land of Daniel Frost, at Old Field, in Fairfield, Dec. 1653, and of 
Andrew Ward the same year, and other lots afterwards. Daniel 
Finch sold him land on Barlow Plain in May, 1665. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 21 

ADAMS, EDWARD, of Hartford, in 1660 married Elizabeth 
Buckland, of Windsor, May 25, 1660 ; whether he was son of Ed- 
ward, of Fairfield, is not known : he had a daugliter Mary b. at 
Windsor, 1671, and son Edward, aged 12 years in 1683, and a small 
estate; he died Aug. 15, 1683; he left an only child Mary, and his 
widow. 

ADAMS, WILLIAM, resided in Trumbull street, in Hartford, 
in 1650. 

ADAMS, ANDREW, was school teacher in Hartford, at £16 
per annum, in 1643. 

ADAMS, RICHARD, brick-layer, aged 29, and SUSAN ADAMS, 
aged 26 years, embarked in the Abigail, Robert Hackwell, master, 
for New England, June 26, per certificate from Northampton, Eng. 
Thomas Martin, maior, and two justices. RICHARD, freeman in 
Massachusetts in Sept., 1635. 

ADAMS, JOHN, son of Jeremy, of Hartford, d. Sept. 16, 1670. 
Inventory £74 15^. Children, Rebeccah 12 years old ; Abigail 4 ; 
Sarah 9 the next March ; Jeremy 6 the last August ; John 4, Sep- 
tember previous ; Jonathan 2 years November 6, 1670, and one 
enciente at the death of John. 

ADAMS, JOHN, son of John of Hartford, had Elizabeth, b. 
March 6, 1706 ; John, b. Aug. 4, 1708 ; Abigail, b. Oct. 12, 1710 ; 
Patience, b. 1712 ; William, son of John, and Esther, b. Sept. 16, 
1714; Sylvanus, b. Nov. 1, 1719. 

ADAMS, DAVID, was a military man from Windsor to Canton, 
about 1742-3 ; he had four sons and five daughters ; he died in 1801, 
an aged man. 

ADAMS, DANIEL, of Simsbury, Ct., made his will July 29, 
1713, in the 61st year of his age— wife, Mary. Children named 
in his will, are Benjamin, Joseph, Thomas, Ephraim, and three 
daughters ; son Benjamin sole executor. 

ADAMS, DANIEL, Jr., of Simsbury, d. Nov. 20, 1758, aged 
20 years. He was a provincial soldier in Capt. Holcomb's compa- 
ny, and on his return in good health, by the carelessness of a soldier 
behind him, he had two bullets shot into one leg : he was carried to 
Albany, put on board of a vessel and was taken to New Haven, 
where he died of a fever in the limb. 

ADAMS, DAVID, and Margery, of Colchester, Ct., had Mary, 
b. Oct. 28, 1744. 



22 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL, and his wife Mindwell, of Colchester, had 
a daughter Ruth born there March 20, 1743. 

ADAMS, DANIEL, Jr., married Rebeckah Kendall, 1747. 

ADDAMS FAMILY OF WETHERSFIELD. 

ADDAMS, BENJAMIN, d. Jan. 28, 1713. 

ADDAMS, AMASA, married Hannah Camp, March 16, 1731: 
had issue, Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1732 ; Abigail, b. March 5, 1734 ; 
Benjamin, b. Dec. 1, 1735 ; Susannah, b. Nov. 17, 1737 ; Camp, b. 
Oct. 9, 1739; Lucretia, b. July 21, 1741; Hannah, b. Oct. 5, 
1743; John, b. Aug. 9, 1745; Elizabeth, b. Aug 9, 1747 ; Joseph, 
b. Sept. 7, 1749, d. May 19, 1753; Amasa, b. March 15, 1753. 

ADDAMS, CAMP, son of Amasa, married Mehetabel Baxter, 
Dec. 13, 1759 : issue, Mehetabel, b. Dec. 27, 1759 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 
17, 1761 ; Martha, b. April 20, 1764 ; James Camp, b. Feb. 13, 
1766 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 18, 1768 ; Rebecca, b. Aug. 14, 1770 ; 
Mary Anne, b. Feb. 22, 1773 ; Ashbel, b. May 3, 1775 ; Honor, b. 
June 13, 1776. 

ADDAMS, BENJAMIN, son of Amasa, married Patience Blinn, 
Feb. 5, 1761 ; issue, Persis, b. Nov. 8, 1762; Lucinda, b. Sept. 3, 
1763 ; Linalda, b. Sept. 5, 1765 ; Uzziel, b. Jan. 3. 1768 ; Thank- 
ful, b. Feb. 2, 1770; Huldah, b. April 20, 1772; Charlotte, b. Oct. 
1, 1777 ; William, b. Feb. 18, 1779. 

ADDAMS, JOSEPH, son of Amasa, married Mehetibel Burrett, 
Dec. 9, 1780; issue, Sally, b. June 17, 1781; Joseph, b. Aug. 5, 1783; 
Persis, b. Sept. 26, 1787 ; William, b. Oct. 7, 1790 ; James, b. 
June 30, 1793 ; Emily, b. Feb. 21, 1796 ; Henry, b. Dec. 1798— 
the mother died Dec. 1798 ; he then married widow Mary Dix, Jan. 
9, 1800, and had issue, Lucy, b. Aug. 10, 1800— he died Sept. 1801, 
and left a widow. 

ADDAMS, AMASA, Jr., married Sarah Grisold, Jan. 15, 1783; 
issue, Sylvester, b. Oct. 29, 1783 ; Horace, b. Jan. 8, 1787; Roxa, 
b. April, 1790 — the mother died June 12, 1794 — he then married 
Caroline Dalliby, Jan. 24, 1796; she died Aug. 13, 1798. 

ADDAMS, UZZIEL, son of Benjamin : children, George 
Lucas, b. April 20, 1797 ; Fanny, b. March 9, 1799 ; Miles, b. 
Feb. 19, 1801 ; James Benjamin, b. March 16, 1803 ; Horace, b. 
Feb. 21, 1805 ; Clarissa, b. Dec. 2, 1806 ; Walter, b. May 3, 1810 ; 
Watson, b. Jan. 5, 1812 ; Orson Smith, b. June 4, 1814 ; Thomas 
Halsey, b. Feb. 27, 1816. Thirty-five persons of this name, and 
two by the name of Adams, have graduated at Yale College. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 23 

ADAMS, JACOB, of Suffiekl, received of the Town Committee 
there, thirty-five acres of land, and fifty acres laid out in 1688, also 
nineteen %cres of 2d division land, purchased of Thomas Cooper, 

which Adams iicld in 1688, He m. Anne , of Suffiekl, and 

had issue : Abraham, b. Nov. 10, 1687 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 16, 1686 : 

Jacob, ; 2d John, b. Juno 18, 1694: his first son by the name 

of John, d. Nov. 9, 1090, perhaps others. 

Sergeant Jacob Adams, in 1705-6, was chosen moderator of the 
town meetings held in Suffield, for a full year, " to make speech and 
to lead all votes of a prudential nature, in town meetings." He also 
held other places of trust in Suffield. 

ADAMS, JACOB, of Suffield, m. Mercy Gillet, Dec. 24, 1702, 
and had Jacob, Jr., b. Nov. 15, 1703; John, b. Aug. 18, 1705, and 
d. 1706 ; 2d John b. Jan. 28, 1706-7; Mercy, b. Feb. 19, 1708-9; 
Agnes, b. Feb. 4, 1710; Jonathan, b. Nov. 9, 1713, and d. —^ — ; 
Elizabeth, b. June 5, 1715; Mary, b. Feb. 17,1716-17; Benja- 
min, b. Oct. 7, 1718; Rachel, b. Sept. 4, 1725: Jacob, the father, 
d. Oct. 28, 1756. 

ADAMS, JACOB, m. Elizabeth Warner, of Enfield, April 25, 
1729, and had issue: Dorcas, b. Oct. 11, 1731 ; Zadoc, b. Nov. 28, 
1733, d. 1737 ; 2d Zadoc, b. May 2, 1737 ; Asahel, b. March 22, 
1739 ; Elizabeth, b. June 17, 1747. 

ABRAHAM, son of Jacob, m. Joannah Norton, of Suffield, April 

7, 1713, and had Abraham, b. Feb. 19, 1715; Joseph, b. Jan. 24, 
1718-19 ; Joanna, b. Aug. 23, 1720 ; Freegrace, b. Nov. 14, 1723 ; 
Mournfull, b. Aug. 22, 1726; son Silence, b. and d. Aug. 7, 17 — . 
His wife d. Sept. 3, 1726; Mournfull, d. Sept. 5, 1726. He mar- 
ried for his second wife, Anne Heidcn, July 25, 1733, and had Anne, 
b. May 27, 1734 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 4, 173-. Abraham, the father, 
d. Feb. 12, 1769. 

JOHN, son of Jacob, m. Abigail Roe, July 26, 1722, and had 
Moses, b. Jan. 8, 1722-3 ; Simeon, b. Nov. 4, 1724 ; Anna, b. June 

8, 1727; Joel, b. Dec. 20, 1729; Lucy, b. May 31, 1731. 
JOHx\, of Suflleld, son of Jacob, m. Martha VVinchel, July 12, 

1733, and had Martha, b. May 19, 1734; Abia, b. Feb. 28, 1735;' 
Hannah, b. Jan. 17, 1737-8; Mary Adams, b. March 28, 1740; 
daughter Martha, d. Sept. 13, 1741; John d. Sept. 13, 1741; 2d 
John, b. Oct. 12, 1744 ; Joseph Winchel Adams, b. May 17, 1748 ; 
Martha, his wife, d. Nov. 22, 1760. 

DANIEL, of Suffield, m. widow Mary Sikes, Dec. 24, 1712, and 
had Zebulon, b. on the Sabbath, Sept. 27, 1713; Gideon, b. March 



24 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

26, 1716; Mary, b. July 19, 1719; Stephen, b. Feb. 21, 1721-2; 
Elizabeth, b. April 24, 1724 ; Daniel, b. April 30, 1726; Gideon, 
d. Aug. 6, 1734; Stephen, d. May 10, 1737; Mary, cR May 4, 
1741, and Mary, the mother, d. March 20, 1756. 

ZEBULON, son of Daniel, m. Bethia King, June 17, 1742, his 
wife d. Jan. 22, 1761, without issue. He then for his second wife, 
m. widow Susanna Pengiley, in Jan. 24, 1762, and had Susannah, b. 
Feb. 8, 1763; Zebulon, b. July 21, 176.5; Stephen, b. April 6, 
1769: Zebulon, the father, d. Dec. 25, 1795. 

The Adams family of Canaan, Conn, are descendants of Henry 
Adams, of Braintree, Mass. 

Henry Adams, from Devonshire, England, in 1630, settled at Brain- 
tree, Mass., ancestor of the two President Adams's^ * 

ADAMS, Rev. ELIPHALET, (son of Rev. WiHiam Adams, of 
Dedham, who graduated at Harvard College, 1671, ordained at Ded- 
ham, 1673, and died there, Aug. 17, 1685,) was born March 26, 
1677. His mother died June 24, in 1679, and his father married Alice 
Bradford, daughter of William, of Plymouth, in 1680, and had other 
children by this marriage. This Alice, after the death of Rev. Wm. 
Adams, married for her second husband, in 1686, Capt. or Major 
James Fitch, of Norwich, for his second wife. Eliphalet graduated 
at Harvard College, in 1694. He preached first at Little Compton, 
in 1696. He was appointed to preach to the Indians, in 1698 ; in 
1699, he preached to them for the fir.st time, in their language. 
His half-brother William, had gone to Connecticut, before 1699, 
and he visited him in August, 1699. He preached at different 
parts of the Colony, for some years, and to different tribes of 
Indians, and was settled by ordination, at New London, Conn., 
Feb. 9, 1708-9, where he continued forty-three years. He mar- 
ried Lydia Pygan, daughter of Alexander Pygan of New Lon- 
don. Their children were, William, b. Oct. 7, 1710 ; Pygan, 
b. March 27, 1712, Mary, b. March 5, 1713-14; Thomas, baptized 
Jan. 4, 1715-16 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1717, d. in infancy; Lydia, 
b. Feb. 20, 1720, d. 1721. {Calkins.) Mr. Adams was a learned 
divine and scholar : he was a Trustee of Yale College, seventeen 
years in its infancy. He was elected Rector, in 1723, which he de- 
clined. (Kingslcy.) Mrs. Lydia Adams, d. Sept. 6, 1749, aged 62 
years. Rev. E. Adams d. Oct. 4, 1753, in the 77th year of his 
age. Mr. Adams m. Elizabeth or Alice Bradford for his second 
wife. Mrs. Bulkley of Colchester, a daughter of Mr. Adams, died 
before her father, and after her mother, viz : Jan. 24, l'^49-50. She 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 25 

first m. Dr. Jonathan Gardiner, son of John, of Gardiner's Island, 
Nov. 13, 1733, and during his life, resided in New London. Rev. 
WILLIAM ADAMS, son of Rev. Eliphalet, graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, 1730, appointed tutor 1732, where 'he remained two years, af- 
ter which, he preached sixty years, and refused to be settled or 
marry : he died single. 

PYGAN, '2d son of Rev. Eliphalet, b. March 27, 1712, was by 
trade a goldsmith. He turned merchant, and went many voyages to 
the West Indies, to dispose of cargoes. He d. July, 1776, aged 64. His 
wife who was b. Sept. 18, 1728, d. Jan. 8, 1809. They had sons. 

William, d. at St. Pierre, April 4, 1778, aged 33 years. 

Alexander P. was lost at sea, in 1782, aged 3.5. 

Thomas, d. at St. Martins, W. I., Sept. 8, 1815, aged 54 years. 

Anne, m. John Champlin, May 5, 1768, and had fourteen children. 
He removed with his family to Baltimore, and d. there, June 17, 
1800, aged 54 : his widow Anne d. there, April 6, 1838, aged 89. 

ELIZABETH, daughter of Pygan, m. Thomas Pool, son of John, 
of Raritan, N. J., Oct. 19, 1775: children, Wm. Adams, Sally 
Field. This Sally Field, m. Samuel Green, Esq., the editor of the 
New London Gazette, Jan. 4, 1798: she d. March 10, 1801, and 
left an only son, who d. unmarried, Nov. 30, 1825. 

LYDIA, youngest daughter of Pygan Adams, Esq., m. Robert Hal- 
lam, Sept. 17, 1779. He (Robert) d. Feb. 18, 1835, aged 78: his 
wife, Lydia, d. Oct. 29, 1845, aged 88 years. Rev. Robert A. Hal- 
lam, of New London, is his only surviving descendant. (Taken 
from Miss Calkin's Memoir of Rev. Wm. Adams, of Dedham, 
and Record.) 

It will be noticed that the descendants of Rev. Eliphalet Adams, 
married into the best families in the country. 

ADAMS, FERDINAND, and his wife, Anne, of Dedham, Mass., 
had children : Abigail, b. in 1639 ; Bethia, b. in 1640 ; Nathaniel, 
b. 1642, &c. 

CHARLES, was a tax payer, at Dover, N. H., in 1648. JOHN, 
of Plymouth, d. about 1633. GEORGE was a first settler at Brain- 
ford,* (Branford,) Conn., also JOHN ADAMS. 



• Branford, (Brainford, Totokel,) first settled in 1044, by William Swain, &c. Incorporated 
by the General Court of New Haven Colony. Soon after the charter was obtained by Gov- 
VVinthrop, for Connecticut, most of the settlers of Branford, with Mr. Pierson, removed to New- 
ark, N. J. Feb. 16, 1685, a patent was granted by Connecticut, confirming the proprietors in 

3 



26 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ADAMS, CHARLES, of Dover, N. H., took the oath of fidelity, 
in 1669. 

ADAMS, Richard, Robert Arnold, Wm. Andrews, Richard Ab- 
bott, Greggorie Allin, George Alden, Jacob and George Averie, em- 
barked for Virginia, in the Globe of London, in August, 1635. 

ADAMS, JOHN, embarked in the Fortune, for New England, and 
arrived at Plymouth, Nov. 11, 1621. The name of Adam has sev- 
en coats of arms, and the name of Adams has twenty-nine. 

ADAMS, EDWARD, of Milford, Conn., was allowed by the Gen- 
eral Court at Milford, in March, 1646, to have a lot of land in Mil- 
ford, provided he would learn to dress skins and leather, and follow 
the trade. His lot had been laid out to Glover, with two acres at 
Mill Neck, &c. 

ADAMS, GILLETT, m. Abigail Lewis, widow, maiden name 
Abigail Bacon, Aug. 4, 1715: issue, Jerusha, 2d daughter, b. 
March 13, 1718 ; Abigail, 1st daughter, b. June 2, 1716-17. Per- 
haps others. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL, of Simsbury, m. Elizabeth Read, of Con- 
cord, Mass., July 2, 1713. EPHRAIM ADAMS, m. Ruth Bea- 
man. May 5, 1726. JOSEPH ADAMS, m. Mary Case, April 30, 
1719. 

There were several of this name in Massachusetts, before there 
was any known settlement in Connecticut, viz ., Henry, of Braintree, 
from Devonshire, England, in 1630, (or soon after.) His monument 
was erected by John Adams, one of his descendants at Quincy, 
Mass. He had eight sons when he landed near Mount Wollaston. 
JEREMY, at Cambridge, 1632, probably the same Jeremy Adams, 
of Hartford, Conn., in 1638. JOHN, of Plymouth, a passenger in 
the Fortune, in 1621, d. 1633. JOSEPH ADAMS, who m. Han- 
nah Bass, and d. Feb. 12, 1737, aged 82. He left several children, 
amongst whom was Dea. John of Braintree, b, Feb. 8, 1692, and d. 



their titles, and in 1680, they were empowered to embody in church order. It was first pur- 
chased of the natives, in December, 1638, at the time, or soon after New Haven was purchased- 
JOHN ADAMS, Esq., deceased, represented the Town of Canaan, first, in 1791, and seven 
Bessions afterwards. His son, Samuel F.Adams, Esq, represented the same town, in 1816, 
and three sessions afterwards. Hon. Andrew Adams, of Litchfield, represented Litchfield, first, 
in 1776, in 1779 and '80 was chosen Speaker, and seven other sessions. He was several years 
Judge of the Superior Court, and appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. One of the 
eminent Jurists of Connecticut; Assistant, 1781, to 1790; a descendant of Henry Adams, of 
Braintree, Mass. Charles Adams, of Litchfield, Deputy in 1845. George R. Adams, of New 
Hartford, one session. Matthew Adams, of Winchester, five sessions, and Normand Adams, of 
the last town, one session. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 27 

1761, aged 69, wlio was the father of Hon. John Adams, the second 
President of the United States, and grandfather of Hon. John Q. 
Adams, late President of the United States, &,c. 

RICHARD, Salem, 1637. WILLIAM, Cambridge, 1635, per- 
haps afterwards of Ipswich, (see Farmer.) 'i'his name probably 
has produced more celebrated men than any other in the country, 
as no other has furnished two Presidents of the United States. 

ADDIS, (Addies,) WILLIAM, of New London, in 1660. He 
was probably there before. Adis, (Middlesex,) has a coat of arms. 

ADGATE, (Adgat, Agate,) THOMAS, was early at Saybrook, 
and had children recorded there, viz : Elizabeth, b. Oct. 10, 1651, 
and Hannah, b, Oct. 6, 1653 : perhaps others. He removed from 
Saybrook to Norwich, in its first settlement, in 1660. When the 
meeting-house was seated at Norwich, in 1698, Mr. Adgate was one 
of a Committee of five, of the aged and respectable inhabitants, to 
seat the people, with a due regard to ra7ilc. The square pew first in 
dignity. The new seats and fore seats in the " broad ally," alike 
in dignity. He was living in 1700. He was made a freeman at 
Hartford, May 21, 1657. Thomas Adgate, was accepted to be made 
a freeman by order of Court, Oct. 8, 1663. 

ADGATE, THOMAS, Norwich, 1660: was a deacon of the 
church in Saybrook, in 1659. He is not found upon the colony 
record in any town previous to his being in Saybrook. While there, 
he m. the widow of Richard Bushnell. 

At the time Dea. Adgate m. Mrs. Bushnell, at Saybrook, he had 
two daughters, and she had two daughters and two sons, and by this 
marriage they had one son and two daughters. His son also became 
a deacon at Norwich, and had sons, Thomas and Matthew. Dea- 
con Thomas, Sen., d. 1707. This was a respectable, pious and 
good family. 

ADKINS, THOMAS, came first to Hartford, and was located at 
East Hartford, in 16S2. He d. in 1694. His children were, at his 
decease, viz: Mary, aged 22; Thomas, Jr., 21; William, 19; 
Jane, 16: Sarah, 12; Josiah, 9; and Benoni, 4 yearsold. Estate, 
£182, 15*. 

ADKINS, EPHRAIM, a Welchman, perhaps was the first in 
Connecticut. 

ADKINS, JOSIAH, Middletown, m. Elizabeth Wetmore, Oct. 
8, 1673: children, Sarah, b. July 16, 1674, d. 1719; Abigail, b. 
Sept. 11, 1676; Solomon, b. July 25, 1678; Josiah, b. March 9, 
1680; Benjamin, b. Nov. 19, 1682; Ephraim, b. March, 1685; 



28 GENEALOGY OF THE PUniTAN'S, 

Elizabeth, b. Aug, 11, 1687: she m. Samuel Ward, of Haddam, 
Aug. 10, 1710. Elizabeth, Josiah's widow, d. about 1700. Josiah, 
the father, d. Sep. 12, 1690. 

ADKINS, JOSIAH, Jr., (son of Josiah and Elizabeth,) in. Mary 
Wheeler, of Stratford, Dec. 16, 1708: children, Joseph, b. Sept. 
1709; Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1710; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 1712; Abigail, 
b. Aug. 14, 1713 ; Josiah, b. Oct. 11, 1715 ; John, b. Oct. 14, 1717. 
Mr. Josiah, the father, d. Nov. 1, 1724. 

ADKINS, Dea. SOLOMON, (son of Josiah and Elizabeth,) m. 
Phebe Edwards, of Northampton, Mass., May 18, A. D. 170- ; chil, 
dren, Abigail, b. April 11, 1711 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 21, 1713 ; Han- 
nah, b. May 26, 1715 ; Solomon, Jr., b. Feb. 10, 1717, d. 1718 ; 
Phebe, b. May 30, 1719, d. 1719 ; 2d Solomon, b. Aug. 11, 1720 ; 
2d Phebe and Ester, b. Aug. 4, 1725 ; Jabez, b. April 23, 1728, d. 
1729; 2d Abigail, b. April 6, 1729; Rebecca, b. Nov. 21, 1730; 
2d Jabez, b. Nov. 21, 1731, d. 1751. Deacon Solomon, d. 1748, 
aged 70. 

ADKINS, BENJAMIN, (son of Josiah and Elizabeth,) m. Jane 
Stevens, of New Haven, June 8, 1709 : issue, Sarah, b. March 27, 
1710; Hannah, b. Oct. 12, 1712 ; (no sons.) Jane, his wife, d. Nov. 
16, 1712. Benjamin, m. for his 2d wife, Elizabeth Barnes, May 9, 
1716, and had issue: Elizabeth, b. 1717: Benjamin, Jr., b. Nov. 2, 
1718; Daniel, b. March 25, 1721; Rachel, b. 1723; Joel, b. April 
24, 1725 ; Ruth, b. 1728 ; Jemima, b. Nov. 9, 1731 ; David, b. 
June 20, 1734, d. July, 1734 ; 2d David, b. July 16, 1736 ; Elisha, 
b. Aug. 12, 1738, d. 1740. Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin, d. May 
20, 1752. 

ADKINS, Mr. EPHRAIM, (son of Josiah, Sen., and Elizabeth, 
of Middletown,) m. Elizabeth Wetmore, June 10, 1709: children, 
Thomas, b. April 5, 1710 , Ephraim, Jr., b. July 18, 1712, d. 1713 ; 
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 6, 1714, d. May 30, 1750; 2d Ephraim, Jr., b. 
March 22, 1717, d. 1735; Naomi, b. June 6, 1719; Ebenezer, b. 
Oct. 1, 1721 ; James, b. April 9, 1724 ; George, b. Dec. 26, 1726. 
Mr. Ephraim, the father, d. Dec. 26, 1760 ; Elizabeth, the mother, 
d. May 20, 1752. 

ADKINS, THOMAS, Sen., appears to have died at Middletown. 
He requested his brother Gabriel, to take his little son, Benoni, and 
bring him up. Estate, £182, 155. He died Oct. 23, 1694. 

In 1709, administration was granted on the estate of Tiiomas Ad- 
kins, of Hartford, to Josiah, his brother, of Simsbury. 

ATKINS, ABRAHAM, was a member of the ar. co. in Massa- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 29 

chusclts, in 1642. {Farmer.) JOSIAII ATKINS, and his wife 
Cliloe, of West Harllund, Conn., were recommended to tlie Church 
in West Springfield, .July, 1799. Three of the name of Atkins liave 
graduated at Harvard College, and two at Yale College. This name 
on the early records in Connecticut, was uniformly spelled Adkins, 
while it is now as uniformly spelt Atkins. 

ATKINS, HENRY, and his wife, Elizabeth, of Eastham, Mass., 
had children: Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1651; Isaac, b. June 15, 1654, 

d. ; 2d Isaac, b. June 14, 1657. His wife, Elizabeth, d. March 

14, 1661-2. He m. Belhiah Linnell, March 25, 1664, for his second 
wife, and had Desire, b. May 7, 1665 ; John, b. Dec. 15, 1666, d. 
young. Joseph, b. March 9, 1669; Nathaniel, b. 1667; Thomas, 
1671 ; John, b. 1674; Marcy, b. 1676; Samuel, b. June 25, 1679. 

ADKINS, HEZEKIAH, m. Rachel Barnes, of Middletown, April 
4, 1771, and had children born at Goshen, viz: Adino, b. Feb. 27, 
1772 ; Rachel, b. May 28, 1773. He probably removed from 
Goshen. 

ATKINS, THOMAS, of Boston, made free, 1690. Aitkens has 
one coat of arms. Aitkin or Atkin has a coat of arms. 

AGARD, (Aguard,) this name was first in Connecticut, about 1700, 
at Windsor. The name Agard, has four coats of arms. 

AIGHTS, ABRAHAM, of Simsbury, d. 1766, and left a son 
Abraham, 14 years old. Abraham Aights, a minor son of Abra- 
ham Aights, of Simsbury, chose Captain J. Case, for his guardian, 
in 1766. Not an early family, and little is found concerning them. 

AIKEN, JOSEPH, 164H, viewer of chimneys and ladders, at 
Hartford. JOHN AIKINS graduated at Yale College, in 1798. 
This name is found on Quaker Hill, N. Y. The name of Aiken, 
'has one coat of arms. AKIN, HENRY, of Middletown, m. Isabel 
Harnes, Aug. 8, 1720: children, Thomas, b. in Boston, April 28, 
1723; Sarah, b. June 4, 1725; Robert, b. Dec. 8, 1727; Henry, 
Jr., b. Sept. 11, 1729. His wife Isabel, d. June 1, 1731, and he m. 
Margaret Woods, for ids second wife, July 6, 1732, and had Eliza- 
beth, b. April 3, 1733; George, b. Dec. 23, 1735; William, b. Feb. 8, 
1737-8; Joseph, b. March 24, 1739, and Samuel, b. Aug. 24, 1740. 

AINSWORTH, TIXHALL, of Hartford, had a case in Court 
in 1700. AINSWORTH, DANIEL, Roxbury, Mass., d. Nov. 
13,1680. (Fanner.) AINSWORTH, Rev. LAB AN, of Jaffrey, 
N. H., w.as son of William Ainsworth, and was born in Woodstock, 
Conn., July 19, 1759: ordained 1782. His father lived at Wood- 
stock. The family removed from Roxbury, Mass., to Woodstock. 
3* 



30 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

*ALCOCK, THOMAS, of Hartford, had a lot he purchased of 
Hon. Edward Hopkins, about 1640 : bounded south on tlie road 
from the Meeting-house yard, to tlie Mill ; east on the road from the 
Palisado, to Centinel Hill ; west on the road from Seth Grant's 
house to the Pound, and Centinel Hill ; north by a lot sold by Gov. 
John Haynes, to John Pratt. 

Also, another small lot adjoining the meeting-house yard, in Hart- 
ford, in 1640 : bounded north on the road to Little Meadow ; east 
on Thomas Scott ; west on the Meeting-house yard, and south on a 
lot of James Cole, purchased of Thomas Scott. 

He was an original proprietor and had eight acres of land in the 
land division, at Hartford, in 1639. 

Mr. Alcock's bargain with Higginson, for land in Hartford, was 
confirmed by the town of Hartford, in 1639. 

ALCOCKE, MR. was a Juror, April 6, 1643. Thomas Wal- 
ston Avas fined 205. in 1644, for inveigling the affections of the maid 
of Mr. Alcocke. 

His daughter Elizabeth, was b. at Hartford, Dec. 7, 1643 ; John 
or Thomas, b. Feb. 3, 1649 ; Thomas baptized Feb. 1649. Farm- 
er mentions George Alcock, Deacon and Deputy of Roxbury, Mass., 
in 1631, d. 1640. JOHN and SAMUEL, of Kittery, freeman 1652. 
THOMAS of Boston, freeman, 1631. THOMAS, of Dedham, free- 
man, 1635, &c. 

Three of tliis name graduated at Harvard College, before 1848. 
The name of Alcock, has eight coats of arms. 

ALCOCK, THOMAS, of Dedham, Mass., and wife, Margery, 
had Elizabeth, b. 1638 ; Sarah, b. 1639 ; Hannah, b. 1642. 

ALCOCKE, JOHN, freeman, Mass., 1052; Samuel, 1652; Jo- 
seph, 1652. 

ALCOCK, Mr. PHILIP, and Sarah, his wife, of Wethersfield, 
were appellants as administrators on the estate of Nathaniel Butler, 
deceased, of Wethersfield, on a judgment rendered in favor of Mr. 
William Gibbons, of Boston, before Nathaniel Stanley, Assistant, 
June 10, 1700. 

ALCOCKE, GEORGE, of Boston, desired to be made freeman, 
1630: took the oath, 1631. 

ALCOCKE, THOMAS, freeman, Mass., May, 1635. 



• II is supposed by some, that Thomas Alcock, on the Hartford Records, plainly and legibly 
6o spelled, should have been spelt Olcott. Three of the name of Alcock, had graduated at Har- 
vard College, before 1674. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 31 

ALDERMAN, (Olderman,) WILLIAM, Sen., Farmington and 
Simsbury, d. about 1G97. Mary, his widow, small estate. He had 
children : Mary, 17 years old at her father's decease ; Thomas, 15 ; 
William 12 ; Sarah 6, and Joseph one year old. His widow, Mary, 
m. John Hillyer, of Simsbury, for her second husband. JOSEPH, 
son of William, m. Miiidwell Case, June 30, 1720 : Mindwell, his 
daughter, b. Dec. 25, 1721 — perhaps others. JOHN, of Simsbury, 
m. Sarah Case, of Simsbury, Oct. 28, 1719 : their first son, John, Jr., 
b. Aug. 19, 1720 — perhaps others. 

ALDERMAN, JOHN, of Salem, 1637, freeman in Mass., 1639, 
admitted to the church, Feb. 17, 1637, d. 1657. {Farmer.) Win- 
throp mentions Alderman, of Bear-love, 1634. GRACE came to 
New England, in the Paul, of London, bound for Virginia, in 1G35. 
This name is yet found in Connecticut. 

ALDRICH, JOHN, a first settler at Stafford, Conn. 

ALDRICH, NATHAN, was an inhabitant of Ellington, before 
1800, and d. there, Oct. 24, 1802. 

JANE d. there, June 9, 1802. 

ALDRIDGE, HENRY, Dedham, Mass., 1644, freeman 1645, d. 
Feb. 23, 1646. His son Samuel, b. March 10, 1644; GEORGE, 
Dorchester, Mass., freeman 1636, removed to Braintree : children, 
John, Peter, Jacob, Mattithijah, and several daughters. (See Farmer.) 

ALEXANDER, GEORGE, of Windsor, m. Susan Sage, March 
18, 1644, and had children : John, b. July 25, 1645 ; Mary, b. Oct. 
20, 1648 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 12, 1650 ; Nathaniel, b. Dec. 29, 1652 ; 
Sarah, b. Dec. 8, 1654 ; also a 2d John, and another daughter. 
{Windsor Church Records.) The father was a Scotchman. Geo. 
Alexander paid Ss. for a pew in the meeting-house, at Windsor, in 
1659. 

ALEXANDER, Mr. "the Frenchman," had a child d. in Hart- 
ford, Oct. 31, 1758, another d. Nov. 18, 1758. He was not of the 
Windsor family. 

ALEXANDER, EBENEZER, m. Mahitebel, daughter of Henry 
Buck, of Wethersfield, Oct. 10, 1709, and had issue : Elias, b. July 
25, 1710, at Wethersfield. Five of this name have graduated at 
Yale College, and two at Harvard College. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN, son of George, had a son Nathaniel, b. 
at Windsor, April, 1676. 

Alexander, (of Menstrie, Earls of Stirling,) has one coat of arms. 
Alexander, (Earl of Caledon,) one. Alexander, Bart., (Dublin, 
1809,) one. Alexander, (Dover, Kent,) one. Alexander, (borne 



82 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

by Francis Alexander, D. D., prebendary of Winchester, son of 
Jolin Alexander, of Hampshire, by Mary, ])is wife, sister of Thomas 
Belsonn, Bishop of Winchester.) Alexander, (AuchmuU, Scotland.) 
Alexander, (King lassie.) Alexander, (Boghall.) Alexander, (of 
Powis Co., Clackmannan, borne by Sir James Edward Alexander, 
K. L. S., K. S. J., Lieut. Col. Portuguese service, and Capt. H. M. 
14th Regiment, eldest son of the late Edward Alexander, Esq., of 
Powis, a descendant of the Alexanders of Menstrie. Alexander, 
or Sanderson, (Durham,) and four others. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN and GEORGE, took the oath of allegi- 
ance, by order from " Our Honored General Corte," at Northamp- 
ton, Mass., 1678. 

JOHN, of Northampton, m. Sarah Gaylord, daughter of Samuel, 
of Windsor, Nov. 28, 1671, by Mr. Newberry. 

ALEXANDER, PHILIP, of Woburn, about 1730. 

ALEXANDER, JOHN, of Northampton, made freeman, 1690, 
also Nathaniel. This was an old name at Boston. (See Nickelson.) 

ALEXANDER, NATHANIEL, d. at Hadley, in 1742, aged 90: 
was a son of George and Susan. George Alexander, who (Farmer 
savs) was one of the first proprietors of Northampton, in 1653, was 
probabl}' the same GEORGE who was at Windsor, Conn. 

ALFORD, (Alfred, Alvord,) BENEDICTUS, was an early set- 
tler at Windsor, (he had relations at Boston.) He m. Jane Newton, 
Nov. 26, 1640, and had children : Jonathan, b. June 1, 1645 ; Bene- 
dict, b. July 11, 1647; Josiah, b. July 6, 1649; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 
21, 1651, rn. Drake; Jeremy, b. Dec. 24, 1655. Benedictus joined 
the Church in Windsor, in 1641 ; Juror in April, 1643, and March, 
1646, and Sergeant Alford was at the Pequot battle, in 1637. He 
d. April 23, 1683 : Constable in Windsor, 1666. 

ALVORD, ALEXANDER, was also an early settler at Wind- 
sor, perhaps a brother of Benedictus, and probably the same Alex- 
ander Alvord, who (Farmer says) settled at Northampton, as early 
as 1659. He m. Mary Vore, of Windsor, Oct. 29, 1646, and had 
children, viz: Abigail, b. Oct. 6, 1647; John, b. Aug. 12, 1649; 
Mary, b. July 6, 1651 ; Thomas, b. Oct. 27, 1653; Elizabeth, b. 
Nov. 12, 1655; Benjamin, b. Sept. 11, 1657, and Sarah, b. June 
24, 1660. ( Windsor Records.) 

The will of Benedictus Alford, was proved in 1683-4, and his son 
Josias had the farm given his father, by the Country. Estate £229, 
35. 9tZ. 

JEREMY, son of Benedictus, of Windsor, m. Jane , who 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 33 

was his widow in 1709, and adniinistercd on his estate. They had 
children : Benedict, b. April 27, 1G88 ; Newton, b. March 24, 1G89- 
90 ; Jeremiah. Jr. b. May 8, 1092 ; Jonathan, b. March 4, 1095, d. 
1700; Jane, b. Jan. 14, 1098-9; Joanna, b. March 1, 1701-2, and 
Elizabeth, b. Nov 22, 1703, d. Jan. 10, 1703-4. 

ALVORD, JOB, of Windsor, became a first settler at Harwinton, 
about 1734. ISAAC, of Colchester, had a son Alexander, baptized 
there, July 27, 1753 or '5. JOSIAII, of Windsor, m. Mary Drake, 
alias Case, Oct. 20, 1720. NATHANIEL, m. Experience Hoi- 
comb, daughter of Joshua, Jr., July 3, 1724. JOSIAS, son of Bene- 
dictus Alford, d. May 10, 1722. Fanner says WILLIAM AL- 
FORD, Salem, 1057, and perhaps as early as 1037. WILLIAM, 
Boston, had a son John, b. 1058. JOHN, THOMAS, BENJAMIN, 
and ALEXANDER, took the oath of allegiance at Northampton, 
Mass , 1078. Mr. BENJAMIN ALVORD, of Boston, freeman, 
1689. ( — , coats of arms of the name.) 

ALFORD, (Berkshire,) has one coat of arms. 
ALFORD, (of Holt, Co. Denbigh,) has one. Fawley, Co. Berks, 
and of Meux, Co. York, Sussex, and Hertfordshire, descended from 
Thomas Alford, of Holt, 1015. 

ALFORD, (Ipswich, Co. Suffolk,) has one. 

ALFORD, (Devon,) one. ALFORD, (Northamptonshire,) one. 
ALFORD, (Suffolk,) has one. AYLFORD, has two, and one oth- 
er, which is viz: Gu. a cross moline, ar. 

NATHANIEL, of Windsor, removed to West Simsbury, about 
1741, he had five daughters and one son. 
This name yet continues in Windsor. 

Alexander Alvord, of Northampton, d. there, Oct. 3, 1687. 
Tliomas Alvord, of Nortiiampton, d. there, July 22, 1088. 

The Town of Alford, in Massachusetts, was probably named after 
some individual of this family. 

ALGIERS, ROGER, wife Mary, d. at Ellington, Oct. 0, 1808. 
ALGIERS, ELIJAH, m. Martha Kenedy, of Ellington, Jan. 
11, 1807, a late settler in Connecticut. 

ALLYN, Hon. MATHEW, was an early and important settler at 
Hartford, as early as 1638 : he drew 110 acres of land in the Hart- 
ford land division in 1039. In 1639, he was sued for " seventy-four 
rods of corn,'' (for defect of his fence.) Plaintiff in an action of 
slander against John Coggin, Sept. 2, 1641. In 1644, Mr. Allyn 
presented to the General Court, several petitions against the church 



34 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in Hartford, for relief in his censure of excommunication, in which 
he claimed he had been wronged by the church. The Court ad- 
judged, that said Allyn by his petitions and his expressions in Court, 
had accused the ciiurch of Hartford, and that he should produce in 
Court, the particulars of his charges, that they might be answered. 
In Oct. [25,] 1644, the Court decided that he had not proved his char- 
ges against the church, and that ho should answer their rejoinder in 
the matter in Court, Nov. 27th, and answer for his former contempt. 
In the General Court, Sept. 12, 1650, Mathew and Thomas Allyn, 
brothers, had several law suits, in one of which, the record says, the 
Court did " further conclude that Mathew Allyn should pay unto his 
brother Thomas, the full sum of £5," &c. Mathew Allyn was 
freed from training, April, 1654, for a time. August 18, 1658, Mr. 
Mathew Allyn was appointed by the General Court, to stand as a 
Committee, with Mr. Henry Clary Clark, of Windsor, to act in dis- 
posing of lands at Massacoe. May 17, 1660, the worshipful Gov- 
ernor and Deputy Governor, (Winthrop and Maj. Mason,) were cho- 
sen Commissioners, for the year then ensuing, and Mr. Allyn chosen 
as a reserve. Mr. Mathew Allyn was also appointed moderator to 
supply the place of the governor and deputy, in case of their occa- 
sional absence from the General Court. August 28, 1661, the Gen- 
eral Court granted to Hon. Mathew Allyn, 400 acres of upland, and 
100 acres of meadow, where he could find it in Connecticut, on the 
same terms as were given to Jonathan Gilbert. 

In May, 1663, the General Court of Connecticut, appointed Wm, 
Wadsworth, James Avery and Lieut. Smith, a Committee to view 
the lands at " Hamonoscitt," (Hamonasset,) and see whether it was 
fit for a plantation, and if not prejudicial to Saybrook, to lay it out 
to Mr. Mathew Allyn, Capt. Talcott, John Allyn and Mr. Wyllys, 
according to the grant of the Court. But if found to be prejudicial 
to Saybrook, then to lay out what they sliould judge right to the 
town of Saybrook, and the remainder to Mr. Mathew Allyn, Capt. 
Talcott, John AUyn, Mr. Willys, Mr. Joseph Haynes, or Mr. Dan- 
iel Clark, as the Court should determine, as far as it should go, ac- 
cording to their grants. Mr. Allyn is entered on the Town Record 
at Killingworth, as a large land holder there, and first settler, but 
there is no other evidence that he ever resided there, and he prob- 
ably never did. He owned land in Windsor, in 1640. The exact 
time he removed from Hartford to Windsor, is not known. 

After several years' residence at Hartford, he removed to Wind- 
sor. In 1640, he owned at least three lots of land in Hartford. He 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 35 

was a member of the General and Particular Court, three sessions, 
in 1648, and Juror two sessions: Deputy two sessions in 1649, four 
sessions in 1650. He or his son John, three sessions in 1650, and 
four in 1651 ; three sessions in 1654; two in 1655; two in 1656 ; 
one in May 1664, and one session in 1665 ; four in 1657 ; two in 
1658, as magistrate, also five sessions in 1659; three in 1660, and 
three in 1661, and two as moderator, in 1661 ; as moderator in May, 
in 1662, and three sessions as magistrate ; one as moderator in 1662 : 
also attended in 1663 and '64, and afterwards. Mr. Allyn was fre- 
quently appointed upon important Committees by the General Court. 
In 1658, he, with Hon. FIcnry Clark of Windsor, was appointed to 
dispose of lands at Massacoe, according to a previous order of Court. 
Mr. Allyn was probably married before he came to this country. 
He was a proprietor in the undivided lands in Hartford, and received 
110 acres in the division of lands in Hartford, in 16.39, the fourth 
largest lot distributed. Mr, AUvn was a member of Mr. Hooker's 
Church : he was a man of superior talents, energetic, willful and ob- 
stinate in all his projects. After a few years at Hartford, he became 
involved in a difficulty in the church at Hartford, but his brethren 
knew his power and influence with the settlers, and rather than to 
have an open quarrel with him, they induced him to remove to Wind- 
sor, where he remained until his death. Few men in the Colony, 
had more influence, or received more honors from the people, than 
Mr. Allyn. He had been a member of both branches of the Gen- 
eral Court; a Magistrate and Judge, a member of the United Con- 
gress, of New England ; one of the signnrsof the petition to Charles 
IF., for the Charter of Connecticut, and held many town offices. He 
died at Windsor, in 1670. His will was dated Jan. 30, 1670. His 
wife, Margaret, sole Executrix. He gave his wife the use of all his 
estate, for her life, of which he was then possessed, and desired his 
sons, John, (the Secretary,) Thomas, and his son-in-law, Benjamin 
Newbury, to improve the property for her comfort. After Jier de- 
cease, he gave his son Jolm, all his lands and estate in the bounds of 
the Town of Kcnnilworth, the farm and stock upon it : also confirm- 
ed to him all his lands in Hartford, whicii he gave him as his mar- 
riage portion. Also a large estate to his son Thomas : to his daugh- 
ter, Mary Newbery, wife of Benjamin : to his granddaughter Ma- 
ry Maudsley, he provided liberally after the death of his wife. 
Inventory made Feb 14, 1670, £466, 17s I2d. The land and 
house in Windsor, not iuclud(.-d, whicli he had deeded before, to 



36 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

his son Thomas, at the time of Iiis marriage, to be possessed by him 
after the death of his father and mother. 

Hon. Mathew and Margaret Allyn had children. 

Hon. John, m. Hannah, daughter of Henry Smith, of Springfield, 
and grand-daughter of Mr. Pinchon. 

Thomas, m. . 

Mary, m. Benjamin Newbury, of Windsor. 

Another daughter m. Maudsley, and had a daughter, Mary Mauds- 
ley, noticed by Hon. Mathew, as his granddaughter, in his will. 

(The name of Maudsley, has nearly disappeared in Connecticut, 
and changed to Mosely, particularly in Glastenbury.) 

*ALLYN, Secretary JOHN, the eldest son of Hon. Mathew, of 
Windsor, was one of the most efficient men in Connecticut. He was, 
when young, elected a member of the General Court, as Deputy, 
one session in 1661 ; two in 1662, and as Magistrate in the Particu- 
lar and General Court, twice, in 1662, and three sessions as Magis- 
trate and Secretary in 1663; twice in 1664, and once in 1665: and 
at various other sessions. He was again elected Secretary of Con- 
necticut, in 1667, which he held until 1695 inclusive. The ancient 
records of the Colony and Town of Hartford, are ample evidence of 
his intelligence and industry. Col. Allyn and Mr. Clark, in 1657, 
were desired to present a list of names of such persons as desired to 
be members of the first Troop in the Colony, to be approved by the 
General Court. He was confirmed as Cornet in said Troop, in 
1657-8. In 1658, he, with Edward Stebbing, Nathaniel Ward, and 
Jonathan Barnard, were appointed to attend to the charges of the 
last Council, as to the withdrawers from the Church in Hartford. In 
1659, he was one of the Committee to divide the Podunk lands, for- 
merly possessed by the Indians, and treat with them for other lands 
there. In 1661, he was nominated "to be put up" for election for 
Magistrate. In 1661-2, John Talcott and Lieut. John Allyn, had 
granted to them 600 acres of upland, and 100 acres of meadow, 
equally. 

In 1662, Mr. Allyn, Mr. H. Wolcott, and Wm. Wadsworth, were 
authorized, if those who were indebted to the Country did not pay 
their Taxes in season, for the Committee to procure other provisions, 
and make the delinquents pay the bills for such corn purchased. 



• Epitaph. — Here lyes interred the body of the Honourable VT Colonel John Allyn, who 
served His Generation in the Capacity of a Magistrate, Secretary of the Colony of Connecti- 
cut 34 years, who dyed Nov. 6, in the year 1096. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 37 

October 9, 1662, Lieut. John Allyn, Mr. VVyllis, and John Talcott, 
were chosen by the freemen of the Colony, after the Charter had 
been read to the people, for the first time, to take it into their custo- 
dy, for safe keeping, and were sworn to discharge the trust. 

His father gave him as his marriage portion, all his lands in Hart- 
ford. Col. John Allen m. a daughter of Henry Smith, of Spring- 
field, grand-daughter of Wm. Pynchon, in early life, and by her he 
had no sons, but had six daughters, viz : 

Anna, b. Aug. 18, 1054. 

Mary, b. April 3, 1657. 

Margaret, b. July 29, 1660, m. Wm. Southmayd, of Middletown. 

Rebecca, b. March 2, 1664. 

Martha, b. July 27, 1667, m. Aaron Cook. 

Elizabeth, b. Dec. 1, 1669, m. Alexander Allen, of Windsor. Two 
of his daughters married Whitings. 

Col. Allyn d. at Hartford, Nov. 16, 1696. His wife survived 
him and received as dower, j£479, 2s. Id. sterling, and a silver 
tankard. Each daughter had about j£315 sterling, besides their 
mother's dower. Aaron Cook, Capt. Joseph Whiting, Wm. W"hi- 
ting and Wm. Southmayed, married four of the daughters. Elizabeth 
was unmarried at the time of the distribution of his estate. Hon. 
Joseph Whiting m. one of the daughters for his second wife. 

Capt. THOMAS ALLYN, son of the Hon. Mathew, of Wind- 
sor, m. Abigail Wareham, 1658, and had children, viz: John, b. 
Aug. 17, 1659 ; Col. Mathew, b. Jan. 5, 1660 : Thomas, Jr., b. 
March 11, 1662-3; John, b. June 24, 1665 ; Samuel, b. Nov. 3, 1667; 
Jane, b. July 22, 1670; Abigail Bissell, b. Oct. 17, 1672; Sarah, 
b. July 13, 1674 ; Hester, b. Jan. 29, 1676; Benjamin, b. Oct. 14, 
1680. There also appears to have been Mrs. Thrall. 

ALLYN, CoL. MATHEW, son of Capt. Thomas, and grandson 
of Hon. Mathew, m. Elizabeth Wolcott, a grand-daughter of Hon. 
Henry, Sen. An estate had fallen to his wife Elizabeth, from her 
grandfiither Wolcott, which was situated in the Parishes of Tolland 
and Ledyard Lauran, in the county of Somerset, and at Willington, 
called Long Forth, in England. In June, 1740, he made a will 
solely to dispose of this property, without including any of his 
property in this country. At this time he disposed of his rents in 
these lands, held by him in right of his wife. His children were, 
Thomas, (who died before this time and had left a son Tliomas,) 
Henry, (who had but one son, Henry,) Josiah, Pelatiah and Matthew. 
(His wife Elizabeth, was deceased.) He gave his rents in England 
4 



88 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

to Henry, Jr., grandson of Col. Mathew, to Josiah, son of Josiab, 
deceased, and to some of his own sons. The death of some of his 
sons caused him to make a codicil to his will, which somewhat al- 
tered the disposal of the property. Estate, £1806. Col. Mathew 
d. Feb. 17, 1758, aged 97 years. His wife Elizabeth, d. June 4, 
1734, aged 69 years. 

Col. Allyn was a very important man in the Colony for many 
years, even to his extreme old age, being a gentleman of education 
and talents, and connected with the families of Allyn, Wolcott, 
and Newberry. He was a Judge of the Superior Court of Connec- 
ticut, for several years, and held many other places of trust in the 
Colony. Issue, Mathew, b. Aug. 9, 1687 ; Peletiah, b. May 3, 
1689 ; Josiah, b. March 9, 1692-3 ; Henry, b. Dec. 16, 1699 ; The- 
ophilus, b. Aug. 26,1702; Elizabeth, Eunice, and Azuba. Thom- 
as d. before his father, and left four sons, viz: Thomas, Theophilus, 
John and Joseph. His lands at Willington and Torrington, he gave 
to his three living sons, and one-fourth to the four sons of Thomas, 
deceased. He gave £A to the old church in Windsor. He had three 
grandsons — the sons of Josiah, viz: Josiah, John and Matthew. 

ALLYN, HENRY, son of Col. Mathew, m. Elizabeth , had 

an only son Henry, Jr., and daughter Ann. Maj. Henry, Sen., d. 
before his father, (Col. Mathew,) June 23, 1753. The Col. added a 
codicil to his will and provided for Henry, Jr., and Ann, and some 
others of his grandchildren. 

ALLYN, THOMAS, son of Col. Mathew, d. before his father, 
and left sons — Thomas, Theophilus, John, and Joseph. 

ALLYN, MATHEW, son of Col. Mathew, had children : Math- 
ew, Jonathan, Elijah, Moses, Aaron, Dorcas, and Esther. Their fa- 
ther having deceased, their grandfather, Col. Allyn, provided for 
them in his codicil. (Distributed in 1761.) 

ALLYN, JOSIAH, son of Col. Mathew, d. before his father, and 
left children : Josiah, John and Mathew. Col. Allyn gave his son 
Josiah's portion to these three grandsons. Sarah, his widow, d. May 
31, 1763, aged 65. 

ALLYN, Lieut. JOSIAH, son of Josiah, and grandson of Col. 
Mathew, m. Ann. He and his wife died so near to each other, that 
both estates were distributed at the same time, as one estate. The 
Legatees were Roxana, wife of Dr. Joseph Kingsbury, of Ellington ; 
Ann, wife of Dr. Daniel Porter, of East Windsor ; Rhoda Allyn ; 
Chloe, wife of Dr. Elisha Sill': children of Josiah and Ann, 1797. 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 39 

Estate, £S035, U. Id. Lieut. Josiah d. Jan. 17, 1794, aged 67. 
His wife Ann d. March 18, 1795. 

HENRY, son of Maj. Henry, and grandson of Col. Mathew, had 
the liomestead, a part of Moor Meadow, which had been given to his 
grandfather, Mathew, and land at Torrington and Willington, which 
had been given to his grandfather Wolcott. He had a sister Ann. 
Peletiah, son of Col. Mathew, and Henry, his grandson, were Ex- 
ecutors of his will. M;ij. Henry, d. June 23, 1753, aged 54 years. 
Henry, Esq., his son, left no children, but a large estate, and d. at 
Windsor, May 8, H04, aged 76 years. Estate, £19,457, 7*. 6d. 
Ann, wife of Maj. Henry, d. Jan. 23, 1732, aged 33. 

ALLYN, JANE, daughter of Capt. Thomas Allyn, m. Mr. Wol- 
cott. She d. before her father. 

ALLYN, HESTER, daughter of Capt. Thomas, m. Ebenezer 
Gilbert. 

ABIGAIL, daughter of Capt. Thomas Allyn, m. Mr. Bissell, of 
Windsor. 

ALLYN, BENJAMIN, son of Capt. Thomas, of Windsor, chose 
Return Strong, for his guardian, April 16, 1697. Died 1712-13. 

ALLYN, THOMAS, Jr., m. Joann, and hi»d an only child Joan- 
na. His property was distributed to the mother and daughter, in 
1712. Estate, JG258, 10*. 8d. His widow m. for her second husband, 
Samuel Bancroft, of Windsor. 

*ALLYN, Hon. MATHEW, grandson of Mathew, Sen., of Wind- 
sor, d. Feb. 17, 175S, aged 97 years. 

ALLYN, WILLIAM, of Branton, near Barnstable, in the County 
of Devon, in England, being at the Island of Salt Tartoodus, Boat- 
swain of the ship Mary and Elizabeth, of Hartford, made his will, 
dated Sept. 7, 1671. He gave his estate then in the town of Bran- 
ton, in the possession of his wife, Elizabeth Allyn, to his wife 
Elizabeth Allyn ; for life, after her decease, to his children, then liv- 
ing, to be equally divided. All his other property which he had with 
him in the ship, and what was due him for wages, in the ship, or 
otherwise, he gave to his children, viz : John, and George, Joane, and 



* Epitaph on his tomb stone, viz: The Hon. Col. Mathew Allyn, Esq , who was many years 
one of the Council ami Jiid','e of the Superior Court, for the Colony of Conneclicut. d. Keb. 
n, aj d, IT.iS, in ye 98th year of his age. Mrs. Elizabeth Allyn, liis consort, died June ye 
4th, A. D. 1734, in the ti'Jlh year of her age. 

"And here their bodies sleep in Dust, 
Till the Resurection of the Just." 



40 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Elizabeth Allyn. He desired Mr. Giles Hamlin, of Middletown, 
and Mr, John Blackleach, of Hartford, to see his will performed. 

John Dyman, of New London, saw the will executed, and ap- 
peared before the Court at Hartford, Sept. 7, 1671, and proved the 
will. He, Allyn, died on his return from the West Indies, 

In 1677, Oct. 17, (State Record,) it may appear, that John Jones, 
the father of the children above, died in Nevis, and was of the fami- 
ly of Rev. Mr. John " Joanes," of Fairfield, Conn. (The wife was an 
Osborn, probably born at Fairfield.) 

ALLYN, ROBERT, settled at New London, about 1648, with 
James Avery, Samuel Lathrop, Thomas Minor or Minot, under the 
first preaching there of Rev. Mr. Blinman. Robert was first at Say- 
brook, and thence to New London. 

In May 20, 1658, the General Court released Robert Allyn, and 
John Gager, from their fine, for not having attended the town training. 

ALLYN, HENRY, of Milford, had a daughter Sarah b. there, 
Oct. 5, 1660 ; Mary, b. Oct. 21, 1663. 

ALLYN, ALEXANDER, a Scotchman ; a merchant at Wind- 
sor. Conn. He was twice married, first to Mary Grant, of Windsor, 
Sept. 21, 1693. She d. Aug. 6, 1703, aged 29 years, hoping for a 
glorious resurrection. {Tombstone in Windsor.) 2d wife, Elizabeth 
Allyn, daughter of Hon. John Allyn of Hartford, Dec. 21, 1704. 
She survived her husband, and m. for her second husband, Mr. John 
Gardner, of the Isle of Wight, July 13, 1710. Mr. Alexander Al- 
lyn, d. Aug. 19, 1708, aged 49 years, {Tomlstone.) Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Allyn, alias Gardner, d. — . Mr. Allyn's children were — 

Alexander, Jr., b. Sept. 9, 1695. 

John, b. July 25, 1697. 

William, b. April 9, 1701, d. May 16, 1751. 

Mary, b. June 7, 1702, by 1st wife, 

Fitz John, (by his 2d wife,) b. Oct. 12, 1705. Fitz John remo- 
ved and settled at New Haven, a gentleman of education. 

Alexander, Sen., was an extensive mcrcliant, and connected in 
trade with the Borlands, of Boston. He was a brother of Robert and 
William Allyn, who then resided in Scotland. He gave in his will, 
to each of said brothers, JEIO, to be expended in Boston, to purchase 
articles to be sent to them in Scotland. He gave JG15, to aid in build- 
ing a school-house on the Green, in Windsor. To Scott's Box, in 
Boston, he gave j£5. He gave to Rev. Mr. Mather, £5 ; to Rev. J. 
Marsh, £5; to Mary Cross, his mother-in-law, £o, in specie; 
to Sarah Grant, daughter of Thomas, a servant girl, 20^. to pur- 
chase a bible for her. Estate, £2706, 4s. 2d. His only daugh- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 41 

ter, Mary, he gave £400 in cash, and the remainder to his sons, 
lie had a sister-in-law, Abigail Grant, who m. Mr. Matlier, Dec. 
27, 1698. He was licensed at Windsor, to sell wine, and other 
strong drink, provided he would "not allow any to drink it in his 
house, and y' he sell cheaper than others y' have Licences." 

ALLYN, ALEXANDER, Jr. remained at Windsor, where he 
was also a merchant, and died a gentleman of large estate. He d. 
at Windsor, in 1790, March 3d. Previous to his decease, in 1798, 
he gave Hannah AUyn Hooker, (daughter of Capt. James,) £1000 
in silver, out of his estate, and in his will, appointed Capt. Hooker, 
his executor. His estate amounted to £8875, 9*. lOrf. His wife 
Hannah, d. Dec. 7, 1796, aged 83. His property distributed to his 
children, Feb. 4, 1792, was £5990, 19^;. 4(Z. viz : to Increase, Zebu- 
Ion, and Alsan Hoskins, in right of their wives, to Hannah AUyn, and 
Abigail Ellsworth, a widow. He had no sons. 

Mary Allyn, daughter of Alexander, m. Capt. James Hooker, a 
merchant of high standing at Hartford. 

ALLEN, SAMUEL, of Windsor. The inventory of his estate 
was exhibited in Court, Sept. 8, 1648, being £76, IS*. Qd. : no chil- 
dren found ; presented by Henry Clarke, and David Wilton, of 
Windsor. He was a juror March 5, 1644. 

ALLEN, THOMAS. "Two mares" were seized by Daniel 
Finch, Constable of Wethersfield, as " Mr. Oldhams" property, which 
were delivered up to Mr.^AUen, in 1636. (Thomas Allyn, brother of 
Hon. Malhew, was at Hartford, 1636.) 

Thirty-six persons by the name of Allen, two by the name of Al- 
lin, one Ailing, and three Allyn, have graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege : seventeen by the name of Allen, one Ailing, and one Allyn, 
had graduated at Yale College, previous to 1851. Several by the 
name of Allen, were early settlers in Massachusetts. Robert Allyn, 
perhaps was at New London, in 1648. Farmer says, MATHEW, 
of Cambridge, 1632, freeman there 1635, Deputy 1636. This was 
probably the Hon. Mathew Allyn, who first came to Hartford. JOHN 
ALLIN, first minister of Dedham, ordained 1639, and made free 
163*^. JAMES ALLLNG, graduated at Harvard College, 1679. 
SAMUEL ALLING, in Connecticut, 1675. EDWARD AL- 
LYNE, of Watertown, Mass., and Dedham, made free in 1638. 
(See Farmer.) 

ALLEN, Dea. THOMxVS, of Middletown, was probably the same 
Thomas Allen, to whom Constable Finch, of Wethersfield, delivered 
" two mares" which he had seized in ]636: a brother of Hon. Math- 
4* 



42 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ew, Sen. His wife was Martha ; he left children : Thomas, 

d. Oct. 16, 1688. His widow d. 1690. 

ALLEN, Dea. THOMAS, (perhaps Jr.,) of Middletown, m. 
Hannah Leet, May 4, 1698, and had issue : Hannah, b. March 6, 
1699 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 26, 1702 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 12, 1707. 
This Dea. Thomas d. Dec. 3, 1733. 

ALLEN, Dea. OBADIAH, of Middletown, m. Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter of Thomas Sanford, of Milford, Oct. 1669 : issue, Obadiah, b. 
Sept. 20, 1670 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 20, 1672, d. Nov. 8, 1672 ; 2d 
Thomas, b. Sept. 27, 1673 ; Mary b. Sept. 15, 1675 ; Anna, b. Sept. 
12, 1677 ; Thankful, b. Sept. 8, 1679; Samuel, b. March 15, 1683- 
4 ; John, b. Sept. 27, 1686. Dea. Obadiah, Sen., d. in 1702 or 1712, 
(April 7, 1712.) He had m. a second wife, Mary, who had been 
the wife of John Wetmore. She d. Oct. 26, 1723. Estate £343, 
lis. [Ster. and Rec.) Obadiah, Jr., son of Dea. Obadiah, m. 
Dorcas, daughter of James Wright, Nov. 29, 1699, and had issue ; 
Obadiah, and Dorcas, and d. in 1702. (Probate Record says, Ed- 
ward and Dorcas.) Obadiah, son of Obadiah Jr., m. Elizabeth, 
daughter of Samuel and Lydia Cotton, June 1, 1727, and had issue : 
Obadiah, b. March 31, 1728, d. 1757 ; Ebenezer, b. April 1, 1730, 
d. 1736 ; Daniel, b. Aug. 28, 1732 ; 2d Ebenezer, b. Feb. 5, 1737- / 
8; Lydia, b. Aug. 26, 1742. Elizabeth, his wife, d. Aug. 16, 
1758, and he m. for second wife, Hannah Mackey, Nov. 17, 1763. 
She d. Oct. 25, 1764. 

ALLYN, SAMUEL, (son of Obadiah and Elizabeth,) m. Mary 
Andrews, of Milford, June 23, 1714: issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 1716, 
d. same year; Thomas, b. Sept. 25, 1718; Samuel, b. 1721, d. 
1775; Abigail, b. 1723, d. 1743. Mary, his wife, d. May 29, 1723. 

ALLYN, JOHN, son of Obediah, Sen., m. Mary Howe, of Wal- 
lingford, Sept. 23, 1713, and had issue : Mary, John, Anna, Ephraim 
and Ruth. John, d. 1723. Mary, widow of John, d. Feb. 13, 1756. 
(Ster. and Rec.) 

ALLYN, JOSEPH, a descendant of Hon. Mathew, settled and d. 
at East Windsor. His estate was distributed in 1778 to his sons 
Joseph, Noah, David, Samuel and Hezekiah. The two last had land 
in Enfield, and Samuel settled there, and there are now the descend- 
ants of Mathew, of Windsor, and Edward of Suffield, in Enfield, 
and John Allen. John Allyn, a descendant of Hon. Mathew Allyn, 
was made executor of his father's will, and described of Pittsfield, 
Mass., by his father, who d. at Windsor. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, of Hartford, Boatswain of the ship Mary 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURltAlfS. 4S 

and Elizabeth, died on liis return from " Saltatoodus," to Connecti- 
cut, in 1671. He was in the service of Mr. Joiin Blackleach. 

ALLEN, EDWARD, of Hartford, m. Rachel, and had John, b. 
March 4, 1689 ; Racliel, b. Aug. 20, 1694. 

ALLEN, HENRY, of Milford, had a daughter Mary, b. there, 
Oct. 21, 1663; Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1660; Mary, b. Oct. 8, 1671; 
Henry, b. May 2, 1674. Henry Allen, Jr., had Mary, b. Aug. 2, 
1700 ; Marcy, b. July 4, 1703. 

ALLExN, Mr. GIDEON, of Milford : son George, b. ; John, 

b. at Milford, Feb. 19, 1682; Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1685. 

ALLEN, GEORGE, son of Gideon, of Milford, had a son Josi- 
ah, b. Jan. 10, 1708-9. 

ALLYN, JOSHUA, and Mary, his wife, of Windham, had Sa- 
rah, b. Nov. 7, 1695. Joshua, the father, d. Dec. 27, 1699. 

ALLEN, JONATHAN, of Northampton, m. Elizabeth Allin, of 
Middletown, Oct. 20, 1726 : issue, Thomas, b. June 27, 1728, d. 
1736 : Hannah, b. April, 1730 ; Elizabeth, b. 1734, d. 1762 ; Thank- 
ful, b. 1735-6; Thomas, b. April, 1737, d. June 18, 1777 ; Sarah, 
b. 1740-1 ; Experience, b. 1743; Lucia, b. 1747, d. 1749. Eliza- 
beth, wife of Dea. J. Allen, d. 1762, and he m. widow Rebecca 
Whitmore, July 0, 1763. 

ALLEN, JOSHUA, Sen., of Windham, d. Dec. 27, 1699. He 
left a widow Mary : issue, Sarah, b. Nov. 7- 1695. There was al- 
so Nathaniel Allen, of Hartford, in 1639. Thomas Allen, of Hart- 
ford, in 1636, probably the same who died at Middletown, 1688 

brother of Hon. Mathew. 

ALLEN, SAMUEL, of Windsor, a juror, in 1644, d. in 1648. 

ALLIN, ROBERT, settled in 1648, at New London, who has 
been supposed to have been a relative of Hon. Mathew Allyn, who 
died at Windsor, but the connection of these diiTercnt early families, 
is not known to the compiler. 

ALLEN, JOHN, who was killed at Deerfield, in 1675, was father 
of John Allen, one of the first settlers of King's street, in Enfield, sup- 
posed to have come from Deerfield, about 1700, d. 1739, aged 69 — 
had two sons who settled in Enfield. Azariah, b. 1701, m. Martha 
Burt, of Longmeadow, d. 1787, left one son, Moses, who settled and 
died in Enfield. John, Ebenezer, 2d son of John Allen, was b. 1712, 
settled and died in the south part of Enfield, left five sons, two of 
whom settled and died in East Windsor, two in Enfield, also Elijah, 
of Ohio, now living. 

ALLEN, SAMUEL, m. Hannah Burrough.s, 1700, settled in 



44 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

King's street, d. 1785, aged 62 — had three sons: Samuel, b. 1702, 
m. Elizabeth Booth, 1728, settled in East Windsor, where he died ; 
Joseph, b. 1704, settled and died in East Windsor ; John, b. 1712, 
m. Abigail Pease, 1737, d. 1791, left one child, settled in Enfield. 

ALLYN, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield— Mary his wife: children, 
Hannali, b. May 17, 1705; Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1707; Sarah, b. 
Aug. 17, 1708 ; Martha, b. Oct. 22, 1710. 

ALLEN, EDWARD, Sen., had a grant of 60 acres of land in 
Sufiield, in Oct. 1678. And his three sons, John, Edward, Jr., and 
William Allen, each had 40 acres, at the upper end of Feather street, 
between the two brooks. Their land extended east to the Great River. 
Edward probably came from Deerfield, and settled on these lands, 
with his three sons. 

ALLEN, JOHN, son of Edward, of Suffield, m. Elizabeth Pritch- 
ard, Feb. 22, 1681, and had Richard, b. Sept. 17, 1685; John, b. 
Dec. 21, 1682, and d. 1683 ; 2d John, b. Jan. 19, 1683, perhaps others. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, of Suffield, son of Edward, m. Joanna Dib- 
ble, Dec. 29, 1692, and had William, b. July 28, 1694 ; Johannah, 
b. April 21, 1696 ; Sarah, b. April 28, 1699; Samuel, b. Oct. 8, 
1701 ; Ebenezer, b. June 7, 1704 ; John, b. Feb. 24, 1706-7 ; Hep- 
zibah, b. March 14, 1710-11, and d. April 15, 1711. The father 
d. Nov. 15, 1711, and his son Ephraim, b. after his father's death, 
April 4, 1712. 

ALLEN, EDWARD, son of Edward, m. Sarah, and had Caleb, 
b. March 31, 1685 ; Mary, b. April 9, 1683. Sarah, his wife, d. 
June 12, 1696, and her husband d. Nov. 22, 1696. EDWARD 
ALLEN, m. Mercy Painter, Nov. 14, 1683. 

ALLEN, WILLIAM, 2d son of William, m. Kezia Taylor, of 
Suffield, June 15, 1727, daughter Kezia, b. Feb. 6, 1727-8, d. same 
month ; Joanna, b. Feb. 7, 1728-9 ; 2d Kezia, b. July 5, 1731 ; 
Miriam, b. Aug. 26, 1734 ; Ellenor, b. Oct. 15, 1737 ; Sarah, b. 
Nov. 28, 1742; William, b. July 15, 1745. 

ALLEN, CALEB, son of Edwaid, 2d, m. Hannah Eaton, of 
Haverhill, in 1721, and had a daughter Hannah, b. Feb. 6, 1722-3; 
Tamer, b. Dec. 3, 1723; Lydia, b. Aug. 16, 1726. 

ALLEN, EBENEZER, son of William, Sen., m. Mercy Allen, 
of Suffield, Sept. 20, 1724, and had Benjamin, b. Jan. 12, 1724-5; 
Mercy, b. Nov. 2, 1726 ; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 9, 1728-9 ; Zilpah, b. 
at Sheffield, Sept. 24, 1731; Ruth, b. Feb. 27, 173- ; Mary, b. 
March 24, 1736 ; Samuel, b. Feb. 21, 1737-8 ; Zilpah, d. 1740 ; 
Caleb, b. Jan. 11, 1740-1 ; Simeon, b. Sept. 10, 1744. This family 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN3. 45 

of Aliens, descendants of Edward, Sen., are now found in Enfield. 
One of the great-grandsons of Hon. Mathew, also removed from East 
Windsor to Enfield, and perhaps has descendants there now. 

ALLEN, JOSEPH, of Coventry, son of Mercy, removed in early 
life from Coventry, as ia now supposed to Woodbury, where he m. 
Mary Baker, March 11, 1736-7, a sister of Remember Baker, and soon 
after, as appears by the birth of his first child, removed to Litch- 
field, where it was born. He removed from Litchfield to Cornwall, 
' about 1740. Col. Ethan Allen, the hero of the battle of Benning- 
ton, was born at Litchfield, Jan. 10, 1737-8, (as appears by the 
Litchfield record.) He had other sons, brothers of Col. Ethan, viz: 
Hon. Heman, Heber, Levi, Zimri, and Ira. This family early re- 
moved to Vermont, where several of them became distinguished. 
Gen. Ethan Allen, one of the most distinguished officers in the war 
of the Revolution, d. Feb. 15, 1789, aged 52. 

Samuel Allen m. Hannah Woodford, at Northampton, Nov. 29, 
1659. The following were those who had coats of arms. The name 
of ALAN has three coats of arms. ALLEN, (Viscount,) one. 
ALLEN, (Bath,) one. ALLEN, (Chelsea, 1563,) one. ALLEN, 
or ALLEYN, (Suffield and Wilts,) one. ALLEN, (Stanton, Wood- 
house, Derbyshire, 1586,) one. ALLEN, (Devonshire,) one. AL- 
LEN, (Essex.) Three ditTerent coats of arms in Essex. ALLEN, 
(Grove, near Maidstone, Co. Kent, 1610,) one. ALLEN, (Kent,) 
two of Kent, unlike. ALLEN, (Hoyland, W. R. Co. York,) one. 
ALLEN, (Lancashire,) one. ALLEN, (Whit son, Leicestershire,) 
one. ALLEN, (SheriflT of London, 1620,) one. ALLEN, (Lon- 
don,) five of this name in London. ALLEN, (Suffolk and Sussex,) 
one. ALLEN, or ALLEYN, (Edward, founder of Dulwich Col- 
lege, Co. Surrey, b. in 1566, d. in 1620,) one. ALLEN, (York- 
shire,) and fifteen others for the same name. In all, forty-one coats 
of arms for this name. Also eight for ALLAN: two for AL- 
EYNE: two for ALEN : three for ALLEYN: three for AL- 
LEYNE: one for ALLIN : four for ALLYN. 

Richard Allin, James Atkinson, James Allin, Joan Allin, embarked 
in the ship Safety, John Grant, Master, from England, to Virginia, 
Aug. 1635. JAMES ALLIN, ofDedham, Mass., and his wife Anne, 
had John, b. 1639 ; Mary and Martha, b. 1641. Edward Allein,d. 
at Dcdham, in 1642. THOMAS ALLYNE, of Barnstable, 1644. 
MATHEWE ALLEN, freeman in Massachusetts, March 4, 1634- 
5. THOMAS ALLEN, of Scituate, is of the list of those in the town, 
in 1643, able to bear arms, between the ages of 16 and 60 years. 



46 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

KOBERT ALLIN, Dedham, freeman 1671. SAMUELL and NE- 
HEMIAII ALLINE, took the oath of allegiance at Northampton, 
Mass., Feb. 8, 1678. SAMUEL ALLEN, Gov. of New Hamp- 
shire, 1698. ROGER ALLEN, was a single man and resided in 
the New Haven Colony, in 1639, and 1 43. Also HENRY ALLEN, 
as early as 1645. TIMOTHY ALLEN, not known as a relative of 
Robert Allyn, was at Norwich, as early as 1669. THOMAS AL- 
LEN, was Deacon at Middletow^n, in 1670, supposed brother of 
Mathew, Sen. Obadiah Allen, made Deacon at Middletown, May 
31, 1704. Deacon Jonathan Allen, of Middletown, d. 1780, aged 
80. Hex. JOHN ALLEN, of Litchfield, an eminent Lawyer of 
Litchfield County, represented he town in 1793, and 1796, was 
Clerk of the House, and five other sessions, and Member of Con- 
gress, from 1797 to 1799 : an Assistant from Litchfield District, 
from 1800 to 1806. Gideon, James, James, Jr., and Noble Allen, 
of Bethlem, have each represented the town of Bethlehem, one ses- 
sion. James, of Cornwall, one session. Austin, of Goshen, one 
session. Henry, of Barkhampstead, one session. Mathew of the 
same town, five sessions. Pelatiah, of same, twenty-three sessions, 
and Sanford Allen, of same town, one session. Rev. Mr. Thomas 
Allen, of Pittsfield, Mass., m. Miss Elizabeth Lee, daughter of Rev. 
Jonathan Lee, of Salisbury, Conn., Feb. 18, 1768. Joseph Allen, 
aged 30, husbandman, and his wife, Ann, 30, embarked in the Ab- 
bigall, de London, Hackwell, Master, for New England, per certifi- 
cate from the Minister of Cranbrook, in Kent, England. 

The Aliens, in the early settlement of New England, were nearly 
as numerous as the Smiths and Jones's, but have produced many 
eminent men, members of Congress, Presidents of Colleges and 
D. D's., with several celebrated Lawyers. 

Joseph Allen, an Englishman, settled at Wethersfield, Conn., be- 
fore A.D. 1700. 

ALLIS, (Allice,) WILLL\M, Deacon at Braintree, Mass., was 
admitted freeman in 1640, and d. in yassaclmsetts, Oct. 1653. He 
had children : John, b. March 5, 1642 ; Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1647 ; 
Josiah, b. Oct. 20, 1651, and William, b. Jan. 10, 165-. (Farmer.) 
Rev. Samuel Allis, was the first Minister at Somers, Conn., where 
he wa ordained 1727. 

ALLIS, W1LLL\M, of Wethersfield, m. Mary Griswold, daugh- 
ter of Jacob, Dec. 15, 1709, by Rev. Stephen Mix, of Wethersfield : 
children, Mary, b. Nov. 22, 1711; Lidia, b. Sept. 14, 1713; Sa- 
rah, b. Oct. 6, 1715. John Allis, d. May 18, 1756, aged 28 years. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 47 

ALLIS, NATHANIEL, of Bolton, d. in 1750. His widow Eliz- 
abeth, and son David, executors. Children, David, Jonathan, Na- 
thaniel, John, Ebenezer, Timothy, Mary Johns, (she left heirs, Ben- 
jamin and Stephen Johns,) Jemima Root, Mindvvell Rood, and Mar- 
cy Coleman. He gave to his son David all his lands and buildings 
in Bolton, if David should pay JCIOOO in legacies given by the will 
to his other children within six years after the death of the father, 
and support his father and mother during their lives. Estate over 
£2000. (Inventory dated Jan. 1750.) 

ALLIS, JOHN, of Wethersfield, son of William, d. 1760; wife 
Zeruiah. She afterwards m. David Webster. ABEL, the only son 
of John, aged six years. ABIGAIL, of Wethersfield, d. in 1762. 

ALLIS, WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, an aged man in 1756. The 
father of the above John, made his will and noticed his grandson, 
Abel, by giving him all his lands. He also noticed his grandson, 
Ebenezer Sanford, son of his daughter Mary or Mercy, then deceased. 
Also his grandchildren, William and Experience Barrett, children 
of his daughter Mercy, deceased. His daughter Lydia Collins, wife 
of John Collins. His daughter Sarah Kelsey, wife of Ezekiel Kel- 
sey. His daughter Ann Pike, wife of Samuel Pike. He appointed 
Sergeant Isaac North, Executor of his will. Estate £151, 126-. 8d. 
He had resided at Kensington, near Berlin, in Conn. 

ALLIS, JOHN and WILLIAM, resided at Hatfield, Mass., 1668. 
In 1672, SAMUEL ALLIS resided at Hatfield, with widow Allis, 
and both were taxed there in 1680. Col. WILLIAM ALLIS had 
a son Dexter, born at Hadley, Mass., Feb. 1697. Nathan Graves, 
m. Rebecca Allis, at Hadley, in 1702. JOHN and SAMUEL AL- 
LICE, of Hadley, took the oatii of allegiance in Massachusetts, in 
1678. DANIEL AULLICE, (perhaps Allis,) of Dedham, freeman, 
1690. Capt. JOHN ALLICE, made free in Massachusetts, May, 
1640. Rev. SAMUEL ALLIS, of Somcrs, and others of Connec- 
ticut, were probably of the family of Braintree. John, of Hatfield, 
Mass., m. widow Mury Clark, Dec. 14, 1669, and had a daughter 
Abigail, born there, Feb. 25, 1671. HANNAH ALLIS, of Hat- 
field, m. William Scott, Juno 28, 1670. Sarah Allis, d. at Wind- 
sor, March 6, 1852, aged 92 years. Two of this name have gradu- 
ated at Yale College, and Samuel Allis, at Harvard College, in 
1724. 

ALLISON, JOHN, of Hartford, purchased land of Samuel Gra- 
ham, in Hartford, in 1726. 

ALLISON, JAMES, was of Boston, in 1644, and had a son James, 



48 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

b. in 1650. {Farmer.) Two of this name graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, before 1851. 

ALLISTON, WILLIAM, was of Windsor, previous to 1700. 
No facts are found concerning him. 

ALMER, BENEDICT, in Hartford, 1643. (Wm. Almy, of 
Lynn, Mass., in 1636. Sandwich, 1637. 

ALSAP, (Alsup, Alsope,) of New London, 1674. He is sup- 
posed to be Joseph Alsope, who came to New England in the Eliza- 
beth and Ann, Roger C. master. Thomas came in the same vessel 
at another time. 

ALSUP, or ALSOP, THOMAS, of Simsbury, d. insolvent. He 
was drowned in the River at Windsor, March 2, 1724-5. 

ALSOP, RICHARD, Robert Field, Sen., and Jr., John Bull, and 
others, of Newtown, L. I., in 1655-6, Three of the name of Alsop, 
graduated at Yale College, before 1850. 

The name of Alsop, (Alsope, Co. Derby,) has one coat of arms. 
Alsop, (Lord Mayor of London, 1752.) Alsope, (Derbyshire.) 
Alsoppe, (London, 1797,) one. Thomas Alsopp, aged 20, embarked 
from England, May 14, for New England, in the Elizabeth and 
Ann, Roger Cooper, Master. 

AMADOWN, ROGER, Salem, 1637, Weymouth, 1640, Boston, 
1643, mentioned by Farmer. Farmer says, probably d. at Reho- 
both, Nov. 13, 1673 : was probably the same man who is called 
upon the Connecticut Records, Anadowne, Anadacom, Roger, at 
Hartford, in 1643, when Mr. Whiting and Capt. Mason, were to 
examine whether the country, or an individual should pay the debts 
due him. JACOB AMADON, (probably the eame name) gradua- 
ted at Harvard College, in 1775- 

This was an old name in Boston and Weymouth, and is yet found 
in Connecticut. 

AMBECK, Mr. JOHANNES, of Hartford, had a daughter, Ju- 
dith, b. Dec. 5, 1654. He d. Dec. 30, 1658, and his widow mar- 
ried the same year, Mr. Paulus Schritt, (Dutch settlers.) 

AMBLER, Mr. ABRAHAM, of Stamford, Conn., m. Mary , 

Dec. 25, 1662, and had issue: Mary, b. Jan. 15, 1663; Abraham, 
b. Jan. 5, 1665; John, b. Feb. 18, 1667; Joshua, b. Sept. 8, 1670; 
Sarras, (a daughter,) b. Oct. 6, 1672, perhaps others. 

AMBLER, ABRAHAM, Jr., of Stamford, had Sarah, b. Dec. 
29, 1721 ; Abraham, Jr., b. Feb. 2, 1724, and others. 

AMBLER, STEPHEN, and DEBORAH, of Stamford, had John, 
b. March 24, 1728-9 ; Joseph, b. Oct, 4, 1727, and others. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 49 

ABRAHAM, of Stamford, as early as 1G85, on the 2fith of 
May, was one of the Patentees of Stamford, granted by the Govern- 
ment and Company. This Abraham was tlie son of Richard Amb- 
ler of Watertowii, Mass., who was there, says Farmer, in 1639. 
and had a son Abraham, b. in 1642. ABKAIIAM was the first 
of the name in Connecticut. His descendants are now found at 
Trumbull, Danbury, Bethlem and other towns in Connecticut, and 
respectable wherever located. 

The names of Ambler and Anbler have a coat of arms, viz : " Sa. 
on a fosse or, betw. three pheons ar. a lion pass-guard, gre. Crest, 
two (iexter hands conjoined, sustaining a royal crown. 

AMBLAR, JOHN, of Dover, New Hampshire, m. Elizabeth 
Trickey, Nov. 6, 1706, and had children, Mary, b. Feb. 1, 1709-10, 
in Portsmouth ; John, b. in Portsmouth, 1711; Joseph, b. 1714, in 
Dover; Abraham, b. 1716; Hannah, b. Jan. 1718-19; Elizabeth, 
b. 1724 {N. E. Gen. Register, p. 449.) 

AMBLER, RICH.ARD, of Cambridge, 1660. 

AMBLER, is an old name in Watertown, Mass. 

AMBLER, DAVID, Esq., of Bethlem, represented Woodbury, 
Conn., in 1787, and Bethlem, in 1787 : in all, ten sessions in the 
Legislature of Connecticut. 

AMBLEIi, F. P. Esq., Representative from the town of Trum- 
bull, in the General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1849. 

AMBLI':R, RICHARD, of Watertown, 1639: son Abraham, b. 
in 1642. {Former ) Probably the same Richard, fuund at Cam- 
bridge, in 1660. 

AMES, ROBERT, and wife Sarah, had children b. at Wethers- 
field, viz : William, b. Aug. 7, 1768; Sarah, b. April 24, 1771. 
Mr. Robert Ames, d. in Nov., 1771. He also had a son John, and 
perhaps others. He probably came from Massachusetts^ to Weth- 
ersfield. Estate, £373, 13*. Id. 

AMES, JOHN, of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, son of Robert, was 
b. Nov., 1733, and d. July 16, 1790. He m. Abigail Butler, who 
was b. June 30, 1737, and d. Feb. 23, 1800. They had eleven 
children, viz: Daniel, b. Feb. 1, 1751, and d. Nov. 19, 1822 — he 
lost one of his arms by a pistol ball. He resided in Southington, 
and taught school for a livelihood after he lost his arm. Philemon, 
b. Oct. 8, 1758, and d. June 9, 1797 — m. Ruth Hurlbut, who was b, 
Oct. 1760. He was a ship-carpenter or builder, and master of the 
ship yard at Rocky Hill. He was a gentleman of great firmness of 
character. He died when only 39 years of age, and lelt but one 



50 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

child, Eunice Ames — she m. Frederick Robbins, of Wethersfield. 
John, son of John, b. Aug. 31, 1760, and died of the small pox, aged 
16 years. Benjamin, son of John, b. Oct. 29, 1762, and d. Nov., 
1795. Mahitabel, b. March 21, 1765, and d. aged 10 years. Will- 
iam, b. July 31, 176.5, d. July 2, 1811. Eunice, b. Sept. 4, 1769, 
d. in 1775. Robert, b. April 20, 1772, d. in 1775. Abigail, b. 
June 3, 1774 ; m. Russell Mackee, and was living at Middletown, 
in 1840. She had four children, William the eldest then lived in 
Philadelphia ; Henry, the second son, was a sea captain, and com- 
manded a brig in the West Jndia trade. Abigail died by an injury 
received by the bursting of a boiler of the steamboat, when on her 
way home from Albany, having then recently lost her husband at sea, 
Capt. Joseph Stocking. She was left a widow with infant twin sons. 
Joseph, was a merchant in New York. John Ames, b. May 1, 
1777, son of John, d. in 1778. Mary Ames, b. June 1, 1780, d. in 
1821, making eleven children. This family originated from the 
Ames family in Massachusetts. Horatio Ames, of Salisbury, Conn., 
is not of the family at Wethersfield, but came from Massachusetts 
to Salisbury, where he has a family, and is largely engaged in the 
iron business. There are but few families of the name in Connecti- 
cut at this time. 

AMES, ROBERT, of Wethersfield. Estate distributed 1772: 
left a widow, Sarah, who had dower. He owned land at Barkhamp- 
stead. He left a son William — had £199, 4*., besides the widow's 
life estate. Sarah Ames, only daughter, £99, 12s. 

AMES, JOHN, son of Richard, of Bruton, in Somersetshire, set- 
tled at Bridgewater, Mass., and d. without issue. William Ames, his 
brother, of Braintree, 1641. His son, John, b. May 24, 1647, set- 
tled at Bridgewater, and had sons: John, Nathaniel, Thomas, Will- 
iam and David. The above Nathaniel, b. 1677, was the father of 
Dr. Nathaniel Ames, whose Almanacks were published forty years, 
successively, b. in 1708. He was the father of Hon. Fisher Ames, 
JjL.D., the former learned and distinguished orator of Massachusetts. 
WILLIAM AMES, son of Rev. William Ames, D. D., professor 
of the University of Frankar, in Holland, who d. in Nov., 1633, 
aged 57, graduated at Harvard College, 1645: he went to England, 
and was minister of Wientham, where he d. in 1689, aged 66. His 
mother came to Salem, and d. at Cambridge, Dec. 23, 1644. {Fanner.) 

Ten of this name had graduated at Harvard College, before 1849. 
The name of Ames, (Clifton and Bristol,) has a coat of arms. As 
has Ames or Amos. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 51 

AMES, WILLIAM, of Braintrcc, had daughters, Hannah and 
Rebecca, born there, as early as 164J : made free in Mass., 1G47. 

AiiKs has been an old r)aine at Boston and Braintree, and has 
been iiighly respectable in Massachusetts and Connecticut, from the 
early settlement. 

AMOS, HUGH, of Norwich, established the first regular ferry 
over the Shetuckct River, in 1671. AMUS or AMES has a coat of 
arms. AMI^S, (Clifton and Bristol,) one. 

AMOS, HUGH, made free at Boston, 1600, probably the same 
who was at Norwich, in 1671. Few of this name (if any) are now 
found ill Connecticut. 

ANDERSON. FRANCIS, of Hartford, d. in 1771. Ashbel An- 
derson, of East Windsor, d. in 1777 — Abigail, his widow. 

ANDERSON, GAWEN, admitted freeman in Massachusetts, 
1640. JOHN, of Boston, 1647, and John, of Ipswich, in 1665. 
{Farmer.) Four of this name have graduated at Yale College, and 
four at Harvard College. 

The name of Anderson, has twenty coats of arms. 

Richard Anderson, Martin and Edward Atkinson, and others, em- 
barked in the Merchant's Hope, Hugli Weston, Master, after the 
usual examination at Gravesend, &c. Probably in 1635. JOHN 
ANDERSON, Sen., made free at Boston, 107:}. 

ANDREWS, WILLIAM, was an early settler at Hartford; he 
was in the first land division in 1039, and had thirty acres; he was 
the first school-master, and contracted with the townsmen, to teach 
a year, for £16, in 1640. He was a Juror in March, 1044. He 
resided south of Little River, adjoining the river, west of John Hop- 
kins' lot, and west by the road from the Mill to the country. It was 
voted, Dec. 6, 1642 to appropriate £30 for the school in Hartford. 
In 1643, £16 was ordered to be paid Wm. Andrews, as teacher. 

William Andrews had a son Samuel, b. at Hartford, Oct. 20, 
1645. His daughter Abigail, d. in 1653: |)robably other children. 
There was a William Andrews in the New Haven Colony, an eiirly 
settler ihrre. He is in the list of families there, in 1043, with eight 
persons in his family. He was also a subscriber to the fundamen- 
tal agreement made in a general meeting of all the tree planters of 
New Haven : probably in 1639. (See note lo ATWATER.) He 
was also at East Haven afterwards, and was not the same Wm. 
Andrews, the early settler of this name, al Hartford. 

Samuel Andrews, supposed son of William, went from Hartford 



52 GENEALOGY OF THE PUR1TAN3. 

to Say brook, and from thence to Norwich, and was a brother of John 
Birchard's wife. 

Francis Andrews, with Samuel Martin, were recopnizrd in the sum 
of j£40 in 1646, to appear before the next Court at Hartford, for hav- 
ing put on board of a vessel at Hartford, ninety-seven bushels of 
corn, and left Hartford without entering the corn. Francis had 
sons .lohn and Thomas baptized at Hartford, Jan, 2, 1047, and per- 
haps others. He purchased the north half of Richard Butler's lot, 
in Hartford. 

ANDREWS, JAMES, m. ; had a son John baptized Sept. 

27, 1646 ; also Thomas, baptized Jan. 1647, at Hartford : perhaps 
others. 

ANDREWS, JOHN, Sen., Hartford, d. in 1681 ; wife Mary. His 
sons were, Benjamin, John, Abraham, Daniel and Joseph. He 
had grandchildren, Thomas Barnes, John Andrews, Abraham An- 
drews, John Richards, Daniel Andrews, Ezeki^l Buck, and Joseph, 
the son of his son John. He had daughters, Mary Barnes, Hannah 
Richards, and Rachel Buck. He gave each of his grandchildren 
named, a legacy. 

ANDREWS, JOHN, Jr., m. Hannah Gillet, April 23, 1702, of 
Hartford, and had issue b. Nov 25, 1703 ; Elizabeth, b, Feb. 7, 
1705-6 ; Abigail, b. f\b. 21, 1707-8 ; Asahel, b. Dec. 2, 1711, &c. 

ANDREWS, STEPHEN, m. Sarah Gillet, March 29, 1705: is- 
sue, Elisha, b. July 10, 1706; Dinah, b. Aug. 10, 1708; Charles, 
b. Oct. 3, 1710, &c. 

ANDREWS, SOLOMON and ELIZABETH, had issue at Hart- 
ford : Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1708, «Sjc., d. in 1712. Inventory, £175, 
12*. 4d. Elizabeth, his relict, d. alter her husband, and noticed in 
her verbal will, Ephraim Tucker. Her estate, JC39, 10s. 

ANDREWS, ABRAHAM, son of John, Sen., settled at Water, 
bury : widow Sarah, ^'■encienle'' at his death : she was sister of Thom- 
as Porter. He d. May 3, 1693. Inventory of his estate offered in 
1693. Estate £177, \ls. Issue, Sarah, Abraham, Jr., Mary, Ben- 
jamin and Robert. 

ANDROSS, JOSEPH, son of John Andrews, of Hartford, (spelt 
Andross.) John, his father, administrator. Estate insolvent, 1698-9. 

ANDREWS, JOSEPH, Sen., son of John, of Farmington, settled 
at Wethersfield, and died there, in 1706. His widow, Rebeckah, 
exhibited his will in 1706. The widow, and his son Joseph, execu- 
tors. Issue, viz : Joseph, Jr., Benjamin, William, Caleb, aged 15 



GEXEALOGY OF TIIC PURITANS. 53 

years, in 1709 ; Rebecca, aged 17, and Ann, 13. Tlic mother, Re- 
becca, guardian for the tlirce last. Estate JC413, Is. Ad. 

ANDREWS, EDWARD, d. in 1G73— was a brolhcr-in-law of 
Josiah Adiiins. He left a wife and cliildren. Josiah llowlton in. 
his sister, (Gideon, of Fairlield, juror in 1730. Tiiomas of Mid- 
dletown, d. in 1G90, and left children, Gliomas, John, Samuel, Han- 
nah, Elizabeth, Sarah and Abigail.) Edward resided in East Hart- 
ford, in 1055 — will dated July, 1G73. Edward was made free at 
Hartford, 1057. Inventory dated Nov. 25, 1073. Estate £205, 
I2s. He gave Josiah Adkins, ten acres for his child, the child 
of his sister, Adkins. 

ANDREWS, THOMAS, of Middletown. Inventory of his es- 
tate offered in 1690. His son Thomas, administrator. Issue, Thom- 
as, John, Samuel, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah and Abigail. He was 
probably son of Francis, of Hartford ; baptized at Hartford, Jan. 2, 
1645. A Thomas Andrews, of Hartford, m. Love Knight, daugh- 
ter of George, Nov. 20, 1702. 

ANDROSS, RICHARD, had a deed of Amos Dodge, in Wind- 
sor, in 1720. 

ANDREWS, JOHN, and Rachel his wife, of Middletown, (Vol. 
II, p. 19) : children, Samuel, b. March 18, 1706 ; Mary, b. May 5, 
1708 ; Joseph, b. April 24, 1710; Benjamin, b. March, 1712 ; Ra- 
chel, b. Sept., 1713; Phebe, b. Dec. 31, 1715; Jane, b. June 12, 
1718; Elizabeth, b. June 12, 1720. John, tiie father, d. Dec. 6, 
1724. 

ANDREWS, THOMAS, of Middletown, m. Sarah Porter, of 
Haddam, Aug. 11, 1720 : children, Sarah, b. Oct. 10, 1721 ; Charles, 
John, Esther ; William, b. Feb. 25, 1731-2, and Rachel, b. Jan. 
29, 1734-5. 

*ANDREW, Rev. SAMUEL, of Milford, where he preached over 
fifty years, ordained at Milford, Nov. 18, 1685. Fellow for a time, 
of Harvard College, afterwards Rector of Yale College, (Socii,) 
from 1700 to 1737-3. He d. Jan. 24, 1737-8, aged nearly 82 years, 
(lacking five days:) b. 1655. 

Rev. Samuel, son of Samuel, of Cambridge, who was son of Will- 
iam, of Cambridge, was b. Jan. 29, 1056 : graduated at Harvard 
•College, 1675 ; ordained 1685. 



• This name is spelt upon tlie Records, Andrews, Andrus, Andross, and Andrew. The name 
at Milford, has been uniformly spelt Andrew. 'J'he spelling of names at this day, is very kliijht 
evidence that they were not from the same ancestor, either in England, or iJiit) country. 



54 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ANDRUS, DANIEL, of Wethersfield, m. Mabell Goff, daughter 
of Jacob, Oct. 30, 1707 : issue, Abigail, b. July 22, 1713 ; Mabell, 
b. June 6, 1715; Eunice, b. Sept. 18, 1717; Daniel, b. May 12, 
1720 ; Hannah, b. Sept. 8, 1723 ; Jacob, b. Jan. 24, 1729 ; Heze- 
kiah, b. Aug. 14, 1731. Mr. Daniel, d. Aug. 21, 1748. 

ANDRUS, JOHN, of Wethersfield, m. Mary Goff, daughter of 
Jacob, June 26, 1712, and had issue : David, b. Jan. 28, 1719 ; Mo- 
ses, b. May 12, 1722. John, the father, was b. in Farmington, June 
10, 1680, and d. June 16, 1740. 

ANDRUS, CALEB, m. Mary, daughter of Joseph Gillett, of 
Hartford, Feb. 15, 1722, and had issue: Mary, b. Feb. 15, 1724; 
Hannah, b. May 7, J725 ; Amos, b. Nov. 14, 1726; Rhoda, b. 
May 6, 1728 ; Lidia, b. July 20, 1730 ; Abel, b. May 6, 1735 ; Eli, 
b. Jan. 8, 1737; Clement, b. Oct. 31, 1739. 

ANDRUS, WILLIAM, m. Irene Griswold, and had issue : Miles, 
b. May 22, 1735 ; Elisha, b. March 1, 1738; William, Jr.,b. Oct. 
2S, 1740; Joseph, b. April 13, 1743; Chloe, b. March 3, 1748. 
By his second wife, Lois, he had Silvia, b. April 17, 1762; Cyn- 
thia, b. Oct. 15, 1765; Rhoda, b. Oct. 14, 1768 

ANDRUS, DANIEL, Jr., m. widow Eunice Kelsey, Feb. 6, 
1746, and had issue : Daniel, b. Aug. 24, 1748 ; Eunice, b. April 
29, 1750 : Mabel, b. June 17, 1754 ; Sybill, b. May 30, 1756*; Abi- 
gail, b. May 4, 1759; Martin, b. May 30, 1761. The mother, Eu- 
nice, d. Feb. 23, 1763. He then m. for his second wife, Mary 
Mitchell, Aug. 2, 1764, and had issue: Justus, b. March 9, 1765. 

ANDRUS, JOSHUA, and Sibbil, his wife, had issue: Jeremiah, 
b. Jan. 16, 1732; Epaphras, b. April 16, 1735 ; Fitch, b. Oct. 12, 
1739. His wifu had three children at one birth, and all of them 
died the same day, b. Jan. 8, 1742 ; and on the 3d day of March, 
1743, she had three children at a birth, all died the same 
day; and on June 1, 1744, she had two at a birth, one of which 
died the same day — the child which lived was named Curtiss. She 
had eight children within three years. 

ANDRUS, BENAJAH, m. Anne Clark, Jan. 25, 1743: issue, 
Elizar, b. Dec. 13, 1747 ; Silas, b. April 23, 1750. 

ANDRUS, ELIJAH, m. Phebe Hurlbut, Feb. 21, 1745: issre, 
Asa, b. April 10, 1746: Josiah, b. May 16, 1749; Elijah, b. Oct. 
16, 1752 : Rosee, b. Sept. 20, 1755. The mother d. Nov. 13, 
1772. 

ANDRUS, JOSEPH, m. Sarah Welles, April 3, 1746 : issue, 
Levi, b. Feb. 23, 1747; Elias, b. Feb. 16, 1753; Sarah b. Jan. 12, 
1756. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 55 

ANDRUS, DAVID, m. Margaret, and haJ issue : Mary, b. April 

I, 1748. 

ANDRUS, PHINEHAS, m. Lois Williams, Oct. IG, 1751, and 
had issue: Katurali, b. Nov. 14, 1752; Phineas, b. July \\), 1763. 

ANDRUS, MILES, m. Phebe Hurlbut, oJGosben, May 1, 1759: 
issue, Miles, b. July 7, J759; Irene, b. Jan. 17, 1701; Mebitabei, 
b. April 12, 1762 ; Ciilorinda, b. June 15, 1764 ; Phebe, b. May 10, 
1766 ; Jason, b. Feb. 17, 1768; Henajab, b. Nov. 13, 1769. 

ANDRUS, JACOB, bad issue by Eunice, bis wife: Jacob, b. 
~5an. 20, 1760 ; Caroline, b. Oct. 20, 1762; Sarah, b. Jan. 7, 1765. 

ANDRUS, BENJAMIN, m. Anne Churchel, Oct. 30, 1760: is- 
sue, Anne, b. Sept. 14, 1762; Lorana, b. Dec. 1764. 

ANDRUS, JOSEPH, 2d, by Asenatb, bis wife, bad issue : Ruth, 
b. Jan. 27, 1763; Pamela, b. S( pt. 5, 1764; Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 
1766; Polly, b. June 8, 1770; Roxillana, b. Die. 14, 1771 ; Eli- 
siia, b. Oct. 11, 1773 ; William, b. Nov. 16, 1775 ; Saraii, b. Sept. 

II, 1777 ; Asenath, b. May 22, 1779. 

ANDRUS, ABEL, m. Eunice Stoddard, Dec. 2, 1764, had issue: 
Amos, b. March 17, 1765 ; Ruth, b. Oct. 9, 1706 ; Jared, b. April 
10, 1769; Allen, b. July 25, 1771: Hannah, b. Feb. 1, 1774; 
Lydia, b. . [Belden^s Record.) 

ANDRUS, ELIAS, m. Tabitba Bissell, of East Windsor, Nov. 
20, 1780, and had issue : Clarissa, b. Nov. 4, 1781. These are the 
Wethersfield Andrus family, taken from the record there. The 
name is uniformly spelt upon the Wetiiersfield Record, " Avdnis." 

The name of Andrews was early in Massachusetts. DANIEL, 
Deputy of Salem Village, in 1689; JOHN, of Ipswich, in 1642; 
JOHN, of Lynn, 1650 ; JOHN, of Boston, 1656; JOSEPH, of Hing- 
ham, 1635 ; RICHARD, of Ipswich, d. in 1644 ; ROBERT, of Ii)s. 
wich, freeman, 1635 ; THOMAS, of Hingham, 1635 ; WILLIAM, of 
Lynn, 1634. Three of the name of WILLIAM ANDREWS, ad- 
mitted freemen in 1634, 1635 and 1640, one of them of Cambridge, 
in 1635, (one of whom was probably the school-master of Hartford,) 
and otiiers mentioned by Farmer in his valuable collections. Five 
by the name of ANDREW ; thirteen by the name of ANDREWS, 
and two by the nameof AN DRUS, had graduated at Yale College, be- 
fore 1851. Five by the name of ANDREW, and eighteen by the 
name of ANDREWS, had graduated at Harvard College, previous to 
1848. SAMUEL ANDREW, ofMilford, .sold land to Jonathan Law, 
in Milford, Jan. 6, 16S5-6. The name of ANDREW, has five coats 



66 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ofarms, ANDREVVES, eight, and ANDREWS, fourteen; ANDROS 
one. THOMAS ANDREWS, ABIGAIL and RUTH ANDREWS, 
were petitioners and certifyers of tiie good character of Mahitabel 
Warren, of Hingham, in 1708-9, who liad been cl)arged of the sin of 
witchcraft. {Hist. Gen. Reg.) Mr. WILLIAM ANDREWS, 
freeman in Massachusetts, 1U34-5. ROBERT ANDKEWES, 
freeman in Massachusetts, 1635. JOSEPH ANDRE WES, free in 
Massachusetts, March, 1635-6. WILLIAM ANDREWS, wife 
Mary, d. at Cambridge, 1639. WILLIAM ANDROVVS, freeman 
Massachusetts, 1640. RALPH ANDREVVES m. Abigail Very, df 
Gloucester, Mass., Dec. 12, 16^2. STEPHEN ANDREWS, 
and his wife Bethia, had children b. at Rochester, Mass., before 
1700. THOMAS ANDREW, of Hingham, freeman, 1673-4. 
JOHNANDRUS, of Boxford, made free, 1690. Sir EDMUND 
ANDROS—" Boston, May 3, 1714. ' By Letters from London, of 
the 24th of February, we are informed that Sir Edmond Andrews, 
sometime Governour of New York, New England, and Virginia, 
Dyed that Week, in a Good Old Age.' Boston News-Leller.'- {N. 
E. Hist. Gen. Beg. No. 15, p. 260.) SAMUEL ANDREWS, 
aged 37, came in the Increase, Robert Lea, Master, to New Eng- 
land. Also Jane, his wife, aged 30. Jane, their daughter, aged 3, 
and Elizabeth, daughter, aged 2, and Ellyn Long, her servant, 
aged 20. 

ANGIER, EDMOND, from Cambridge, held land in Hartford, in 
1650, by mortgage ; perhaps bi'other of Arthur, of Scarborough, 
1671-2. Edmond was of Cambridge as early as 1636. 

ANNABLE, ANTHONY, arrived at Plymouth in the ship For- 
tune, 1621, made free 1633; he removed to Barnstable about 1639, 
and died 1673. (See Farmer.) 

ANNABLE, ANTHONY, Joseph and Cornelius were from the 
Cape, and brothers. Those of Connecticut were descendants of 
these brothers. 

ANNABELL or ANNABLES has but one coat ofarms in Eng- 
land ; probably the same name as Annable, but changed since the 
above persons came to New England. This name came late to Con- 
necticut. All of the name, it is supposed, are of the Barnstable family. 

ANTHONY was taxed at New Plymouth 18*. payable in corn, at 
6s. per bushel, in 1632-3 ; John Barnes, 9s. ; John Adams, 9*. ; Wil- 
liam Bennot, John Bowman, 9*. ; Thomas Boreman, 95. In 1633-4 
Mr". William Bradford, £1, 7*. ; Mr. William Brewster, £1,7*.; 
John Alden, £1, 4*.; Jonathan Brewster, £1, 4*. ; John Browne,— 



GliN'EALOGy OF THE PURITANS. 57 

0*. ; Anthony Annablc, 9*. ; William Bassett, JCl, Is. ; John Barnes, 
lb*. ; Widow Adams, 9v. ; and others. 

ANNABLE, ANTilONY, was of Barnstable in 1044. 
ANN ABLE, SAMUEL, of Barnstable, in. Mel.ctablc AUyn, June 
1, 1667, and had children, Samuel, Hannah, John and Anna. 
Samuel Jr., m. Patience Dogged, 1695. John, sou of Samuel, Sen., 
m. Experience Taylor, June 16, 1692, and h.id children. 

AiNxNABLE, ANTilONY, and THOMAS ALLEN, of Barnsta- 
ble, were enrolled with others in 1643, as able to bear arms, being 
between si.xteen and sixty years of age. JOHN graduatid at Har- 
vard College, 1744. 

AN nZEL, LARllANCE, of VVindham, and Mary his wife, had 
Simon, b. June lU, 1740; Lear, a daughter, b. March 9, 1741. 

ANTIZELL, LAWRENCE, of Willi. igton, d. in 17r)9. Estate, 
J6186. Widow Mary. Children, Zeruiah, Mary, Phebe, Simon, b. 
June 10, 1740, Peter or Perez, Piiineas, Silas, Dorcas and Sarah. 
His son-in-law, David Fuller, executor. 

ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN and BENJAMIN were at Nor- 
wich soon after its settlement. 

ARMSTRONG, AVIS, of Windsor, d. December 24, 1660. la- 
ventory £26, 65. 2d. 

♦ARMSTRONG, STEPHEN, and Hannah his wife, of Wind- 
ham, had children recorded at Windham, viz., Hannah, b. Di c. 1, 
1710; Abigail, b. May 1, 1712; second H;iiiiiah, b. March 23, 
1714; Jerusha, b. August 26, 171"); Sarah, b. June 21, 1717; 
Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1719-20; Sti phen, perh ips removed from Staf- 
ford, as he purchased land in Windham, of Richard Cooms, near 
Stair)ril, in 1721. 

ARMSTRONG, GREGORY, of Plymouth, Mass., d in 16.50, 
{Furiiier.) Grrgory was one able to bear arms at Plymouth, be- 
tween sixteen and sixty, in 1643. Only one of this name luid grad- 
uated at Yale College in 1H50, and but two at Harvard Cnlhge, in 
1S48. The name of Armstrong has two coats of arms in England, 
and Armestrong, seven. 

• The followitid persons in March. ITIiT were of W'indhnn). anil ucri; prnprictors in llii' drawing 
of the twi'nty acre I lis, viz.. .lohn •ilcli. .lonailian .lfnniiif;>'. Caitt. Rrnwn Mr. Allyn, Joseph 
lluiitinclnn. Mr. Wehb Deacon l!iii(.'hani, Mr. VVhilinfr John Waldo, John t{ieil I.iciil. Crane, 
Deacon Cary. John linckiis. Kohcrt lliliard. ncnjainiii Milanl, John Calt.s then deceased ; Mr. 
Wliitinst. Jeremiah Uipley. heirs of John .Al)he, Mercliant l.e(riii(.'\vell Joseph l:inf.'ly. Mr. Josliua 
Riptey, Mr. Samuel Treat. John liroiifihton. William More ai;d Jonah Taliner liad their twenty 
acre loU before these lots were laid out 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



ARMSTRONG, MARTHA m. William VVentworth, at Norwich, 
June IG, 1731, and had issue : Phebe, Martha, Mary, William, Jr., 
Joseph, Benjamin, Hannah and Sarah. 

ARMSTRONG, HliNRY, " imbarked in the Transport, of Lon- 
don, Edward Walker, master, 'to be transported' to Virginia, July 
4, 1635." 

ARNOLD, JOHN, was located in Hartford, south of Little River, 
in 1640; lot bounded north on the road leading from George Steele's 
to south meadow, east and south by William Hide, and west by 
Richard Lyman's lot. He was in the land division in 1639, sixteen 
acres. His wife, Susannah. Will, dated August 22, 1664. In- 
ventory taken Dec. 26, 1664. Estate over £100. He had children, 
Josiah, Joseph, Daniel, a daughter m. Buck, and perhaps others, a 
grand-daughter Mary Buck. He gave his son Joseph a portion of 
his estate, if he returned to live in Hartford again within two years. 
Joseph was an original proprietor in Hartford as early as 1039, and 
his son Joseph was old enough to have been an original proprietor at 
Haddam, in 1668. Joseph Arnold owned as many as twelve par- 
cels of land at Thirty Miles Island. 

ARNOLL, JOHN, freeman in Massachusetts, May, 1635. John 
signed to remove to Hadley, in 1659, but did not go. 

ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was a defendant in court at Hartford, May, 
1647. Josias Arnold was made free at Hartford, May, 1657-8. 

ARNOLD, DANIEL, of Hartford, d. and his will proved in court 
at Hartford, in 1692, and John Mason, aged 48, appointed adminis- 
trator. Estate £52, 11*. Mason d. and in 1698, Nathaniel, son of 
Daniel, was appointed administrator. 

ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was an original settler at Hartford. He 
d. Oct. 22, 1691. Estate, i:i51, 10*. His will was offered in court 
by his widow and sons, Joseph and Josiah, in 1692. The estate was 
divided by his children in 1693, at which time his widow had mar- 
ried her second husband. Children, viz., John, aged 29 ; Joseph, 
26; Samuel,- 23; Josias, 21; Jonathan, 12; and a daughter, Su- 
sannah, 16 ; and Elizabeth, 9. Samuel had his portion at E. Had- 
dam, by a deed from his father, at " Matchit Moodus." Jo'seph Ar. 
nold was an original proprietor of the town of Haddam, but wliether 
he removed to Haddam in the first settlement is doubtful ; his son 
Joseph probably settled at Haddam, and Samuel. 

ARNOLD, JONATHAN, of Haddam, son of Joseph, m. Hannah 
Robinson, Oct 5, 1709; had Jonatiian, b. July 11, 1710; his wife 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUniTANS. 69 

d. Sept. 18, 1714, aged 35, and he m. Sarah Jones, in 1715, and had 
Anna, b. April 18, 1717. He d. May 19, 1719, aged 39. 

ARNOLD, JOHN, son of Joseph, in. Hannah Meakins, Jan. 12, 
1709-10, of Hartford, and had Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 1710 ; Mary, b. 
March 3, 1713; Jolin, b. July 8, 1715; Sarah, b. Dec. 1, 1717; 
Samuel, b. March 16, 1720; Henry, b. July 27, 1722. 

ARNOLD, JOHN, m. Elizabeth Cross, of Windham, April 8, 
1702. 

ARNOLD, Rev. JONATHAN, graduated at Yale College, 1723, 
was the second minister in W. Haven, 1725; he declared for Epis- 
copacy after about ten years, (as Dr. Johnson had done before him ;) 
he finally settled on Staten Lsland, New York. 

ARNOLD, JOSEPH, was the son of Joseph Arnold. Jonathan, 
the son of Joseph, was the father of Samuel, who was lost in the 
woods, at the age of three years, west of Turkey Hill ; son of Jona- 
than, Jr., a minister who settled in New Jersey ; also of a second 
Samuel. This second Samuel had sons, Jonathan, Samuel and 
James. Col. Arnold, of Durham, was the son of Ebenezer, Joseph, 
the father of Jonathan, the father of Samuel, the father of Samuel, 
who had sons, Jonathan, d., John, Joseph, Samuel, Elijah and Charles, 
fifth generation. Joseph, son of Samuel, had sons, Jonathan, Joseph, 
George, Samuel, William, Isaac and Charles, (the sixth generation 
from Joseph, Sen. Joseph Arnold probably came from Newtown, 
Mass., to Hartford, in Mr. Hooker's Company, in 1630. Whether 
he was a relative of Benedict Arnold, early at Cambridge, cannot 
be settled by the Connecticut records. 

ARNOLD, BENEDICT, resided at Cambridge, and was an in- 
terpreter there in the early settlement of the town, as appears by the 
record of deeds in East Cambridge. He was probably the same 
Benedict Arnold who was afterwards President of Rhode Island, in 
1663. 

From Records of the town of Norwich, Vol. I. 

" John Waterman and Elizabeth Lathrop, both of Norwich, mar- 
ried November 5, 1701. Four children are recorded to them,^ 
among the number, is Hannah, born Sept. 28, 1708. 

Absalom King, of Long Island, and Hannah Waterman, of Nor- 
wich, married August 11, 1730. 

Children, — 

Hannah, born July 28, 173], and died April 30, 1739. 

Absalom King, died Sept. 23, 1732. 



60 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Mr. Benedick Arnold, and Mrs. Hannah King, widow of Absalom 
King, deceased, vveie married iNovember 8, 17.53. 

Children, — 

Benedick, born August 15, 173d, and died April 30, 1739. 

2d Benedick, (Gen.,) born January 3, 1740-41.* 

Hannali, born Uecember 9, 174:2. 

Mary, born June 4, 1745. 

Absalom King, born April 4, 1747. 

Elizabeth, born November 19, 1749. 

Absalom, born October 22, 1750. 

Mary, born September 10, 1753. 

Elizabeth, born September 29, 1755. 

ARNOLD, JOHN, a merchant, in 1680, was accepted as an in- 
habitant at Norwich ; the town gave him several acres of" land there. 
He removed from Norwich soon after 1088. 

AIliNOLD, BENEDICT, at Providence, R. I., 1639, President 
of Rhode Island, 1663, continued eight years, d. 1678 ; Edward, 
Boston, d. August 8, 1657 ; John, at Cambridge, 1635, member of 
artillery company, 1644 ; Joseph, Braintree, 1658 ; Richard, R. I., 
one of the council of Sir Edmond Andross, in 1687 ; Sanmel, first 
minister of Rochester, Mass., ordained in 1684, d. 1717; Thomas, 
of VVatertown, Mass., freeman, 1640, had sons, Ichabod, b. 1640, 
Richard, b. 1642, and William, of Hingham, 1635. (Far.) 

Eleven of this name have graduated at Yale College, and one at 
Harvard College. 

ARNOLD, Rev. JONATHAN, of West Haven, m. Mrs. Sarah 
Miles, July 29, 1728. It is also certified by Samuel Eells, that 
Rev. Jonathan Arnold, of W. Haven, m. Mrs. Abigail Beard, of 
Milford, daughter of John Beard and Abigail Beard, of said Milford, 
April 4, 1728. 

The name of Arnold has eleven different coats of arms in Eng- 
land. Arnald or Arnauld one. 

ARNOLL, JOHN, freeman in Mass., 1635. William Arnold 
and William Aspinwall, are in the list of first settlers of Rhode Isl- 
and. John and Mary Arnol, of Weymouth, had Margaret,- b. 1683, 
and James, b. in 1694. John Arnold made free in Mass., in 1643, 
Arnall, Thomas, freeman in Mass. in 1640. 

ARNOLD, THOMAS, was at Watertown, Mass., as early as 

* Benedick Arnold, 2d, was the Traitor, Gen. Arnold. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 61 

1640. He was probably the same Thomas Arnold who came to this 
country in the ** Plaine Joan," in 1635, aged 30 years. 

ARNOLD, JAMES, Jo. Aymies, (Ames,) Marie Averie, Areto 
Andrewe, Elizabeth AUcot and others, " imbarked from England, 
1635, for Virginia, in the Assurance, de ; Lo ; Isaac Bromwell 
and George Pewise, master." After being examined by the minister 
of the town of Gravesend, of their " conformitie" in the religion 
of the English Church and taking the oath of allegiance and 
" supremecie." 

ARNOLD, SAMUEL, George Allen, Ralph Allen, Francis 
Allen, and Mathew Allen, are found in tiie list of those men of" Sand- 
witch," able to bear arms, between the ages of sixteen and sixty 
years, in 1643. 

ARNALL, WILLIAM, of Reading, Mass. 

The first settlers of Millington Society were Daniel Smith, from 
Cape Cod ; Daniel Griffin, Lyme ; Thomas Fox, Colchester ; about 
1703 or '4. The Arnolds, Barnes, Brainard, Chapman, Church, 
Cone, Emmons, Gates, Olmsted, Spencer, &,c., from E. Haddam 
Parish, Graves, from Colchester, Stewart, Voluntown, Clark of Had- 
dam, Harvey and Hungerford, from Hadlyme, &c. {Field.) 

Jesper Arnold, aged 40, and Ann Arnold, aged 39 years, em- 
barked in the Abigail, for New England, per certificate from the 
minister of Sfioreditch parish and Stepney parish. 

ARNOLD, an old name at Watertown, Mass. 

ASH, GEORGE, resided in East Hertford, in 1682 : the name is 
yet in Connecticut. Ash now a Member of Congress, originated 
from this family. The name of Ash, has two coats of arms, and the 
name of Ashe, nine. 

ASH, THOMAS, received a grant of land in Dover, New Hamp- 
shire, in 1669-70. {Gen. Beg. p. 449.) 

GEORGE ASH was passenger on board the ship Arabella, Rich- 
ard Sprague, Master, for New England, May 22, 1671. 

ASH, JOHN, and John Barber, were in the tax list of Dover, 
New Hampshire, in 1659. 

*ASHLEY, ROBERT, came from England, and located first at 



• When the bill was brought into Parliament against importing Irisli cattle, (soon after the 
restoration,} Lord Clarendon said, that the Lord Ashley, (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury,) next 
to the Duke of Buckingham, appeared the most violent supporter of the bill. 

On declaring war against Holland, March 17, 1671-2, Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arling- 
ton and l-auderdale, had the chief management of alTairs — they were called the CabaL 

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63 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Roxbury, Mass., where he remained until about the time Mr. Will 
iam Pyncheon and his company removed to Springfield. His "wife 
was Mary . Her family name is not known. There are nine- 
teen coats of arms for the name of Ashley, (as published by Burke.) 
Robert was the first Ashley who came to New England : he brought 
with him his family coat of arms, by which his descendants in New 
England can now find their relatives in England. He took the oath 
of allegiance in Massachusetts, with two of his sons, Jonathan and 
Joseph, in 1672. His children were born at Springfield, viz ; son 
David, b. 3d day of the 4th month, 1642 ; Mary, b. 6th day of the 
2d month, 1644 ; Jonathan, b. 2r)th day of the 2d month, 1645; Sa- 
rah, b. 23d day of the 6th month, 1648 ; Joseph, b. July 6, 1652. 
Of these children, all are noticed in their father's will, except Sa- 
rah, who probably died young. Mary, m. John Root, of Westfield. 
Robert, the first, died at Springfield, Nov. 29, 16S2 ; his wife, Mary, 
d. Sept. 19, 1683. 

ASHLEY, DAVID, son of Robert, m. Hannah Glover, of New 
Haven, Conn., in 1663, (supposed a daughter of Henry Glover.) 
Their children were, 

Samuel, b. Oct. 26, 1664. 

David, b. March 10, 1667. 

John, b. June 27, 1669. 

Joseph, b. July 31, 1671. 

Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1673, m. Thomas Ingersoll, 1691. 

Miary, ) . b. Dec. 14, 1675, d. young. 

Hannah, ) ' b. Dec, 14, 1675, m. Nathaniel Eggleston. 

Jonathan, b. June 21, 1678. 

Abigail, b. April 27, 1681, m. Nathaniel Lewis, of Farmington. 

Mary, b. March 3, 1683, m. Benjamin Stebbins, of Northampton. 

Rebecca, b. May 30, 1685, m. Samuel Dewey. 

David removed to Westfield, and d. there in 1718. His five el- 
dest children are recorded in Springfield, and the six youngest are. 
recorded in Westfield. The first Mary d. young. The other five 



Afhley of Lancaster, married Jane, the second daughter of Sir James Stanley, at Crosthall, in 
the County of Lancaster, and was Marshal of Ireland. (Collins' Peerage of England.) There 
are nineteen different coats of arms of the Ashley, and Aslily families in England. Robert Ash- 
ley, the first of the name in New England, brought with him the coat of arms of his family. 
Asliley, (Lowesby, Co. Leicester,) Ar. a lion ramp. sa. crowned or. And the first coat of arnH 
yet remains in the family, of which several copies have been taken by the descendants of Rob- 
ert, of Springfield. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 03 

sons and five daughters were married, and are mentioned in their fa- 
ther's will. 

ASHLEY, JONAXriAN, 2d son of Robert, m. Sarah Wads- 
worth, the daughter of VVillium Wadsworth, an original proprietor 
of Hartford, Conn,, a gentleman of wealth and exalted reputation in 
1669. Jonathan removed to Hartford, and d. there, Feb., 1705, and 
left three sons and two daughters, and a large estate. His children 
b. at Hartford, were Jonathan, Jr., Joseph, Samuel, Sarah and Re- 
becca. Joseph, his son. Executor of his will. He gave his son 
Samuel, four score acres of land, in Plaiiificld, Conn. 

*ASIILEY, JOSEPH, 'M son of Robert, lived in West Spring- 
field, and was the ancestor of the West Springfield Ashleys. He 
m. Mary Parsonsj 1685, and had children : Joseph, P^benezer, Mary, 
Abigail and Benjamin. He d. May 19, 1698. Tliis includes the 
children and grandchildren of Robert Ashley, (e.xcept the Roots, see 
ROOT.) 

ASHLEY, SAMUEL, son of David, m. Sarah Kellogg, of Had- 
ley, April 27, 1686, and had children: Mary, b. March*!, 1687; 
Samuel, Jr., b. Nov. 8, 1688 ; Daniel, b. Sept., 1691 ; Sarah, 1693 ; 
Rachel, 1695; Jacob, 1697 ; Johannah, 1699; Aaron, 1702; Eze- 
kiel, ; Abigail, 1708, and Joseph, 1709. This last son gradu- 
ated at Yale College, 1730, and was a minister at Sunderland, Mass., 
and d. in 1780. 

ASHLEY, SARAH, daughter of Samuel, of Westfield, m. Da- 
vid Bull, July 4 ; she d. Dec. 17, 1747, aged 54, had issue : Abi- 
gail, m. Nathaniel Lewis, 1699, d. 1723. 

ASHLEY, Dea. DAVID, son of David, m. Mary Dewey, 1688. 
Their children were : Tiiomas, b. 1690 ; David, 1692, Mary, 1694; 
Elizabeth, 1697; Abigail, 1700; Moses, 1703; Hannah, 1706; Is- 
rael, 1710. Israel graduated at Yale College, in 1730, was a phy- 
sician, and d. in 1758. Dea. David d. in 1744. (See Yale Cata- 
logue. 

ASHLEY, JOSEPH, son of David, m. Abigail Dewey, 1699, and 
d. before his father, and left but one son, James. He had three oth- 
er children, who died young. 



* Mr. John Afliley, a descendant of Joseph, who was the 3d son of John, of West Spring- 
field, gave the land for the hurial yard, for the north district, in West Springfield, in 1787. Ho 
also gave a Lihrary to the Society, in 1780. He gave them XIOOO for a permanent fund, to 
support the ministry there, in 179U. In 1819. he gave $-22 to purchase -i Uilile for the pulpit, ia 
said society. (CA. /Jcc. fV. S) He gave £1300 to the south parish of West Springfield, on 
condition a raeeting-house should be erected on the ground pointed out by him. 



64 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ASHLEY, JONATHAN, son of David, m. Abigail Stebbins, of 
Springfield, 1699, and had children : Abigail, b. 1701 ; Azariah, b. 
1704 ; Mercy, 1707 : Lydia, 1710 ; Jonathan, 1712 ; Benjamin, 1714; 
Ebenezer, 1717; Phineas, 1729. Jonathan, son of David, d. 1749. 
The above Jonathan, the son of Jonathan, b. 1712, graduated at Y. Col- 
lege, in 173 ', in the same class with three other cousins, viz : Israel, 
John and Joseph Ashley. This Rev. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, was 
ordained at Deerfield, Mass., in 1732 or '33. He m. Dorothy Will- 
iams, daughter of Rev. William Williams, of Hatfield. She was 
born in 1713. He was the second ordained minister at Deerfield, 
and became a celebrated preacher and divine. Their children were 
William, b. July, 1737, d. in 1737; Jonathan, b. Jan. 6, 1738; 
AVilliam, b. 1740, d. same year ; Dorothy, h. April 3, 1743, m. 
Dea. William Williams, of Dalton, Mass. ; Elizabeth, b. June 9, 
1745, m. Maj. David Dickinson, of Deerfield, 1783 ; Solomon born 
May 25, 1754, drowned Jan. 14, 1823 ; Elihu, (Doctor,) b. Oct. 12, 
1750; Clarissa, b. Dec. 1, 1757. Jonathan, son of Rev. Jonathan, 
graduated at Yale College, in 1758, and became a lawyer, and prac- 
tised at Deerfield. He m. Tirzah Field, daughter of Col. Field, of 
Deerfield, and had three daughters, viz: Tirzah, who m. Rufus 
Sa.xton, Esq., of Deerfield ; Harriet, m. Col. E. Gilbert, of Green- 
field ; Dorothy, m. Dr. Koswell Leavitt, of Cornish, N. H., and all 
had families ; Clarissa, youngest daughter of Rev. Jonathan, m. 
Dr. Moses C. Welch, of Mansfield, Conn., who was a distinguished 
divine. They had children : Jonathan Ashley Welch, Esq., Attor- 
ney at law at Brooklyn, Conn. He m. Mary Devotion Baker in 
1819 ; his children are, Ebenezer B., Mary C, Louisa D., Charles 
A., Joseph, James E., and Elizabeth Jane. Archibald Welch, M. 
D., of Hartford, is also a son of Rev. Moses C b. 1794, late President 
of the Connecticut Medical Society ; he m. Cynthia Hyde, of Leba- 
non, in 1819, and has three sons and one daughter. Rev. Jonathan 
Ashley d. in 1760, aged 68; his wife d. at Deerfield, in 1808, aged 
95 years. Dr. Elihu Ashley, son of Rev. Jonathan, m. his cousin, 
Mary Williams, daughter of Dr. Thomas Williams, of Deerfield, a 
brother of Col. Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College. 
The children of Dr. Elihu were. Col. Thomas W., b. 1775; Rob- 
ert W., a physician ; Mary, b. 1790. Col. Thomas W., married a 
daughter of Rev. Mr. Crosby, of Enfield, Mass., in 1814, and has 
children : Jonathan, Josiah, Thomas W. and Abbot, and had others 
who died. Dr. Robert W., brother of Col. Thomas W. Asliley, now 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 65 

resides at Lyons, N. Y., and has cliiUiron. Mary, sister of Dr. 
Robert, m. a Mr. Tippets, and d. at Geneva, N. Y. 

ASflLEY, JOHN, the :kl son of David, b. in 1GG9 ; had three 
wives, first, Sarah Dewey, m. 1G92, she d. in 1708 ; he m. for his 
second wife, widow Mary Sheldon in 1709, she d. in 1735 ; for a 
third wife, he m. Hannah Glover, in 1735. The second wife, wid- 
ow Mary Sheldon, was the relict of Joseph Sheldon, Esq., of Suf- 
field, (who went from Northampton ;) she was the daughter of Jo- 
seph Whiting, of Hartford, who was the Treasurer of Connecticut, 
for some years. Tiiis Joseph Whiting resided a few years in West- 
field, and m. Mary Pyncheon, the only daughter of Col. John Pyn- 
cheon, of Springfield, Oct. 5, 1669; she was born Oct. 28, 1650. 
Mr. Whiting had by Mary Pyncheon in W^estfield, Mary, b. 
Aug. 19, 1672, and .loseph b. 1674, who d. young. Mr. Whi- 
ting returned to Hartford, and his wife soon after died, and he 
m. a daughter of Hon. John AUyn, for his second wife. This 
Mary Whiting, b. 1672, the grand-daughter of Col. Pyncheon, 
m. Joseph Sheldon, about 1694 ; she had a son Joseph b. in North- 
ampton, 1695 ; the other children most or all of them were born in 
Suffield, Conn., viz : Amy, Mary, Joseph b. in 1700, (the first Jo- 
seph died,) Rachel, b. 1703 ; Benjamin, 1705. Joseph Sheldon d. 
July 2, 1708, at Boston, where he was attending the General Court 
as Representative of Suffield. His widow, (the grand-daughter of 
Col. Pyncheon,) rn. John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield. The children 
of John Ashley, of Westfield, by his wife, Sarah Dewey, were: Sa- 
rah, b. 1693; Hannah, 1695; John, 1697, (died young;) Moses, 
1700; Ebenezer, 1702 ; Noah, 1704; Roger, 1705; Lydia, 1708. 
By his second wife, widow Mary Sheldon, he had John b. 1709, and 
Preserved, 1711, the latter died young. John Ashley, of Sheflield, 
was the only child of John Ashley, Esq., of Westfield, by his 2d 
wife, (Mary Sheldon,) who lived. John Ashley, Esq., who had 
been much employed in public business, and held many responsible 
places of public trust in Westfield, d. April 17, 1759, aged 89 
years. Col. John Pyncheon, of Springfield, d. in 1703, but his es- 
tate, for some reason, was not fully settled until 1737. In that year 
there was about £8000 of his estate remaining not distributed, which 
consisted chiefly of land, and two-thirds of this, or £5312 was given 
by the Probate Court to the heirs of his son John, and one-third, or 
£2656 to the heirs of his grand-daughter, Mary Ashley, " alias Shel- 
don, aluLS Whiting," (so the record rca(3s;) of this £JGoG, Joseph 
G* 



6G GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Sheldon had a double portion, £758 ; Benjamin Sheldon, £319 ; Amy, 
wife of James Warriner, £379; Mary, wife of Ebenezer Hitchcock, 
£379; Rachel, wife of Jedediah Bliss, £379 ; (these were the five 
Sheldon children,) and John Ashley, son of Mr. John Ashley, £379; 
all having the same mother. This John Ashley, who afterwards 
settled at Sheffield, was a great-grandson of the first Robert Ashley ; 
he was also the great-grandson of Col. John Pyncheon, of Spring- 
field, and of Williarfi Whiting, one of the first settlers of Hartford. 

ASHLEY, JOHN, of Westfield, was one of a Committee for 
making a purchase of the Indians, granting lots, dividing the tract 
of land now Sheffield, admitting settlers, and to reserve lands for the 
first ministers, for the support of schools and the gospel. The com- 
mittee met in 1723, and received fifty-five settlers, or rather propri- 
etors. In 1724, a deed signed by Kon-ke-pot and twenty other In- 
dians, of this large tract of land, was acknowledged by them, before 
John Ashley, Esq., as magistrate or justice of the peace, which 
tract embraced several of the towns north of Sheffield, as now incor- 
porated. In 1725, Capt. John Ashley and Capt. Pomeroy divided 
the lower township. In June, 1733, John Ashley, E. Pomeroy and 
S. Ingersoll were appointed a committee by the legislature, to ad- 
vance the settlement in the lower and upper settlement. Capt. John 
Ashley's son, John, became one of the first settlers of the town of 
Sheffield, with Austin, Noble, Kellogg, Pell, and others, from West- 
field ; the same year Sheffield was incorporated, (1733,) and the 
first town meeting held at the log house of O. Noble. 

*ASHLEY, JOHN, Esq., of Sheffield, son of John, Esq., of West- 
field, who was born at Westfield, Dec. 2, 1709, emigrated in early 
life to Sheffield, and located himself there as a lawyer, after he had 
been admitted to the bar, in 1732. He held large quantities of land 
in the valley of the Housatonic and at Kunkapot, three miles east of 
the river. He soon rose in the militia to the rank of colonel, and was 
most of his life a magistrate of the county of Berkshire; he was also 
a judge of the county court, from 1765 until the court was dismissed 
during the war of the Revolution, in 1781. He graduated at Yale 
College, in 1730, and died at Sheffield, Sept., 1802, aged 93 years. 



* In January, 1723, John Asliley, Esq., and others, a committee, met at Springfield, where 
they received the names of fifty-six settlers or proprietors for the settlement of the lower town- 
ship, (Sheffield.) In 172.5, Capt. John Ashley, of V\''estfield, and Capt. Ebenezer Pomeroy. made 
a division of the lower township, (^effield,) upon the river. The first settlers of Sheffield 
were from Hampshire county. Judge Ashley, son of the above named Capt. John Ashley, set- 
tled at Sheffield, in 1732 or '3. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 67 

Hannah, his wife, died June 19, 1790, aged 78 years. He became 
a gentleman of great wealtli, and left to his son and two daughters, tjjen 
living, and grandchildren, about 1000 acres of finely cultivated landa 
and other estate ; most of his lands he had held from his first settlement 
there, until his death. Colonel or Judge John married in early life, 
Hannah Hugaboom, of Claverac, in the State of New York. Judge 
Ashley had one son and three daughters, viz.. Major General John, 
Jane, Mary and Hannah. 

ASHLEY, JANE, the eldestdaughter of Judge John, of Sheffield, 
married Dr. William Bull, wlio lived and died at Sheffield. They 
had one son. Dr. William Bull. After the death of her husband, she 
married RulutfDutcher, of Canaan, Conn., by whom she had several 
children; viz., Christopher, John, Rulutf, Jr., Washington, and five 
daughters. One of the daughters of RululF, Jr., married Mr. Stir- 
ling, of Salisbury ; another married a Mr. Bushnell, and a third 
married Gen. Francis Bacon, of Litchfield, a young lawyer of much 
promise, since deceased ; and the fourth daughter married Professor 
Stewart, of Hartford. After the death of Mr. Ruluff' Dutcher, Sen., 
Jane married for her third husband, Judge J. Porter, of Salisbury, 
the father of the late Gen. Peter B. Porter, of Black Rock, or Niag- 
ara Falls, New York. 

ASHLEY, MARY, second daughter of Judge Ashley, married 
Gen. John Fellows, of Sheffield. They had four daughters and three 
sons, viz., Hannah, Mary, Charlotte, Jane, John, Edmund and Henry. 
Hannah married Dr. J. Porter, Jr., of Salisbury ; Mary married a Mr. 
Penfield, who settled the town of Penfield, in the State of New York ; 
one of the daughters of Mr. Penfield married the Hon. Ogden Ed- 
wards, of the city of New York. Mary Fellows, wife of Gen. Fel- 
lows, died Dec. 7, 1797, aged 5S. Gen. Fellows died at Sheffield, 
August 1, 1808, aged 74. Hannah, third daughter of Judge John, 
married Martin Vosburgh, of Claverac, New York, and died soon 
after, and left no children. 

*ASHLEY, Major Gen. JOHN, born Sept. 26, 1736, only son of 
Judge John. He entered Yale College, and received the honors of 
that Seminary, in 1756. He settled in his native town, Sheffield, as 
a merchant. He served his town many years as a representative to 



•The children of Gen. John Ashley, deceased, of Sliefiicld, arc descendants of John Gay, of 
Dedham, one of the first settlers there, of William Ballantine, of Boston, of the first Gov. Win- 
throp, of Gov. Wyllis, of Hartford, by his daughter Amy, of Col. John Pynchon, of Springfield, of 
William Whiting, of Hartford, and Robert Ashley, of Springfield, Mass. 



68 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

the General Court, at Boston, as his honored father had done before 
hinn. He rose through the several militia grades to the rank of Ma- 
jor General of the ninth division of the militia of Massachusetts ; he 
also held several civil appointments. Gen. Ashley distinguished 
himself in the suppression of Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts. He 
commanded the force which dispersed the insurgents at Sheffield, 
Feb. 26, 1787. He married Louisa Ward, of New Marlborough, 
May 20, 1762. Their children by this connection, were — Louisa, 
born March 10, 1763, and John Ashley, born Jan. 11, 1767. Louisa, 
the first wife of Gen. John, died April 2, 1769. Gen. Ashley, for 
his second wife, married Mary Ballantine, Oct. 17, 1769, daughter 
of Rev. John Ballantine, of Westfield, a descendant of William, of 
Boston. She was born in 1744, and died March 8, 1827, aged 83 
years. By this marriage his children were, Ballantine, born Dec. 
2, 1770, Major William, born Jan. 4, 1773, Roger, born March 27, 
1775, Samuel, born Nov. 21, 1778, Mary, born March 20, 1781, 
Hannah, born Sept. 10, 1782, Jane, born March 19, 1784, Lydia 
Ashley, born Nov. 19, 1788. General Ashley died Nov. b, 1799, in * 
the sixty-fourth year of his age, and was buried with military honor.s. 
Ballantine, son of Gen. John, died single, aged twenty-eight years. 
Roger and Samuel died young and unmarried. Col. John, son of 
Gen. John, of Sheffield, half-brother of Major William, married Ase- 
nath Keyes, and had children, Harry, Louisa, Maria, Emeline, Eliza, 
Jane, John and Robert. Col. John died Dec. 22, 1823, and his 
widow, Asenath, died a kw years after him. 

ASHLEY, LOUISA, eldest daughter of Gen. John Ashley, by 
his first wife, married Samuel B. Sheldon, then of Salisbury, who 
soon moved to Vermont, and became the first settler of the town of 
Sheldon, and gave to the new town his own name. They had two 
children, Elizabeth and John ; the latter died young. Elizabeth 
married Dr. Chauncey Fitch, late of Sheldon, deceased. Their chil- 
dren were, Jabez, Dr. Samuel S., John, Louisa and Eliza. (See 
THOMAS FITCH.) 

*ASHLEy, Major WILLIAM, son of Gen..Tohn, was born Jan., 



• " Major William Ashley, died at his residence in Sheffield, on the 29th ult., at the age of 76 
years. Major Ashley was the son of Gen. John Ashley, who commanded in the Shay's insur- 
rection in Berkshire county, and the grandson of Col. John Ashley, formerly one of the Judges 
of tlie old Court of Common Pleas, and one of the original settlers of Sheffield. His mother was 
a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Ballantine, of Westfield, Mass. 

" Major Ashley was educated at Harvard College, and after his graduation devoted himself to 
the care and improvement of his estate. In all the transactions of life, he lias ever been dis- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 69 

4) 1773 ; and was graduated at Harvard College, 1793, but followed 
no profession, except that of a gentleman farmer, holding a large 
estate in lands in Sheffield, where he died April 20, 1849, aged 76, 
When young he married Jane Hillyer, a daughter of Judge Hillyer, 
of Granby, Conn., Jan. 4, 1803, born August 24, 1779. By this 
connection he had two daughters, viz., Julia H., born Nov. 29, 1803, 
and died August 4, 1822, and Jane Pelletrau, born Jan. 21, 1808. 
Julia married Horatio L. Warner, Esq., a merchant of Sheffield, 
June 18, 1821 ; she died soon after marriage, and left no issue. Jane 
married Hon. William G. Bates, of Westfield, Mass., Oct. 29, 1830, 
a lawyer of eminence, who has been two years a member of the Gov- 
ernor's Council of his State, and held other important offices. He 
was born Nov. 17, 1803 ; his children, Sarah Barnard, born June 
24, 1831, died August 27, 1831 ; Jane Ashley, born Feb. 24, 1835; 
Mary Ashley, born July 28, 1837, died Sept. 23, 1838 ; William 
Ashley, born Jan. 26, 1839, died May 2, 1839; Sarah Porter, born 
Oct. 16, 1840, died April 25, 1841 ; an infant, born June 17, 1843, 
died same day ; Fannie Bulah Bates, born March 4, 1845 ; and 
Elizabeth, born 1848. 

MARY, the daughter of Gen. John, married Dr. John Laffixrgue, 
of St. Domingo, in the West Indies; he afterwards located and died 
at Sheffield ; Mary, his widow, died Dec. 5, 1848. He had an only 
son, John Laffargue ; this son married Catherine E. Stanly, of Stock- 
bridge, Mass., and has issue, John, Royal H., Mary, Frederick and 
Ellen. 

ASHLEY, HANNAH, married John Hillyer, son of Judge Hill- 
yer, deceased, of Granby, Conn., and has several children, viz., Mary 
A., b. July 1809; Julia, b. 1812; William A., b. 1814; John, 
b. 1817; and Jane, b. Jan. 11, 1823. William A. married Mrs. 
Julia Banker, of New York, and has two daughters. Julia Hillyer 
I married Mr. Benedict, and has one daughter. 

ASHLEY, JANE, daughter of Gen. John, married Harry Clark, 
of Sheffield, and had two children, John B. and Jane M. She then 
married Dr. Nathaniel Preston, of Sheffield, and had Lydia A., Har- 
riet A., and Sarah B. Dr. Nathaniel Preston died Dec. 23, 1825, 
aged 43 years. Sarah died young. John married Miss Graves, a 
daughter of Judge Graves, of Sherman. Jane M. married Judge Pren- 



tinguirhed by his just dealings, his rigid inlegrily, and his conscientious regard to duty. Ily his 
death the poor are deprived of a genuine friend, to whom Ihey never applied in vain , the com- 
munity of a valued and highly respected citizen, and the church of a sincere Christian." 



70 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

tice, of Indiana. Lydia married Jonathan Woodruff, of Lima, Indi- 
ana, atnd left one child j she died in 1816. Harriet married Klijah 
Deming, of Indiana, June 23, 1847. Jane, the mother, is still living 
in Indiana. 

ASHLEY, LYDIA, young(st daughter of Gen. John, married Roy- 
al R. Hinman, Esq., of Hartford, Sept. 14, 1814. (Sae IIINMAN.) 

ASHLEY, DAVID, son of Robert, Sen., of Springfield, married 
Hannah Glover, of New Haven, Conn., 1663, and located at West- 
field, Mass. ; he had Simuel, and other children, He removed his 
family to Westfield, from Springfield. 

ASHLEY, SAMUEL, son of David, son of Robert, Sen., married 
Saralj Kellogg, of Hadley, in 1686, and had Joseph, afterwards Rev., 
and several other children. 

*ASHLEY, Rev. JOSEPH, the youngest child of Samuel, gradu- 
ated at Y'ale College, with his cousins, John and two others, in 1130. 
He read theology and settled in the ministry at Winchester, New 
Hampshire, in 1736, where he remained until the inhabitants of the 
place were driven away by the Indians. In 1747, he was installed 
pastor of the churcii in Sunderland, where he died in 1797, aged 88 
years. Mr. Ashley married Anna Dewey of Westfield, the year he 
settled at Winchester ; he had a son, Stephen, and other children. 

ASHLEY, STEPHEN, son of Rev. Joseph, son of Samuel, son 
of David, son of Robert, San., m. Elizabeth Billings, and settled in 
Sunderland, where he died in 1815; they had William, and other 
children. 

ASHLEY, WILLIAM, the son of Stephen, the grandson of Rev. 
Joseph, great-grandson of Samuel, great-great-grandson of David, the 
son of Robert, Sen., of Sprino;field, m. Nancy Pomeroy, of Hadley ; 
he resided for a time in Prescott, and afterwards at Amherst, where 
Hon Chester Ashley was born, June 1, 1790. His children were, 
by his first wife, Willian), Jr., Hon. Chester, Elisha ; by his second 



* Epitaph on the Inmbstnne at Sunderland, Mass. "In memory of Rev. Joseph Ashley, the son 
of Mr. Samuel Ashley, who was born at Westfield. Mass.. Oct. Illh, 1709 graduated at Yale 
College, 17^0, married Anna Dewey, Feb. Kith, 1730, w.is ordained over the church ami people 
of VVinche.-ter, N 11., 173i), left there on account of the Indians, 1745, was installed over the 
fhurjh and people in Sunderland, Mass., 174U, died Feb. 8, 17U7, in the 88th year of his age, 
and in the li 1st year of his mini.<try. 

Sound in judgment, meek in spirit, a friend of peace, a steady believer in the doctrines of 
grace, respected by his people, and esteemed by them in the ministry. 

Daniel, xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that 
turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever." 

(I'opied from the tomb-^tone of the Rev. Joseph Ashley, in the grave-yard of Sunderland, 
Ma>s.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURtTANS. 71 

wife, he had Lauretta and Pliny. Mr. Ashley removed from Am- 
herst to Hudson, N. Y., where he died in 1847. 

ASHLEY, Hon. CHESTl'.R, son of William Ashley, of Hudson, 
N. Y., deceased, graduated at Williams College, in ISlIi. He read 
law in the office of Judges Reeve and Gould, at Litchfield, about one 
year ; he then returned to Hudson, New York, and finished his legal 
studies in the office of the Hon. Elisha Williams, at Hudson. He 
was born at Amherst, Mass. He emigrated with his father to Hud- 
son, when young. After his admission to the bar, he went to the 
west to seek his fortune in life, and for a short time opened a 
law office in Illinois ; from thence he removed to Little Rock, 
in Arkansas, where he located and remained in a profitable prac- 
tice of his profession until he was elected a Senator of the United 
States. Gen. Ashley was on his sixth year's service as Senator of 
the United States, and his State had re-elected him to that honorable 
and responsible office for six additional years, from and after the 4lh 
of March, 1845). In the fore part of April, 1848, he was taken 
severely ill at Washington, when attending upon his senatorial duty ; 
he lingered a few days, unattended by any one of his family. He 
died at Washington, D. C, April 29, 1848, greatly lamented by his 
family, his associates in council, and his country. Mr. Ashley was 
an important member of that learned body of statesmen. He was a 
gentleman of fine, commanding appearance ; no nian in the Senate 
surpassed hiin in this respect ; though his hair was white, his ruddy 
cheeks gave him the appearance at least of middle life, and his voice 
so often heard in that learned body, improved his youthful appear- 
ance, while it showed his talents equal to his task and position. He 
married in early life an accomplished lady, after his location at Little 
Rock, and had a son William, born there, who was educated at Hart- 
ford, Conn., and is now a planter near the former residence of his 
worthy father. He also left an amiable daughter, who figured con- 
spicuously in the highest circles at Washington, during a part of her 
father's residence there, and an amiable widow, who now resides in 
Arkansas. 

ASHLEY, JOSEPH, and Elizabeth, his wife, had a son, Thomas, 
b. at Rochester, Mass., Feb. 21, 1704-5. 



Note. — Col..Iohn Pynclion, of Springfield, Mass., married Miss Wyllys, daughter of Gov. George 
Wyllys, of Hartford, Conn., in 1645. .She became tlie mother of Mary Pynchon, who married 
Hon. Joseph Whiting, and was the great grandmother of Hon. Jolin Asliley, of Sheflield. 

Mary Ashley, late of PhelTield, Mass., widow of Gen. John Ashley, left a book printed in 
1646, and a silver headed cane, which had been presented by Col. John Pynchon, to John Ash- 
ley, Esq., which are now in the family. 



72 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ASHLEY, JONATHAN, of Hartfard, second son of Robert, of 
Springfield, was b. in 1646, and m. Sarali, a daughter of William 
Wadsvvorth, of Hartford, where he settled. His children were, Jo- 
seph, Jonathan, Samuel, Sarah and Rebecca. Estate £1030, 195. 
He d. in 1704, and left a widow. 

ASHLEY, JOSEPH, son of Jonathan, and grandson of Robert, d. 
at Hartford, in 1754 : left no sons. His daughters were, Hannah, 
who m. Samuel Day ; Ann, m. Samuel Clark, of Windsor; Mary, 
and Jerusha Ashley. Estate £189. Great-grandchildren of Robert. 

ASHLEY, JONATHAN, Jr., son of Jonathan, Sen., and grand- 
son of Robert, ra. Elizabeth , and had children : Sarah, b. Feb. 

19, 1704-5; Jonathan, b. Aug. 10, 1706, d. Dec. 4, 1708; Eliza- 
beth, b. Sept. 29, 1708 ; 2d Jonathan, b. April 30, 1710 ; Mary Gay- 
lord, Abigail, Rachel Tudor, (or Turner,) and Eunice — great- 
grandchildren of Robert. He died in 1750. His only son Jonathan, 
had all the land of his father, and paid legacies to his sisters. 

ASHLEY, JONATHAN, grandson of Jonathan, Sen., of Hart- 
ford, d. in 1777. He appears to have' left no children. 

ASHLEY, Lieut. EZEKIEL, of Hartford, his will offered by his 
relict, Hannah, in Aug., 1745 : he had children : Ezekiel, Jr., under 
21 years ; Hannah, a minor, and a daughter " Grissill " (Griswold,) 
under 18 years of age. Hannah, his widow. Executrix. Will da- 
ted June 28, 1745. Ezekiel, Jr., m. Elizabeth , and d. in 1761 

and left children. 

ASHLEY, SAMUEL, 3d son of Jonathan, Sen., of Hartford, and 
grandson of Robert, of Springfield, Mass., removed to Windham, now 
Hampton, from Hartford. He had an estate in lands, by his father's 

will, in Plainfield. He m. Elizabeth -, and had children : Love, 

d. young ; Samuel, b. Nov. 27, 1726 ; Abner, b. May, 1722 ; Jo- 
seph, Susannah, b. June 5, 1724. The two last settled upon their 
father's farm at Hampton. 

ABNER, son of Samuel, had children : Daniel, Abner, and others. 
Joseph Ashley, left three sons and four daughters. His son Joseph 
lived upon the homestead, and his brothers, Thomas, and Ebenezer, 
removed to the state of New York, and their sisters, Mrs. Butts, Mrs. 
Davison, and a maiden sister, Chloe, remained in Hampton, and 
Mrs. Ingalls, at Ponifret. Mrs. Susan Smith, of Rodman, N. Y., is 
the last survivor of this generation. The wife of Samuel, d. aged 
51 years, about 1750. Samuel, from Hartford, to Hampton, was 
the great-grandfather of Walter Ashley of Hampton. Walter, of 
Tolland, was a son of Abner, of Hampton. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 73 

ASHLEY, SAMUEL, Jr., m. Ruth Cressy, Nov. 23, 1746. 

ASHLEY, JOSEPH, of Windham, son of Samuel, Sen., m. Sa- 
rah Cressy, Nov. 5, 1751: had Sarah, h. Nov. 2, 1752 ; Anna, b. 
July 13, 1754; Joseph, Jr., b. July 21, 1756 ; Love, b. March 3, 
1758. Sarah, his wife, d. Sept. 11, 1762, and he m. Zuruiah Lyon, 
April 25, 1764, and had issue : Thomas, Cloe, Ebenezer, Susannah, 
Zuruiah. His wife d. May 5, 17S1. Joseph, the son of Joseph, 
remained on the homestead. Love left no children. 

ABNER m. and had children, viz : Daniel, Abner, and others. 
Walter Ashley, of Tolland, is the son of Abner, Jr., and grandson 
of Samuel, the son of Jonathan Ashley, of Hartford. 

This branch of the Ashley family that settled in Connecticut, 
have now become nearly extinct at Hartford, but some few of the 
descendants yet reside at Hampton, Tolland and other towns in the 
eastern part of Connecticut, one of whom was a member of the Con- 
necticut Legislature, in May, 1349, from Chaplin. One of the 
name graduated at Harvard College ; eight of this name have gradu- 
ated at Yale College. 

ASHLEY, BENJAMLN, of Westfield, m. Rebecca Kellogg, of 
Suffield, in 1744. 

ASHLEY, Rev. JONATHAN, minister of Deerfield, graduated 
at Yale College, in 1730, ordained there in 1738, and d. in 1780, 
aged 67, — an able divine, and popular preacher. 

"ASHLEY, EDWARD, of ye first church (Boston,) ye North 
Church, 1677," when he was made free. I find no evidence that Ed. 
ward was of the family of Robert Ashley, of Springfield. " Died at 
Groton, Conn., in the county of New London, Mr. Edward Ashley, 
in the 108th year of his age." {Pub. in Hartford CourarU, Jan. 26, 
1767.) Probably son of Edward, of Boston, who was made free at 
Boston, 1677. 

ASHLEY, ALICE, aged 20, a maid servant, was bound in the 



Note. — Mrs. Kate Ashley, was Queen Elizabetli's Governess, and " eiercised the most remarka- 
ble influence over the mind of her royal pupil, from her earliest years. She was Aunt to Sir Hum- 
phrey Gilbert, to whom Sir Walter Raleigh was uterine brother, and was married to a relative 
of Anne Boleyn, the Queen's unfortunate mother. Queen Elizabeth placed her chief favor and 
coafiJence in her maternal kindred, to the end of her life, and Mrs. Ashley's powerful influence 
was of great advantage to her nephews." (See Qen. Reg. No. XV, p. 226.) 

In the valuable late extracts from the original record in the Custody of the Master of the 
Rolls in London, by Mr. Somerby, I find Samuel Ashley, aged 19, and Mary Ashley, aged 24 
years, in 163.3, were embarked in the Merchant Bonaventure, James Ricrofte, Master, to be 
transported to Virginia. (Perhaps Ashley River took its name from this Samuel Ashley.) 

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74 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ship Defence de Lond., to New England, per certificate from two 
Justices of Peace, and Minister of All Saints, (homan?) in North- 
ampton, (England.) 

ASPINWALL,or ASPINWELL, ELIAZER, or EBENEZER, 
of Kensington, d. there in 1741 or '2. Inventory dated July 2, 
1742, and letters of administration granted same month and year, to 
Aaron his son and Mary his widow. His children were, Aaron, Ma- 
ry Adkins, Hamatter, and Anna Nott. He left over £700 estate. 
Distribution, Aug. 17, 1743. 

ASPINWELL, AARON, m. Sarah Collins, Oct. 20, 1732, and 
had children : Dorothy, b. Nov. 10, 1733 ; Caleb, b. May 4, 1736, 
perhaps others. 

ASPINWALL, PETER, Brookline, Mass., 1653 ; from Lanca- 
shire, England. {Savage, I.) This was an early name at Norfolk, 
Conn., (spelt Aspenwell.) 

ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, Boston, juror, 1630, and freeman, 
1632, deputy, 1637, member ar. co. 1643, afterwards of Watertown, 
Mass. Removed to Rhode Island, and was first Secretary of the 
Colony, returned to Boston, and thence to England, where he died. 

ASPINALL has two coats of arms, and ASPINWALL, one. 

ASPINWALL, Mr. WILLIAM, desired to be made free at Bos- 
ton, Oct. 19, 1630 : took the oath April 3, 1632. This is an old and 
highly respectable name in Boston, Mass. 

ASPINWALL, PETER, of Roxbury, Mass., in 1683 : signed a 
contract with others, to settle the town of Woodstock, Conn. 

ASPINWALL, WILLIAM and ELIZABETH, of Boston, had 
children : Edward, b. at Boston, 26th of the 7th month, 1630, and 
d. the 10th of the 8th month, 1630 ; Hannah, Elizabeth, Samuel, 
Ethlan and Dorcas, b. the 14tli of the 12th month, 1639. This is 
the first found in Mass. PETER, freeman in Massachusetts, 1645. 
Mr. Aspinwall, (supposed) Recorder for the County of Suffolk, 
{Gen. Reg. No. 11, p. 207.) WILLIAM ASPINW^ALL, was Re- 
corder in 1647. This has been a celebrated name in Massachusetts, 
early, and at a later period in the City of New York, by some of their 
descendLints from Massachusetts. The name of Aspenwell is at Mans- 
field, and George W. Aspinwell, representative of the town, in 1852. 

A ST WOOD, JAMES, Farmer says, was a freeman at Dorches- 



NoTE. — Hon. Heiiian Allen, (a brother of Col. Ethan Allen, the hero of Bennington, — who 
was many years a leading Member of Congress, from the Burlington District in Vermont, and 
American Minister to the Chilian Republic, (appointed by President J. Q. Adams,) died of Apo- 
plexy, at Highgate, in Vermont, April, 1852. (See JOSEPH ALLEN, p. 45.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 75 

ler, 1639, and probably one of the founders of the 2d Ciiurch in 
Boston : sons, John and Joseph b. in 1640 and 1644. John, Massa- 
chusetts, freeman in 1636, removed to New Haven Colony, and set- 
tled at Milford, as early as 1639, where he was a magistrate. Nov. 
20, 1639, he was appointed at Milford, one of the Judges " in all 
civil affairs," to try all causes between man and man, as a court to 
punish any offences and sin against the commandments therein, till a 
body of laws should be established, and to observe and apply them- 
selves to the rule of the written word of God." He was one of the 
first church of Milford, gathered at New Haven. He returned to 
England and d. there in July, 1654. He was one of the principal 
men at Milford, for the few years he remained there. He, with Mr. 
Tapp, and Wm. Fowler, of Milford, were requested by the General 
Court of Connecticut, in Sept., 1641, to settle the bounds " between 
Paquanuck and Uncovvay." (Indian name of Milford,* was VVep- 
owaug.) 

ATCHITT, or ADJETT, JOHN and SAMUEL, sons of John. 
Samuel d. 1712, at Hartford. John d. 1712, at Block Island, and 
left an estate of £94, which his father, then living, inherited as next 
of kin. John left no children. 

ATKINS has four coats of arms. ATKYNS has six. (See 
ADKINS. 

ATKINSON. This name was early at Boston, about 1634, 
where he owned the pasture near Fort Hill, about seven acres. At- 
kinson street w^s called after his name. He was from Bury, Lan- 
caster County, in England. THEODORE, his grandson, settled at 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and m. a daughter of Gov, Went- 
worth, where he became a man of note, under Gov. Shute, where 
he d. in 1719. His son, Theodore, of New Castle, became a man 
of more celebrity than his father : he d. 1779, aged 82 years. His 
only son, Theodore, was Secretary of the Province, m. a daughter 
of Wm. Wentworth, of Boston. He d. in 1769, while young. His 
widow, two weeks after his decease, m. Gov. Wentworth, of Ports- 
mouth, N. H. (See Farmer, Lancaster.) 

* Milford, .(or ralbsr Wepowaug,) was one of the original towns in the New Haven Colony 
and settled in 1639. 

" At a general meeting of Wepowage," (Milford.) concerning the ordering of civil afTairs. 
March 9th, 1539, held on money matters. 

At a meeting held Nov. 20, 1G39, by the first freemen of Milford, Wm. Fowlgr, Edmond Tapp, 
Zachariah Whitman, John Astwood and Richard Miles, were chosen " Judges in all civil affairst 
and to try all causes between man and man, as a court to punish any offence, and sin, against 
the commandments therein, till a body of Laws" should be established, " Lbey to observe and 
ajtjdy themselves to the rule of the written word of God." 



76 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ATKINSON, THOMAS, freeman, in Massachusetts, 1636. Had 
a dauijhter Hannah, b. at Concord, in 1643. 

ATKINSON, MILES and THOMAS, were to be transported to 
Virjrinia, in July, 1635, and embarked in the Alice, Richard Orch- 
ard, master. They took the oath of allegiance and " supremicie." 

ATCHINSON, NATHANIEL, was chosen deacon of the church 
in West Springfield, 1759, and d. in 1801, aged 92. Achieson, has 
two coats of arms in England, and Aitkinson, one, (Scotland.) At- 
kinson has thirteen coats of arms in England. ATCHISON, (Scot- 
land,) has one coat of arms, and ATCHESON, one. 

ATKINSON, LUKE, a planter in the N. Haven Colony, in 1643, 
with a family of four persons. Few of the name are now in Conn. 

*ATWATER, JOSHUA, a merchant at Suffield, d. in 1776. 
Thomas Lee, then late of Boston, with David Todd, of Suffield, gave 
the administration bond with ThaddeusLeavit. Children not found : 
probably a descendant of Joshua Atwater, an early settler at New 
Haven. This name is found on Milford record, later than at New 
Haven. Twenty-one persons by this name graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, before 1851. 

The name of Atwater from the early settlement of New Haven, 
has been highly respectable in that Colony. Joshua Atwater was a 
Magistrate in the New Haven Colony, in 1658. This name has 
five coats of arms. 

• Copy of the original agreement entered into by the first settlers of New Haven, of which 
Joshua Atwater was one of the signers, viz : 

" Whereas there was a foundamintall agreem' made in a generall meeting of all the ffree 
Planters of this tovvne, on the 4th of the fowerth moneth called June, namely, that church 
members onely, shall be free burgesses, and they only shall chuse among themselves, magistrates 
and officers, to have the power of transacting all publique, civill afiayres of this plantation, of 
making and repealing lawes, dividing inheritances, deciding of differences that may arise, and 
doing all things and businesses, of like nature. Itt was therefore ordered by all the said ffree 
Planters, that all those that hereafter, should be received as planters into this plantation, should 
also submitt to the said foundamentall agreemen', and testifie the same by subscribing their 
names vnder the names of the aforesa"* 

Planters, as followeth — 
Mr. Theoph. Eaton, Tho. Kimberly, Will. Potter, 

Mr. John Davenport, John Benham, John Mossee, 

Mr. Sam. Eaton, Mr. Wilkes, John Charles, 

Mr. Rob' Newman, Tho. Jeffreys, Richard Beach, 

Mr. Math. Gilbert, Rob' Seely, Timothy fforde, 

Mr. Nath. Turner, John Budd, John Reader, 

Mr. Rich. Malbon, Rich. Hull, (or Hall,) John Cogswell, 

Mr. Browninge, Wm. Preston, Mathew Hitchcock, 

Mr. Linge, John Brockett, ffrancis Hall, 

Mr. William Touttle, Jer. Dixon, Richard Osborn, 

Mr. Cheevers, Rob' Hill, James Clarke, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



77 



ATWELL, (Atvvill, Atwel.) This name was in Connecticut 
about 1700, east of Connecticut river ; the name is yet found in New 
London county, and at Roxbury, Conn., and other places. 

ATWELL, (Devonshire Patent, 1614,) one coat of arms. Anoth- 
er ATVVKLL, (Devonshire,) Ar. three leopards' heads, az. 

ATWELL or ATWILL, (Devonshire.) Ar. a pile gu. over all 
a bordure engr. or. Atwyll, one. 

ATWELL, BENJAMIN, Maine, 1675. (See Farmer and Hub. 
bard.) Two of the name graduated at Brown University, K. L 

ATWOOD, Capt. THOMAS, of Wethersfield, Conn., tradition 
says was for a time captain of a company under Oliver Cromwell. 
The name was in Massachusetts earlier than in Connecticut. 

ATWOOD, HARMAN, member of the ar. co., 1644, freeman 
in Mass., 1645. THOMAS died there, April, 3, 1694. PHILIP, 
one of the first proprietors of Bradford, Mass. (Farmer.) JOHN 
ATWOOD, Assistant in Plymouth Colony, in 1638. He brought 
to New England a large estate ; died in 1644. {Farmer.) 



Mr. Perry, 

Mr, Crane, 
Mr. ffran. Newman, 
Mr. Thomas Yale, 
Tho. ffugill, 
William Andrewes, 
Richard Beckley, 
John Cooper, 
Jarvis Boykin, 
Jobn Chapman, 



And"^ Low, 
Will. Thorpe, 
John Ponderson, 
John Johnson, 
Edw^ VViggJesworth, 
John Clarke, 
Sam. Whitehead, 
John Potter, 
Arthur Halhidge, 
Edw^ Banister, 



Andrew Hull, 
Edw'' Patterson, 
Will. Ives, 
Geo. Smith, 
John Peacock, 
Mathew Moulthrop, 
Andrew Messenger, 
Geo. Warde, 
Laurence Warde. 



The following are original signatures, (on the contract.) 



Stephen Goodyear, 

Tho' Gregson, 

Tho« Nash, 

W" Jearies, 

Jno. Evance, 

Tho* Munson, 

John Livermore, 

Jeremy Whitwell, 

Luke Atkinson, 

Tho* Morris, 

W'" Russill, 

Benjamin Vincent, 

Tho» Mitchell,— K. Mitchell, 

John Walker, (mark,) 

Benj" Hawley, 

WiU his W mark Gibbins, 

7* 



Richard Merriman, 
Edward £J Chepperfield, 
Stephen Metcalfe, 
Tho" Powell, 
James Uussell, 
Peter Browne, 
John, his :p mark, 

Abraham — Bell, 
John f Vincent, 
Win. Gihbard, 
Ralph Dayghton, 
Win. Pecke, 
Anthony Thompson, 
Christopher Todd, 
John Gibbs, 
John Nasb, 



Adam — Nicholls, 
Thos Q Beamont, 
Joshua Atwater, 
Tho" Osborne, 
John Wakeman, 
Wm. bia yy mark Davis, 
Francis \r Browne, 
Robert Rigg, 
Nath. Merriman, 
Roger Ailing, 
Henry — Peck, 
Marke Peerce, 
Tlieophilus Higginson, 
David Atwater, 
Mathew Camfield. 



78 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Capt. THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Abigail, and had issue born 
at Wethersfield, Conn., viz : Abigail, b. Sept. 30, 1668 ; Andrew, b. 
Sept. 1, 1671 ; Jonathan, b. June 8, 1675 ; Josiah, b. Oct. 4, 1678. 
Capt. Thomas was not one of the first settlers of Wethersfield ; prob- 
ably went there about 1667. Capt. Thomas was a physician of 
some note ; he died in 1682. Estate, £148, 16s. 9d. 

ATVVOOD, JOSIAH, son of Capt. Thomas, m. Bathsheba, daugh. 
ter of Bazalael Lattimer, then deceased, Feb. 16, 1709-10, by Hon. 
John Chester, Assistant; children, Abigaile, b. Dec. 6, 1710 ; Oli- 
ver, b. March 1, 1715-16; Jedediah, born June 28, 1719; moved 
to the State of New York ; Josiah, Jr., and Hezekiah, twins, b. April 
13, 1727 ; Hezekiah moved to Great Harrington, Mass. ; Asher, b. 
Dec. 27, 1729. Asher lived and died at Newington. 

ATWOOD, OLIVER, son of Josiah, of Wethersfield, m. Dorothy 
Curtiss, Nov. 12, 1746, by Rev. James Lockwood, and had issue, 
Abigail, b. August 28, 1747 ; Elijah, b. August 28, 1751; Levi, b. 
Pvlay 10, 1752 ; John, b. April 16, 1755. John imprisoned in the 
Sugar House, N. Y., and died soon after. 

ATWOOD, JEDEDIAH, son of Josiah, m. Susanna Deming, 
Nov. 29, 1747, by David Goodrich, Esq., Justice of Peace: issue 
Timothy, b. Sept. 9, 1749. His wife, Susanna, died, and he married 
Sarah Lomis, for his second wife, Nov. 22, 1759, by Silas Lomis, 
Justice of Peace. 

ATWOOD, JOSIAH, Jr., m. Caroline Mygatt, April 13, 1751, 
by Rev. E. Whitman ; had issue, Huldah, b. Jan. 28, 1752, d. 
Oct. 22, 1752; second Huldah, b. March 13, 1754 ; sons, Salmon, 
and Hozea Atwood, and Elijah, of Berlin. 

ATWOOD, ASHER, youngest son of Josiah, Sen., was m. to 
Mary Mitchelson, in April, 1757, by Rev. Joshua Belding ; issue, 
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1759, d. single ; Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1762, d. 
single; Ezekiel, b. August 19, A. D. 1764. 

ATWOOD, HEZEKIAH, son of Josiah, Sen., m. Abigail Hun, 
of Wethersfield, and had issue, Hezekiah, Jr., b. Sept. 29, 1764 ; 
Phineas, b. Sept. 11, 1706, moved to Massachusetts. 

ATWOOD, EZEKIEL, son of Ashur, m. Hannah Francis, Jan, 
21, 1793, (by Ashbel Gillett,) issue : Josiah, b. April 26, 1794 ; 
Sarah, b. March 11, 1796 ; Francis, b. Aug. 27, 1803. 

ATWOOD, JONATHAN, son of Dr. Thomas Atwood, Sen., 
emigrated to Woodbury, Conn., where he d. Feb. 11, 1733. His el- 
dest son d. there, aged about 22 years. His son Elijah m. An- 
ner Joslin, of East Haven ; she d. 1814 ; had children : Jesse, Molly, 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 79 • 

Noble, Sally, Elijah and Anna ; d. 1804. Jesse, son of Elijah and 
An'ner, m. Rachel Miner : he d. at Jefferson, Delaware County, N. Y. 
Rachel, his widow, resides at Lockport, N. Y. His children, were 
Asa, Lydia, William, Betsey, Oliver and Jarad. Lydia m. Wells 
Atwood, and moved to tiie West. 

ATWOOD, WILLIAM, b. 1783, m. Miss Martin, of Woodbury, 
and now resides in Watcrtown, and has an only child, Jason. 

BETSEY m. Beecher Toles, and removed to the state of New 
York. 

ALLY d. a maiden. 

ANNA m. Jacob Jones, in the state of New York. Jared, her 
brother, no information of him. 

ASA, son of Elijah, m. and had children : Ichabod, Anna, Asa, 
(shot in New York, the day New York was given up to the Brit- 
ish.) ICHABOD m. and removed to Ellsworth, Conn., and from 
thence to Ohio. ASENATH m. Mr. Chapman. MOLLY m. Eli- 
jah Weller, and had Annis, Huldah, Benjamin and Orry. BEN- 
JAMIN enlisted into the U. S. Army. ORRY m. Cady. NO- 
BLE ATWOOD, b. Oct. 26, 1758, m. Margaret Judd, daughter of 
Stephen, and had issue: Curtiss, Stephen, Warner, Nancy, Elijah. 
Noble d. Sept. 13, 1838, aged 80. Ilis wife d. March 31, 1833, 
aged 74. CURTISS, son of Noble, graduated at Yale College, in 
1806. He located (and m. in South Carolina,) as a Physician, 
where he died and left children. 

ATWOOD, STEPHEN, b. April 14, 1785. His children were, 
Chauncey, Oliver, George, Maria, Marsha, Henry N., Eben, Mar- 
garet. 

CHAUNCEY, b. Jan. 13, 1816, m. Martha, and had Olive, b. 
June 25, 1817, &c. 

Si-x persons of this name had graduated at Yale College, before 
1851, and three at Harvard College. 

This name is now at Hartford, Wethersfield, Woodbury, Water- 
town, and other towns in Connecticut ; in New York, Philadelphia, 
and in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

ATWOOD, ELIJAH, of Iladdam, was not of the family of Dr. 
Thomas, of Hartford and Wethersfield. This Elijah was from the 
Cape. 

ATWOOD, Mrs. ANN, relict of Mr. John, (of Plymouth, Mass.,) 
" sometime wife of Mr. John Atwood, Gent." Her will dated April 
27, 1650 : she notices her brother and sister, Robert and Mary Lee, 
her loving nephew, Wm. Crow, and made the latter Executor of her 



80 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

will. Inventory taken June 1, 1654. (See her will, His. Gen. Reg. 
p. 260, No. 18.) 

WILLIAM, of Charlestown, freeman 1652. {Farmer.) Pliilip 
■made free at Maiden, in 1689-90. 

ATWOOD, ALEXANDER, of New Hampshire, free 1684. 

ASTWOOD, JOHN, was one of the first, and an important settler 
at Milford. He d. in 1654, and the name has become extinct in 
Milford, and probably in the state. JAMES ASTWOOD, free in 
Massachusetts, 1639. WILLIAM, 1652. 

Coats of arms of the Atwood family : ATWOOD, (Bromfield, 
Essex,) one. ATWOOD, (Gloucestershire,) one. ATWOOD, 
(Broughton, Co. Salop,) one. ATWOOD has sixteen coats of 
arms. 

ATWOOD, STEPFIEN, Sen. and Jr., were inhabitants of East- 
ham, Mass., before 1690. His son Medad, b. Jan., 1658-9. Me- 
dad m. Esther, and had daughter Mercy, b. June 26, 1686 ; also Abi- 
gail, 1689; David, 1691; Samuel, 1695; Esther, 1699; Phebe, 
1702, and Nathan, b. June 27, 1705. There were also other fami- 
lies of the name in Eastham, before 1700. {Hist. Gen. Reg.) 

ATWOOD, PHILLIP, embarked in the Planter, for New Eng- 
land, in 1635. PHILLIP ATWOOD, 13th Nov., embarked in the 
Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, Master, for New England. 

ATWOOD,JOHN, made free 1635-6. ALEXANDER, N. Hamp- 
ton, made free, 1684. PHILLIP ATWOOD of Maiden, free 1689- 
90, in Massachusetts. Mr. JOHN, of Plymouth, made his will 20th 
Oct. 1043 : he says, " For my Brethren, God has blessed them that 
they may be as well to give to me as I to them, and for their children, 
they may be many, I do here give and bequeath them, greate and 
smale, young and old, male and female, which were borne before 
the date of these presents, twelve pence apiece, if demanded." " And 
for his little kinsman, Wm. Crowe, and his brother and sister Lee, 
and their two children, Ann and Mary, he left it discretionary with 
his wife Anne, to deal with them as she pleased, and appointed An- 
ne Atwood, his loving wife. Executrix ; and gave her the residue 
of his estate." {N. E. His. and Gen. Reg. No. 14, p. 173. Note 
next page, 174.) " This is Mr. John Atwood, the assistant, gener- 
ally styled gentleman, formerly of London." Left no issue. He is 
"confounded by genealogists, with John Wood, alias Atwood, who 
was also of Plymouth." James Astwood had twenty-eight acres at 
Roxbury, (Rocksbury,) and nine persons in his family, (probably 
about 1639.) The families of this name at Woodbury and Watei*- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 81 

town, Conn., are all descendants of Doctor Thomas Atwood, for- 
merly of Wethersficld, Conn. 

AUSTIN, JOHN, was born in Catharine Street, in the Strand, in 
London, England, and was there educated a merchant, by his father. 
He removed to Boston, Mass., from London, where he continued for 
a time, and then removed to Hartford, Conn., where he m. widow 
Mary Hooker, (maiden name Stanley,) Dec. 8, 1713, the mother of 
Capt. Nathaniel Hooker. They had a sou John b. Oct. 15, 1714, 
who d. soon after. They also had a daughter Mary, who m. John 
EUery, Esq., then of Boston, but he afterwards removed to Hartford. 

Mr. Austin made his will 1741-2, and d. at Hartford, in 1743. 
John Ellery, and Mary, his wife. Executors. By his will, he gave 
his wife Mary, £300 in money, one Cow, the use of his servant for 
her life, and the use of half his lands, and " housing," in Hartford, for 
life. To his daughter Mury Ellery, he gave the other half for her 
life. He gave his grandson, Wm. Ellery, after the decease of his 
widow, all his lands in Litchfield and New Hartford, forever. He 
gave to his grandson, John Ellery, Jr., after the decease of his wid- 
ow and daughter, the remainder of his estate in Hartford, forever. 
A daughter of Wm. Ellery, m. Major Henry Seymour, of Hartford. 
(late deceased.) It was her son, Col. Thomas H. Seymour, to whom 
the Legislature presented a valuable sword for his brilliant services 
in the late Mexican War. It was he who stript the Mexican stand- 
ard from the walls of Chepultepec. His aged motlicr lived to 
witness the bravery of her son, and participated with him the honors 
conferred upon him, by his native state. Mary, wife of John Aus- 
tin, d. Aug. 23, 1753, aged 76. 

AUSTIN, Capt. ANTHONY, had fifty acres of land granted to 
him, in Feather street, in Sufiield, July, 1G74, by the town Commit- 
tee. He liad forty acres of land allotted to each of his sons, Rich- 
ard and Anthony Austin, Jr., in 1679. Not akin to John above. 

AUSTIN, Capt. ANTHONY, was from Rowley, Mass., to Suf- 
■field. The better evidence is that he had three children before he re- 
moved, and perhaps more, by his wife, Ester, viz : Richard, b. Sept. 
22, 1666 ; Anthony, b. Dec 7, 1668 ; John, b. Oct. 22, 1672. He 
also had b. at Suffield, Nathaniel, b. May 20, 1678 ; Elizabeth, b. 
July 8, 1681 ; 2d Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1684, and Esther, b. Jan. 
11, 1686. His wife Esther d. March 7, 1697. Capt. Austin d. 
Aug. 22, 1708. He had held the offices of Selectman, and Town 
Clerk, in 1681, '2 '3 '6 '7 '9, and Commissioner, in 1688. He was 



82 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

an influential man in Suffield, in Church and State. Made free in 
Massachusetts, 16G9. His first daughter Elizabeth, d. Oct. 2, 1682. 

AUSTIN, Capt. RICHARD, son of Capt. Anthony, m. Dorothy 
Adams, of Suffield, Jan. 12, 1698-9: Richard, b. Oct. 9, 1699; Doro- 
thy, b. July 26, 1701 ; Jacob, b. June I, 1704; Ebenezer b. April 
22, 1706 ; Anna, b. Jan. 16, 1708-9 ; Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1710-11 ; 
Rebecka, b. April 16, 1713; Moses, b. April 25, 1716; Elias, b. 
April 14, 1718. Capt. Richard d. Oct. 29, 1733, and his widow 
Dorothy d. June 26, 1772. 

AUSTIN, JOHN, of Suffield, son of Capt. Anthony, m. Agnis 
King, Oct. 5, 1699 : and had Agnis, b. Jan. 21, 1701 ; John, b. Aug. 
9, 1702, d. 1702 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1703-4 ; 2d John b. May 

17, 1706; Mary, b. June 27, 1708; James, b. Dec. 29, 1710; 
William and Margaret, twins, b. March 5, 1712-13 4 Bethia, b. June 
15, 1718. Agnis, the mother, d. Jan. 7, 1732-3, and John m. for 
his second wife, widow Mary Burbank, July 3, 1734, and he d. May 

18, 1737. He was Town Clerk in Suffield, 1714, also an Assessor 
and Selectman. 

AUSTIN, NATHANIEL, of Suffield, son of Capt. Anthony, m. 
Abigail Hovey, Jan., 1702, and had Nathaniel, b. May 23, 1703. 
Thomas, b. Sept. 21, 1705 ; Rachel b. Feb. 13, 1707-8 ; Miriam, 
b. Feb. 21, 1709-10; Aaron, b. Feb. 7, 1711-12, and d. Nov. 10; 
Abigail, b. June 13, 1714; 2d Aaron, b. Feb. 25, 1715-16 ; Dan- 
iel, b. April 28, 1720 ; Samuel, b. July 24, 1722 ; Hannah, b, 
June 5, 1725. Samuel d. Dec. 30, 1744. The father d. Dec. 12, 
1760, and the mother d. Jan. 9, 1764. 

AUSTIN, AARON, son of Nathaniel, of Suffield, m. widow Eliza- 
beth Kent, Nov. 28, 1744, and had Aaron, b. Aug. 27, 1745 ; Sam- 
uel, b. Oct. 28, 1747; Serinus, a son, b. June 11, 1750 ; Nathan- 
iel, b. Nov. 28, 1752 ; Eusebeous, a son, b. April 28, 1758. 

AUSTIN, THOMAS, son of Nathaniel, m. Hannah Hale, Dec. 

19, 1737, and had Thomas, b. Aug. 29, 1738. 

AUSTIN, WILLIAM, son of John, m. Ame Flail, July 20, 1738, 
and had Ame, b. June 23, 1739 ; Mabel, b. June 3, 1742 ; Bethiah, 
b. March 17, 1744-5; William, b. May 10, 1747; Agnis, b. Dec. 
19, 1749; James, b. March 22, 1752; Candace, b. July 9, 1754 ; 
John, b. March 4, 1757 : Tahpenes, b. Dec. 3, 1759, and died. 

AUSTIN, JACOB, son of Capt. Richard, m. Hannah Pomeroy, 
Dec. 20, 1739, and had Jacob, b. Apri^ 12, 1740; Elias, b. Nov. 
22, 1741 ; Elijah, b. Feb. 28, 1744; Hannah and Phineas, twins, 
b. March 1, 1747 ; Abiah, b. Oct. 10, 1749. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 83 

AUSTIN, RICHARD, Jr., of Suffield, son of Ricliard, m. Eliza- 
beth Jesse, May 5, 1726, and had Elizabeth, b. JMarch 15, 1726-7, . 

d. ; Jesse, b. Dec. 28, 1728 ; Scth, b. Dec. 14, 1731 ; 2d 

Elizabeth, b. 1734, d. 1735 ; Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1736 ; Richard, b. 
Oct. 20, 1739 ; Susannah, b. Sept. 9, 1742 ; David, b. Nov. 26, 
1746, Richard d. Jan. 3, 1761. 

AUSTIN, JOSEPH, son of Capt. Richard, m. Abigail Allen, of 
Suffield, May 8, 1740, and had Caroline, b. April 25, 1742; Abi- 
gail, b. Nov. 15, 1747; Ruth, b. Nov. 15, 1749; Joseph, b. March 
16, 1750-1, d. 1753 ; 2d Joseph, b. Nov. 3, 1753 ; Benjamin, b, 
June 19, 1756 ; Tryphene, b. March 25, 1759 ; Luraina, b. June 
15, 1761 ; Olive, b. March 12, 1764 ; Lucy, b. March 15, 1747. 

AUSTIN, ANTHONY, Jr., of Suffield, m. Elizabeth King, July 
22, 1725, and had Zephcnias, b. April 16, 1727 ; Ann, b. Dec. 30, 
1728 ; Elizabeth, b. at the Lower Township of " Housatonick," (Shef- 
field,) Jan. 23, 1730-1 ; Anthony, b. at Sheffield, Oct. 2, 1733. 
Anthony settled at Sheffield, and iias descendants there now. 

AUSTIN, JOHN, of Suffield, son of John, m. Mary Hovey of 
Mansfield, Jan. 14, 1729-30, and had Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1730-1 ; 
John, b. Oct. 22, 1732. 

AUSTIN, Dea. URIAH, m. Abigail Case, of Suffield, March 3, 
1742-3, and had Abigail, b. April 29, 1745; Benajah, b. Sept. 3, 
1747 ; Rhoda, b. July 26, 1751 ; Uriah, b. Oct. 23, 1757. Dea. 
Austin d. Dec, 28, 1799. 

AUSTIN, NATHANIEL, of Sheffield, m. Agnes Adams, of Suf- 
field, May 16, 1732. 

AUSTIN, Hon. AARON, of New Hartford, was b. at Suffield, 
in 1745, son of Aaron, and grandson of Nathaniel Austin, of Suf- 
field ; but his father, soon after Aaron's birth, removed his family 
to Torringford, Ct., where his son Aaron remained, and was m. at 
the age of 22 years, to Miss Kellogg. About the time of his marriage, 
he removed to New Hartford. In the struggle of the Revolution, 
he happened at Boston when the first alarm was given. He was in 
two campaigns at the North, as a subaltern officer. He was at the 
defeat of Burgoyne, — also at the burning of Danbury. He was a 
brave and valiant soldier and offiicer. In private life, he was* a most 
worthy, pious and useful citizen. For about 25 years, he was an As- 
sistant, or one of the Governor's Council of Connecticut. Many years, 
he was either Chief Judge or Associate Judge of the County Court at 
Litchfield. In 1803, he was appointed a Fellow of the Corporation of 



84 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Yale College, which he held many years, (15,) as he did the high of- 
fice of Assistant. In 1805, received an honorary degree at Yale Col- 
lege. Even in his old age, when his age had become a disqualification 
for some of the higher offices, he was elected by his town, a Represent- 
ative to the General Assembly. He was a Deacon of the church in 
New Hartford, about 30 years. He was a Trustee of the Mission- 
ary Society of Connecticut, for many years. He was a gentleman 
of the old school, plain in his attire, of great good common sense, 
and as strict as were the Puritans, in all his family devotions, and 
other religious services. He died in 1829. His children were, 
Montgomery, who m, a sister of Dr. Griffin, of Williamstown, 
Mass. After his death, she m. Rev. Mr. Wilder for her second hus- 
band. Ralsaman C, graduated at Yale College in 1801, and read 
law at Litchfield, settled at Peekskill, N. Y., and d. at Washington, 
D. C, Sept. 19, 1840 ; Esther; Sarah, never m. She removed to 
Ohio ; Clarinda, and one or two others, d. in early life. His daugh- 
ter Esther m. Hon. Uriel Holmes, of Litchfield, who became a well- 
read lawyer, frequently a member of the Legislature, and a member 
of Congress. Mr. Holmes had a daughter, who d. aged 3 years ; 
Uriel, Jun., d. aged 22 years. He graduated at Yale College, 1816. 
Dr. Henry Holmes, who now resides at Hartford, pursuing his pro- 
fession, is the only survivor of the Hon. Uriel Holmes, who d. at 
Litchfield, in May, 1827, aged 62 years. His wife d. in 1802. 

The Austins, of Sheffield, Mass., are of the family of Anthony, 
Sen., of Suffield, as was SAMUEL, of Norfolk, who was a son of 
SAMUEL, of Colebrook. ISAAC, of Colebrook, was also of the 
same family. He had children : Samuel, Levi, Dan, Caleb, Enos, 
Joseph, Benjamin, Ann and Eunice, some of whom are now living. 
JACOB, of Suffield, d. ; property distributed to his children in 1777, 
viz., to Jacob, Hannah, wife of Dan Phelps, Experience, Thankfull, 
Elijah, Elias and Phineas Austin. Capt. RICHARD, of Suffield, 
d. in 1764, and left children: Richard, .loseph, Jacob, Ebenezer, 
Moses, Elias, Hannah Gates, Rebeccah Waters and Dorothy Aus- 
tin ; widow Elizabeth. REUBEN, of New Hartford, of the same 
family, d. in 1768, and left children : Robert, Phebe, Prudence, 
Hannah, Esther and Mary Austin. NATHANIEL, the son of Aa- 
ron Austin, Sen., of Suffield, resided several years at Torringford 
and New Hartford, and then removed with his family to Ohio. An- 
thony was for many years of the first settlement of Suffield, Town 
Clerk and Selectman, &c., and during his life was a leading man in 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 85 

the town, as several of his descendants have since been. THOMAS 
AUSTIX was seated in the meeting-house at Norwalk, Dec. 29, 
1710, (not known to be of this family.) JONATHAN, of Taun- 
ton, Mass., purchased land of Joseph Gary, in Windham, April 2, 
1716. Elizabeth, widow of Anthony, of Suffield, d. Oct. 2, 1682. 
There was early a family by the name of Austin, at Durham, Conn. 
MOSES AUSTIN, of Durham, and Moses Bates, left the town as 
adventurers, in 1798, and went to the lead mines in Virginia, then 
down the Ohio river, to St. Genevieve, to New Spain. Bates pur- 
chased of the Spanish Government 1000 acres of new lands, for $10. 
Austin purchased in the lead region, about 60 miles south of St. 
Louis, a league square of land. He laid out the city of Potosi, now 
the capital of Washington county. In 1819, Mr. Austin's affairs 
turned out unfortunate at Potosi, and he became poor. He then 
went to Texas, and obtained a large tract of land of the Mexican 
Government, and returned to Missouri after his family, and was taken 
sick and d. in May, 1822. His son, Stephen F. Austin, took posses- 
sion of his father's lands in Texas, and took- a colony of men to the 
river Brazos, and laid out the town of Austin, which afterwards be- 
came the seat of government of Texas. He was encouraged by 
Iturbide, in 1822, in his colonization. But young Austin's ambition 
prompted him, in 1332, to petition the Congress of Mexico, to be- 
come a separate government, and not waiting for the action of the 
Mexican Congress, wrote to his constituents to form a government of 
their own ; for which he was imprisoned in Mexico, and did not reach 
home again until about 2, years. When lie returned, he was ap- 
pointed commander-in-chief of the army, and the head of his govern- 
ment. He d. in 1835. His sister, Emily M., the wife of James F. 
Perry, resides near Brazoria, the heir of her brother's large amount 
of lands. It is unquestionably, in a great measure, owing to the 
energy, enterprise and talent of Moses Austin, and his son. Major 
Gen. Stephen F., that Texas was separated from Mexico, and has 
since become one of the United States.* I have no record evidence 
that the Austin family, at New Haven, were of the family at Suffield 
or Hartford. Thirteen persons of this name have graduated at Yale 
College, and fifteen at Harvard College. JOHN AUSTIN, of Wal- 
lingford, who m. Prudence Roys, in 1703, had children : John, Sam- 
uel, Joshua, Robert, Thankful, Noah and Prudence, appears to 
have been of a different family from John, of Hartford, or Anthony 
— ,1 — _ — . — — — ^ — . — _ 

• Rev. W. 0. Fowler's Letters, 



86 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Austin, of Suffield. Farmer says Anthony Austin was of Rowley, 
Mass., and iiad a son Anthony, b. in 1667, (who was probably the 
same Anthony Austin that settled at Suffield, with his sons, named 
above.) JONAS AUSTIN, of Hingham, in 1635, removed to 
Taunton, {Lin. His. Hingham.) Perhaps the same Jonas at Cam- 
bridge, in 1634. AUSTEN has ten coats of arms ; AUSTIN has 
two; AUSTON, two; AUSTYN, five. JOSEPH AUSTIN was 
a tax payer at Dover, N. FL, in 1648. 

AVERILL, (Averil,) WILLIAM, was the first of that name in Con- 
necticut. He first came to Pomfret, and was probably a grandson of 
William Averill, of Ipswich, who paid 3^. tax towards the salary of 
Maior Denison, the leader of Ipswich, in 1648. His wife was Ruth, 
by whom he had children, recorded at Windham, Ct., viz., James, b. 
Oct. 2, 1722, d. Dec. after ; Ephraim, b. July 3, 172-, d. Aug. 8, 
1743 ; Mary, b. May 24 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1725 ; Stephen, 
b. Aug. 24, 1729, d. Nov. 6, 1729 ; 2d Stephen, b. Oct. 18, 1730 ; 
Ruth, b. July 2, 1733 ; 2d James, b. Feb. 23, 1734-5. The last 
James removed and settled in the town of Preston, Ct., in that part 
of the town which is now Griswold, where some of his descendants 
yet remain. Col. Perry Averill, one of this family, with some oth- 
ers, removed to Judea Society, in what is now Washington, Ct., (from 
the town of Preston,) which was constituted a Society in Oct., 1741. 
In Oct., 1753, Raumaug was constituted into another Society, called 
New Preston ; which last Society probably received its name from 
those settlers who had removed there from Preston. The town of 
Washington Avas incorporated in Jan., 1779. Col. Averill was 
probably an early settler at New Preston, where he d. when very 
old. There was a JOHN xWERILL, an early settler at Stafford, 
when Stafford belonged to Hartford county. The town began to 
settle about 1720. This John was perhaps a branch of the family 
of William, of Ipswich. This name was not as early as many oth- 
ers in Connecticut. 

AVERILL, WILLIAM, of Ipswich, Mass., paid 3*. towards the 
salary of Maior Denison, the leader of that town in 1648, " in the way 
of gratuitye." (L. Wait.) LUKE AVERILL, of Topsfield, m. 
Sarah Peabody, March 10, 1706. Isaac Averill, of Topsfield, m. 
Priscilla Peabody, daughter of Joseph, Dec. 22, 1761. Her father, 
in his will, bequeathed her and her sisters, Elizabeth and Peggy, "a 
very valuable wardrobe and rich jewels of his wife's." EZEKIEL 
AVERILL, of Wiscasset, Me., was a pensioner of the Revolution 
for his services during the war, d. aged 95 years- BENJAMIN 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 87 

AVERILL m. Hannah Peabody, June 2, 1808, Mass. Twoof tliis 
name graduated at Yalo College before 1850. Col. Averill, who 
settled at Washington, Ct., in the Society of New Presfon, was 
blessed with a large and respectable family of children. One son, 
Samuel, resides at New Preston ; Perry at Southbury ; one at Al- 
bany ; one in New York ; one son, Eliphalet, d. at Hartford, where 
he had two sons and one daugiiter. The daughter m. Elisha Peck, 
Esq., of New York, and has since d. CHESTER AVERH.L, a na- 
live of Salisbury, d. in IS'Sii, while Professor of Chemistry in Union 
College. The name is yet found in Salisbury, a branch of the same 
family. Another branch of the Averill family was an early settler 
at Ashford, Conn. One of this family graduated at Yale College, in 
1814, and is now an eminent lawyer at New Orleans, La. The 
Averills were from Mil ford Haven, in Wales. Two of the name 
have graduated at Yale College. 

Note — New Preston is a Society in Washington, Conn. Tlie town was incorporated in 
1779. The Society of Judea, in Washington, was constituted such in Oct., 1741 ; and the New 
Preston Society constituted a Society in Oct., 1 753, (before called Rautuaug.) The Society of New 
Preston is a small, hilly and rough tract of country, — yet more eminent men have been produc- 
ed from this Society, than from any other of an equal population in the State. Rev. Jeremiah 
Day, their pastor, was from Sharon. Rev. Jeremiah Day, S. T. D., LL. D., D. D., graduated at 
Yale College in 1705; Tutor in Yale College from 1798 to 1801 ; ProfeSsor of Natural Philoso- 
phy, &c., from 1803 to 1817 ; President of Yale College from 1817 to 1846. He is yet living 
in New Haven. Hon. Thomas Day, LL. D., his brother, (and sons of Rev. Mr. Day, late of New 
Preston, deceased,) graduated at Yale College, 1797 ; was about twenty-five years Secretary of 
State in Connecticut, previous to 1835 ; many years Law Reporter ; President of the Connect- 
icut Historical Society since its organization, (which he now holds.) Hon. Elisha VVliittlesey of 
Ohio, (the honest politician,) was also born in New Preston, about two years previous to Iiis fa- 
ther's removal to Salisbury witli his family. He is a sound lawyer, and early had a large prac- 
tice in his profession. In 1823, he was elected to Congress from Ohio, where he was continued 
by re-elections for 18 years, and was acknowledged by his brother members to have been one 
of the most efficient and upright delegates in Congress. He started in his profession first at 
New Milford, Conn., where he opened a law office, and remained a few months, before he re- 
moved to Ohio. While in Congress, he many years held the respoiisi!)le office of Chairman of 
the Committee on Claims. In this position, his never-tiring industry had full scope. He usually 
made but few remarks in the House, but when he did address the House, he gave his ideas upon 
the subject in question, with such clearness, precision and perspicuity, that he generally con- 
vinced his hearers. He was appointed Auditor of the U. S. Treasury for the Post Office, under 
Gen. Harrison. This caused him to decline a re-election to Congress, and he entered upon the 
duties of his new and responsible office in the spring of 184I,atid remained there under Presi- 
dent Tyler, until near the close of his admiiii.Jtration, as all the Presidents, of whatever political 
party, appeared willing to continue so ethcient and honest a man in office. In 1B45, Mr. Whit- 
tlesey was appointed Agent and Director of the "Washington National Monument Society," 
which place he yet holds, and has probably done more for the success of the project than any 
other individual in the country. In 1849. he was appointed First Comptroller of the U. StStes 
Treasury. In whatever position he has been placed, his sound judg^nent and unbending integ- 
rity have given universal satisfaction to his country. Hon. Frederick Whittlesey, late deceased, 



88 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

AVERY, (AVERIE,) JAMES, Esq., a respectable, useful and 
early settler at New London. He was appointed by the Legislature 
upon many important committees. In June, 1659, he, with Deacon 
Caulkin and James Morgan, were appointed to lay out the Governor's 
lands. In Oct., 1662, he was appointed the country's agent, with James 
Rogers and Lnt. Samuel Smith, at N. L., to receive the corn collected 
by the Constables of each town in the Colony, to pay the expenses 
of obtaining the Charter, to store it in the warehouse at New Lon- 
don, and deliver ii to such ships as the Governor should direct. In 
1663, Ensign James Avery was appointed a Commissioner, to join 
with Mr. Bruen, at New London, in holding a court, to be composed 
of Major Mason, Hon. John Allyn, Mr. Bruen and himself. In 
May, 1664, Ensign Avery, Mr. Bruen and Mr. Palmes, were Com- 
missioners for New London. In 1665, he, with Ensign Thomas 
Tracy, John Gallop and Thomas Minor, were to lay out lands for 
Robin, an Indian, and his company, to plant, near the head of Mis- 
tick river. James Avery, New London, was ordered, in case of a 
war with the Dutch, in 1673, to act as Captain, Thomas Tracy, 
Lieutenant, and John Denison, Ensign, for the county of New Lon- 
don, over such forces as should be called out. He was Deputy to 
the General Court, in 1659, 1660, 1661, two sessions in 1664, and 
one in 1665, &c. 

AVERY, Capt. JAMES, of Devonshire, Eng., came with Win- 
throp's company, in 1630. Groton Record says he came to Groton 
in 1640, (quere.) He m. Sarah, daughter of Thomas Minor, of 
Stonington. Children: Hannah, b. Oct. 14, 1644; James, Jun., b. 
Dec. 15, 1646 ; Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1648 ; Thomas, b. May 6, 1651 ; 



former member of Congress from Rochester, N. Y., graduated at Yale College in 1818; admitted 
tothe bar atUtica, N. Y., 1821 ; Bank Attorney at Rochester, 1824 or 1825; Clerk of the Court 
of Equity in the 8th Circuit of New York, 1826 ; one of the Trustees of Rochester, and Clerk 
of the Board : Treasurer of the County of Monroe, in 1829 ; elected to Congress in 1830, and 
again in 1832; Vice Chancellor of the 8th Judicial Circuit, in 1839 or 1840, which he held 
8 years; Judge of the old Supreme Court until July, 1848. In ]8.i0, ho was h(inored with the 
appointment of Law Professor in Genesee College, and held many other places of trust and honor 
in his adopted State. Rev. Nathaniel S. Wheaton, D. D., graduated at Yale College in 1814 ; 
President of Washington, now Trinity College, from 1831 to 1837. In 1823-4, he went to 
England, as agent for the institution, and was one of the corporators of the College. Rev. Hor- 
ace Bushnell, D. D., S.T. D, b in 1802, graduated at Yale College in 1827 ; Tutor in Yale Col- 
lege from 1829 to 1831 ; settled in the ministry at Hartford, and is now the iMartin Luther of 
the ^e. His brother, Rev. George Bushnell, graduated at Yale College in 1842, is settled in the 
ministry at Worcester, Mass , and is a young man of great promise. The before named gentle- 
men were all born in the Society of New Preston, e.xcept Dr. Bushnell, who was born at Litch- 
field, about two years before his father removed with his family to New Preston. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 89 

John, b. Feb. 10, 1653 ; Rebecka, b. Oct. 5, 1656 ; Jonathan, b. 
Jan. 5, 1658 ; Christopher, b. April 3, 1661 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 14, 
1664. 

AVERY, JAMES, Jun., m. Deborah Sterling, Feb. 20, 1669. 
He resided on the Groton side of the river, and d. there in 1728, 
aged 82 years. They had issue : Deborah, b. Aug. 10, 1670 ; James, 
b. April 20, 1673 ; Margaret, b. Feb. 7, 1674 ; Edward, b. March 
20, 1676 ; Ebenezer, b. May 1, 1678 ; Christopher, b. Jan. 25, 
1680 ; Hannah, b. March 24, 1685 ; and Sarah, b. May 10, 1683. 

AVERY, CHRISTOPHER, son of James, Jun., had three or four 
wives. He first m. Abigail Payson. His children were : Abigail, 
John, Christopher, Jun,, Nathan, Isaac, Priscilla, Hannah, Jacob, 
and Temperance, b. Sept. 14, 1725. She m. William Morgan, and 
d. Oct. 7, 1801, aged 76 years. (iV. H. Morgan and Col. Record.) 
Christopher was located in that part of Groton, now Ledyard. He 
d. in 1753, aged 73 years. 

AVERY, JAMES, Sen., probably came to New London with 
Rev. Mr. Blinman, in 1647 or '8. He early became one of the ac- 
tive and important men of the town. Many of his descendants are 
now found in Connecticut. 

AVERY, JOHN, of Colchester, had a daughter, Lydia, baptized, 
July, 1738. 

AVERY, NATHANIEL, had an ear mark at Lyme, 1738. 
Fourteen persons of this name had graduated at Yale College before 
1851, and eight at Harvard College. There was a CHRISTOPHER 
AVERY mentioned by Farmer, a Selectman of Gloucester, in 1646. 
{Felt.) Also, THOMAS, a blacksmith, of Salem, in 1659. {Fell.) 
Rev. JOHN AVERY, his wife and eight children, perished in a 
storm, Aug. 15, 1635, going from Newbury or Ipswich to Marble- 
head. {Mather's Magnalia.) JOHN, of Boston, d. July 31, 1654. 
WILLIAM had a grant of land at Ipswich, Mass., in 1638. 
WILLIAM AVERY, member of the ar. co. in 1654, and repre 
sented Springfield in 1669. {Farmer.) 

AVERY has 3 coats of arms for the name. 

AVERY, THOMAS, freeman in Massachusetts, 1642-3. 

Rev. EPHRAIM, graduated at Harvard College, 1731, and set- 
tled in the 2d Society of Pomfret, Sept. 4, 1735, and continued their 
minister until Oct. 20, 1754, when he d. (I know of no person of 
the name, now of Connecticut, who is not a descendant of James, 
Sen.) Fourteen persons by this name had graduated at Yale Col- 
lege in 1844, and eight at Harvard College in 1819. 
8* 



90 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

AYRAULT, (Arolt,) Dr. SAMUEL, came from Rochelle, to 
Rhode Island, about 1687, in company with other French Protest- 
ants, after the revolution of the Edict of Nantz, where he remained 
and died. Dr. Nicholas Ayrault, came to and settled at Wethers- 
field, Conn. He was probably a brother or son of Dr. Samuel, of 
R. I., as Nicholas was from the same country, same profession, and 
married his wife in Providence, where he frequently visited Dr. 
Samuel Ayrault, after he was located at Wethersfield. 

AYRAULT, NICHOLAS, of Wethersfield, d. 1706. He was a 
physician by profession, a French gentleman. At his decease he 
left a widow (Marian) and several children. To his son Peter, he 
gave his gold buttons. The rest and residue of his property in 
France and elsewhere, he gave to his widow, Marian. He provided 
for his children, after either the marriage, or death of his widow. 
He m. Marian Breton or Bretoon, of Providence, R. I. The house 
which he built, stood on the next lot south and adjoining the resi- 
dence of Capt. Jesse Goodrich, deceased, in Wethersfield. He was 
a gentleman of wealth and reputation, and was connected by mar- 
riage to the Dodd family. Marian Dodd, of Hartford, now has a 
beautiful French box of splendid workmanship, which has descend- 
ed from Marian Ayrault. 

AYRAULT, NICHOLAS, Jr., of Wethersfield, son of Dr. Nicho- 
las, m. Jane Stocking, daughter of Daniel, of Middletovvn, April 17, 
1730. Had issue : James, b, Sept. 17, 1730 ; Mary Ann, b. May 
6, 1733, d. 1735, or '8 : Daniel, b. Dec. 8, 173.^, d. March 20, 1750 ; 
Marianna, b. Feb. 25, 1737, and d. 1749 ; Nicholas, b. May 1, 
1740, and d. the same day ; Jane b. March 6, 1742 ; 2d Nicholas, 
b. Oct. 18, 1744, d. March 29, 1750 ; Marianna 2d, b. Nov. 5, 
1746, d. Feb. 26, 1748. 

AYRAULT, PETER, of Wethersfield, son of Dr. Nicholas, m. 
Mary Francis, Nov. 12, 1744, and had issue: Stephen, b. Aug. 8, 

1743, d. 1745 ; Mary Ann, b. Sept. 26, 1745 ; Stephen d. ; 

2d Stephen, b. Sept. 22, 1747. 

AYRAULT, DANIEL, son of Nicholas, m. Lucy Williams, July 
26, 1759 : issue, Lucy, b. May 12, 1760, all of Wethersfield. 

Few of the name are left at Wethersfield. Ayrault, late a state 
senator, in the state of New York, is of this family. 

AYER, JOHN, of Salisbury, Mass., 1640, Ipswich, 1648, d. at 
Haverhill, in 1657. ROBERT and THOMAS AYER, of Haver- 
hill, admitted freemen in 1668. {Farmer.) 

AYRES, WILLIAM, resided in North Main street, in Hartford, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 91 

Conn., on lot No. 61, in 1G51. AYER, JOHN, of Stonington, pur- 
chased land in Windham, of Jno. Knowles, of Windham, June 29, 
1719, (old style.*) 

JOHN AYRES, Mr. JOHN ALDEN, Sen. and Jr., JO. AL- 
DEN, of" Duxborrow," in the Colony of New Plymouth, are in the list 
of those, who were able to bear arms in said town, in 1643. 

Four of the name of Ayres graduated at Yale College, before 1851. 
Obadias graduated at Harvard College, in 1710, and d. 1768. 

AYER, REBECCA, hi. John Aslett, of Newbury, Mass., in 
1648. {Farmer.) 

AYER, ROBERT, PETER and THOMAS, freemen at Haver- 
hill. May, 1666. 

AYRES, SAMUEL, of Haverhill, free 1683. 

AIR, JAMES, was received an inhabitant at Dover, N. H., in 
1658. 

AIRES, Mr. JOHN, of Massachusetts, free 1689-90. 

AYRES, HEIRS, WILLIAM, owned five acres of land in Hart- 
ford, which he sold to Christopher Crowe, embraced in a large tract 
given to said Heirs, Andrew Sanford, and Wm. Clark, by the town 
of Hartford, before 1659. 

AYRES, TRAVIS, of Saybrook, was a Deacon at Pautapaug, in 
1783, and d. April 7, 1812, aged 89 years. 

AYRES, SYMON, aged 48, " Chyrurgeon," (Surgeon,) with Dor- 
othy, his wife, aged 38, and children, Marie, 15 years old, Thomas, 
13 ; Symon, 11 ; Rebecca, 9 ; Christian 7 ; Anna 5 ; Benjamin, 3 ; 
and Sarah Ayers, 3 months old, embarked in the ship Increase, for 
New England, April 15, before 1640. This name yet is found in 
several towns in Connecticut. 

Ayer has two coats of arms. Ayer or Ayre, one. Ayre, five, 
and Ares, one coat of arms. 

It will be noticed by the reader, that dates are used here, in all 
cases, as they are found upon the records. 



* Old and nkw style. — The year in New England, as well as Old England, formerly began 
On the 25th day of March. April the 2d month, and February the 1 2th month; which con- 
tinued to be so counted until I7.")2. Parliament passed an act, that the year which commenced 
with the 25th of March, should commence Jan. 1, 1752, with the addition of 11 days, so that 
Sept. .3d, would be Sept. 14. Previous to this time, dates are old style, and dates after 1752, 
are known as new style. So to make old style, into new style, add 1 1 days, numbering from 
Jan. 1. Many of the early records, for the dates between Jan. and the 25th of March, end 
partaking of both years, as in 1720-1. And after the 25th of \larch, ends 1721 ; and so con' 
tinued, until 1752. 



92 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BABCOCK, JAMES, was born in Essex, England, in 1580. In 
1620, he moved to Leyden, in Holland, and remained there nearly 
three years, and being a strict Puritan in his faith, he removed from 
Holland to Plymouth, in 1623, and arrived in July of that year. 
He came to this country in the ship Ann. He had four children b. 
in England who came with him, viz., James, John, Job and Mary. 
He lost his wife by death, and m. a second wife in 1650. He soon 
had a son, he named Joseph. The above is the tradition of the fam- 
ily. (See BADCOCK.) 

BABCOCK, JOHN, of Quincy, Mass., m. Rachel Adams, cousin 
of the second President of the United States, and a relative of Han- 
nah Adams, the Historian. John Babcock removed to Hartford, 
Conn., soon after the Revolution, and resided there until his death, 
Jan. 1, 1796, aged 65. His sons were : Samuel, Elisha, John and An- 
drew. The daughters were : Lucretia, Mary, Abigail, Sarah, Ra- 
chel and Reuhama. Elisha, the eldest son, m. Dorothy Welles, of 
Hartford, a descendant of Gov. Welles ; Samuel m. a Miss Cone, 
of Bolton, near Hartford ; he d. in New Haven, and was buried in 
the Old Cemetery, in the rear of the Centre Church ; John, the third 
son, m. Sydney Rogers, of Philadelphia. She was a native of Ros- 
trevor, in Ireland. Her father was at an early age, a Lieutenant in 
the British Army. Both of her parents were Protestants, and of the 
Church of England, and both ardent friends of Ireland. Andrew 
d. in Hartford, unmarried, quite young. 

LUCRETIA, the eldest daughter, m. Gains Brewer, of Wilbra- 
ham, Mass., and had a number of children. MARY, the 2d, m. 
Zenus Bliss, and had six children. ABIGAIL m. Mr. Gardner, of 
Boston, and had children. SARAH m. Ephraim Grant, of Tolland, 
Conn., and d. without issue. RACHEL m. Dr. Nathaniel Hooker, 
of West Hartford, d. young without issue. REUHAMA d. un- 
married. 

JOHN, who m. Sydney Rogers, had by her, seven children, five 
of whom are living. JANE, the eldest daughter, is unmarried, and 
resides in New Haven. SYDNEY, Esq., the oldest son, lives in 
New Haven, and m. Susan Thompson, of Stratford, Conn., by whom 
he has six children. Frances, the eldest child m. Dr. Eli W. Blake, 
of Boston, and resides there. Louisa Chisholm, his fourth daughter, 
m. Franklin H. Clack, a Lawyer, son of Capt. Clack, of the Navy, 
and is now a resident of New Orleans: has but one son, Henry Har- 
per Babcock. The names of the children of Sidney Babcock, Esq., 
are Mrs. Frances Thompson Blake, Ann Augusta Babcock, Mary 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 93 

Babcock, Louisa Chisholm Clack, Henry Harper Babcock, and Cor- 
nelia B. Babcock. 

BABCOCK, WILLIAM R., 3d son of John, m. Elizabeth Jane 
Chisholm, a native of Virginia, by whom he has five children, viz., 
William H., Sidney, Thomas C, Frederick and Mary Gray Bab- 
cock, all single. 

MARY ANN, daughter of John, m. George Coxall, of the Island 
of Grenada, West Indies : she is now a widow, has one child, Henry 
E. Coxall, who resides in New Haven, Conn. 

GUYNE, RICHARD, son of John Babcock, is a bachelor, and 
resides in New Haven. 

BABCOCK, JOHN, son of John, was b. in Quincy, Mass., He 
m. Rachel Adams, and had children, viz., 

Elisha m. Dolly Welles, of Hartford, a descendant of Gov. Welles. 

Lucretia m. William Brewer, of Wilbraham, Mass. 

John m. Sydney Rogers, of Philadelphia, father of Sydney of 
New Haven. 

Mary m. a Mr. Bliss, brother of George Bliss, of Springfield, 
Mass. 

Sarah m. Ephraim Grant, of Tolland, Conn. 

Abigail m. Mr. Gardner, of Boston. 

Samuel m. Miss Cone, and d. at New Haven. 

Reuhama d. single. 

Rachel m. Dr. Hooker: she died, and he m. a second wife. 

Andrew d. at Hartford, aged 18 years.. 

Maj. elisha, son of John, of Quincy, was by trade a printer. 
In early life, he settled at Springfield, where he published the Hamp- 
shire Gazette, for several years. He left Springfield on the solicita- 
tion of Hon. Joel Barlow,* to establish a paper, called the American 
Mercury, at Hartford, immediately after the war in 1784, in \vhich 
Mr. Barlow was interested for several years after the paper was 
started. They were also partners in the first paper mill in Connec- 
ticut, of any considerable importance. After Mr. Barlow left the 



• Tlie American Mercury, was established in Hartford, Conn., in 1784, by Hon. Joel Barlow, 
and Elisha Babcock, Esq., Mr. Babcock having removed his establishment from Springfield to 
Hartford, at that time. This was the first Democratic paper in Connecticut 

The Connecticut Couranl was first printed at Hartford, by Thomas Green, in 1764, and contin- 
ued by Ebenezer Watson, until his death, during the war of the Revolution. After his death, his 
widow, Mrs. WaLson, was the publisliPr for a time, when George Goodwin, Esq., published it 
with her ; after which, Hudson and Goodwin became the Publishers, and Mr. Goodwin contin- 
ued the publisher until a few years before bis death, when he sold to J. L. Bosvvell, Esq, 



94 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

concern, Mr. Babcock continued the Mercury during his life. It 
was for many years the leading Democratic paper of Connecticut, 
but was discontinued a few years after his decease, in A])ril 7, 
1821. Maj. Babcock m. Dolly, daughter of Dea. Jonathan Welles, 
of Hartford, and had children. 

Jonathan Welles, who d. unmarried, July 27, 1808, aged 28. 

Dolly, yet living unmarried. 

Col. James, unmarried, and resides upon the old homestead, of his 
father, with his sister Dolly. 

Elizabeth m. Hon. Henry Kilbourn, of Hartford. 

Charles m. Almira Strong, daughter of Elisha, of Windsor. 

Emeline d. April 21, 1807, aged 10 years. 

Mrs. Dolly, his widow, d. June 6, 1832, aged 75 years. 

ELIZABETH, daughter of Maj. Elisha Babcock, m. Hon. Hen- 
ry Kilbourn, of Hartford, and had children, viz., 

Emeline, m. Dr. Marcy, of New York, and has a daughter Eme- 
line, and a young son. 

Henry and James, both reside in New York, unmarried. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Kilbourn, the mother, d. at Hartford. 

CHARLES, son of Elislia and Dolly, m. Almira Strong, of Wind- 
sor, (a descendant of Elder John,) and had children, viz., Emeline, 
m. George H. Penfield, Esq., of New York, and had two sons, George 
H., and Charles B. ; George d. young. 

Charles Elisha, (merchant, N. Y.,) m. Lydia Ann, daughter of 
R. R. Hinman, of Hartford, Conn., and had children : Charles H. 
b. July 18, 1846, and Royal H., b. April 10, 1848, d. Sept. 15, 
1849, and interred at Elartford. 

J. Welles, son of Charles, Sen., (merchant, N. Y.,) m. Catharine 
Smith, of Hartford, and has a son William Henry, and an infant 
daughter. 

Charles Babcock, Sen., d. suddenly in New York. 

Almira, daughter of Charles, Sen., m. Eben Starr, of New York, 
and had a son Henry T., who d. in infancy, and a daughter Almira. 

CoL. JAMES, son of Maj. Elisha, is a gentleman, familiar with 
the French and other languages, is of a fine, manly stature. He was 
in 1810, Consul and Commercial Agent, for the United States, at 
Hamburg, and the Hantz Towns. He was afterwards offered by 
Gen. Armstrong, while he was Minister to France, to become his 
Secretary, and remain in France, as Charge, while Mr. Armstrong 
returned to the United States. He extensively travelled Europe, 
and then returned to his native town, (Hartford,) where he now re- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 95 

sides with his afTectionate sister Dolly Babcock, at the family man- 
sion, both enjoying single blessedness. 

JOHN, of Quincy, removed to Hartford, where he resided several 
years before his death. He d. , aged 68 years. 

Maj, Elisha, his son, also d. at Hartford, April 7, 1821. (See 
BADCOCK.) 

BABCOCK, JOB, JOHxN, and JAMES, all took the oath of fidel- 
ity, in Rhode Island, in 1679. 

BACKUS, (Backas, Baccas, Baccus, Backhouse,) WILLIAM, 
is found to have been one of the early settlers (1637) of Saybrook ; 
perhaps the same, or his son, who was one of the Massachusetts com- 
pany, and who was an Assistant of the General Court in Massachu- 
setts, in 1629. He was twice m. He m. for his 2d wife, Ann Bing- 
ham. As he d. at Saybrook, it is probable that William and Ste- 
phen Backas, who settled at Norwich, were his sons by his first 
marriage, and Thomas Bingham her son by her first marriage. She 
removed to Norwich, and remained there with her son, Thomas 
Bingham, until her death, in 1670. Thomas Leffingwell and John 
Birchard presented the inventory of his estate, about £100. (Record 
and Miss Calkins.) WILLIAM BACKUS, made free, 1663. 

WILLIAM, of Norwich, m. May 11, 1660, and had issue : John, 
b. Feb. 9, 1661, d. aged 82 years ; Sarah, b. 1663 ; Samuel, 1665 ; 
Joseph, 1667 ; Nathaniel, 1669 ; and Hannah. 

The following WILLIAM BACKUS is found at Windham. 

BACKUS, WILLIAM, of Windham, m. Mary Danton, Aug. 1, 
or 31, 1692, and had issue : Samuel, b. July 1, 1693 ; Abigail, b. 
July 1, 1693, d. Sept., 1693 ; Mary, b. Dec. 21, 1694 ; Daniel, b. 
Oct. 21 ; William, b. and d. 1695 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 1, 1699 ; 2d 
William, b. April 4, 1702 ; Stephen, b. March 12, 1704 ; Peter, b. 
April 25, 1706 ; Ephraim, b. May 25, 1703. William, the father, 
d. Jan. 25, 1742-3. 

BACKUS, WILLIAM, Jun., m. Sarah Bennit, March 24, 1728. 

BACKUS, JOHN, of Windham, probably son of William, of 
Norwich, one of its first settlers, m. Mary Bingham, Feb, 17, 1692, 
and had issue : Mary, b. Nov. 8, 1692 ; Lydia, b. Jan. 15, 1695 ; 
John, Jun., b. March 20, 1697, d. the same day ; 2d John, b. Aug. 
1, 1698 ; Abigail, b. July 3, 1701 ; Jerusha, b. Sept. 29, 1704. 

BACKUS, JOHN, and Mary, his wife, had Zeruiah, b. Aug. 10, 
1709; Nathaniel, b. 1712, d. 1720. (Perhaps 2 wives.) John 
Backus, Sen., d. March 27, 1744, aged over 82 years. 

BACKUS, JOHN, Jun., of Windham, m. Sibil Whiting, May 12, 



96 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1725, and had Nathaniel, b. Feb. 5, 1726-7, d. Nov., 1727 ; John, 
Jun., b. March 23, 1728 ; Sibil, b. March 1, 1729-30 ; Elizabeth, 
b. Feb. 17, 1731-2 ; Lucretia, b. Feb. 22, 1733-4. Sibil, his wife, 
d. Aug. 7, 1755. 

BACKUS, STEPHEN, Norwich, 1660, m. Sarah, a daughter of 
Lyon Gardiner, the first Lord of Gardiner's Island. His sons, Ste- 
phen, b. in 1070, and Timothy, in 1682. Stephen moved to Plain- 
field, afterwards to Canterbury. (F. M. Caulkins.) This family 
has produced several men of eminence, viz., the Lieutenant Governor 
of Connecticut, in 1849- 

BACKUS, Rev. SIMON, of Wethersfield, m. Eunice, daughter 
of Rev. Timothy Edwards, of East Windsor, Oct. 1, 1729. Issue : 
Clarinda, b. Oct. 31, 1730 ; Eunice, b. Jan. 15, 1733, at Wethers- 
field. He was settled in Newington Society, Dec. 28, 1726. He 
d. 1745, chaplain at Cape Breton. Graduated at Yale College, in 
1724. Rev. Joshua Belden succeeded him, Nov. 11, 1747. 

BACKUS, Rev. AZEL, D. D., son of Jabez Backus, of Norwich, 
graduated at Yale College, 1787 ; m. Milly Deming, of Wethers- 
field ; settled first at Bethlem, Conn., 1791, where he succeeded Dr. 
Bellamy, and remained until he was appointed President of Hamil- 
ton College in 1813. He was a learned divine, and an eloquent 
preacher. He d. Dec. 26, 1816, aged 51 years, and left a widow, 
two sons, and one or more daughters. His son. Dr. Frederick, has 
been a State Senator in the State of New York. 

BACKUS, ISAAC, a distinguished Baptist minister, was b. at 
Norwich, in 1724. He preached at Middleborough, Mass. 

BACKUS, CHARLES, D. D., b. at Norwich, in 1749, graduated 
at Yale College, 1769 ; ordained at Somers, in 1774, where he 
preached over 29 years, until he d., Dec. 30, 1803. He was emi- 
nent as a theologian, and for a time educated many young men for 
the mini>try. 

BACKUS, Hon. SYLVANUS, of Pomfret, former Speaker of the 
lower House in the General Assembly of Connecticut, was an emi- 
nent lawyer. He d. a young man. Fifteen of this name had grad- 
uated at Yale College, before 1850. 

BACCUS, SAMUEL, a planter at Hempst^d, Long Island, in 
1647. 

BACKHOUSE, (Sunderland, Co. Durham.) Arms, per saltire, or, 
and az. a saltire erm. Crest, upon a snake embowed, nowed at the tail, 
an eagle displayed. Motto — Confido in Deo. The same (in Cum- 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 



97 



berland, Kent and London) for name Backhouse, (Swallovvfield, 
Berkshire.) Ar. a saltire erm. 

* BACON, ANDREW, was one of the early and leading settlers 
of Hartford. He received 28 acres of land, in the first land divis- 
ion in 1639. His house lot in Hartford, in 1640, was south of Little 
River, and near to it, bounded west on the road, also north on the 
road along the river bank, and east on Nathaniel Ward's lot. (See 
NATHANIEL BACON, Sen., of Middietown.) He was a juror at 
Hartford, twice in 1641, once in 1643, once in 1644, once in 1645, 
once in '46, &c. He was first Deputy to the General Court, in April, 
1642, and about thirty sessions afterwards, before 1659. He signed 
tho contract, with Gov. Webster and others, to remove from Hart- 
ford to Hadley, which he performed in 1659, with many others, 
■where he died, Oct. 4, 1669. He was one of the General Court of 
Connecticut, as early as Nov. 14, 1637, as magistrate, (where he is 
called Goodman Bacon.) He and his wife, Elizabeth, had children : 



* It will be recollected, that the town of Hadley, in Massachusetts, was settled from the Con- 
necticut Colony, and entered into an agreement, signed by each emigrant, in 1659, as follows, 
viz. 

"At a meeting at Ooodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April 18, 1659. The Company here 
met engaged themselves under their own hands, or by their deputies, (whom Ihey had chosen,) 
to remove themselves and their families out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut, into the jurisdic- 
tion of tire Massachusetts, as may appear in a paper dated the day and year above said. The 
names of the engagers are these : 

John Webster, (Gov^) John Marsh, James Norlham, 

William Goodwin, (Elder.) Robert Webster, (not go.) Samuel Gardner, 

William Lewis, Jun. (not go.) Thomas Edwards, (not go.) 



John Crow, 
Nathaniel Ward, 
John V\ hite, 
John Barnard, 
Andrew Bacon, 
William Lewis, 
William Westwood, 
Bichard Goodman, 
John Arnolil (did not go.) 
William Partridge, 



Nathaniel Stanley, 
Samuel Gunn, (not go.) 
William Markum, 
Samuel Moody, 
Zachariah Field, 
Widow , 



Widow Watson, (not go.) 
Andrew Warner, 
Mr. Russell, 
Gregory Woollerton, (did not go.) Nathaniel Dickinson, 



Samuel Smith, 
Thomas Coleman, 
Mr. Russell, Sen. 
John Dickinson, 
Phillip Smith, 
John Coltman, (not go.) 
Thomas Welles, 

Elder William Goodwin returned in his old age, and died at Farmington. Elizabeth, the 
relict of Andrew Bacon, returned to Connecticut, and died here. 

9 



Thomas Stanley, 

Samuel Porter, 

Richard Church, 

Ozias Goodwin, (did not go.) 

Francis Barnard, 

James Ensign, (did not go.) 

George Steele, (not go.) 



John Hubbard, 

Thomas Dickinson, 

Robert Boltwood, 

Samuel Smith, Jun. 

William Gull, 

Luke Hitchcock, (not go.) 

Richard Montague, 

John Lattimer, (not go.) 

Peter Tilton, 

John Hawkes, Sen. 

Richard Billings, 

Benjamin Harbert, (not go.) 

Edward Benton, (not go.) 

John Catlin, (did not go.) 

Samuel Hooker, (did not go.) 

Capl. John Cullick, (did not go.) 

Dan'l Warncr,(did not remove.)" 



98 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Abigail, who m. Samuel Cnvvles ; Lois, m. Thomas Porter, of Farm- 
ington ; his son Isaac, d." before his mother. He gave, in his 
will, small legacies to Mr. Russell and Peter Tilton, of Hadley, 
which his widow, Elizabeth, in her will, directed to be paid to them. 
In 1640, he returned to Court at Hartford, an inventory of the estate 
of Thomas Johnson, deceased, the cobbler. In 1642, he, with Capt. 
John Mason and Clark, was appointed by the General Court, to 
prepare carriages for the pieces (guns) that came from Piscataqua. 
In 1643, he, with Mr. Talcott, was appointed to take a record of 
the debts of the country. Also with Mr. Talcott, in 1654, he was 
appointed by the General Court, to go to Saybrook, and attend to 
the petition of Hartford. He was also a committee, with Mr. Web- 
ster, for Hartford, to join the magistrates, in pressing men in each 
town for service, in 1654. He was exempted from training, watch- 
ing and warding, by the Court, in 1656. In 1658, a complaint was 
preferred against him and Gov. Webster, and others, who were 
about to withdraw from the church, and from Hartford. He was a 
committee, with Mr. Steele and Boosy, to provide, at Hartford, for 
the comely meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies ; 
and was frequently honored with offices of the town of Hartford, and 
was Selectman in 1640. Mr. Bacon, in his will, gave land in Hart- 
ford, to Nathaniel Bacon, of Middletown, which Nathaniel Bacon 
sold to Warren, Whiting, Richard Barnard and Henry Hayward ; 
also, land at Hoccanum, wliich Elizabeth Bacon, widow of Andrew, 
quit-claimed to her kinsman, Nathaniel Bacon, Esq., of Middletown, 
Feb. 6, 1670. His will is dated July 14, 1669. He d. at Hadley, 
Oct. 4, 1669. Widow Elizabeth Bacon, in her will, mentions Na- 
thaniel Bacon, of Middletown, as a nephew of her deceased husband. 
After the decease of Mr. Bacon, his widow, Elizabeth, returned to 
Hartford, to live with her children. She had been the wife of Tim- 
othy Stanley. She gave, by her will, dated Oct., 1671, to Caleb 
Stanley, all her housing and lands at Hadley, which her husband 
had left to her there, for Mr. Standley's care for her in her old age. 
She also gave him the use of a share of her son Isaac's estate, which 
had fallen to her. (Isaac d. before his mother.) Widow Elizabeth 
d. at Hartford, Feb. 23, 1678-9, aged 76 years. Mr. Bacon was a 
valuable and highly respected member of the Connecticut Colony, 
while he remained in it. Andrew Bacon was qualified as a freeman in 
Massachusetts, March 26, 1661, after his removal from Connecticut. 
The name of Bacon has 20 coats of arms. Andrew Bacon, of Had- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 99 

ley, by will, gave liis nephew, Nathaniel Bacon, of Middletown, ten 
pieces of land, recorded in Hartford, which was acquitted to said 
Nathaniel, of Middletown, by Elizabctli Bacon, of Hadley, (whom 
she calls my kinsman,) contract signed by said Elizabeth, Jan. 27, 
1670. Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon, widow of Andrew, of Hadley, repeat- 
edly names, in her will, Caleb Standley as her son ; also, his brother 
Isaac ; gave Caleb Standley all her " housing and lands in Hadley," 
which had been " my dear husband, Andrew Bacon's, late of Had- 
ley, and fell to me by his last will, or by the death of my dear sonn 
Isack," &c. She also calls " Abigail Cowles, the wife of Samuel 
Cowles," " Lois, the wife of Thomas Porter, both of Farmington,'' 
Elizabeth Sension, wife of Mark Sension, her daughters. All are 
noticed in her will, dated Oct. 30, 1671. She d. at Farmington, 
Feb. 23, 1678. Inventory, £269, 5^. At a Probate Court, holden 
at Hartford, March, 1678-9, Nathaniel Bacon, of Middletown, ap- 
peared and declared that he "quit his clayme " "to any of the hous- 
ing and lands of his unckell Andrew Bacon, late of Hadley, unto 
Caleb Standley, his heirs," &c. 

BACOxN, NATHANIEL, Esq., was a nephew of Mr. Andrew 
Bacon, a magistrate at Hartford, in 1637. He (Nathaniel) was for 
a time at Hartford, and became an early and important settler at 
Middletown. He acted as a magistrate, at New Haven, in 1661, as 
appears from the Records of the New Haven Colony, p. 297, where 
the affidavits of John Fletcher and some others, of Milford, were 
taken, Oct. 17, 1661, before Nathaniel Bacon, Esq., at New Haven, 
(though he was an inhabitant of Middletown,) in which the depo- 
nents stated their knowledge df Henry and William Bacon, of Stret- 
ton, of Rutland County, in England : that Henry removed to Clip- 
sam, in Rutland County ; that he had but one son, Thomas, who 
was reported to have died at Barbadoes, W. I. ; also stated that Na- 
thaniel Bacon, Esq., then present, was the eldest son of William 
Bacon, who must have been a brother of Andrew Bacon, Esq., of 
Hartford, in 1637, which renders it probable that Andrew and Na- 
thaniel Bacon were from the same county in England. Nathaniel 
Bacon's will was presented to the Court at Hartford, in 1705, by his 
sons, Andrew and John Bacon, Executors. His will dated 1697-8. 
He owned land at Hartford, which he gave to his sons, John and 
Andrew. His children, named in his will, were, Thomas, John, 
Andrew, Nathaniel, Jun., Beriah, Hannah, Mary, Abigail and Lydia. 
His children, by Ann, his wife, recorded, are: Hannah, b. Apri\ 
14, 1655, m. John Board, Oct., 1677 ; Andrew, b. Feb. 4, 1656-7, 



100 GENEALOGY OF THE rURITANS. 

d. ; Nathaniel, Jr., b. July 20 or 25, 1659 ; (Nathaniel's nanne was 
changed to Thomas, and so recorded ;) John, b. March 14, 1661—2, 
m. Sarah Wetmore, Nov. 26, 1685 ; Mary, b. April 7, 1664, m. 
Samuel Wetmore, Dec. 13, 1687 ; 2d Andrew, b. June 4, 1666, m, 
Mehitabel Wetmore, Feb. 12, 1692 ; Abigail, b. July 13, 1670 ; 
Lydia, b. Feb. 18, 1672, m. Joseph Wetmore, June 6, 1706. Ann, 
wife of Nathaniel, d. July 6, 1680, and Nathaniel, Sen., m. for 2d 
wife, Elizabeth Pirpoint, April 17, 1682, and had Beriah, b. Aug. 
17, 1682, m. Ann Odell, of Stratfield, Nov. 10, 1713. Nathaniel, 
Sen., d. Jan. 27, 1705. There was a Thomas Bacon, who settled 
in Simsbury. It is supposed that Thomas, the son of Nathaniel, 
Sen., whose name was changed from Nathaniel to Thomas, was 
the Thomas Bacon of Simsbury. 

BACON, NATHANIEL, Jun., or THOMAS, m. Hannah Wet- 
more, Feb. 5, 1702, and had children : Catherine, b. Feb. 1, 1703-4, 
d. April 10, 1746 or '41 ; Nathaniel, 3d, b. Feb. 16, 1706-7 ; Ben- 
jamin, b. Nov. 28, 1708 ; Hannah, b. April 19, 1712 ; Jeremiah, b. 
Jan. 9, 1715-16 ; Mary, b. Dec. 24, 1719 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 24, 1719, 
d. Hannah, the mother, d. Sept. 7, 1722, and Sarg't Nathaniel, Jun., 
m. for his 2d wife, Anne, the widow of John Lane, Jan. 31, 1722-3. 
Anne, his 2d wife, d. Dec. 26 or 22, 1751. Lieut. Nathaniel, Jun., 
then m. for his 3d wife, Rebeckah Doolittle, Nov. 28, 1752. Lieut. 
Nathaniel, Jun., d. Jan. 6, 1759. 

BACON, JOHN, son of Nathaniel, Sen., m. Sarah Wetmore, 
Nov. 26, 1685, daughter of Thomas, Jun., and had children: John, 
b. Nov. 26, or Jan. 30, 1694 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 14, 1695, m. N. 
Brown. His wife, Sarah, d. Feb. 14, 1698. He m. for 2d wife, 
Mary, widow of Jacob Cornwell, April 13, 1710. John Bacon d. 
Nov. 4, 1732, aged 70. Mary, his widow, d. Nov. 15, 1732. His 
son, John, Executor of his will, dated 1732. He owned a grist- 
mill at Middletown, and other property. 

BACON, ANDREW, son of Nathaniel, Sen., m. Mehitable Wet- 
more, Feb. 12, 1692, daughter of Tliomas, and had children : An- 
drew, b. Nov. 21, 1692 ; Ann, b, Jan. 30, 1694 ; Nathaniel, b. July 
10, 1697 ; Josiah, b. Sept. 27, 1699 ; Daniel, b. March 5, 1701-2; 
Mehitabel, b. Feb. 28, 1703-4 ; Joseph, b. April 20, 1706 ; John, 
b. Oct. 30, 1708 ; Esther, b. Oct. 9, 1710 or 11 ; Abigail, b. Feb. 
5, 1712-13. Andrew, the father, d. June 1, 1723. His widow, 
Mehitabel, d. Jan. 19, 1731-2. His widow was appointed guardian 
for Esther, 13, and Abigail, 11 years old. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 101 

BACON, BERIAH, son of Nathaniel, Sen. His first wife, Eliz- 
abeth Perpoint. She d. He m. Ann Odell, of Stratfield, for his 2d 
wife. Nov. 10, 1713, and had children : Elizabeth, b. Sept. 17, 1714 ; 
Tabatha, b. Nov. 6, 1717 ; Beriah, b. March 20, 1719-20, d. May 
15, 1730 ; Annah, b. July 12, 1722 ; Bethiah, b. June 8, 1728 ; 
Pierpoint, b. May 27, 1724. Beriah, the father, d. May 15, 1730, 
and after the death of Beriah, his widow, Ann, was Executrix of 
his will. The codicil of his will dated 1730. In 1732, Tabitha 
chose her uncle Nathaniel for her guardian. After the decease of 
her husband, Ann m. for her 2d husband, Joshua Gill, of Middle- 
town. Her dower was set out to her in this name, in 1733, £244, 
5*. Id. Ann and her husband, Joshua Gill, were appointed guard- 
ians for Beriah, " Pearpoint," Ann and Bethia. Inventory, JE5 17, 
7s. 2d. 

BACON, JOHN, JuN., son of John, m. Sarah White, daughter of 
John and Sarah White, March 5, 1718-19, and had children: Sa- 
rah, b. Jan. 31, 1719-20; John, b. April 21, 1723; Jerusha, b. 
Oct. 25, 1724 ; Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1726-7 ; Joseph, b. May 14, 
1728 ; Martha, b. Sept. 14, 1729 ; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 4, 1730-1 ; 
Abagail, b. July 21, 1732; Sibbel, b. Feb. 19, 1733-4, d. 1734; 
2d Sibbel, b. Aug. 27, 1735 ; Dorcas, b. Nov. 2, 1736 ; and Patty. 
John, Jun., d. 1783, aged 88 years. 

BACON, JOSIAH, son of Andrew, m. Thankful Doowell, March 
3, 1725-6. Issue : Josiah, b. Sept. 24, 1727 ; Andrew, b. March 
18, 1729-30 ; Mary, b. May 15, 1732 ; Samuel, b. April 3, 1734 ; 
and Thankful, b. June 6, 1743. Josiah d. Oct. 21, 1750. His 
widow. Thankful, d. Oct. 25, 1750. 

BACON, JOSIAH, son of Josiah, m. Sibbel Clark, Feb. 21, 1750-1. 
Issue : Sibbel, b. Dec. 22, 1751 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 16, 1753 ; Silence, 
b. 1755 ; Josiah, b. 1756 ; Miriam, b. Feb. 2, 1760 ; Hosea, b. 
1762 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 8, 1758 ; Hannah, b. June 21, 1764 ; Da- 
vid, b. Feb. 2, 1767 ; Elijah and Elisha, b. Feb. 20, 1769 ; Timo- 
thy, b. Nov. 7, 1771. Josiah, the father, d. Feb. 24, 1779. 

BACON, NATHANIEL, Jun., m. Esther Hubbard, Dec. 21, 
1727. Children : Nathaniel, b. Feb. 22, 1728-9 ; Stephen, b. Jan. 
10, 1730-1 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 17, 1733, d. 1742 ; David, b. Oct. 7, 
1735, d. 1759 ; Esther, b. Dec. 16, 1737 ; Jacob, b. May 6, 1740. 
Esther, wife of Nathaniel, d. March 4, 1742. 

BACON, NATHANIEL, son of Nathaniel, Jun., and Hannah, 
m. Jane Bevin, July 30, 1724, and had children : Jane, b. Nov. 28, 
1724 ; Susannah, b. Sept. 2, 1727 ; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 17, 1729 ; 
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102 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Jabez, b. July 5, 1731 ; James, b. Oct. 1, 1733 ; Mehitibel, b. Oct. 
13, 1736; Phebe, b. April 24, 1739, d. Oct. 11, 1742; Anne, b. 
May 31, 1741, d. Nov. 12, 1764-5; Timothy, b. May 19, 1744. 
This Nathaniel, and his wife, Hannah, resided at Middlefield, in the 
town of Middletown. 

BACON, JOHN, 3d son of John, Jun., m. first Miss Gould, and 
had issue : Gould, Ebenezer and John, and a daughter, Sarah. His 
wife d., and he m. Molly Ely, of Lyme, and had a daughter, Molly. 

BACON, JOHN, son of John, 3^, m. Miss Griswold, of Walling, 
ford, and settled at Middletown. He had children : John, Daniel, 
Joseph, Matthew, Jonathan, Curtis, Sally and Rhoda. Curtis, 
above, is the present High Sheriff of the County of Middlesex. He 
has children: Curtis, William, John L., George W., and Lucy 
Bacon. 

BACON, GOULD, son of John, 3d, removed to the Susquehannah 
country, where he d. unmarried, and left a large estate. 

EBENEZER, son of John Bacon, 3d, removed to Coos, where he 
married a young woman when he was advanced in life, and had a 
large family, and d. in old age. 

ABIGAIL, daughter of John, Jun., m. Mr. Plum, whose father 
moved from Milford to Middletown. She m. for her 2d husband, 
Mr. Hough. 

SIBBIL, daughter of John, Jun., m. Mr. Knowles, of Chatham. 
She m. for her 2d husband, Mr. Norton. 

PATTY, daughter of John, Jun., m. Mr. Ward. 

DORCAS, daughter of John, Jun., m. Mr. Osborne, an Englisli- 
man, who settled at Blanford, Mass. John, Jun., was a large land- 
holder, and gave each of his daughters a farm. 

JOSEPH, son of John, Jun., and only brother of John, 3d, settled 
at Middletown, where he m. Elizjibeth Miller. She d. without issue, 
and he m. his 2d wife, Rhoda Plumb, of Middletown, (her father 
was from Milford,) and had children : Joseph, Jun., William, Isaac, 
Samuel, John, Ebenezer, and 2 Elizabeths. 

JOSEPH, Jun., son of Joseph Bacon, m., and had children: Cla- 
rissa, Polly, Martha and Joseph. Joseph, Jun., d. at sea. His wid- 
ow survived him, and d. aged 91 years. 

WILLIAM, son of Joseph, Sen., m. Bathsheba Cook, of Middle- 
town, and had children : Joseph, William, Jun., Samuel, and some 
daughters. He settled near Whitestown, N. Y. 

ISAAC, son of Joseph, and great-grandson of Nathaniel, Sen., is 
the only child of his father now living, aged about 85 years, and my 
information of his father's and his own family is from him, without 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 103 

dates. He m. Dorothy Stow, of MiddletoM'n, in Dec, 1785, and 
had children: Lois, Amasa, Charlotte, Sally, Elizabeth and Samuel, 
(twins,) Esther, Caroline, Jefferson, George and Albert, d. young. 
(Naming one of his sons, shows his political character as it is.) 

JOHN, son of Joseph Bacon, and brother of Isaac, m. Olive Ward, 
of Middletown, and had issue: Horace, Leverett. Olive, his wife, 
d., and he m. Martha Bates for his 2d wife, and had children : John, 
Lewis, Joseph, William, Emely, m. at Danbury, and Martha. 

BACON, JABEZ, son of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., was by trade a 
Currier, he was b. at Middlefield, a society in Middletown, July 5, 
173L He settled in early life at Woodbury, Conn., where for a 
time, he worked at his trade, and afterwards commenced trading in 
a small way, as a merchant, and being naturally a man of business 
habits, he became a man of great wealth, probably not less than 
nine hundred thousand dollars, and evidently the richest individual 
that has ever died in Litchfield county. He m. Lydia Hungerford, 
who was born at Bristol, June 5, 1739, a descendant of Thomas Hun- 
gerford, first of Hartford, and afterwards of Stonington. Jabez Bacon 
d. Sept. 6, 1806, aged 75. His wife Lydia, survived him, and d. 
Nov. 25, 1812, aged 73 years ; they had children, viz., 

Jabez, Jr., b. June 28, 1760, m. Sabra Betts, (daughter of John 
and Patty Betts,) b. 1765, ni. 1781 : two sons and two daughters. 

Jemima, b. May 1, 1762, m. Isaac Tomlinson, April, 1784. She 
d. at New Haven, April 16, 1787, aged 25. 

Asahel, b. Dec. 3, 1764, m. Hannah, daughter of William and 
Ann French, 1786. He d. March 31, 1838, aged 73. 

Lorena, b. Dec. 29, 1766, m. Hon. David Tomlinson, 1784 ; had 
six sons, eight daughters : d, Oct. 25, 1837, aged 71 years. 

Nathaniel, Esq., b. Nov. 16, 1768, m. first, Rebecca Strong, Jan. 

10, 1796 ; had two sons and one daughter ; his first wife d. Sept. 16, 
1837, aged 03, a superior woman. He m. for his second wife, Mrs. 
Sophia Hull, of Derby, b. at Eden, Maine, July 22, 1793, m. April 

11, 1838. He d. over 80 years of age, at New Haven, and left a 
large estate. 

Lydia, b. Jan. 1, 1771, m. Hon. Noah B. Benedict, an eminent 
lawyer, and a senator of the state, June 27, 1793. She d. July 5, 
1808, aged 37. 

Daniel, Esq., b. Dec. 8, 1772, m. Rebecca Thompson, June 22, 
1793, had three sons and five daughters. He d. July 26, 1828, aged 
56. He often represented Woodbury in the Legislature ; Magis- 
trate and Judge of Probate, &c. 



104 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1776, d. March 11, 1777. 

Garry, b. April 5, 1778, m. first, Sally Mirier, April 4, 1793, had 
a son George. The mother d. May 11, 1912, aged 37 years. He 
m. for his second wife, Mrs. Orphia Perry, daughter of Moses and 
Sarah Shepard, of Newtown, Conn., Jan. 17, 1813, and had three 
daughters. His widow, Orphia, d. 1851. Garry, the father, d. Feb. 
25, 1821, aged 43 years. 

BACON, DANIEL, of the Middletown family, m. Mary Aber- 
nethy, of Farmington, Oct. 24, 1765, and had issue : Daniel H., b. 
Oct. 30, 1766; Seth, b. Oct. 7, 1768; John Flavel, b. May 26; 
Rhoda, b. Feb, 10, 1772. 

BACON, JOSEPH, m. and had issue : Roswell, b. May 12, 1764 ; 
Anna, b. May, 1766; Douglass, b. Oct. 26, 1767; Joseph, b. Sept.. 
24, 1777. 

BACON, MOSES, m. Rosanna Rust, Dec. 25, 1777, and had is- 
sue : Alma, b. Sept. 26, 1778 ; Rosanna, b. Oct. 14, 1780. 

BACON, JOHN, and RUTH his wife, had a son Benjamin b. at 
Windham, July 17, 1743. 

BACON, Capt. JEREMIAH, of Middletown, supposed the son of 
Nathaniel, Jr. ; his widow Elizabeth, administratrix in 1745-6 : 
children, Jeremiah, Jr., Elizabeth and Abigail. Estate distributed, 
£2345, 9*. Qd. His widow Elizabeth m. Mr. Miller, for her sec 
end husband ; d. Jan. 1746-7, aged 70. Distributed to widow Eliz- 
abeth Miller, £843, 15s. Id. ; to Jeremiah, only son, £945, 185. 2d. ; 
to Elizabeth, £472, 19s. 

BACON, JOSIAH, son of Andrew, of Middletown, d. about 1750. 
Inventory, £5715, 13*. bd. Distribution to his children, in 1751 ; to 
Josiah, Jr., £1862, 17s. 6d. ; to Andrew, £931, 8s. 9d. ; to Samuel, 
Mary Wright, and Thankful Bacon, each, £931, 8s. 9d. Josiah 
appointed guardian for his sister Thankful, aged 7. Samuel Bacon, 
aged 17, chose his uncle John for his guardian. 

BACON, JACOB, of Colchester, had sons: Ralph and Jonathan, 
baptized July 17, 1748 ; Ezekiel, baptized, March 18, 1751 ; Abi- 
gail, baptized June 2, 1754; Huldah, Oct. 29, 17.58. 

BACON, BERIAH, m. Elizabeth Dewey, of Colchester, June 4, 
17—. 

BACON, EDWARD, of Colchester : daughter Molly, baptized 
June 2, 1754. 

Sarah Brown was relict of Nathaniel Bacon, of Middletown, de- 
ceased. Rev. George Beckwith, of Lyme, m. Sarah Bacon, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel, of Middletown. ^ 



GENEALOGY OF TFIE PURITANS. 105 

BACON, THOMAS, of Slmsbury, from Middletown, entered a 
caution to John Slater, Clerk of tlie writs of Simsbury, Dec. 12, 
1704. In Jan., 1703-4, he requested the town of Simsbury, to give 
him a pasture lot in Simsbury. In Jan. 26, 1698, he requested the 
town to give him fifteen acres of land at the south end of Barr Hill, 
next to his former grant. Voted in the afiirmative. He sold land 
to Samuel Marshall, of Windsor, June 26, 1714, situated on the hill 
near the Newfoundland Swamp, in Simsbury. 

Thomas Bacon was allowed by the town of Simsbury, in 1698, 
£1, 15>s. for keeping the widow Brooks. He deeded land in Sims- 
bury to his son Nathaniel, of Simsbury, as part of his portion, if he 
married, &,c., Nov. 6, 1716. Nathaniel Bacon, of Simsbury, pur- 
chased land in Simsbury, of Hannah Merriman, alias Newbury, of 
Windsor, April 30, 1714, and sold land there to Christopher Roberts, 
Jan., 1714-15. He m. Abigail Segar, of Suffield, Sept. 2, 1714: 
his second daughter Abigail, b. July 13, 1717; daughter Eunnice, 
b. May 12, 1719, and others. 

BACON, MASKILL, of Simsbury, son of Nathaniel, m. Abi- 
gail Gleason, daughter of Thomas Gleason, May, 1740, had chil- 
dren : Maskill, b. April 26, 1741 ; second wife — m. Ann Higley, 
May 30, 1744 : Samuel, b. Feb. 1, 1745-6 ; Nathaniel, b. June 2, 
1747 ; Anna, b. July 13, 1749 ; Joseph, b. April 1, 1752 ; John, b. 
Sept. 29, 1753, and Eunis Bakon, b. June 13, 1755. 

DANIEL, son of Andrew Bacon, of Middletown, m. Hannah 
Fairchild, who was his widow and Executrix, His children were 
Mary and Hannah. Inventory of his estate dated 1738, being 
£691, 125. M. 

It is supposed that Thomas Bacon, of Simsbury, was from Mid- 
dletown, and a member of that family, and son of Nathaniel, S^n. 

SAMUEL, of Barnstable, with John, Nathaniel and Jeremiah Bacon, 
were admitted inhabitants of Barnstable, Mass., after 1660. FRAN- 
CIS, freeman of Massachusetts, 1665. NATHANIEL BACON, 
John Burslcy, Austine Bearse, Wm. Beetes, Abraham Blush, Thos. 
Boreman, Richard Berry, were enrolled in Barnstable, with others, 
in 1643, as able to bear arms. THOMAS, and Hannah, his wife, of 
Wrentham, Mass., had a son Thomas b. there, Nov. 26, 1693. 
JAMES, Roxbury, freeman, 1673-4. Mr. SAMUEL, of Salem, 
wife Elizabeth, d. there, 1753; his wife Anna d. there 1761, and 
he d. 1765, aged 55 years. Eight of the name had graduated at 
Harvard College, in 1843, and twelve had graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, in 1847. JOHN,of Watertown, Mass., free 1690. March 6, 
1684, Thomas owned two parcels of land in Hartford, given him by 



106 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

his father Nathaniel, Bacon, Esq., of Middletown. NATHANIEL, 
drew thirty-seven acres of land in a division of the public lands o^ 
Hartford, in 1672. THOMAS, Jr., of Roxbury, Mass., was an 
originalsigner of a contract, for the settlement of Woodstock, Conn., 
Nov. 7, 1G83. He and his wife Rebecca, had a daughter Rebecca 
b. there, Aug. 7, 1689. Experience, b. Feb. 2, 1691-2. THOMAS 
had a grant of land in Simsbury. Deed dated Dec. 31, 1685. 
THOMAS MASKELL, was of Simsbury, in 1683, whose daughter 
probably m. a Bacon, of Simsbury, who had a son Maskell Bacon, 
The Bacons of Middletown, have been generally wealthy. 

Thomas Bacon was one of the first settlers from Roxbury, Mass., 
to Woodstock, in April, 1686. 

Joseph Bacon, of the church in Hampton, Jan., 1743, removed to 
Canterbury. 

BADCOCK, JAMES, the first of the name known in New Eng- 
land, was an Episcopal clergyman in England, and settled in the 
rectory of Wivenhoe ; he afterwards changed his faith and became 
a Puritan minister; he went to Leyden, in Holland, for the purpose 
of embarking for America, and persuading others to unite with him, 
and actually became one of the Pilgrim Fathers. He embarked, (as 
is said,) in 1620, but by stress of weather, the vessel put back, so 
that he did not come to this country until 1623, when they arrived 
at Plymouth. He was of Saxon origin. The early family were 
seated in Essex county, England, at the time of the Norman con- 
quest. Sir William Seager, in his visit to the county of Essex, in 
1612, states that Sir Richard Badcock was the nineteenth in descent 
from the first holder of the family mansion there, (which is said by 
the relatives to have been standing in 1850.) James, the first emi- 
grant to New England, of the name, was deprived of the rectory at 
Wivenhoe, before he went to Holland. It is not known that James 
preached after he came to the Plymouth colony. 

BADCOCK, JAMES, or BABCOCK, the progenitor and founder 
of the family in New England, was born in Wivenhoe, in Essex, 
England, in 1580. He was a younger brother of RICHARD, who 
occupied the family mansion at Wivenhoe. James came to New 
England, in the Ann, and landed at Plymouth, in July, 1623, and 
afterwards removed to Dorchester, (Milton,) where he resided the 
remainder of his life. He married at Wivenhoe about 1615, and had 
children, James, Jr., b. at Wivenhoe, about 1616 ; John, b. at same 
place, about 1618; Job, b. at Leyden, in Holland, 1620 ; Mary, b. 
at same place, in 1621. His wife d. in Dorchester, (Milton,) about 
1640, He afterwards m. and had a son Joseph, b. about 1650. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 107 

BABCOCK, JAMES, Jr., wlio came with his parents to Ply- 
mouth, removed to Westerly, Rhode Island, about 1665, where he 

died in 1690. He m. at Dorchester, Jeane , about 1637, and 

had children : Robert, b. in Dorchester, about 1638, 
George, b. " " 1640, 

James, b. " " 164-2, 

Sarah, b. " " 1644, 

Jeane, b. " " 1646, 

Benjamin, b. " " 1648, 

Samuel, b. " " 1649, 

Jonathan, b. " " 1651, 

Dorothy, b. " " 1652, 

Elizabeth, b. " " 1654, 

Mary, b. " " 1656, 

Hannah, b. " " 1658, 

Nathaniel, b. " " 1660, 

William, b. " " 1662. 

His widow, Jeane, d. at Westerly, R. I., in January, 1719. She 
made her will, (see W. Record, Probate, Vol. 1. p. 273,) will dated 
April 30th, 1718. She left property to her daughters, Sarah Lewis, 
Jeane Lewis, (who had a daughter Jeane,) Elizabeth Sears, (had a 
son Elisha,) Mary Brown, Hannah Larkin and her two grand- 
children, William and Peter Babcock, the children of her son James, 
who had three sons. {Cornmunicaied by Welles.) 

The names of Babcock and Badcock have been extensively known 
in Rhode Island, from an early period. The name is now generally 
known in that state as Babcock. The coats of arms are all under 
this name, and the name of Babcock is not found in Burk's Heraldry. 
Coats of arms of Badcock. BADCOCK, (borne by Lieut. Colonel 
Lovell Benjamin Badcock, now Lovell, of Lincolnshire and Bucks,) 
Barry nebuly of six, or, and gu. Crest — a talbot pass,arg. Motto — 
Tempus omnia monstrat. 

BADCOCK, (St. Winow, Co. Cornwall.) Sa. a fefse, betw. three 
cocks ar. 

There was also a coat of arms in Essex and Kensington, Co. Mid- 
dlesex, ; also one in Devonshire ; also one otiier for this name. 

BADCOCK, JAMES and CALEB, came to Windham, Conn., 
about A. D. 1700. For many years, the name is spelt upon the 
Windham Record, Badcock. After some years, Badcocks and Bab- 
cocks were found in the same family. And at this time, only one 
family at W^indham, retains the original name of Badcock. James 
Badcock, of Windham, had a daughter Zcrdiuh, b. June 18, 1705. 



108 OENEALOGV OP THE PURITANS. 

It is probable the Badcocks and Babcocks are all the descendants of 
Rev. James Badcock of Plymouth, and Newton. 

BADCOCK, Caleb, of Windham, m. Abigail More, Jan. 21, 1713 ; 
issue: Sarah, b. Nov. 19, 1713, d. Nov. 19; Mary, b. April 22, 
1716 ; Jonathan, b. June 10, 1718. Mary Badcock, the wife of 
Jonathan, d. aged 63, on the 28th day of March, 1719. Abigail, the 
wife of Caleb, d. April 21, 1719, aged 31. Caleb m. for his second 
wife, Susannah Glover, May 18, 1721. (See BABCOCK.) 

In Nov., 1642, the Court at New Haven, ordered Jervis Boykin, 
to pay GEORGE BADCOCKE, 20^., for taking his barrow without 
leave. Who was this George Badcock, as early as 1642 ? If he 
had not resided at New Haven, he probably would not have owned 
a wheel-barrow there. 

BADGER, DANIEL, moved from Hartford, to North Coventry. 
He had sons, Daniel and Moses. The first settler there was John 
Bissell, Jr., from Lebanon, (originally of Windsor,) — his deed was 
dated July, 1716, and his deed of land in South Coventry, is dated 
Oct , 1715. Ancestor of Hon. Samuel Badger, of Philadelphia. Bad- 
ger, U. S. Senator, is a descendant. Farmer says Giles, Nathaniel 
and Richard Badger, were of Newbury, Mass., in 1647. Giles d. 
there, in 1648. John, of Newbury, Mass., free 1673-4. 

BAGER, (Badger ;) this name has two coats of arms. 

BADGER, DANIEL, m. Tabitha, of Suffield, and had Hannah, 
b. Nov. 4, 1722, d. Dec. 16, 1723 ; John, b. Dec. 6, 1723. 

*BA1LY, JOHN, 1648, viewer of chimneys and ladders, at Hart- 
ford. He was a constable in Hartford, March, 1656-7 ; made free 



* The different orthography of spelling names, often leads relatives to deny and disown their 
own blood relations, descended from the same common ancestor, not only in England, but this 
country; and for the purpose of showing the little reliance that should be placed upon the 
manner of spelling names, I annex the name of Bailey, spelt in all the forms found. I also, 
among all the manners of spelll ig the name of Talcott on the records, notice more than fifty 
ways, Talkott, Taylcoat, &c., and yet it is perfectly evident, but one, of the name of Talcott, 
came to this Colony. The name of Hicox, by most of the descendants of Samuel, of Waterbury, 
is now spelt either Hicock, or Hickock or Hickcock, though one of the family at Danbury, spells the 
name Hicoi. Names are often spell two or three different ways in the same will. The name 
of Boreman at Wethersfield, is now generally spelt Boardman, and by this change, lost their 
coat of arms, and take the coat of arms of Boardman. Burnap has changed to Burnet. And 
Lankton to Langdon. 



Bailey, 


Bale, 


Bayley, 


Baelye, 


Bayele, 


Bayllie, 


Baily, 


Bailie, 


Balye, 


Balee, 


Bayeley, 


Bayllee, 


Baley, 


Baillie, 


Baely, 


Bailee, 


Bayelly, 


Bayle. 


Baly, 


Bayly, 


Baeley, 


Baile, 


Bayelley, 




Balie, 


Baylie, 


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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 109 

May, 1657. He resided at Haddam, in 1676, d. at Haddam and his 
will proved in 169G, Nathaniel Baily, Executor. Estate £186, 
10^. t)(l. : had a suit in court at Ilartl'ord, 1642. 

BAILEY, JOHN, was one of the twenty-eight original purchasers 
of Haddam, and removed there about 1662, from Hartford. He had 
sons, Benjamin and John. BENJAMIN, son of John Bailey, had sons, 
John, Benjamin and Nathaniel. JOHN BAILEY, son of John, had 
sons, John, Ephraiin, Jonathan and David. NATHANIEL had sons, 
■ Daniel and Ivzekiel. JOHN, son of Benjamin, had sons: John, Na-' 
tlian, Jeremiah, Amos, James and William. EPHRAIM, grandson 
of John. Sen., had sons: Epiiraim, Jacob, Gideon, Stephen, Jabez, 
Caleb, Abijah, William, Oliver and a 2d Ephraim. Most of the 
name in Connecticut, are descended from John, of Haddam. BAI- 
LIS, THOMAS, was a defendant in Court at Hartford, in 1642. 
JAMES and MAllY BAILEY, had children b. at Killingworth : 
Sarah, b. Sept. 3, 1683. Rev. JAMES, minister of Killingworth, 
lost his wife Mary, by death, Oct. 28, 1688. ELIZABETH, wife 
of John Bailey, d. March 29, 1728-9. NICHOLAS BAY LEY 
was made free at Hartford, by the General Court, in 1663. JO- 
SEPH BAYLEY, of Huntington, L. L, 1664, made free by Gen- 
eral Court at Hartford. THOMAS BAYLY had a home lot in Mil- 
ford, in 1646. He sold three acres to Wm. Brooks, before 1646. 
SAMUEL BAYLEY, of New Haven, 1643. DAVID BAILEY, 
and wife Jane, had issue b. at Middletown, viz., Pliebe, b. 1736 ; 
Elijah, b. 1738; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 22, 1740; James, b. 1743. 
David, the father, d. Aug. 18, 1747. THOMAS BAYLEY made free 
in Massachusetts, in 1640. THOMAS and HANNAH BAYLY, 
of Weymouth, hud a son John, b. 1687/ THOMAS, of Weymouth, 
freeman, 1666. JOHN and JAMES BAILY, of Weymouth, made 
free 1673. JONAS, of Black Point, 1657. SAMUEL and MAllY 
BAYLEY, of Weymouth, in 1667, also THOMAS, and RUTH his 
wife, 1670. JOHN BAYLY, Sen., and Jr., of Salisbury, Mass., 
1650. NATHANIEL, 1662. ISAAC and JOSEPH, of Newbury, 
free, 1690. THEOPHILUS, of Lynn, free 1691. JOSHUA, of 
Salisbury, free in Massachusetts, 1690. JONAS BAYLI, Andrew 
Browne, George Bartlet, John Austin^ signed a petition " to the 
Hon'' Court att York," July 4, 1663. BAILEY has a coat of arm.'-. 
BAILEES, (Yorkshire, granted 1578,) one. BAILLIE has se\- 
cn. BAILLY, one. BAYLEE, BAILIE or BAILEY, one. 
BAYLES, one. BAYLIE, one. BAYLEY, eight. BAYLY, 
five. PALMER BAYLEY, aged 21 years, a miller, came to 
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no GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

New England, in the Planter. ROBERT BAYLIE, aged 23, 
Thomas Bull, aged 25, embarked in the Hopewell, Thomas Babb, 
Master, for New England, Sept. 11. 

BAKER, (Bacor, Bakor, Baiker,) JEFRY, of Windsor, m. 
Jane Rockwell, Nov. 15, 1642, and had children : Samuel, b. March 
30-1, 1644; Hepziba, b. May 10, 1646; Mary, b. July 15, 1649; 

daughter Abiell, b. Dec. 23, 1652, d. ; Joseph, b. June 18, 

1655. SAMUEL, son of Jeffery and Jane, m. Sarah Cook, June 30, 
1670. JelTery Baker d. 1655. He was an original settler at 
Windsor. 

BAKER, JOSEPH, of Windsor, son of Jeffery, b. June 18, 1655, m. 
Hannah, widow of Thomas Buckland, daughter of Nathaniel Cook, 
Jan. 30, 1676 ; she was b. Sept. 21, 1655 : children by Baker, viz., 
Joseph, Jr., b. April 13, 1678; Lidda, b. July 15, 1681. Joseph d. 
in 1691. His will dated 1691. (Windsor Rec.) 

BAKER, JOHN, resided in Baker's Lane, in Hartford, in 1667, 
and chimney viewer, in 1665 : m. Lidia Basey, and had sons, John 
and Joseph. 

BAKER, JOSEPH, of Hartford, was a son of John Baker, who 
m. Miss Basey. He, Joseph, d. before liis father, and the seventeen 
acres of land given him by his grandmother, Abigail Basey, was 
distributed to Joseph's brothers. 

BAKER, JOHN, Jr., d. 1697, left widow Mary, and children : 
Joseph, aged 7 ; Elizabeth, 4, and John. 

BAKER, (Backer, Bacor,) JOHN, Jr., m. Marcy Cary, of 
Windham, Dec. 17, 1744: issue, b. at Windham, Susanna, b. Feb. 
17, 1745-6; John, b. Sept. 27, 1747; Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1749; 
Walter, Elijah, 2d Elijah, Phebe ; Hannah, July 4, 1703. 

BAKER, JOHN, in 1675, received payment of the town of Ded- 
ham, Mass., for military services in Philip's war. JOSEPH BA- 
ker, son of Joseph, was slain by Indians, Aug. 29, 1676. (JV. 
Hampton Record.) JACOB, of Tolland, 1743; children: Joseph, 
Samuel, John, Hannah Gurley, Allis Baker, Heman, Abigail Baker. 
JACOB, of Woodbury, in 1755. SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, m. 
Sarah Cook, 1670, also Mary, May 19, 1687, and had William b. 
June 14, 1689 ; Ann, b. Nov. 15, 1691. LANSLET, shipwright, 
1649. TFIOMAS is in the list of Free Planters, at Milford, Nov. 
29, 1639, where he continued until 1650, when he removed to East 
Hampton, L. Island, and became a Magistrate there under the Gov- 
ern.T.ent of Connecticut. He was a member of the upper house of 
the Legislature, held at Hartford, May 17, 1660 ; also, Oct. 9, 1662; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. Ill 

also, May 14, 1663 ; also, Magistrate, May 20, 1659-9, 1661. This 
name yet continues on Long Island, and in New York. THOMAS 
BAKER, Wyllys, Gold, Iliolmrd Treat, Thomas Tappin, Wolcott, 
Sherman, Howell and Thurston Rayner, were magistrates at the 
General Court, in 1663. THOMAS, had a daughter Elizabeth b. 
at Roxbury, Mass., in 1641. TIMOTHY, of Wethersfield, d. 1709. 
This name was early in the New Haven Colony, and early in many 
towns in Massachusetts. Farmer says, ALEXANDER, of Boston, 
1635. EDWARD, of Lynn, 1633. JOHN, of Ipswich, 1634. 
JOHN, of Boston, 1640. JOHN, of Dover, 1647. JOHN, ofDed- 
ham, 1641. NATHANIEL, of Hingham, 1635. Thirteen per- 
sons of the name of Baker, graduated at Harvard College, before 
1S49, and nine at Yale College, before 1850. THOMAS had land 
at Milford, in 1643, and voted that a foot way to the meeting-house 
should be allowed and maintained with convenient stiles, from the 
West End, and that brother Thomas Baker, should support the stiles 
at the meeting-house, for the outside. The General Court of Mil- 
ford, in June, 1646, gave him a large house lot, in Milford, of seven 
and a half acres. JOHN, of Dover, N. H., had a grant of fifty 
acres of land at Cocheco, in 1642, left Dover, soon after 1650. 
DANIEL, of Tolland, d. 1743 ; issue: Abigail, Joseph, Jr., Sam- 
uel, Hannah Gurley (Baker,) John Baker, Heman Baker. JO. BA- 
KER, Jo. Bennet, Jo. Austin, and others, on the 1st day of Aug., 
1635, as per the certificate from Gravesend, embarked in the Eliza- 
beth, de Lo. Christopher Browne, Master, to Virginia. THOMAS 
BAKER, Jo. Bishop and Dorothy Bradlie, came bound to" Virginia, 
in the ship Paul, of London, in 1635. THOMAS, free, Mass., 1649. 
JOHN, made freeman in Massachusetts, 1634 ; also, WILLIAM and 
NICHOLAS, freemen, Massachusetts, March, 1635-6; also, ED- 
WARD, freeman in Massachusetts, 1638-9. JOSEPH and son were 
slain by Indians, near Northampton, in 1675. ALEXANDER, 1646. 
JOHN, free, Massachusetts, 1647. TIMOTHY, took the oath of al- 
legiance at Northampton, Mass., Feb. 8, 1678. JOHN was a tax 
payer at Dover, N. Hampshire, in 1648. JOHN, of Dorchester, free- 
man, 1673. NATHANIEL, and hid wife, Mercy, of Barnstable, 
had issue, viz., Benny, b. Aug. 15, 1705, and nine afterwards 
THOMAS, Portsmouth, free, 1665. ELDER BAKER, of Newport* 
R. I. founded a Baptist Church, in N. Kingstown, R. I. Mr. JAMES 
d. at Dorchester, March 30, 1721, aged 69 years. SAMUEL d at 
Lynn, 1666. THOMAS, of Lynn, free, 1691. EDWIN, of Lynn, 



112 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1691 . Elizabeth and Dorothy Baker were transported in the America, 
Wm. Barker, Master, to Virginia,* from England, 1635. BAKER 
is an old name at Hartford and Milford, in Conn., and at Boston, 
Dorchester, Charlestown, Roxbury, and other places in Massachu- 
setts, and at Dover, New Hampshire. Rev. DANIEL, b. in Ded- 
ham ; educated at Harvard ; ordained, 1712, at Sherburne. JOHN, 
free in Massachusetts, 1641. JOHN, in 1642. RICHARD, free 
in Massachusetts, 1642. JOHN, of Cape Porpus, 1653. BASEY 
'BAKER m. Hannah Willet, April 1, 1696, and had a son Nathan- 
iel b. at Hartford, Dec. 4, 1696-7, d. — ; Basey, b. April 4, 1698, 
d. — ; 2d Basey, b. May 10, 1699, d. 1701 ; 2d Nathaniel, b. Sept. 
10, 1702; Hannah, b. Feb. 25, 1704-5, d. — ; Timothy, b. Jan. 

15, 1706-7 ; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 15, 1708 ; Jeremiah, b. June 10, 
1712. Basey removed to Middletown, and had Hannah, b. July 12, 
1715, and Susannah, b. Dec. 21, 1718, at Middletown. The father 
d. at Middletown, Sept. 4, 1723, and his son Jeremiah d. young. 
BAKER has thirty-four coats of arms. BAKER'S COMPANY, (of 
London,) one, and BAKER'S COMPANY, (of Exeter,) one. Bai- 
ker or Baker, (Scotland,) has a coat of arms. ALEXANDER, aged 

28, and his wife Elizabeth, aged 23, and Elizabeth, aged 3 years, 
and Christian, one year old, embarked for New England, in the 
Elizabeth and Ann, Wm. Cooper Master. NICHOLAS graduated 
at St. John's College, (A. B.) 1631. SAMUEL, aged 30, embarked 
in the Elizabeth and Ann, for New England, May 12, — . FRAN- 
CIS, aged 24, embarked in the Planter, Nic. Trarice, Master, for 
New England, with a certificate from the minister of Great St. Al- 
bans, in Hertfordshire, and " Attesta^on " from the Justice of Peace, 
according to the Lord's Order, April 2, 1635. 

BALCH, EBENEZER, of Wethersfield, Conn., m. Sarah Bel- 
den, June 28, 1750 : had Sarah, b. April 1, 1751 ; Jonathan B., b. 
Nov. 14, 1754 ; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1752. His wife d. April 3, 
1756, aged 29 ; and he m. for his second wife, Lois Belden, Nov. 

29, 1756, and had Lois, b. Feb. 27, 1758, d. 1760 : Joseph, b. Feb. 

16, 1760; 2d Lois, b. Dec. 20, 1761; Lucy, b. Dec. 21, 1763; 



• Our ancestors in England, knew very little of America, previous to its settlement, in Vir- 
ginia and Plymouth, and even as late as 1G40, a town in this colony was bounded west on the 
wilderness, and the Mohawk. As Virginia was settled some years earlier than any other colo- 
ny, every part of tliis country was probably called Virginia in England, and hence the reason why 
80 many of the first vessels are certified as embarking for Virginia, when the same vessels appear 
to have landed their passengers in the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies, some of whom 
were soon after found in Hartford, Vl'eiljersfield, and Windsor. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 113 

Ebenezer, b. Aug. 30, 17G6 ; Timothy, b. Oct. 26, 1768 ; William, 
b. May 17, 1778. His second wile d. May 23, 1793 ; all b. in 
Wethersfield. 

BALCH, Rev. WILLIAM, II. C, 1724, of Bradford, Mass., d. 
Jan. 12, 1792, aged 87. John Balch from Bridgewater, in Somer- 
setshire, Eng., was of Cape Ann, as early as 1625, settled at Salem, 
in 1626, where he d. in 1648. His wives were Margaret and Ag- 
nes. (Felt.) This name is yet found in Connecticut, at Hart- 
ford, Berlin and other towns, probably descended from the family 
at Wethersfield, in 1750. It was not an early name in the Colony. 

BALDWhN, (Baldin, Balden,) RICHARD, NATHANIEL, 
TIMOTHY and JOSEPH, were early settlers at Milford, in the 
New Haven Colony, and were free planters there, Nov. 29, 1639, 
with power to act, in the election of their officers in the plantation. 
JOHN is also recorded at Milford, immediately after, in the list of 
those who were not in church fellowship, and therefore deprived of 
voting for their public officers, (membership being a requisite qual- 
ification for SL free planter.) JOHN, Sen., d. at Milford, in 1681. 
RICHARD d. in 1665, and the inventory of his estate was present- 
ed at Court in Hartford, by Robert Treat, Sept. 28, 1665 ; and his 
eldest son, Richard, was then 19 years old ; Sara_h, 17 ; Temper. 
ance, about 15 ; Mary, 12 ; a daughter, 8 ; Zecheriah, 5 ; and Bar- 
nabas, 3 years old ; Martha, b. April 1, 1663. Perhaps he was the 
RICHARD, of Braintree, in 1637. NATHANIEL, of Milford, d. 
in 1692. There was a NATHANIEL in Fairfield, as early as 
1641 and '9, perhaps the same who was at Milford in 1639. TIM- 
OTHY, of Milford, d. in 1664. He left children : Mary, who m. 
Benjamin Smith ; Sarah, who m. Buckingham ; Hannah ; Timothy, 
Jr., b. June 12, 16-58 ; perhaps others. NATHANIEL, a brother 
of OBADIAH and RICHARD, of Milford, removed to " Cohansee," 
about 1702. (Mil/. Rec, Vol. I., p. 140.) Three of the Baldwins, 
of Milford, viz., JOSEPH, JOHN and BENJAMIN, went to and 
settled at Newark, N. J., where their names are now found record- 
ed as early settlers. BENJAMIN was quite young, and a son of 
JOSEPH. He was baptized at Milford, in 1644. Their descend- 
ants are numerous now, at Newark, Orange, and other parts of New 
Jersey. There was a MICHAEL at New Haven, who came there 
from Branford, at a later period. His daughter, Ruth, m. Hon. Joel 
Barlow. Clarissa, her sister, accompanied Mr. Barlow and his lady 
to France. The latter m. Col. Bomford, of the U. S. Army. There 
was a JOHN BALDWIN, from Milford, who settled at New Lon- 
10* 



114 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

don, on the Groton side of the river ; freeman there, 1669 ; at New 
London or Groton, 1672. There was also a JOHN at Milford, and 
another JOHN at Norwich, freeman in 1666, townsman in 1669. 
John, of New London, (or Groton,) m. Rebecca Cheesbrough, (wid- 
ow,) July 24, 1672. He d. Aug. 19, 1683, and left issue. Rebec 
ca, his wife, was the daughter of Walter Palmer, of Stonington. 
She m. first, Elisha Cheesbrough, (son of William,) April 20, 1665. 
Elisha" d. Sept., 1670. (Triwibull and Record.) John is found 
noted as a proprietor, at Stonington, but probably never resided 
there. JOHN, who settled at Norwich, Conn., about 1662, m. Han- 
nah Burchard, or Burchett, of Guilford, in 1653. Where he came 
from to Guilford, I find no evidence. He left Guilford, soon after the 
birth of his second child, and nothing more is known of him, until 
he is found at Norwich, in 1662. That he was the son of Richard, 
or either of the Baldwins of Milford, no record at Milford proves. 
John, who .settled at Groton, was from Milford, as was JOHN, who 
m. Marie Bruen, of New London. The family tradition, as to 
JOHN, Sen., of Norwich, is relied upon, and is probably as correct 
as any record yet found, to show who he was, and where from, viz., 
"That John, the father of the Norwich family, had no hr other ; that 
he came to New England when quite young, and afterwards returned 
to England, where he learned ihe trade of a cabinet maker, and then 
returned and settled at Norwich, about 1662." This may account, 
in some measure, for his whereabouts from 1656 to 1662, when he 
is found in Norwich. There were many persons in Massachusetts 
and Connecticut and New Haven Colonies, by the name of John 
Baldwin. John, Sen., of Miitord, who the record says m. Marie 
Bruen, of Pequot, daughter of John, (no date,) but their first child, 
Mary, was b. Sept. 7, 1654 ; John, b. April 13, 1657 ; Abigail, b. 

Nov. 15, 1658 ; Obadiah, b. Oct. 29, 1660 ; Sarah b. 20, 1663 ; 

a son, b. 2d week in June, 1665. {Milf. Record.) (Query. Did he 
marry a daughter of John Bruen, or was it a daughter of Obadiah 
Bruen, of New London ? He calls one of his sons Obadiah, and 
no John Bruen is found at New London, as early as 1654, except 
John, the son of Obadiah, who at that time could not have had daugh- 
ters as old as this Marie must have been, when she married. Not 
only so, the Milford record says, JOHN, the son of JOHN, Sen., m, 
Hannah, daughter of Obadiah Bruen, of New London, Oct. 30, 
1663. This JOHN removed to Newark, N. J., with his wife's 
father, Bruen, (perhaps m. 2 daughters of Obadiah.) There was 
also JOHN, son of Nathaniel, of Milford, m. Hannah, a daughter 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 115 

of Richard Osborn, Nov. 19, 1663, and others of the name at Mil- 
ford. JOHN, Sen., of Norwich, who m. at Guilford, had a sou, 
John, b. 1G54, and Hannah, b. 16oG. He, soon after this birth, dis- 
appeared at Guilford. No positive evidence is found, that JOHN, 
Sen., of Norwich, was the son of Richard, of Milford, or Richard, 
of Saybrook. If ho was, Richard, of Saybrook, must have been 
aged. Miss Calkins remarks, that "John must have been of trans- 
atlantic birth, as John, Jr., was of man's age, previous to 1678." 
"JOHN, the proprietor of Norwich, had two sons: 1st, Jolm, d. in 
1700, and left no sons ; 2d, Thomas, who m., in 1684, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of John Calkins, she d.," by whom he had no sons. He m. Abigail 
Lay, for his 2d wife, and had sons: Thomas, b. 1701 ; John, b. 
1704, and Ebenezer, b. 1710. Hon. Simeon Baldwin, late deceased, 
of New Haven, was of this family. He was b. at Norwich, in 
1761, and son of Ebenezer, who was son of Thomas, by his 2d wife, 
who was son of John, Sen., of Norwich. CHRISTOPHER C, of 
Worcester, Mass., was born at Norwich, and a descendant of JOHN, 
Sen., of Norwich. 

JOHN BALDWIN, and Joann, of Dedham, had a son, JOHN, b. in 
163.T. There were a JOHN and Mary who came to New England 
in the Speedwell, of London, Robert Lock, master, in 16.56. JOHN, 
of Billerica, Mass., made free, 1690, and another JOHN, made free 
there in 1670. There was a JOHN, one of the first settlers of Staf- 
ford, Conn. Widow Baldwin, of New Haven Colony, in 1643, with 
an estate of £800. HENRY, of Woburn, Mass., free, 1652. JO- 
SEPH, of Hadley, free, 1666. JOHN, of Billerica, free, 1670. 
JOSEPH, Sen., and Jr., of Hatfield, took the oath of allegiance 
in Massachusetts, 1678. NATH2VNIEL, a brother of Obadiah and 
Richard, of Milford, removed to Cohansee, about 1702. (See Milf. 
Rec, Vol. I., p. 140.) The BALDWINS, of Durham, Conn., were 
from Milford, and the Baldwins, of Durham, N. Y., originated at 
Durham, Conn., as did the Hulls, Tibbals's and Fields. Rev. 
DWIGHT BALDWIN, the missionary, was also of this family, as 
was Rev. ELIHU, D. D., former President of Wabash College, in In- 
diana. GEORGE, of Boston, had a son, JOHN, b. 1639, d. 1643; 
perhaps the George, who was at Huntington, L. I., in 1672. HEN- 
RY, of Woburn, free, 16.52, supposed from Devonshire, Eng. He 
m. Phebe Richardson, in 1649, and had sons: Henry, John and 
Daniel. {Far.) EZRA, of Durham, Conn., was Deacon there, and 
d. March 26, 1782, aged 76. Mehitabel, daughter of Joseph, of 
Hadley, Mass., d. there, July 11, 1670. Mary, daughter of Joseph 



116 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

and Mary, d. there, Dec. 17, 1674. Martha m. John Hawks, of 
Hadley, Dec. 26, 1667. JO. BALDIN, aged 13, and WILLIAM 
BALDIN, aged 9, came to New England, embarked in the Picdcowe, 
per certificate from the minister of his " conformitie," and from " Sir 
Edward Spencer, resident neere Branford." 

Rev. ASHBEL BALDWIN, formerly of Litchfield, was rector at 
Litciifield and Stratford. He was ordained in 1785 ; d. at Roches- 
ter, N. Y., 1846, aged 89 years. 

Gen. AUGUSTUS BALDWIN was b. in Goshen, Conn., re- 
moved to Ohio, settled at Franklin, was appointed President of a 
Bank. He d. in 1838, aged about 50. JEHIEL, d. June, 1831, 
aged 101 years. ELI was an early settler in Ohio, from New Mil- 
ford, Conn, where he became a popular political partisan, and was 
nominated for Governor. Hon. ABRAHAM, of Georgia, was a na- 
tive of Connecticut. 

BALDWIN, Rev. EBENEZER, son of Ebenezer, of Norwich, 
and brother of Hon. Simeon, late deceased, of New Haven, gradu- 
ated at Yale College, in 1763; was Tutor at Yale College, from 
1766 to 1770. He was ordained at Danbury, Sept. 19, 1770, and 
d. Oct. 1, 1776, aged 31 years. He was a man of splendid talents. 
He gave his Society .£300, for the support of the gospel in said So- 
ciety. Thomas, D. D., was a Baptist minister at Boston, b. at Nor- 
wich, Conn., Dec. 23, 1753. He was for a time in New Hamp- 



NoTK. — By the record at Newark, N. J., it appears that Deacon Lawrence Ward, of Newark, 
died in 1670, and left no children ; that Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Baldwin, of Hadley, Mass., 
was a sister of said Ward ; that said Elizabeth (Ward) Baldwin authorized her son, John Catlin, 
and John Ward, ("turners,") of Newark, to act for her in relation to the estate of their uncle, 
Lawrence Ward. (S. H. Conger, Esq.) Robert Lyman was a relative of John Catlin, as the 
Newark record shows. 

Who was this Elizabeth Baldwin, wife of Joseph Baldwin, of Hadley, and where from, to 
have been the mother of John Catlin. of Newark, and sister of Deacon Ward, at Newark 7 
Deacon L. Ward was probably an old man, and his sister, Elizabeth Baldwin, of Hadley, per- 
haps not many years younger. The Wards, who were the first settlers at Newark, went from 
Wethersfield to Branford, and thence to Newark. John, Jr., one of the first, was a cousin of 
Catlin's, and probably a son of a brother of the Deacon. If John Catlin was a son of Elizabeth 
Baldwin, of Hadley, and nephew of Deacon Ward, of Newark, her first husband must have 
been a Catlin. The Record of JVewark, and Conger, both say that Catlin and his wife, Mary, were at 
Newark until about 1682, when Catlin sold out to Henry Lyon, and there being no record af his 
death, it is supposed that he and his wife. Mary, left Newark. (See THOMAS CATLIN,) 
Joseph Baldwin, of Hadley, is not found on the Newark record. John, Sen., John, Jr,, and 
Benjamin Baldwin, were the only persons of the name, early at Newark. These three took the 
oath of allegiance to the Dutch, in 1673, with the other inhabitants of Newark. Of all the 
John Baldwins, early in Connecticut and Massachusetts, which went to Norwich 1 Let rela- 
tives determine who John of Norwich was. Lawrence went from New Haven to New Jersey. 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 117 

shire, and was living in 1907. He proved himself in no way infe- 
rior to his brothers, in talents and usefulness. 

BALDWIN, MICHAEL, was from Branford, to New Haven. 
He d. at New Haven, in 1787, and left his son, Hon. Abraham, by 
first wife, and periiaps daughters, and left si.\ younger children by 
his second wife, with a small estate. Hon. Abraham, his son, was 
b. in 1754; graduated at Yale College, in 1772; Tutor at Yale 
College, from 1775 to 1779. He removed to Georgia, and became 
one of the founders of the University at Athens, Ga., and afterwards 
President. He was a member of the Legislature, and elected to 
Congress in 1785, from Georgia, where he was continued until 1799, 
and was elected Senator of the U. States, and d. at Washington, 
D, C, March 4, 1S07, aged 53, while Senator. He never married. 
Hon. Henry, a half-brother of Hon. Abraham, was educated by his 
brother Abraham, and graduated at Yale College, in 1797, read law, 
and settled at Pittsburg, Penn., where he became eminent in his pro- 
fession, was elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, and a Judge of 
the S. Court in Pennsylvania. Michael, his brother, graduated at 
Yale College, in 1795, read law, and removed to Ohio. 

BALLANTINE, WILLIAM and HANNAH, his wife, of Bos- 
ton, as early as 1653. He was probably from Scotland :* the exact 
time he came to Boston is not known to the writer. The town re- 
cords show the births of some children, viz., John and Hannah, b. 
Sept. 29, 1653 ; William, b. Sept. 22, 1655 ; David, b. Aug. 24, 
1656 ; the two last died ; second William, b. Dec. 20, 1657 ; second 



• The following letter from John Ballantine, in Scotland, to Col. John Ballantine, of Boston, 
Mass., shows that Mr. William Ballantine, of Boston, the ancestor of those of the name in this 
country, was from Scotland, viz. 

"Ayr, Scotland, Feb. 11, 1707. 

"Capt. .Samuel Heath by wliora thi;) is conveyed, having given me and rny family so satisfying 
an account of your welfare, and that you are so happily married to a gentlewoman of a very 
honorable family, I cordially congratulate you happiness, and shall be glad to hear of your pros- 
perity, — seeming there is a happy union concluded between us, (Scotland and England) — I 
hope as long as it will lend to mutual advantage. The circumstances of trade in tliis place 
are at present very low, but now I hope it will revive. Be pleased by the first good hand to 
advise me, what goods of our product may turn to the best account, and what may be returned 
to profit, from your place, that thereby some here may make a trip to Boston. My sons are 
yet too young to travel, the eldest being fourteen years, and at school. But if it please God to 
spare you and them, they may be so happy as to see you in Boston. This with my cordial re- 
spects to yourself and lady, to your aunts, sisters and their husbands, (if married.) May the 
blessings of the upper and nether springs be upon you and yours. I remain. Sir, your affection- 
ate grand-uncle and humble servant, John Ballantine. 

" P. S. My spouse, my four (or five sons.) and my four daughters, do present their humble ser- 
vice to you and your lady, and to all their relatives with you. J. B." 



118 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

David, b. Feb. 5, 1659; Elizabeth, b. March 8, 1660; Benjamin, 
b. July 22, 1661 ; second Hannah, b. Nov. 15, 1662 ; Sarah, b. 
Sept. 18, 1664; third William, b. Nov. 26, 1665 ; Susanna, b. Feb. 
2, 1668 ; Jonathan, b. Sept. 19, 1669. His will, dated Dec. 6, 
1669 ; his inventory taken same month and year. David, Hannah, 
last William, Susanna and Jonathan, were provided for in his will. 
The journal of Rev. John Ballentine, deceased, of Westfield, says, 
that his great-grandfather had issue : John, a daughter who m. Ben- 
jamin Webb, of Braintree, and third Sarah, who in. John Barnard. 
Webb had several children, viz., Rev. Benjamin Webb, of Eastham, 
and Rev. Nathan Webb, of Uxbridge, and others. Mr. Barnard 
had two children, viz., Matthew, m. Deborah Vail, house-wright, and 
Jonathan, who married and settled in England, and had several 
children. 

BALLANTINE, Capt. JOHN, the son of William, Sen., b. 1653, 
member of the ar. co. in 1682, and captain of it in'1703, d. April 27, 
1734. He m. for his first wife, Lydia Barret, of Boston, and had 
issue : John, Jr., b. 1674 or '5 ; Sarah ; Lydia; b. June 2, 1676 ; 
William, b. 1679 ; second Lydia, b. Oct. 24, 1682 ; left a large es- 
tate. Mary, widow of Capt. John, her will dated Sept. 5, 1738. She 
notices her daughter-in-law Mary, relict of Col. John Ballantine, and 
their children John, William and Mary ; she gave to her daughter- 
in-law, Sarah Wharton, and her grand-daughter, Mary Kneeland, 
and kinswoman, Mary Harvey, of Taunton, but the larger part of her 
estate she gave to her daughter-in-law, Lydia, unmarried. (Perhaps 
the estate of John, Sen.) Col. John, Jr., only son of John, Sen., and 
grandson of William, Sen., of Boston, graduated at Harvard College, 
1694, a member of the ar. co., 1694, Col. of militia, many years 
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the 
Peace, a Representative of Boston, at the General Court. He mar- 
ried Mary Winthrop, daughter of Adam Winthrop, Sen., Esq., of 
Boston, and sister of Adam, formerly one of the Council and Chief 
Justice of an inferior court. Col. John and Mary had children : John, 
b. Oct. 1705, d. ; Lydia, b. March 31, 1715; second John, b. Oct. 
30, 1716 ; two Marys ; William, b. Aug. 3, 1724 ; perhaps others. 
Col. John, or John Ballantine, Esq., made his will in 1734, and made 
his wife Mary and her brother, Hon. Adam Winthrop, executors. 
He names children, John, Mary and William, and his sisters Sarah 
Wharton and Lydia Ballantine. He d. Jan. 2, 1735, (O. S.) His 
widow Mary d. Oct. 18, 1739, aged .56 years. 

BALLANTINE, Rev. JOHN, son of Col. John, of Boston, whose 



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mother was Mary Winthrop, daughter of Adam, was b. Oct. 30, 
1716; graduated at Harvard College, 1735, and settled at Westfield, 
Mass., in the ministry, 1741 : he iiad previously preached at Prov- 
idence, at Marlborough, Stoughton, &c. lie preached at Westfield 
thirty-five years, where he died Feb. 12, 1776, aged 59 years. He 
married Mary Gay, daughter of Lusher Gay, of Dedham, Mass., a 
sister of Ebenezer Gay, D. D., of Suffield, Conn., and of Richard 
Gay, of Granby, Conn., Sept. 20, 1743, and had children, viz., Mary, 
b. Dec. 10, 1744; Lydia, b. April 20, 1747, d. Aug. 27, 1749; 
John, b. April IS, 1750, d. single April 17, 1833 ; Rev. William Gay 
Ballantine, b. July 11, 1751 ; Winthrop, b. March 16, 1754, d. 
1758 ; Ebenezer, b. July 14, 1756 ; Lydia, b. March 15, 1759, 
m. Selh King ; second Winthrop, b. June 9, 1762, m. Ruth Chapin, 
of Salisbury, Conn. Mary, daughter of Rev. John Ballantine, of 
Westfield, m. Oct. 17, 1769, Maj. Gen. John Ashley, of Sheffield, 
Mass. (See ASHLEY.) Mrs. Mary, wife of Rev. John, d. Oct. 
7, 1794, aged 67, Lusher Gay, of Dedham, in a letter to his daugh- 
ter Mary, wife of Rev. John Ballantine, dated March 4, 1744, 
sfieaks of her aunt Fairbanks. Rev. John, son of Rev. John, of 
Westfield, graduated at Harvard College, July, 1768. (President 
Holyoke gave Rev. John Ballantine his second degree the first com- 
mencement he officiated, and his son John his first degree the last 
commencement he officiated.) He was licensed to preach April 28, 
1773, but was never settled in the ministry or married. He d. April 
17, 1833, aged 83 years. (Second degree July 17, 1771.) 

BALLANTLXE, Rev. WILLIAM^GAY, son of Rev. John, of 
Westfield, graduated at Harvard College, July 17, 1771, and was 
licensed to preach in August, 1773; Vead theology with Rev. Mr. 
Parsons, of Amherst, Mass. June 15, 1774, he was ordained pastor 
of the church in Hartwood ; afterwards he settled at Washington, 
Mass., where he died Nov. 30, 1820. He ni. Ann King, and had 
two children, viz., Ann, m. Rev. Isaiah Watrous, of Albany, and 
William Gay, who now resides in Suffield, Conn., where he is a 
wealthy farmer, m. and has a family. 

EBENEZER, son of Rev. John Ballantine, of Westfield, gradua- 
ted at Yale College, in 1777 ; he studied medicine and surgery, and 
became a surgeon in the army during the war of the revolution, and 
was for a time a surgeon at West Point, N. Y . ; afterwards he settled 
in his profession at Schodack Landing, N. Y., and became eminent in 
his profession as physician and surgeon. He removed with his fam- 
ily to Marion, Ohio, in 1822, where he d. in the autumn of 1823, 



120 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

aged 67 years. He m. Mary Osborn, b. at Waterbury, Ct., Jan. 22, 
1773, m. Dec. 5, 1793, and had issue : John, b. Dec. 17, 1794, d. 
1796 ; Mary, b. April 30, 1796, she m. Rev. Eldad Barber, of Ohio, 
and had a son Henry B., she d. at his birth Sept., 1832 ; second 
John, b. Jan. 19, 1798 ; Ebenezer, Jr., b. Aug. 25, 1799, d. single 
in 1823; Osborn, b. Dec. 15, 1801, d. 1823, single; Anner Thank- 
ful, b. Nov. 17, 1805; William Gay, b. Aug. 22, 1807 ; Elisha, b. 
Oct. 11, 1809 ; Henry, b. March 5, 1813. John, son of Dr. Eben- 
ezer, is settled as a fanner in Marion, Ohio ; he m. for his first wife 
Marietta Bowdish, of Thompson, Conn., and had Ebenezer, John, 
and other children. His wife d. and he m. a second wife, and has 
one child living by this marriage. 

Ebenezer Ballantine graduated at Yale College, in 1777. Four 
by the name of Rallantine had graduated at Harvard College, in 
1771. 

ANNER THANKFUL m. Isaac Morgereidge, of Marion, Ohio, 
and has children : John, Mary, and ot^ier children. 

WILLIAM GAY, son of Dr. Ebenezer, m. Caroline Russell, of 
Ohio ; he was a farmer at Marion. Ohio ; he d. and left a widow 
and one child, William Henry. 

Rev. elisha, son of Dr. Ebenezer, graduated at the Ohio Uni- 
versity, in 1828 ; he read theology at the Theological Seminary at 
Prince Edward, Virginia ; after he was licensed to preach he be- 
came a Professor in the Theological Seminary at Prince Edward, 
Virginia, and afterwards a Professor of Languages in the Ohio Uni- 
versity ; afterwards settled at Prince Edward, Virginia, as Pastor 
of a church, where he remained about ten years, and in Jan., 1848, 
he became Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church, at the city of 
Washington, D. C, where he resided several years, until his health 
failed him. He m. Betsey Ann Watkins, daughter of Henry N. 
Watkins, a distinguished lawyer of Virginia, now deceased, and has 
six children, viz., Mary Osborn, Henry W., Ann, Elizabeth, Fanny 
and William Gay. Rev. Elisha is a fine scholar, and an eminent 
divine. 

Rev. henry, son of Dr. Ebenezer, graduated at the Ohio Uni- 
versity, 1829, read theology and was licensed at Andover, Mass., to 
preach in 1834, and was ordained as an Evangelist, at Columbus, 
Ohio, in 1835 ; he went as a missionary to India the same year, and 
resided at Bombay one year, at Ahmednugger thirteen years, and 
returned from India in 1850, with his family. He was m. in May, 
1835, to Elizabeth Darling, daughter of Hon. Joshua Darling, of 



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Henniker, New Hampshire, and has six children, viz., Mary, Eliza- 
beth D., Julia Ann, Anna iMaria, Henry and William, all b. in 
India. Rev. Henry is an excellent divine. 

SARAH, daughter of John Ballantine, Sen., m. John Wharton, 
and had children, viz., John, Mary, m. Joseph Kneeland, a goldsmith, 
Sarah, m, John Plaisted, Lydia, m. Richard Morton, Anna, Hannah, 
m. Joshua Hill, periwig maker. Lydia, daughter of John Sen., d. 
unmarried. After the death of the first wife of John Ballantine, Sen., 
he m. Mrs. Mary Saxton, (maiden name Woodward,) had no issue : 
shed. Nov. 11, 1740, aged 86 years. 

Mary Ballantine, b. August 3, 1720, daughter of Col. John and 
Mary, m. Thomas Wade, of Boston, Aug. 16, 1739, and had a son 
John Wade; her husband d. Feb. 9, 1756; she d. at Westfield, 
Oct. 6, 1760 ; her son died at W^ashington, Mass., unmarried. 

William Ballantine, son of Col. John and Mary, of Boston, was a 
merchant in Boston. Rev. John Ballantine, of Westfield, says, 
" January, 1756, some time this month, died Mrs. Elizabeth Ballan- 
tine, relict of my brother William Ballantine, deceased." 

LYDIA, daughter of Rev. John, of Westfield, m. Seth King, of 
Suffield, and had issue: Sally, Selh, John, Lydia, Mary, Ebenezer 
and Lucy. His wife d. Feb. 14, 1817, and he m. Mrs. Bascom, 
maiden name Reynolds, grand-daughter of Rev. Mr. Reynolds, of 
Enfield. 

BALLANTINE, WINTHROP, son of Rev. John, of Westfield, 
m. Ruth Chapin, of Salisbury, Ct. He was for a time a druggist at 
Sheffield, Mass., and finally removed to Westfield, where he died. 
He had issue : Rhoda, n). Fowler, of Westfield ; Elizabeth, m. 
Chapman, now of Williamstown, Mass., and Ann Maria, m. Mr. 
Gates, now of Richmond, Mass. Ruth, wife of Winthrop, d. Sept. 
15, 1837. 

BALLARD, JOHN, of Willington, 1740, d. there in 1767. Sa- 
rah, his widow, m. Mr. Kingsbury : their children were Sherabiah, 
eldest son, Israel, John, Daniel, Joel, Sarah and Lydia. 

This name was at Lynn in 1637, in the person of William Bal- 
lard ; he was freeman and member of the ar. co. in 1638 ; he re- 
moved to Andover, and had sons, Joseph, William and John, who 
settled at Andover. Nathaniel, of Lynn, 1650. {Farmer.) 

BALLARD, HUMPHREY, m. Hannah Broughton, Nov. 6, 
1717, and had Zebulon, b. Nov. 1, 1718 ; John, b. June 17, 1720 ; 
David, b. April 1, 1723 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 20, 1727 ; Abner, b. June 
11 



122 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

6, 1731, and d. ; Jeremiah, b. June 19, 1733-4. Humphrey Bal- 
lard d. May 22, 1735, at Windham. 

BALL, THOMAS, a servant to Thomas Dunke, of Saybrook, was 
drowned in a tan-vat of said Dunke, July 17, 1675. (Dunke was 
probably a tanner.) 

BALL, FRANCIS, of West Springfield, had a son Francis bap- 
tized there, Jan. 17, 1730-1. 

BALL, ROBERT, of Bolton, Conn., will offered in 1769 ; estate 
JC209 ; children, Victora, James Hamilton, aged five years, Cathe- 
rine, Liston, Sarah and Thomas ; will dated Aug. 28, 1769 ; Saul 
Alverd, of Bolton, executor. This name was early in the New 
Haven Colony, but was not in the Connecticut Colony until after 
1700. 

BALL, ALLING, was at New Haven in 1644. The name has 
been frequent at Branford. 

Farmer notices FRANCIS, of Springfield, 1644 ; JOHN BALL, 
of Concord, who came from Wiltshire, in England, admitted free- 
man, 1650, d. 1655; his son JOHN, of Watertown and Lancaster. 
NATHANIEL, who settled at Concord, had sons, Nathaniel, Eben- 
ezer, Eleazur and John ; RICHARD, of Salisbury, 1650. 

BALL, EDWARD, of Branford, Conn., Oct. 2, 1665, signed 
the rules with many others of Branford, to govern their town " upon 
Passaick River," in New Jersey, that none should be admitted free 
burgesses in their town, except such planters as were members of 
some of the Congregational churches, or elected magistrates, or to 
some judicial office, or assistants or deputies, to make or repeal laws, 
or to be elected to any chief military office, unless they were 
members of the church, &c. 

EDWARD was a first settler at " Brainford," Conn. 

JOHN free in Mass., 1650. 

BALL, RICHARD, a trader, was received an inhabitant and tax 
payer in Dover, N. H., in 1668. 

BALL, RICHARD, of Wells, at Wells, 16.53. 

BALL, RICHARD, of Salisbury, Mass., before 1650. 

BALL, MATTHEW, was witness to the will of John Holland, 
of Dorchester, Mass., dated 16th, 10th, 1651. 

BALL, SAMUEL, of Springfield, freeman, 1681. 

BALL, JOHN, of Concord, free March, 1689-90; also NA- 
THANIEL. 

BALL, JONATHAN, of Springfield, freeman, 1690. 



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BALL, Mr. DANIEL, d. at Waltham, March 9, 1717-18, aged 
34 years. 

BALL, SALLY, d. at Windsor, Conn., April 5, 1821, aged 58 
years. EDWARD, of Branford, Conn., removed to Newark, New 
Jersey, with Mr. Pierson's company, in 1666 or '7. 

EDWARD, and Joseph Harrison, of Newark, N. J., were ap- 
pointed attorneys for Newark, Oct. 18, 1686, to see tlie town orders 
executed, and prosecute otfenders, and have one-half the sums re- 
covered for their fees. He signed with twenty-two others of Brain- 
ford, Oct. 2, 1665, the first instrument to settle at Newark, N. J., 
then and for a time after called Milford. He was prosecuted for a 
rescue with John Harrison, Feb., 1672-3, but released from the 
fines by paying court charges. In 1683-4, Edward Ball, Azariah 
Crane and Joseph Riggs, were appointed " to lay out the bounds be- 
tween us and Hockquecanung." In 1686-7, EDWARD was one 
of a large committee at Newark, " to take notice of all lands that 
persons had appropriated to themselves," and order how a fourth 
division of land should be laid out. Ephraim Burwell, from Mil- 
ford, was one of said committee ; Edward Ball was on another im- 
portant committee for Newark, in 1682. 

Ball has eight coats of arms, and Ball or Balle one. Balle has 
three. 

BALTUS, LOTT, was a squatter upon land in Sharon before it 
was sold ; he left the town in 1742, and resided afterwards in Ame- 
nia, N. Y. {Sedgwick.) 

BANBURY, JUSTIS, probably of Hartford ; will dated Nov. 30, 
1€72- He notices, in his will, his daughter Plumbe ; Elizabeth 
Plumb ; Hanna Butleer, or Butler ; his daughter Butler and her 
children ; and gives to Debora Green 20s., to Mr. John Whiting 20s. ; 
witnessed by Gregory Winterton and Jane Winterton. (Probate of 
the will at Hartford.) 

BANCROFT, JOHN, d. at Lynn, 1637, had sons: John, Thom- 
as and Ebenezer. Roger, of Cambridge, 1636, freeman, 1642, d. 
Nov. 28, 1653. {Farmer.) 

BANCROFT, (Bancraft,) JOHN, perhaps son of John of Lynn, 
was at Windsor, Conn., about 1645. He m. Hanna Duper, (or 
Draper,) Dec, 1650. Children: John, b. Dec, 1651 ; Nathaniel, 
b. Nov. 19, 1653 ; Ephraim, b. June 15, 1656 ; Hanna, b. April 6, 
1659 ; Sara, b. Dec. 26, 1661. He d. at Windsor, 1662. 

BANCROFT, NATHANIEL, son of John, m. Hanna, daughter of 
John Williams, Dec. 26, 1677, by Capt. Newberry. His son, John, 



124 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

b. Jan. 2, 1678 ; son Nathaniel, b. Sept. 25, 1680 ; perhaps others. 
( Windsor Rec.) 

BANCRAFT, EPHRAIM, son of John, m. Sarah Stiles, daugh- 
ter of John, May 5, 1680. 

BANCRAFT, SAMUEL, of Windsor, 1647. William, of Wind- 
sor, early. John was the first of the name at Windsor. 

BANCROFT, THOMAS and Margaret, of Springfield, had issue : 
daughter Lydia, b. ye 6th of 2d mon., 1655 ; Margaret, b. 16th of 
8th mo., 1656 ; Anna, b. 10th of 7th mo., 1658 ; Thomas, b. 2d of 
11th mo., 1659 ; Anna, b. May 5, 1663 ; Samuel, b. Jan. 25, 1667. 
Thomas settled at Enfield, in 1681 ; had a son, Nathaniel, b. at En- 
field. 

BANCROFT, THOMAS, son gf Michael, was b. at Enfield, Oct. 
24, 1683. Thomas Bancroft, Sen., d. Dec. 14, 1684 ; John, son of 
Thomas, d. at Enfield, Feb. 26, 1684. 

BANCROFT, JOHN, a first settler at Staffbrd,* and an original 
proprietor of the town. Five of the name of Bancroft had graduated 
at Harvard College, before 1832. 

BANCROFT, THOMAS, one of the sons of John, of Lynn, had 3 
sons : Samuel, Aaron and George. John, of Lynn, was the ancestor 
of Hon. George Bancroft, now of New York, (through Thomas, son of 
John,) the celebrated historian of this country. Hon. George early 
represented the town of Northampton in the General Assembly of 
his native State. He was appointed Collector of the Customs at Bos- 
ton, Jan. 8, 1838, which he held until March 31, 1841. He was ap- 
pointed Secretary of the Navy, in March, 1845, which office he re- 
signed in Sept., 1846, and accepted the office of Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary to England, which important post he held, with great credit 
to himself and his country, until Aug. 31, 1840, after which he re- 
turned to the United States, and has located in the city of N. York, 
where he is pursuing the publication of his valuable History of the 
United States. lion. George Bancroft was b. Oct. 3, 1800. He m. 
Sarali H. Dwight, of Northampton, in 1827, and had issue : Sarah 
D., b. Aug. 18, 1831,— she d. Jan. 11, 1832; Louisa Dwight, b. 
Jan., 1833, d. Aug. 9, 1850; John Chandler, b. April 24, 1835; 
George, b. Feb. 16, 1837. His wife, Sarah H., d. June 26, 1S37. 
He m. for his 2d wife, on the 16lh day of Aug., 1838, Miss Eliza- 
beth Davis Bliss, and had a daughter, Susan Jackson, b. May 30, 

•Stafford began to settle as early as 1719. Mr. Graham had preached there in 1723, and 
continued about 10 years, and tden settled at Southbury, 1733. The exact time they had town 
privileges at Stafford, is not found. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 125 

1839, d. Oct. 27, 1845. The direct line from John, of Lynn, Mass., 
was as follows, to Hon. George Bancroft, viz. , 

John Bancroft, who d. 1637, leaving sons, John, Thomas and 
Ebenezer. 

Thomas, d. 1718. 
Samuel, 
Samuel, 
Samuel, 
Aaron, 
Hon. George. 

It is supposed the Bancrofts, of Windsor and Hartford, were de- 
scendants of the Lynn family. 

BANCROFT, ROGER, freeman, 1642, in Massachusetts. BAN- 
CROFT (London, 1604) has 2 coats of arms. 

BANES, BENONY, was Surveyor of Highways at Suffield, in 
169S and 1704 ; Tything-man in 1700 and 1714 ; Fence Viewer at 
Suffield, 1710-11 ; Selectman in 1713. Little is found of this fam- 
ily, — but from the offices he held, I conclude he must have been re- 
spectable. BAYNES has 5 coats of arms, and BA YNE 5. BANE 
has 2 coats of arms. 

BANKS, JOHN, was an early settler at Windsor, and had one 
child b. there. He was appointed Clerk to size the weights and 
measures for Windsor, in 1643. He was fined twenty shillings, in 
1650, of which he was freed by the General Court. In 1661, he 
was appointed by the General Court, with Richard Olmsted and 
Joseph Judson, to run the town line from south to north, between 
Fairfield and Stratford, also the cross line. He was Deputy from 
Fairfield, twice in 1651, once in 1661, twice in 1663, twice in 1604, 
and once in 1665. Juror in 1645, Sept., 1651, Oct., 1650. He had a 
house lot of 2 1-2 acres in Fairfield, Jan. 5, 1649, and other tracts 
of land afterwards. In May, 1651, he purchased land there, of 
Daniel Frost. ( Town Rec.) He probably removed to Fairfield soon 
after he obtained his house lot. His descendants are now found at 
Greens-farms, and other parts of Fairfield County. Farmer says 
Richard Banks was a member of the church, at York in 1673. 

BANCKES, RICHARD, free, Massachusetts, 1652. BANCKE 
has 1 coat of arms, and BANCKS 1. BANKE has 6. BANKES 
has 1, and BANKS has 5. 

BANKS, DAVID, a son of Jonathan, deceased of Middletown, 
aged 14, chose Hon. Jabez Hamlin for his guardian, 1747-8. 
BANKS, JOHN, of Middletown, d. in 1730. Inventory, dated 
H* 



12G GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Dec. 23, 1730, £373, 10^. Ud. Children: Sarah, Mary, and per. 
haps others. His relict Administratrix. Whether John Banks, of 
Middletown, was a son or grandson of John, of Fairfield, is not 
known. 

BARADELL, JOHN, m. Ann Denison, sister of George Denison, 
of New London. 

BARBER, THOMAS, of Windsor, was one of the early settlers 
of Windsor ; he came here when young, and the court held at Hart- 
ford, March 28, 1637, "ordered y' Mr. Francis Stiles shall teach 
George Chappie, Thomas Coop' and Thomas Barber, his servants, 
in the trade of a carpenter, accordinge to his p''mise for there s'vice 
of their terme hehinde 4 dayes in a weeke onelie to sawe & slitt 
their owne worke," &c. This fact identifies him, as Thomas Bar- 
ber, of Simsbury, who contracted to build the meeting-house in Sims- 
bury* before or as early as 1677. He was made a freeman in 1645 ; 
defendant in court, 1648. Sergeant Barber, for his disorderly stri- 
king Lieut. Cook, was adjudged to forfeit his office and fined to the 
country £5. He was the first of the name found in Connecticut. 
He m. after he came to Windsor, in Oct. 7, 1640, and had children 
viz., John, baptized July 24, 1642 ; Thomas, Jr., b. July 14, 1644 
Sarah, baptized July 19, 1646; Samuel, baptized Oct. 1, 1648 
Mary, baptized Oct. 12, 1651 ; Josiah, b. Feb. 15, 1653. The de- 
scendants of Thomas, of Windsor, have many of them been men of 
wealth and influence in Connecticut. 

BARBER, JOHN, eldest son of Thomas Barber, m. Bethsheba, 
and had children, Joanna, b. April 8, 1667 ; John, Jr., b. July 14, 
1669. He removed to Simsbury ; made his will Feb. 4, 1711-12 ; 
his wife Mary, executrix ; gave all his estate to his wife, for the final 
benefit of his children ; freeman, 1669. 

BARBER, THOMAS, Jr., m. Mary Phelps, 166- and had issue: 

Mary, b. ; Sarah, b. July 12, 1669. Thomas d. at Simsbury, 

May 10, 1701. Estate, i:488, 18*. 2d. 

BARBER, SAMUEL, son of Thomas, Sen., wife, Mary Long, 



* As late as April, 1773, it was voted at Simsbury "to sing on the Lord's days, in the after- 
noon, according to the rules taught in the sinking schools, in this and the neighboring socie- 
ties." To this, Phelps adds a good anecdote ; " soon after this, a teacher of music was em- 
j)loyed ; after practising some time he appeared with his scholars in church on a Sunday, and 
the minister having announced the psalm, the choir, under the instructor's lead, started off with 
a tune much more liuehj, than the congregation had been accustomed to hear; upon which, 
one of the deacons (Hrewster HIglcy) took his hat and left the house, exclaiming as he passed 
down the aisle, "popery! popery!" popery ! I 



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had issue : Thomas, b. Oct. 7, 1671 ; Samuel, Jr., b. Jan. 26, 1673. 
His wife d. and he m. a daughter of Jolin Drake, of Windsor, and 
had Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1681. 

BARBER, JOSIAH, youngest son of Thomas, Sen., m. Abigail 
Loomis, daughter of Nathaniel, Nov. 22, 1677, and had Abigail, b. 
March 12, 1678 ; Sarah Barber, relict of Lieut. Josiah, of Windsor, 
probably his second wife ; her children were Enoch and Nathaniel 
Drake, Benoni Trunible, Remembrance Shelding, Sarah Trumble 
and Hannah Shelding, in 1730. 

BARBER, THOMAS, of Simsbury, d. about 1713, relict Mercy, 
children, Thomas, Andrew, Sc'ruh Robe, Ann, wife of Jonathan 
Higly, Hannah Adkins, Johanna Adkins and Samuel Barber ; his 
son John d. before his father ; his son Thomas, administrator, June 
1, 1713 ; inventory £488, 18a-. Sd., taken May 21, 1713. 

BARBER, MINDWELL, (daughter of Samuel, deceased, and 
Ruth,) d. unmarried, and her brother Joseph appointed administrator, 
March, 1713; inventory £61, 11*. ; distributed to her brothers and 
sisters then living, 1714, viz., Samuel, Jr., David, Joseph, Benjamin, 
John, Mary, wife of Peter Brown, Ruth, wife of William Phelps, 
Sarah Barber and Elizabeth. 

BARBER, SAMUEL, of Windsor, deceased; had children, 
Mindwell, Samuel, Joseph, David, Benjamin, John, William, Mary, 
Ruth, Elizabeth and Sarah; Ruth, his widow, and William Phelps, 
his son-in-law, executors of his will, exliibited and proved the will 
1709; will dated Feb. 21, 17U8-9 ; inventory £-598, 45. lOd. ; his 
son William d. in 1704, and left a widow Esther, and a son William, 
noticed in his grandfather Samuel's will. Samuel had si.x sons and 
five daughters. Mindwell d. single, about 1713. Samuel Barber, 
the father-in-law of Esther, the relict of his son William, was ad- 
ministrator on his son William's estate, in Sept., 1704. Samuel 
gave his son David land in Hebron. (William Barber had land in 
Killingworih, and resided there in 1674.) 

BARBER, WILLIAM, son of Samuel, (m Esther or Hester,) d. 
in 1704 ; left a son William, and others. 

BARBER, WILLIAM, and Ruth, his wife, of Windsor, had chil- 
dren, Elizabeth, b. 1606; George, b. Aug. 24, 1668; (William, 
Jr., b. Feb. 10, 1686.) 

BARBER, JOHN, (probably son of John,) m. Mary; she ofTered 
the will of John, her dear husband, in court, in 1712 ; letter of ad- 
ministration granted to her as his relict, June, 1714 ; inventory dated 
April 2, 1712; £161, lO.y. Mary Buell, in 1719, was guardian for 



128 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

John and Mary's children, in 1719, viz., Mercy, about sixteen years 
years old in 1719; William, thirteen; Mary, eleven; and Isaac, 
about eight years old. 

BARBER, SAMUEL, THOMAS, JONATHAN and JOHN, 
brothers, from Windsor, settled at West Simsbury, (Canton,) 1738. 
Samuel was a physician : he had eleven sons and three daughters : 
he d. 1797, aged 83 years. Tryphena, his wife, has the oldest 
monument there. Thomas, his brother, had five sons and five 
daughters ; he d. 1792. Jonathan, aLso a brother, had two sons and 
one daughter ; he d. 1745, at the fight at Louisville. John Barber, 
the other brother, had five sons and one daughter; his son Reuben 
d. as late as 1825. John, himself, d. in 1797, aged 77. 

BARBER, JOHN, of Simsbury, d. March 1, 1711-12: £163,55. 
4:d.; Mary, widow; children: Mary, aged 9, b. Jan. 4, 1708-9; 
John, 7; William, 14; Isaac, b. May 2, 1711. 

BARBER, JOHN, Jr., on the 14th of Sept., 1674, had allotted to 
him in Feather street, Suffield, fifty acres of land, also sixty acres, 
in 1680. John, Sen., was one of the Selectmen of Suffield, in 1631- 
2 ; also, 1682-3. Thomas, had allotted to him in Suffield, in 
Feather street, July 14, 1674, fifty acres of land. 

THOMAS, of Suflield, m. Anne, and had Joseph and Benjamin, 
b. Feb. 1, 1676, twins; Aquilla, his son, b. July 17, 1679; Anne, 
b. Aug. 4, 1681 ; Moses, b. Nov. 14, 1687; John, b. April 4, 1684. 
His son Benjamin d. Aug. 15, 1690. 

THOMAS' twin sons Joseph and Benjamin, had an allotment of 
forty acres in Suffield, 1681, provided their father should pay the 
rates until the sons become of age. 

BARBER, JOHN, m. Joannah, of Suffield, had John b. Feb. 19, 
1687; Joseph, b. Feb. 18, 1689; Hannah, b. May 27, 1682 ; Ma- 
ry, b. Feb. 8, 1683. The father d. Aug. 29, 1690. SAMUEL, 
of Hebron, is described in a deed from Rev. Thomas Buckingham, 
of Saybrook, as from Windsor. JOHN and SAMUEL, from Wind- 
sor, were proprietors and first settlers at Harwinton, 1733-4. This 
name is found in various places in Massachusetts, as early as at 
Wethersfield or Windsor, and in some places before. This has be- 
come so extended and numerous a family, the friends only can be 
at the expense of collecting them in order. Rev. JONATHAN was 
ordained at Groton, Nov. 3, 1758. JOHN BARBER, Peter Brown, 
William Bewell and Benedictus Alvard, were freemen at Windsor, 
Conn., in 1669. George and Elizabeth, his wife, of Dedham, Mass., 
had a daughter Mary b. there, 1643. GEORGE BARBER, Hen- 



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rie Barnes, Ellis Baker, Alexander Burlie, Barnabie Barnes, and 
others embarked from England in the Transport, of London, Ed- 
ward Walker, Master, July 4, 1635, for Virginia, per certificate 
from the minister of Gravesend, of their " conformitie " to the orders 
and discipline of the church of England. RICHARD'S will of 
Dedham, proved in court, in 1646. WILLIAM, of Lynn, m. 
Elizabeth Buck, May 4, 1767. George, free, Mass., 1647. JNO., 
Sen., and .FNO., Jr.. took the oath of allegiance, at Springfield, 1678. 
One of the name of Barbour, graduated at Harvard College, in 1818, 
and four by the name of Barber graduated at Yale College, before 
1843. THOMAS, 1637, apprentice to Francis Stiles, made free 
1645. 

Barber has nine coats of arms, and Barbers one. Barbor, two. 
Barbour two, one in Staffordshire, and the other in Scotland. 

^BARBER, JOHN, and Bathshua, his wife, were at Springfield, 
as early as 1670 ; had issue b. there, viz., Return, b. May 29, 1672 ; 
Thomas, b. Feb. 4, 1674 ; Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1677, perhaps others. 
Thomas, d. at Weslfield, or Suffield, July 11, 1689. 

BARBER, JOHN, of W^indsor,d. May 29, 1767, aged 71 : Jane, 
his widow, d. Dec. 21, 1770, aged 71 years. Thomas d. Feb., 
1816, aged 65. Jane, widow of Thomas, d. Aug. 3, 1804, aged 
76. Thomas d. Dec. 30, 1S02, aged 76. Tirzah, wife of Reuben, 
d. Sept. 28, 1821, aged 60. Benjamin d. April 12, 1797, aged 44. 
Jonah, d. June 26, 1795, aged 72. Jerusha d. Feb. 6, 1781, aged 51. 
Ann, wife of Gideon, d. May 15, 1768, aged 41. Jerijah,* d. Feb. 
7, 1792, aged 54. Loanna, his wife, d. July 9, 1793, aged 49. 
Captain Jerijah d. March 24, 1820, aged 54. Deborah, wife of 
Capt. Jerijah, d. Sept. 29, 1803, aged 29. Mary, wife of Eli Bar- 
ber, d. Dec. 21, 1817, aged 50. Capt. David d. Oct. 30, 1796, 
aged 64. David d. May 10, 1805, aged 52. Lieut. Josiah Barber 
d. Dec. 24, 1738, aged 76. {Windsor Reccd.) 

BARBER, NATHANIEL, deceased, of Hampton : daughter Ma- 
ry, baptized Dec. 28, 1729. 

BARCLET, in 1643, was the master of James Ilallet, who was 
in the house of correction at Hartford. The court ordered said Hal- 
let to return to his master, Barclet, from the house of correction, 
and ordered his master to keep him to hard labor and coarse diet, 



• Ep.TAPn. — " In memory of Mr. Jerijah Barber who died Feb. 2, 1792, aged 54. He was 
the son of John Barber, who was son of Samuel, Ihe son of Thomas, who was one of the first 
English settlers on this Continent." — (Probably an error.) 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



during the pleasure of y' court, provided Barclet first removed his 
daughter from his family before Hallet entered the house. 

BARCLEY, Mr. THOMAS, resided at Fairfield, as early as 
1680 ; his daughter Mary, m. John Nash, May 1, 1684. 

BARDING, (Berden, Berdin, Barden,) NATHANIEL, was an 
original settler at Hartford, lived upon what is now called Lord's 
Hill, a short distance west of the city, in 1640. He was probably 
married before he came to Hartford. He m. for his second wife, 
Abigail, the widow of William Andrews, and d. about 1674. He 
left ah only child Sarah, who m. Thomas Spencer. He had six 
acres in the land division of Hartford, in 1639. Perhaps Elizabeth, 
wife of Samuel Andrews, was daughter of Mr. Barding. In 1645, 
he had a suit in court at Hartford, (where he is recorded as Ber- 
ding.) In 1649, he was fined 10^. for sleeping when on watch. 
In 1658, he (by the name of Berdin,) with George Graves, and oth- 
ers, complained to the General Court, against Mr. Webster, &c., 
the withdrawers at Hartford. He was a gentleman of good stand- 
ing in the colony. 

BARKER, THOMAS, an original settler at Windsor. 

BARKER, JAMES, had fifty acres of land in Suffield, 1676. 
He m. Mercy, and had Samuel, b. April 15, 1679 ; Oliver, b. March 
20, 1681, perhaps others. 

OLIVER, m. Mary, and had Thomas, b. Nov. 10, 1725. Oliver, 
the father, d. March 23, 172-. 

Rev. NEHEMIAH, graduated at Yale College, 1742, and was 
ordained in the 3d society of Killingly, in 1746. 

Seven of this name have graduated at Yale College, and seven at 
Harvard College. This name has been at Boston, Dedham and oth- 
er towns in Massachusetts. 

THOMAS, free in Massachusetts, 1640. James Barcher free- 
man, Massachusetts, 1650. John, of Andover, Mass., free, 1673. 
James Barker, of Springfield, free, 1690. 

EDWARD, a first settler at Branford, in New Haven Colony. 
EdvVard was one of the Patentees of Branford, granted by the Gov- 
ernor and Company, in February, 1685. 

Barker has twenty-three coats of arms. 

" A Sirtivicat presented at October, Gineral Court, 1668, to make 
way for those parsons to be admitted freemen, (of Windsor,) Joseph 
Gillett, Joseph Skinner, Tahan Grant, Jonathan Winchell, Nicholas 
Buckknd, Samuel Barker and Mr. Chancy." (Book 2, p. IL Wind- 
sor Records. \ 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 131 

BARKER, JAMES, and Mary, his wife, had a son Joseph b. at 
Springfield, Nov., 1676, and perhaps other children, 

BARKER, an early settler at Say brook, Conn. 

NATHANIEL, of Hampton, 1724, owned tlie Covenant, and had 
his children baptized, and in full communion, 1725. 

BARLEY, THOMAS, was a Defendant in Court, in 1649, at 
Hartford. 

BARLAY, has two coats of arms, and Barle, one, and Barley, 
eight. 

BARLOW, JOHN, Sen., wife Anna, of Fairfield : children, John, 
Elizabeth Frost, Martha Beers, Deborah Sturgis, and some others ; 
he d. about 1674. He and his son John, Jr., were made freemen 
in 1664. 

THOMAS, of Fairfield, will dated Sept. the 8th, 1658 : wife Rose ; 
had no sons : daughters, Phebe, Deborah and Mary. Mr. Thomas 
Pell appointed overseer of his will. Thomas d. as early as 1674. 
He had been a large landholder at Fairfield. Thomas was a Juror 
in 1645 ; but as he left no sons, John Barlow was probably the an- 
cestor of Hon. Joel Barlow.* As the first records of Fairfield were 



• Hon. Joel Barlow, LL. D., was born in Reading, in Fairfield County, Conn., in 1755. Edu- 
cated in part at Dartmouth College, in 1774 or '5, and graduated at Yale College, in 1778, in 
the cla.«s with Hon. Zephaniah Swift, Uriah Tracy, Noah Webster, Oliver and Alexander VVol- 
cott, and other eminent men. He was early found by Trumbull and Dr. Dwight, to possess po- 
etic talents of the highestorder. In 1778, he delivered his poem "On the Prospect of Peace." 
After he graduated he read law and divinity for a short time, and received the office of chap- 
lain in the army. In 1783, he resumed the study and profession of law, andlocated himself as 
a Lawyer at Hartford, and soon after entered into company with Elisha Babcock, Esq , then of 
Springfield, and Mr. Babcock removed his press to Hartford, where they printed " The American 
Mercury." In 1785, by request of the clergy of the "General Association" of Connecticut, he 
revised the Psalms of Dr. Watts. His "Vision of Columbus," was published in 1787. He re- 
linquished his interest in the "American Mercury," about 1788, and embarked for England, as 
Agent for the "Sciota I..and Company," and went to France, on the same business, where he 
became interested in the politics of the country, and joined the "Girondists," and gave up his 
agency. He returned to England about 1791. His writings, while in England, had given some 
offence, and he returned to France in 1792. His three cantos on " Hasty Pudding" shewed 
liis poetic talent as happily as any effort he had ever made. In 1795, he had the appointment 
of Consul to Algiers, where he made a treaty, by which he set free the Americans held in sla- 
very by the Dey. He also made a like treaty at Tripoli, and there redeemed the American pris- 
oners, and returned to Paris, in 1797. In 1805, he returned to the United States. In 1811, 
he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to France. In 1812, on his way to VVilna, to confer 
with the Emperor Napoleon, he took a violent cold: his lungs became inflamed while at a small 
village in Poland, (Zarwnnica,) Oct. 2, 1812, where he died. 

Mr. Barlow married a daughter of Michael Baldwin, of New Haven, a sister of Hon. Hei.ry 



132 GENEALOtSY Of THE PURITANS. 

destroyed, it is now impossible to ascertain llie time any of their first 
settlers were there. Thomas is found there, in 1645, when he and 
"Jehu Burre," the elder of Fairfield, were ordered to be warned to 
the next ParUcular Court, April 10, 1045 ; and Juror, '45. JOHN, 
Sen. and Jr., of Fairfield, were accepted to be made free in Oct., 
1664. 

BARLOW, BENAGER, and his wife Anna, of North Stratford, 
had "Susa," b. Jan. 2, 1750 ; Phebe, b. June, 1752, «Sic. 

JOHN, on Fairfield town record, as early as 1650 ; and Thomas 
as early as 1654. Thomas Beardsley and Nathaniel Baldwin, in 
1649. 

BARLOW, JAMES, had allotted to him in Suffield, by the Com- 
mittee in 1680, in High street, in Suffield, fifty acres of land, where 
he settlf d. Not found where he was from. 

BARLOW, JAMES, of Suffield, and Sarah Huxley, were joined 
in marriage. James Barlow, the son of James, which Sarah, his 
wife bore to him, b. Jan. 27, 1688. James Barlow, Sen., d, March 
16, 1689-90. James Barlow, Jr., and Mary Harmon, were joined in 
marriage, April 1, 1714. Their children were, Mary, b. March 17, 
1714-15 ; Sarah, b. Jan. 14, 1716-17 ; Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1719 ; 
James, b. June 16, 1721; Anne, b. June 19, 1723; Nathan, b. 
March 26, 1726; Elenezer, b. Jan. 30, 1727-8; Deborah, b. Nov. 
14, 1729 ; Edmund, b. May 18, 1732. 

BARLOE, JAMES, took the oath of allegiance in Massachusetts, 
1678, (O. S.) supposed of Hadley. 

BARLOW, SHIIBAL, had a daughter Mary b. at Rochester, 
Mass., Aug. 15, 1712. Aaron Barlow, and his wife Bulah, had a 
daughter Elizabeth b. at Rochester, Aug. 22, 1684. 

George, of Exeter, 1639, Saco, 1652. 

Barlo has two coats of arms. Barloughe one. Barlowe one. 
Barlow eight. 

BARNARD, JOHN, and FRANCIS, were both first settlers in 
Hartford. John resided in Hartford, south of Little River, and south 
of Robert Bartlett, and adjoining on the south to William Holton, in 
1640. He also had a lot on the same side of the river, bounded east 
by G. Wilterton, and west by his own and Arthur Smith's land. 



Baldwin of Pittsburg, Penn,, and supposed a half-sister of Hon. Abraham Baldwin, of Georgia, 
(See BALDWIN.) Not known whether he left children. 

A sister of Mrs Barlow, accompanied him and his lady to France I this sister married an 
officer in the United States Army. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. ] 33 

(This name is spelt Bernard, and Barnard.) John was probably in 
Hartford, as early as 1637, and owned land in 1639 ; he was a Ju- 
ror at Hartford, March 2, 1642-3 ; Nov., 1643 ; Aug., '44, and '46 ; 
twice in 1649 ; townsman in 1644 and '46 ; deputy in 1642-3. He 
was a man of active business habits, and held many offices at Hart- 
ford. He, with Andrew Bacon, in 1640, returned into Court an In- 
ventory of the Estate of Thomas Johnson, the cobbler, deceased, be- 
ing £11, 5^. lOd. He was fined two shillings for not appearing in 
court, as Juror, in 1648. John Barnard and Andrew Bacon, were 
exempted from training, watching and warding, in 1656, by the 
General Court. He, with Nathaniel Ward, &c., were appointed 
by the General Court, in 1658, to take an account of the charge of 
the Elders of the last council, and the maimed man, and distribute, 
by way of rate, upon both parties, viz., the church at Hartford, and 
the withdrawers. He, with Nathaniel Ward, Richard Lord and 
Nathaniel Richards, were elected townsmen for Hartford, Feb. 3, 
1644. John had twenty-four acres in the land division, at Hartford, 
in 1639, and seventy-two acres on his right, in East Hartford, June 
12, 1666. His death is found on the Hadley record, May 23, 1664. 
He was m. but left no children. In 1659, he signed the contract to 
remove to Hadley, Mass., which he performed. 

BARNARD, FRANCIS, was an early settler at Hartford, view- 
cr of chimneys and ladders in 1646. He was not known in the land 
division at Hartford, in 1639. He m. Hannah Merrells or Marvin, 
at Hartford, Aug. 25, 1644. In 1644, he resided "on the corner 
of Main and Charter streets, in Hartford." (Porter.) He became 
the ancestor of many clergymen. He signed the contract to remove 
to Hadley, in 1659, which he performed. Hannah, his wife d. at 
Hadley, 1676. Sarah Barnard d. at Hadley, 1676. There was a 
Francis Barnard, settled at Ilarwinton, about 1733. 

BARNARD, BARTHOLOMEW, of Hartford, was an early set- 
tler, though, not the first at Hartford. He was a gentleman of good 
standing in the town, and held many of the offices in the gift of the 
town. lied, in his old age, about 1697-8: he m. Sarah Burchard, 
Oct., 1647. In 1647, he lived on lot No. 33, in Hartford. In 1655, 
he was fined five shillings by the Court, for neglecting to return the 
warrant for deputies to the General Court, as ordered. In 1655, he 
and William Partrig, were the Constables of Hartford. He was made 
free in 1656. His children were, 

John, 

Joseph, 

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134 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Hannah, 

Elizabeth Wadsworth, 

Sarah Steele, b. Dec. 3, 1648, 

Mary Bunce. 

His will is dated March 9, 1691. Inventory dated 1697-8. 

JOSEPH, son of Bartholomew, m. Lydia , and had an only 

son JOSEPH, to whom he gave all his lands : his daughters Lydia 
Goodwin and Elizabeth King, he gave legacies. His will is dated 
Dec. 30, 1737 : a codicil was added to the will, in 1739-40. Lydia, 
his relict. 

Serg. JOHN, son of Bartholomew Barnard, made his will May 
30, 1732. He gave his wife Sarah, the use of one-third of his real 
estate for her life ; his cousin Jonathan Olcott, he gave a share of 
his lands in Hartford • his cousin Joseph Olcott, he gave his other 
lands and buildings. He d. in 1734. Joseph Olcott, Executor of 
his will. Estate about £200. He left no children. His brother, 
Joseph Barnard, appealed from the decision of the court, in 1734. 
Widow Sarah's dower was setoff to her in 1735. 

Joseph, the only son of Joseph Barnard, and the only grandson of 
Bartholomew, by the name of Barnard, became a deacon. His wid- 
ow Elizabeth's dower set out to her in 1793 ; he d. 1792-3. 
Inventory offered in Court, Jan. 15, 1793, (perhaps d. at Hartford, 
1779.) The foregoing descendants of Bartholomew Barnard, are 
not known as relatives to any of the Barnards now of Hartford. 

BARNARD, JOHN, known on the Hartford records, as John the 
blacksmith, came late to Hartford. He purchased land of John Day, 
in Hartford, March 15, 1732-3; also of Joseph Shepard, Oct. 14, 
1738 ; also of Stebbins Wilson, 1739; also purchased land in Hart- 
ford, of Thomas Olcott, of New Hartford, in 1741 ; also John Barn- 
ard, blacksmith, purchased land in Hartford, in 1753 and '4. (He 
was probably called John the blacksmith, to distinguish him from 
John, son of Bartholomew Barnard.) The wife of a John Barnard, 
d. at Hartford, July 8, 1755. John m. Catharine Case, of East 
Hartford, and had children; John, Sen., d. about 1771. 

John, who m. Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Bigelow. 

Ashbell, m. Dolly, daughter of Zebulon Mygatt, d. of small pox. 

Samuel, m. Gibbs, and settled at Litchfield. He deeded land in 
Hartford, which he had by descent from his father John, deceased, 
late of Hartford, Sept. 15, 1781. 

William, m. Patty Kilbourn, and lived at Hartford. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 135 

Lucy, m. Adams, of Litchfield ; liad several children, and ni. 
Mr. Waugh, of Litchfield, for a second husband. 

Betsey, m. a first and a second husband. 

Catharine, widow of John Barnard, m. a second husband at a dis- 
tance, in 1777, for wliich reason she asked to be released as admin- 
istratrix. 

JOHN, son of John and Catharine Barnard, m. Hannah, daughter 
of Jonathan Bigelow ; they had issue, viz., 

James, d. of small pox, in 1776. 

Dorus, d. Jan. 18, 1818, aged 59 ; Abigail, his wife, d. Nov. 23, 
1811, aged 52. 

Grove m. Mary Ann Ensign, d. March, 1837, aged 73 ; left issue. 

Chauncey m. first, Betsey Andrews, and second, Eliza Seymour. 

Clarissa m. Dorus Clark, of Hartford. 

Hannah m. Thomas Sloan, of Hartford, and both d. at Hartford, 
lefi children. 

Lois m. Moses Burr, and both d. at Hartford ; left children. 

John m. Sally Robbins, daughter of Levi, of Hartford ; left issue. 

Second James m. Betsey Goodrich, of Wethersfield, daughter of 
Joshua, and had issue. 

The wife of Capt. John Barnard, d. March 15, 1800, aged 61 
years. John d. Dec. 28, 1812, aged 91 ; b. 1722. 

DORUS, son of John and Hannah Barnard, m. Abigail Dodd, of 
Hartford, and had children, viz., 

William m. Polly Shepard, and had a son William. 

Capt. Harry m. Eunice Clark, of Hartford, and had issue. 

George m. first, Jerusha Clapp, she d. May, 1830, aged 42, and 
second, Mary Smith, of East Haddam ; left issue. 

Tabitha m. Lemuel Steele, of Albany, N. Y. 

Horace m. Harriet Thwing, of Charleston, South Carolina ; he 
d. in Charleston, and Chauncey Barnard, of Hartford, m. his widow. 

Charles d. single, on his way home from South Carolina, Aug. 5, 
1827, off Sandy Hook, aged 30. 

Harvey m. Phcbe Brodwell, of Utica, N. Y., where he resides. 

GROVE, son o( John Barnard, Jr., and Hannah, m. Mary Ann 
Ensign ; he d. Feb. 8, 1832, aged 69 or 72 years ; he had chil- 
dren, viz., 

Rufus m. first, Mary ; second, Mary Chapman; third, 

Aurelia . 

Jonathan, son of Grove, had two wives, and several children. 

Mary m. Seymour Watrous, and had children. 

Edwin m. in N. Y., and has a son in Hartford, and Charles in N. Y. 



136 GENEALOGY OF THE PUniTANS. 

Charles, son of Grove, m. , and resides in Granville, Mass., 

and has children. Mary Ann, wife of Grove, d. March, 1837, aged 73. 

CHAUNCEY, son of John, Jr., and Hannah, m. first, Eliza An- 
drews, and second wife, Eliza Seymour ; the last d, in Feb., 
1831, aged 60 ; his children were, 

Betsey m. Allen C. Boardman, of Hartford ; he d. 1851. 

Chauncey m. the widow of Horace Barnard. 

John m. Mary Boardman, daughter of Benjamin. 

Hon. Henry m. a lady at Detroit, Michigan, and has children. 
This Hon. Henry is the Commissioner of Common Schools in Con- 
necticut. Chauncey, the father, d. March 5, 1837, aged 72 : he 
was b. Nov. 16, 1761. 

JOHN, son of John, Jr., m. Sally Robbins, and had issue. 

Cecelia, unmarried. 

Levi R., d. young. 

Elisha W., of New York, m. Frances Dodd, of Hartford. 

Sophia m. Marinus Lord, lives in Hartford. 

Cornelia m. Mason Gross, Esq., of Hartford, and has children. 

Lavinia, single. 

Delia m. Sylvanus Cone, of W. Hartford, in 1S51, and has a child. 

Sarah, single. 

JAMES, son of John, Jr., m. Elizabeth Goodrich ; children : 

Edward Raymond, m. Sarah Davis, of New York, both d. and 
left a son Raymond. 

Elizabeth m. Epaphras Roberts, of East Hartford, and has issue. 

Mary m. Edward Griswold, of Simsbury. 

Martha, unmarried. 

Horace m. Harriet Miller of Simsbury, and has children. 

Julia m. Julius H. Sharpe, of Hartford. 

Jane, unmarried. 

James G., d. Feb., 1836, aged 28. 

Thomas, son of James, m. Miss Shepard, of Hartford. 

ASHBELL, son of John, settled at New Hartford, Oneida County, 
N. Y., and had three daughters and some sons. 

WILLIAM, son of John, m. and had children, all d. except one ; 
that survivor m. Ezra Corning, and had one son and three daughters. 
The foregoing families, after John the blacksmith, are his descend- 
ants. 

BARNARD, SAMUEL, came to Hartford, soon after 1700. No 
positive evidence is found of his parentage, or from what place he 
came, to Hartford. He m. Sarah, daughter of Caleb Williamson, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 137 

of Barnstable, Mass., Aug. 12, 1714, who, afterwards settled at 
Hartford, as a merchant. The children of Samuel and Sarah, were, 

Sarah, b. May 15, 1715. (Goodwin says bap. May 22, 1714.) 

Samuel, b. Aug. 9, 1717. (Goodwin says bap. Aug. 18, 1717.) 

Timothy, bap. Jan. 3, 1720. 

Rebecca, bap. May 22, 1722. 

Ebenezer, bap. Jan. 9, 1726. 

Ebenezer, bap. Jan., 1726-7, d. April 19, 1799, aged 73 years. 

Samuel, the father, d. . 

BARNARD, EBENEZER, Sen., son of Samuel and Sarah, was 
a gentleman of good standing in the colony. He m. for his first wife, 
Thankful Nichols, daughter of Cyprian, of Hartford, in 1747, by 
her, he had four children : 

Ebenezer, Jr., b. Feb., 1748-9. 

Thankful, b. 1751. 

Cyprian, b. 1753. 

Timothy, b, 1756. 

His wife Thankful d. and he m. a second wife, (name unknown.) 
By her he had two daughters, viz., Betsey and Sally. His second 
wife d. and he m. a Steele for his third wife, by whom he had no 
children. His will proved Sept 27, 1799, and dated Jan. 2, 1799 : 
son Timothy, Executor. He left a widow, whose thirds, or dower, 
was set out to her. 

BARNARD, EBENEZER, Jr., b. 1748, son of Ebenezer, m. 
Elizabeth Lane : she had no children. His will was proved in 
Court, May 10, 1827. Estate over $60,000. Nathaniel Goodwin, 
Esq., one of his executors and legatees under the will. He devised 
to his sister Thankful S. Townsend, two-fifths. To his brother 
Cyprian, one-fifth, and his brother Timothy, two-fifths of his estate. 
He also gave his half-sister Elizabeth, the wife of John Ripley, 
$900, and the three children of his deceased sister Sally McCartee, 
$900. His friend N. Goodwin, $300; Jonathan Law, Esq., and 
George W. Perkins, smaller sums, as a token of his esteem. 
Will dated Feb. 15, 1825. Inventory appraised at $02,412.98. 
Few men in Hartford, sustained a better reputation than Mr. Barn- 
ard. He and his wife both d. in Hartford. Ebenezer, Jr., d. May 
8, 1827, aged 78. 

BARNARD, THANKFUL, daughter of Ebenezer, Sen., b. 1751, 

m. Rev. Mr. Mather, a congregational minister, then of New 

Haven, Conn., at the commencement of the war of the revolution. 

By whom she had three children, vi2.. Increase, Allyn and So- 

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138 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

phia : the first d. in infancy ; Allyn, lost at sea, unmarried, and So- 
phia perhaps resides at New Haven, also single. After the death 
of Mr. Mather, his relict m. Ebenezer Townsend, of New Haven, 
and had two children, Elihu and Grace. Elihu m. Miss Nevins, and 
now resides in New York, a gentleman of large estate. His sister, 
Grace, m. Nathan Starr, of Middletown, and had a large family. 

CYPRIAN, son of Ebenezer, Sen., b. 1753, m. first, a lady in 
Bermuda,, and had no children. She d. and he m. for his second 
wife, Miss Wilson, of Stamford. By her he had seven children ; two 
daughters d. young; his daughter Elizabeth, m. Elihu Olmsted, of 
West Hartford, deceased, the former Post Master there, until his 
death : his vidow yet resides there with her only son. The eldest 
son of Cyprian, m. Miss Bacon of New Haven, where they both lived 
and died, and left an only son John, who is yet living in New Ha- 
ven, unmarried. William, the next son of Cyprian, d. at sea and 
left a wife and two children in Philadelphia, Penn. Charles, Cyp- 
rian's next son, d. at his sister Olmsted's in West Hartford, and left 
no children. Edwin, his youngest and only surviving son, is a 
merchant in Wisconsin: he m. Henrietta Ripley, daughter of John, 
before named, and by her has a son and daughter, Edwin and Hen- 
rietta, who are with their parents. Cyprian Barnard d. Nov., 
1832, aged 80. 

BARNARD, Hon. TIMOTHY, b. 1756, youngest son of Ebene- 
zer, Sen., of Hartford : removed and settled in Mendon, N. York, 
where he became a Judge of the County Court ; he m. Phebe, 
daughter of Daniel Dewey, of Sheffield, Mass., and had ten chil- 
dren, five of whom d. in infancy and youth, the other five lived un- 
til after the death of their father, in 1847, aged 91. His eldest 
daughter, Harriet, d. single, in 1847. 

TIMOTHY, Esq., his eldest son, now resides in Mendon, N. Y,, 
he m. Julia Hills, daughter of Ashbell, of Lenox, Mass., and has had 
nine children, three d. in infancy, and six are now living; his el- 
dest daughter m. William L. Reynolds, son of William, formerly of 
Enfield, Conn., (a descendant of Rev. Mr. Reynolds, of Enfield, de- 
ceased,) and had three daughters: Francis, the eldest, in N. York, 
Margaret and Julia, with their mother at Mendon. 

JULIA H., the next daughter of Timothy, m. Rev. Ephraim 
Strong, who d. in Joliett, ill., and left three children : Helen H., re- 
sides at Hudson, Ohio ; Clara and Sophia, reside with their mother at 
Dundee, 111,, who now lives with her second husband, Alfred 
Edwards. 

BARNARD, ALGERNON S., the eldest son, m. Elizabeth Ray- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 139 

nolds, daughter of William, before named, and resides in Illinois. 
They have three children, viz., Julia B., Timothy and Robert R., all 
young. 

ALLYN M., the next son, is in California, and unmarried. 

FRANCIS H., the youngest son, ni. Tercssa C. Sterling, daught- 
er of Lord Sterling, (formerly of Lyme, Conn.,) now of Lima, N. Y. 
Francis resides in Mendon, and lias no children. 

PHEBE ANN, the youngest daughter, is unmarried and resides 
with her parents. 

BARNARD, Hon. DANIEL D., son of Hon. Timothy, deceased, 
has by his talents, perseverance and industry, rendered himself the 
most prominent man of the name in this country, as a lawyer, schol- 
ar and statesman : he has been several years a member of Congress 
from the state of New York, and is now on a mission to Prussia, as 
Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin. He m. for his first wife, Sarah 
Livingston, daughter of Henry, of the city of New York, by whom 
he had a daughter Cora. He at this time, resided at Rochester, 
N- Y. ; his wife d. at Washington, D. C, at the time he was in Con- 
gress. After her decease, he removed to Albany, where he m. 
Catharine Walsh ; by her he had a daughter Sarah : his children are 
unmarried. His family mansion is yet in Albany, though he is at 
Berlin, with his family. 

ELIZA L., daughter of Timothy, m. Alexander Voorhees, son of 
John H., of Florida, N. York, and had four children, one of whom re- 
cently died. Eliza and James A., are yet living with their widowed 
mother, unmarried, at Pittsford, N. Y. Mr. A. Voorhees is deceased. 

EBENEZER H., youngest son of Timothy, ni. Sophia Griswold, 
daughter of Shubel, Esq., of East Hartford, Conn., by whom he had 
five children ; two d. young ; Elizabeth P., Frederick G. and Henry, 
are young and unmarried, and reside with their parents, at Mendon, 
New York. 

Betsey or Elizabeth, daughter of Ebcnezer, Sen., by his second 
wife, m. John Ripley, then of Hartford, and had a large family of 
children, who now reside in Massachusetts. Sally, daughter of Ebe- 
nezer, Sen., by his second wife, m. Wm. J. McCartee, and had three 
daughters. He removed his family to Schenectady, N. Y., where he 
was a book merchant, and where he and his wife died. His daugh- 
ters m. and removed to the West : he left no sons. 

The above descendants of Samuel Barnard, and Sarah William- 
son, his wife, have proved, by their industry, and talents, as worthy 
as any of their name in New England. 



140 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BARNARD, THOMAS, b. in Bristol, England, d. at Hartford, 
Nov., 1724, aged 42 years. {Tombstone.) His will dated Sept. 2, 
1724, at Hartford, alias Simsbury. He gave all his property to Je- 
mima Smith, the wife of Benjamin, of Hartford, and made her sole ex- 
ecutrix of his will ; he appears to have been a merchant at Sims- 
bury, probably unmarried. 

BARNARD, Capt. EDWARD, of Windsor, who d. at Windsor, 
about 1783 ; his will dated Feb. 5, 1783. The Executor refused to 
act, and the Probate Court at Hartford, appointed Elihu Griswold 
and Lemuel Barnard, Administrators, with the will annexed, June 

24, 1783 ; his wife was Mabel . He noticed in his will, the 

children of his son Edward, then deceased ; and his own children, 
viz., Lemuel, (Moses Barnard, his son-in-law,) Edward, deceased, 
and his daughters Mabel, Abigail, Hannah, Miriam and Roxana. 

BARNARD, EDWARD, Jr., son of Edward and Mabel, of 
Windsor, d. before his father ; his widow Ruth. Moses Barnard, 
of Simsbury, and Timothy Burr, of Windsor, were administrators; 
children left by him when he d. in 1775 or '6, viz., Ruth, aged 10, 
Edward 8, Sarah 6, Selah 5, and Lucretia, 3 years old, and Capt. 
Edward, their grandfather, appointed guardian for them. 

There were also Dea. Joseph, of Windsor, who d. there, in 1788, 
Samuel and Moses of Simsbury, all of whom probably originated at 
Hadley, and not found to be relatives of the Barnards of Hartford. 

BARNARD, Widow ABIGAIL, of Windsor, deceased. Joseph, 
her son. Executor. Inventory over j£200, in 1747, children: Jo- 
seph, Edward, Francis, Abigail, Sarah, Ann and Rebecca. 

JOHN BERNARD, of Watertown, Mass., an early settler there, 
wife Phebe, interred at Watertown, 28th of 4th month, in 1646 ; he 
held eleven lots of land there. (Wat. Rec.) 

Fifteen persons by the name of Barnard, had graduated at Har- 
vard College, in 1832, and two by the name of Bernard. Nine by 
the name of Barnard, at Yale College, 1850. 

BURNARD, JOHN, free at Boston, Oct. 19, 1630, took the free- 
man's oath, May, 1631. 

BERNARD, FRANCIS, of Hadley, freeman, 1666. Jno. Bar- 
nard, of Watertown, freeman in Massachusetts, 1671. 

BARNARD has eighteen coats of arms. BERNARD has six 
coats of arms. 

BARNARD, SAMUEL, Joseph and Francis of Hadley, took the 
oath of allegiance, in Massachusetts, in 1678. 

BARNARD, JOHN, of Amesbury, Mass., free 1690. Thomaa 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. I'll 

Barnard, Son., of do., free 1G90. William Bernard was transported 
to Virginia, in the ship America, 1635. 

BERNARD or BARNARD, an early name at Watertowji, Mass. 
An old name at Weymouth and Hadley. 

BARNARD was a familiar name at Salem, Mass., after 1700, if 
not before. 

BARNARD, HANNAH, m. John Stevens, of Andover, Mass., 
June 13, 1602; also Stephen Barnard m. Rebecca How, in 1671, 
of Andover ; also Mr. Thomas Barnard of Andover, 1686. John 
Bernard, freeman in Massachusetts, 1634. 

BARNARD, MATHEW, of Boston, freeman 1673. 

There have been many families by the name of Barnard at Hart- 
ford, and yet no evidence is found, that any affinity by blood existed be- 
tween the heads of each or any of the different branches. John and 
Francis Barnard, were at Hartford, first settlers: they both removed 
to Hadley, about 1659. John had no children. It is supposed the 
Barnards of Windsor, were the descendants of Francis Barnard. 
Bartholomew Barnard appeared in Hartford, about 1646 or '7, and 
m. and had children, grand-children and great grand-children : now 
none of his descendants, by the name of Barnard, are left in Hart- 
ford. The next Barnard at Hartford, was Samuel, about 1713, the 
ancestor of Hon. Daniel D. Barnard, of Albany. The next Barn- 
ard at Hartford, was probably Thomas, who was b. in Bristol, Eng- 
land, d. at Hartford, Nov., 1724, aged 42 years, and left no family. 
The next was John, the blacksmith, so called on the record to distin- 
guish him from John Barnard, the son of Bartholomew Barnard. 
All the Barnards now left in Hartford, are descendants of John, the 
blacksmith. It is not known where the last John was from, when 
he came to Hartford. 

BARNES, THOMAS, resided quite in the north-west part of the 
village, in Hartford, in 1640, on land bounded north-east by the road 
to the cow pasture, cast( rly on the road to Hon. Matthew Allyn's 
land, westerly by Thomas Upson. He was one of the brave sol- 
diers in the Pequot battle in 1637. He settled first in Hartford, and 
removed to Farmington in its early settlement, where he died in 
1689 or '91. He was an original proprietor in Hartford, and had 
six acres of land allotted to him, in the land division of Hartford, in 
1639 — had land di.stributed to him east of the river in 1663. His wife 

Mary . He disposed of his estate by deeds in" 1688 : children, 

Thomas, Ebenczcr, and he had older children he had previously pro- 
vided for; Thomas, Jr., who settled and died at Middletown, had 



142 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

children, John, Daniel, Thomas, Mercy Jacobs, Martha, Elizabeth, 
son Maibe, and Abigail. He died June 10, 1691 ; wife, Elizabeth, 
died 1694. 

EARTHS, MAYBEE, of Middletown, son of Thomas, Jr., m. Eliz- 
abeth Stow, Nov. 19, 1691, and had children, Nathaniel, b. Dec. 31, 
1691, m. Hannah Ginnings, of Windham, Oct. 29, 1712; Elizabeth, 
b. April 16, 1693 ; Samuel, b. July 8, 1695 ; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 19, 
1697 ; Thomas, b. .May 21, 1700; Joseph, b. Aug. 15, 1702; Ger- 
shom, b. Sept. 13, 1705 ; Maybee Barnes d. March 6, 1748-9 ; 
Elizabeth, his wife, d. Feb. 21, 1737-8. 

NATHANIEL, son of Maybee and Elizabeth Barnes, of Middle. 
town, m. Hannah Ginnings, of Windham, Oct. 29, 1712 : had chil- 
dren, Nathaniel, Jr., b. March 10, 1713-14 ; Jonathan, b. Jan. 27, 
1715, d. Feb., 1715-16 ; Susannah, b. Feb. 22, 1716-17 ; David, b. 
Dec. 8, 1718, d. 1718 ; Jerusha, b. Feb. 17, 1719-20 ; Jemima, b. 
Feb. 17, 1719-20; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1722. His son Nathaniel 
was born at Windham. 

BARNES, THOMAS, son of Thomas, Jr., and Mary Barnes, of 
Middletown, were m. June 16, 1727, and had issue : Simeon, b. 
Aug. 22, 1728 ; Thankful, b. June 14, 1730 ; Solomon, b. July 6, 
1732 ; Jonathan, b. June 16, 1734, d. 1758 ; Abigail, b. March 26, 
1736, d. 1758 ; Daniel, b. Aug. 21, 1738 ; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 12, 
1740-1 ; Thomas, b. Feb. 17, 1743, and Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1745-6. 

BARNES, JOHN, son of Thomas, Jr., of Middletown, m. Eunice 
Tryon, Aug. 18, 1726 ; children, John, b. Nov. 22, 1726 ; Eliza- 
beth, b. April 23, 1728 ; Eunice, b. July 23, 1730, d. young ; 
Charles, b. Sept. 12, 1732 ; Jabez, b. Jan. 15, 1734-5 ; Abiah, b. 
July 2, 1742, d. 1762 ; Abel, b. Aug. 18, 1744. 

BARNES, EBENEZER, of Middletown, son of 

m. Mehitabel Miller, Dec. 28, 1727, and had children, Isaac, b. 
Oct. 9, 1728 ; Ebenezer, Jr., b. Jan. 23, 1729-30; Amos, b. March 
25, 1732 ; Rhoda, b. March 20, 1733-4 ; Elijah, b. June 4, 1736. 

BARNES, JOSHUA, Deputy to the General Court, May 1663 ; 
probably the same Joshua who was at East Hampton, L. I., in 1653. 
BARNES, MATTHEW, of Wetherstield, probably an older son 
of Thomas, wife Abigail, m. Jan. 12, 1692 ; had a son, Matthew, b. 
August, 1694 ; his wife died and he married for his second wife, Ex- 
perience, Jan. 12, 1698. 

BARNES, JOHN, of Wethersfield, m. Esther Blin, Feb. 23, 
1764, and had Aziel, b. Aug. 21, 1767; Melvin, b. May 8, 1772; 
Anson, b. March 4, 1775 ; Edmond, b. Dec. 2, 1779 ; John HessiU 
ton, b. Aug. 7, 1782. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 143 

BARNES, WJLLIAi\f, of Iladdam, (Mary, his relict.) She died 
Feb., 1715-16 ; estate ^229, 2*. Id. Barnes, Mary, early at Pequot. 

BARNES, MARY, of Pequot, had a warrant issued against her 
to be brought before the particular court in 1649. Thomas Barnes, 
of Farmington, was confirmed a sergeant of the company at Far- 
niington, in 16.31 ; Daniel, of New Haven, in 1644. 

Farmer mentions Matthew, of Braintree, in 1640, Boston, 1653 ; 
Thomas, of Hingham, 1637, freeman, 1645; William, freeman, 
1641, was one of the proprietors of Salisbury, Mass., in 1640. 
Dodd mentions Thomas, brother of Daniel, of New Haven ; had 
sons, Thomas, b. 1653, Daniel and Maybee. Twelve of this name 
had graduated at Yale College before 1850 ; and seven by the 
name of Barnes, and one by the name of Barns, at Harvard College, 
before 1840. 

BARNES, RICHARD, Jo. Buttler, Hundgate Baker, Lawrence 
Barker, Jo. Bowes, Elizabeth Bateman, Thomas Burd, Henry Butler, 
Jo. Budd, Richard Ball, James Brooks and wife Alice, Elizabeth Ba- 
ker, and others, were embarked in Assurance de Lo : Isaac Bronnvell 
and George Pewsie, masters, for Virginia ; they were examined by 
the minister of the town of Gravesend, of their " conformitie in 
o' religion," and took the oath of allegiance and supremacy. {H. 
G. Somerhy) 

BARNES, JOHN, William Baker, Mr. Bradford, John Bradford, 
Robert Bartlett, of Plymouth, are in the list of those able to bear 
arms in 1643, in the colony of New Plymouth. 

BARNES, THOMAS was a passengeron board the Speedwell, of 
London, bound for New England, registered at Gravesend, search- 
er's office. May 30, 1656. - 'X^v*^. 6 ^-^.i' 

BARNES, MATTHEW, at Braintree, in 1641. William Barnes, 
freeman, Mass., 1641. 

BARNES, WILLIAM, of Salisbury, Mass., an original settler 
about 16.50. 

BARNES, NATHANIEL, of Boston, made free 1677. 

BARNES, THOMAS, of Marlb., freeman, 1673. James Barnes, 
of Boston, freeman, 1681. 

BARNS, RICHARD, and John of Marlborough, Mass., free 1690. 

Barnes has seventeen coats of arms. 

There was a John Barnes at Hartford, 1639. There was a Gid- 
eon Barnes, and Mehitable, his wife, at Hampton, and a daughter 
Deborah, baptized there June 10, 1739; Joanna, baptized May 10, 
1741, and Elizabeth baptized there March 13, 1743, and joined the 



144 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

church ; Joanna also joined the church at Hannpton, when she was 
baptized ; also Deborah. Gideon and Mehitable Barnes adnnitted to 
the church in Hampton, Jan. 15, 1740. 

BARNET, JAMES, in 1683, was a signer with other inhabitants 
of Roxbury, Mass., to settle the town of Woodstock. About 1700 
there were several other families moved into Woodstock, viz.. Rice, 
Carpenter, Joseph Bacon, Philip Eastman, Ebenezer Truesdell, and 
Rachel, his wife, and had a son Thomas, b. there Nov. 1, 1711 ; 
Benjamin Griggs, Robert Mason, Ebenezer Eastman, who m. Sarali 
Peasley, of Haverhill, Mass., June 3, 1713, and settled at Woodstock. 
Philip Eastman, Sen., d. there Oct. 20, 1714, Millers ; Edmond 
Ainsworth d. there March 5, 1740-1, aged about 89 years. Hon. 
John Chandler, Esq., alsod. Aug. 10, 1743, in his 79th year. 

BARNUM,* (Barnam,) THOMAS, of Fairfield, purchased land 
at Norvvalk,-j- as early as 1662. He received an appointment at Nor- 
walk, as late as 1676. His children born atNorwalk, were Thomas, 
b. July 9, 1663 ; John, b. Feb. 24, 1676-7 ; Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 
1680 ; Ebbinezer, b. May 29, 1682. Mr. Barnam removed to Dan- 
bury in the early settlement of the town, and perhaps had other chil- 
dren after his removal. He was the ancestor of those of the name 
now at Danbury, at Bridgeport, New York, Baltimore, &c., and of 
p. T. Barnum, of Bridgeport, a man as extraordinary in his way, as 
was Napoleon in his, or Julius Ccesar in his. He had only learned 
when young, that the world loved humbugs more than realities, and 
he has feasted them upon fictions until he has satiated their appe- 
tites, and filled his own cofiers, in which he has shown his tact over 
his fellow-men in procuring a fortune ; he may be well noted as an 
extra of the age, possessing talents, in his way, that few men have. 

BARNUM, THOMAS, in 1681, was appointed by the town to 
keep decorum during the exercise on the Sabbath, and at other 
public meetings, and to keep a small stick to moderately correct the 
disorderly. In 1671, he was put down in the list of estates at £40 
of commonage. 

Barnham has three coats of arms. 



* In the early records, the name is usually spelled Barnam, though it has changed to Bar- 
num. It is supposed by many that it was originally the same as Burnham, Burnam, or Bur- 
num, as the name is spelt on the different records in Connecticut. I arn inclined to believe the 
name is Barnham. If the family have their coat of arms, they may settle the question. 

t Master Roger Ludlowe, of Fairfield, purchased of the Norwaike Indians (deed) lands east of 
Norwaike river,Feb. 26, 1C40, viz., "all the lands, meadows, pasturinge, trees, whatsoever their 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 145 

BARRINGHAM, PATRICK, of Hartford, d. in 1753, and left a 
widow, Abigail, with a good estate. 

BARRETT, SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, was ordered by the Par- 
ticular Court, Dec. 5, 1645, to serve Arthur Smith, one year, for £8. 

BARRETT, JAMES, of Wethersfield, m. Anne Carrington, Dec. 
3, 1761, and had Selah, b. Dec. 24, 1762 ; Anne, b. Sept. 4, 1764 ; 
Martha, b. Jan. 27, 1766 ; Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1768, d. ; second Mary, 
b. Sept. 7, 1769 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1771 ; Ruth, b. April 17, 1775 ; 
James, b. May 7, 1777. 

This name was also at Hartford before 1700, and was a respecta- 
ble and wealthy family. 

Barrett, Jewett, Squires and Spalding, were some of the first set- 
tlers of Cornwall, Conn. 

BARRET, JOHN, Jr., of Welles, in 1653. 

BARRATT, HUMPHRY, in Mass., 1658, and at Concord, a 
freeman in 1682. It has been an early name at Concord, Mass., 
and Cbarlestown. 

BARRETT, BENJAMIN, of Hadley, took the oath of allegiance 
in Mass., 1678. 

BARRETT, Mr. EZEKIEL, of Norwich, known as a separatist, 
was imprisoned for refusing to pay his parish tax to Dr. Lord, for 
which his cow was sold. 

Four of this name had graduated at Yale College, before 1845, 
and eight at Harvard. 

BARRET, JONATHAN, of Hartford, m. Rebecca Whaples, 
Nov. 12, 1712. 

Baret has two coats of arms ; Barett, four ; Barrett, twenty-eight ; 



is, and grounds betweene the two rivers, the one called Norwalke, the other Soakatuck, to the 
middle of sayed rivers, from the sea a day's waike into the country." 

On the 20lh of April, 1()40, Capt. Daniel Patrick purchased of Norwakc Indians the ground 
called in the deed, '• Sacunyte napucke. ; also Mecanworth ; thirdly, Asumsowis ; fourthly, all 
the land adjovninge to the aforementioned, as farr up in the cuntry as an Indian can goe in a 
day, from sun risinge to sun settinge; and twoe islands neere adjoining to the sayed Carante- 
nayruck, all bounded on the west side with Noewanton, or> the east side to the middle of the 
river of Norwake, and all trees, meadows, waters and naturell adjuncts thereunto belbnginge, for 
bim and his forever." The meadows, &.C., west part of Norwake. Mr. Ludlow, of Fairfield, 
entered into articles of agreement with Nathaniel Eli, of Hartford, " in the river of Connecticut, 
Rithard Olmsted, of the same, in behalfe of themselves and Rithard Webb, Nathaniel Rithards, 
Mathew Marvin, liithard Seamer, Thomas Spencer, Thomas Hales, Nathaniel Ruskoe, Isaacke 
Graves, Ralph Keeler, John HoUoway, Edward Church, John Ruskoe," &.C., about planting Nor- 
walke, over the 19th day of June, 1050. The precise lime the first families located at Nor- 
walke, as settlers, is not fully certain, probably as early as 1C51, as Rev. Mr. Hanford, (Ur. 
TcumbuU says,) began to preach there in IC52, 

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146 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Barrette, one ; Barratt, one ; Barrett, thirty ; Barrit, one ; (Ja- 
maica.) 

BARRET, JONATHAN, of Hartford, and wife, Rebecca, had 
Bathsheba, b. Jan. 1, 1716; Dorothy, b. Feb. 14, 1717. 

BARRET, THOMAS, aged sixteen years, embarked for New 
England, in the Increase, Robert Lea, master, April 15, (probably 
1G35.) 
BARROWS, ROBERT, of Wethersfield, 1645. 
BARROWS, BENJAMIN, of Windsor, d. in 1763. Goods and 
chattels, £20. 

BARROWS, SYLVANUS, from Windham, to Mansfield, wife 
Ruth; issue : Mehitabel, b. March 29, 1756; Francis, b. Feb. 13, 
1758, d. Sept. 24, 1781 ; Sylvanus, m. Trephea Webster, Sept. 14, 
1786, and had a son Francis, b. Sept. 4, 1787 ; Lydia, b. May 5, 
1790 ; Lenard Hensley, b. Feb. 5, 1795 ; his daughter Mehitabel, 
m. Joseph Johnson, of Windham, for his second wife, June 19, 1783, 
and had issue : Betsey, Bela, Dan, second Dan, Harry and Guy, b. 
Feb. 23, 1799. 

Barrow has eleven coats of arms ; Barrowe, one. The s has 
probably been added to the name since the emigrant came to this 
country, as the s is omitted in all the coats of arms. 

BARSTOW, WILLIAM, and wife, of Dedham, Mass.; his son 
Joseph, was b. there in 1639. 

BASTOWE, MICHAEL, made free in Mass., March, 1635-6. 
This name came to Connecticut after 1700, and is found in Fairfield 
county. 

BARTHOLOMEW, (Bartlemewe.) HENRY, had a suit in court 
at Hartford, vs. Thomas Marshfield, of Windsor, in June, 1643. 
Bartholomew has two coats of arms. 

BARTHOLOMEWE, WILLIAM, freeman in Mass., March 4, 
1634-5. 

BARTHOLOMEWE, HENRY, free in Mass., May 7, 1637. 
Henry, of the first church in Boston, freeman in 1681. 

BARTHOLOMEW, HENRY, of Salem, wife Elizabeth, d. Sept. 
1, 1682, aged about sixty years. Richard, freeman in Mass., 1641. 
BARTHOLOMEW, Rev. ANDREW, graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, 1731, and settled at Harwinton, about 1736 or '7, and d. 1776. 
This name was early in the New Haven colony, and several fami- 
lies are yet in New Haven county. 

BARTAN, WILLIAM, of Kensington, d. 1745. 
BARTON, JAMES, of Hartford, d. and his widow's dower set 
out to her, 1787. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 147 

This name was much earlior in Mass. and R. I., than in Conn. 

BARTON, WILLIAM, aged sixteen years, in 1756, chose Josiah 
Burnham, of Farmington, for his guardian. 

BARTON, RUFUS, of Providence, R. I., 1G48. Thomas, in 
Mass., 1646. {Fanner.) 

May 12, 1664, Mr. Barton, Henry Poring, and others, of Long 
Island, were made freemen by Connecticut. 

Barton has twenty-eight coats of arms ; Barton or Burton, one. 

BARTON, EDWARD, took the oath of fidelity at Pamaquid, 
1674. 

BARTRAM, EBENEZER, of Fairfield, had a son Job, who m. 
Jerusha Thompson, daughter of Mr. David Tomson, Nov. 18, 1762. 
Job, Jr., and Mary Bartram, b. May 10, 1767 ; wife Jerusha, d. 
Nov. 24, 1773 ; Job m. for second wife, Abigail Starr, widow of 
Daniel Starr, Jr., and daughter of Wakefield Dibble, of Danbury, 
Nov. 7, 1774, and had a son, Daniel Starr Bartram, b. Jan. 2, 1776. 
His wife, Abigail, d. Jan. 14, 1776, aged 27. 

BARTLETT, ROBERT, was b. in England, in 1603 ; he came 
to Plymouth, in the Ann, in 1623; hem. Mary Warren, (daughter 
of Richard and Elizabeth Warren.) He d. in 1676; his wife d. a 
few years after ; they had children, viz : 

Benjamin, m. first, Sarah Brewster, 1656, second. Cicely , 

1678 : he d. 1691. 

Joseph, b. 1638, m. Hannah Fallowell, who was b. 1638, and d. 
1710: he d. 1712. 

Mary, m. first, Richard Foster, Sept. 10, 1651 ; second, Jonathan 
Marcy, July 8, 1659. 

Rebecca, m. William Harlow, Dec. 20, 1649. 

Sarah, m. Samuel Rider, of Yarmouth, Dec. 23, 1656. 

Elizabeth, m. Anthony Sprague, of Hingham, Dec. 26, 1661, and 
d. Feb. 7, 1712-13. 

Lydia, b. June 8, 1647, m. first, James Barnaby, and second, John 
Nelson, of Middleboro. 

Mercy, b. March 10, 1650-1, m. John Ivey, of Boston, Dec. 25, 
1668. (See Judge Milcheirs History of Bridgewater, and KusseU's 
Guide to Plymouth.) 

BARTLETT, CHRISTOPHER, of Newbury, b. about 1623 ; 
hem. first, in 1645. Mary Hoyt, his second wife, in 1660. He had 
issue: Christopher, b. June 11, 1655, m. Deborah Weed, 1677 ; Jon- 
athan, b. 1657, d. 1059 ; John, d. young ; Mary and Martha ; JOHN, 
of Newbury, 1637, d. 1679, aged 66 ; Richard, of Newbury, 1637, 



148 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

d. May 25, 1647, left sons, Richard and Christopher ; Richard, his 
son, b. 1621, settled at Newbury, which he represented from 1679 to 
1681, also in 1684. He d. in 1698, aged 77 ; his wife, Abigail, d. 
March 1, 1687; had sons: Samuel, b. 1646, m. Elizabeth Titcomb, 
1671 ; Richard, b. Feb. 21, 1649, m. Hannah Emery, Nov. 18, 1673, 
and had nine sons and two daughters ; Thomas, b. Sept. 7, 1650, m. 
Tirzah Titcomb, 1685 ; John, born June 2, 16.55, m. Mary Rust, 1680. 
Richard, the eldest of the nine sons of Richard, b. 1676, was the 
grandfather of Dr. Richard Bartlett, of Pembroke, New Hampshire, 
whose grandson Richard was Secretary of State, of New Hampshire. 
Stephen, the sixth son of Richard, was grandfather of Gov. Josiah 
Bartlett, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
{Farmer.) 

There was also another Robert Bartlett, who was an early settler 
at Hartford ; he resided south of Little River in Hartford, between the 
lots of John Barnard and Thomas Richards, in 1640, and received 
eight acres in the land division at Hartford, in 1639. His daughter 
Deborah, was baptized at Hartford, March 18, in 1645 ; he was 
made free in 1645 ; was a viewer of chimneys and ladders a1 Hart, 
ford, in 1649. He removed to Northampton, about 1656, yet he held 
land in East Hartford, as late as 1664. The town of Hartford ap- 
plied to purchase it, on condition that if he refused to sell, to call on 
him for security not to sell it to improper inhabitants. Robert, last 
above, was killed by the Indians, March 14, 1675-6. {Northampton 
Records.) 

There was still another Robert Bartlett, who was a resident at 
"Pequett," (New London,) Conn., in 1646, (probably Saybrook.) 
In June, 1646, he was sentenced by the court (for slandering lady 
Mary Fenwick) to stand on the pillory, on Wednesday, during the 
lecture, then whipped, fined £5, and be imprisoned a half year. 
The same session of the court he was ordered to be whipped for giv- 
ing ill counsel to the prisoners, &c. [Col. Rec.) 

BARTLET, JOSIAH, was early at Windsor. 

*BARTLITT, JOHN, was early settled at Windsor, Conn., and 



* John Bartlitt, Edwards Francis, George Griswold, and Thomaa Holcombe, all of Windsor, (re- 
moved into the woods at Poquonack, west of Windsor.) The Gen. Court held Sept. 13, 1649, 
considered the many dangers to which they and their families were exposed by " their remoate 
Jiving from neighbours and nearness to the Indians, in case they should all leaue theire families 
togather without any guard ," freed -'one souldger of the forementioned families from training 
vppon eury training day ; each family aforesaid to share herein according to the number of 
souldgers that are in them : provided that man w<:h tarryes at home stands about the aforesaid 
houses vppon his sentinell posture." (Col. Rec.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUUITAN3. 149 

as early as Sept., 1649, he removed to Poquonnack, into the woods, 
in the west part of Windsor, with the families of Thomas Ilolcombe, 
Edward and Francis Griswold, and George Griswold, all of Wind- 
sor. The General Court of Connecticut considered the many dan- 
gers to which they were exposed by the Indians, by their remote 
location from neighbours and nearness to the Indians, and provided 
for their protection. 

John Bartlitt had children : Esaza, b. June 13, 1641 ; Benjamin* 
baptized March 26, 1643 ; Ilepsiba, b. July 14, 1646 ; Jehoiada, 
baptized Dec. 23, 1649; Mehitabell, baptized May 11, 1651. John, 
the father, d. 1670. Ephraiin, of Windsor, d. 1648. Benjamin, 
son of John Bartlett, of Windsor, m. Debra Barnard ; children, 
Debra, b. Aug. 3, 1666 ; Benjamin, Jr., b. June 21, 1668, d. ; 

Esaza, b. 9, 1670 ; another son, b. July 26, 1672 j Ephraim, 

b. June 17, 1673 ; Jehoiada, b. Nov. 2, 1675 ; second Benjamin, Jr., 
b. Oct. 15, 1677. Edward, of Windsor, d. in 1676, and left no 
family. He gave a part of his estate to " Bcnoni Case, of Simsbury, 
a son of Christopher Crow." JOHN BARTLET kept the ferry at 
Windsor, in 1648. ( Windsor Records) 

BARTLETT, JEHIJADA, purchased a house and land, in 1678, 
of Thomas Huxly, of Hartford, for £20, and signed his name to the 
contract ; had a daughter Martha, b. at Hartford, July 28, 1674. 

BARTLET, WILLIAM, of New London, d. abo^it 1658, and 
gave all his out-lands to his brother Robert, and all the goods in his 
house, to his wife ; estate, <£250, 10^. ; J. Brewster and Robert 
Roys, appraisers. 

BARTLETT, WILLIAM, of Pequett, forfeited his bond, as did 
Edward Higbye, being called upon their recognizance before the 
particular court at Hartford, April 24, 1649. In May, 1049, he for- 
feited his recognizance of £20, and Edward Higbye, his security, for 
not bringing him into court, forfeited £10. In June, 1649, he again 
before the court, recognized in ^20, and Cary Latham also, in £20, 
that said William should appear before the particular court at Hart- 
ford, upon the first Thursday of September (then) next, and be of 
good behavior during the time. Sept., 1649, he was freed from 
training, with orders to keep his arms in order for service. 

BARTLETT, EDWARD, will dated Feb. 24, 1675, made when 
he was about entering into service against tlie Indians. He speaks 
of his house and land at Greenfield, (Poquonnock,) of money due him 
from James Hillier, and from the country, and other property. He 

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150 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

gave property to Benoni Crow, son of Christopher, of Simsbury, also 
to Josiah Clark ; will proved April 12, 1676. 

BARTLETT, BENONY and Mary, of Lebanon, had children : 
Charles, b. May 1, 1752; Sarah, b. March 9, 1754; Stephen, b. 
July 3, 1756 ; Priscilla, b. June 1, 1758. 

BARTLET, JOHN, James Lockwood and Samuel Keeler, Jr., 
were allowed to erect a platform from the gallery of the meeting- 
house in Norvvalk, in 1709. 

BARTLETT, JOHN, of Norwalk,m. Elizabeth Haynes, daugh- 
ter of Mr. William Haynes, Feb. 20, 1706 ; they had five daughters 
and sons, William and John. His wife d. Feb. 26, 1723-4. " Sir 
John Bartlett departed this life August 5, 1761, in y' 85th year of 
his age." 

BARTLETT, SAMUEL, of Hartford; inventory dated 1711; 
personal estate about £25. 

BARTLETT, SAMUEL, Jr., of Bolton, gave his mother Sarah 
£100 in case his daughter Abigail died without issue ; his will 
dated July 30, 1740. He died soon after. Rev. Thomas White, ex- 
ecutor ; he refused, and his relict Margaret, was appointed adminis- 
tratrix, in 1741, with the will annexed ; had an only child Abigail. 

BARTLET, SAMUEL, of Haddam,d. 1711. 

BARTLETT, Rev. MOSES, settled in the third society of Mid- 
dletown, June 6, 1733. 

BARTLET, Rev. NATHANIEL, settled at Reading, May 23, 
1753. 

BARTLETT, THOMAS, at an early period owned seven lots in 
Watertown, Mass., freeman 1634-5. 

BARTLETT, ROBERT, was rated for public use, 9*., payable 
in corn, at six shillings per bushel, in 1632-3, at New Plymouth, 
and 9s. in 1633-4. 

BARTELET, JOHN, was a freeman at Windsor, Conn., as early 
as 1669. 

BARTLETT, JOHN, freeman in Mass., 1637. This has been 
an old name at Northampton, Mass. 

BARTLET, ROBERT, of Marblehead, Mass., made free 1683. 
John, of Newbury, made free, 1684. 

BARTLET, ROBERT, d. at Northampton, March 1, 1675, 
(killed by the Indians.) 

"bARTLET, RETCHERD, Junir," of Medfield, was admitted 
to the freedom of Mass., in 1677. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 151 

BARTLETT, SAMUEL, and Nathaniel, took the oath of allegi- 
ance at Northampton, Mass., in 1678, (O. S.) 

BARTLET, SAMUEL, of Newbury, freeman, 1673. 

Whether the Bartlets of Connecticut are relatives of Judge Bartlet, 
afterward Governor of New Ilunipshire, is ncft known to the compiler. 

BARTLET, GEORGE, an early settler at Guilford. 

BARTLET, Rev. MOSES, graduated at Yale College, in 1730, 
and settled at Middlefield, a society in Middletown, June 6, 1733. 

Bartlet has six coats of arms ; Bartlett has one. Bartlett also has 
one. 

BARTLETT, SAMUEL, an early settler at Stafford ; was from 
Haverhill, on the Merrimack. He offended the Indians and left there 
for his safety, and was pursued by them. He went first to the house 
of Edward Kibbe, in Somers, where he remained some months, and 
m. his daughter Rebecca, after which he settled in West Stafford, 
and became one of the first men in the town in standing and influ- 
ence. 

The townsmen of Windsor thought " meete" April, 2, 1698, to send 
Josiah Bartlett, of Windsor, to Hadley, to the wile of Caleb Smith, 
to procure her to cure his lameness, and desired Sergeant Porter to 
send him thither. 

BATEMAN, WILLIAM, had a grant of land from the town of 
Fairfield, oftwo and a half acres, Jan., 1649, and other lands ; one tract 
purchased of Thomas Sherwood ; one lot on Bartow's Plain. Na- 
thaniel, of Watertown, Mass., 1640./ Thomas of Concord, freeman, 
1642, d. 1669, aged 55 : sons, Thomas, Peter, d. at Woburn, 1676 : 
John and Ebenezer./ William, of Concord, brother of Thomas, free- 
man, 1641 ; he removed to Chelmsford. William, perhaps father of 
William, was admitted freeman. May 18, 1631. {Farmer.) 

BATEMAN, ROBERT, Henry Burkett, Henry Bannester, Jo. 
Baylie and others, imbarked in the Transport, of London, Edward 
Walker, Master, for Virginia, per certificate from the minister of 
Gravesend, of their conformitie lo the orders and disipline of the 
church of England. 

BATEMAN, THOMAS, iree in Massachusetts, 1642. 

BATEMAN, WILLIAM, freeman, 1641, in Massachusetts. 

BATEMAN, WILLIAM, took freeman's oath at Boston, in May, 
1631. 

BATEMAN, ELEAZER, of Woburn, free, 1690. 



152 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

This is an old name in Fairfield county, and at Southbury, in New 
Haven county. 

Bateman has nineteen coats of arms. 

BATES, Mr. (JAMES,) probably came to Dorchester, Mass., in 
1635; selectman there*in 1637, 1638 ; one of the raters of the town 
also in 1638 ; also townsman in 1642. James Bates, selectman in 
1651. {Dor. Rec.) Freeman, 1636 ; Farmer says Deputy from 
Hingham, 1641. 

BATES, ROBERT, an early settler in Stamford, 1641— whether 
of the family which settled at Haddam, is not known. 

Robert Bates, was one of the first settlers of Stamford, and prob- 
ably went there from Wethersfield, with the first settlers of Stam- 
ford, in 1641. He was assessed in 1641, by the company, three 
bushels and one peck of corn, towards paying New Haven, for pur- 
chasing the place, &c., for them. Robert d. at Stamford, June 11, 
1675. 

BATES, Ensign JOHN, was one of the patentees of Stamford, 
from the Governor and Company, 1685. 

BATES, JAMES, at Saybrook, in 1669 and '77. 

BATE, SAMUEL, (now Bates,) of Saybrook, m. Mary Chap- 
man, May 2, 1676 : Samuel, b. April 4, 1677, d. 1677 ; Anna, b. 
Sept. 19, 1678 ; Sillens, (Silence,) b. July 27, 1680 ; 2d Samuel, 
b. Nov. 8, 1682 ; James, b. Dec. 16, 1683 ; Robert, b. Dec. 22, 
1686 ; Stephen, b. June 1, 1689 ; Ephraim, b. May 29, 1692 ; Dan- 
iel, b. Aug. 18, 1697. The father, Samuel, d. Dec. 2S, 1699. 

BATES, Lieut. JAMES, of Haddam ; his estate distributed 1732, 
over £900 : widow Mary ; grand-daughter, Elizabeth Fuller : chil- 
dren, Ruth Gibbs, £158, 3^. Ad. ; Rebecca Comstock, £158, 2s. 4d. ; 
Cloe Hall, £158, Ss. Ad. ; Mary Comstock, £158, 35. Ad. ; Abigail 
Bates, same ; Eunice Bate, Annah Bates : no sons. The mother of 
Elizabeth Fuller, d. before her grand-father James. Each child had 
over £158. 

John Bates, of Haddam, d. Jan. 15, 1718-19. Inventory £286, 
125. ; widow Elizabeth : children, John, Solomon, Joseph Graves, 
Jonathan, James Ray, Jr., Elizabeth Baily ; all signed a distribu- 
tion of the estate, as his children signed, 1718--19. 

James Bates, of Haddam, d. March 13, 1718. Inventory £596, 
5s. lOd. He was one of the twenty-eight proprietors of the town of 
Haddam, and purchaser. 

John and James Bates, of Middletown, in 1677. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 153 

BATE, Mr. JAMES, had several parcels of land at Thirty Mile 
Island, recorded June 18, 10G8. 

BATES, JAMES and Dorothy, of Colchester, had Zachariah, h. 
June 27, 1742 ; Ephraim, b. May 13, 1744 ; Dorothy, b. Aug. 10, 
1746 ; Oliver, b, July 17, 1748 ; Sarah, b. July 8, 1750 ; Rachel, 
b. June 30, 1754. 

John Bates, his son John, Jacob Bates, Nathaniel and David Bates, 
emigrated from Durham, Conn., to Granville, Mass., as did David, 
Ebenezer and Aaron Curtiss, with Samuel, Enoch and Aaron Coe. 
These Bates's are descendants of the family at Saybrook, East Had. 
dam and Durham. 

BATES, ELIJAH, Esq., son of Nathaniel, of Granville, late 
deceased, 1850; graduated at Yale College, 1794; settled at West- 
field as Attorney and Counsellor at Law; m. Miss Mary Ashley, 
daughter of Mr. Ashley, of Westfield. Hon. Wm. G. Bates, son of 
Elijah Bates, Esq., graduated at Yale College, 1825 ; m. Jane P. 
Ashley, only child of Maj. Wm. Ashley, late deceased, of Sheffield, 
Mass. 

Hon. Isaac C. Bates, son of Col. Jacob Bates, graduated at Yale 
College, 1802 ; an eminent lawyer ; he d. while a member of the Uni- 
ted States Senate, in 1845. Charles F. Bates, Esq., of Granville, 
son of Nathaniel. These men have been, and some of them now 
are, distinguished men in Massachusetts. Col. Jacob Bates was a 
Lieutenant in the war of the revolution, and was at the attack on 
Princeton, N. J. Eight persons of the name of Bates have gradu- 
ated at Yale College. This branch of the Bates family has pro- 
duced several eminent men. (See AUSTIN.) 

BATES, CLEMENT, freeman in Massachusetts, 1636. Ed- 
ward, at Boston, about 1636, freeman 1638, deputy of Weymouth, 
from 1638 to '41, and 1660. George, Boston, freeman, 1636. 
(Farmer.) 

This name is often spelt Bate, on the Connecticut Records. One 
by the name of Bate, and eleven by the name of Bates, had gradu- 
ated at Harvard College, before 1848, and eight at Yale College, 
before 1849. 

BATES, CLEMENT, of Middletown, m. Mary Horton, daughter 
of Benoni and Mary, and had a son Joseph, b. April 9, 1732. His 
wife d. Aug. 11, 1732. 

BATE, JAMES, Elder of Dorchester, made his will Nov. 22, 
1655 ; noticed his " sonne Richard Bate, of Lid. Towne, in Kent, in 
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154 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

debts, that he then had, or should have in Old or New England, as 
his own, unless altered by the Testator, and made Richard sole 
Executor, On the 26th of Nov., 1655, his codicil provided that 
his son James should be joined as Executor with Richard, only for 
the purpose of receiving such debts as were owed him in New Eng- 
land, and to sell such lands and goods, excepting such as he had di- 
rected to be given to his grandchild, James fibster, provided he made 
a true inventory, and conveyed the estate to his son Richard. (See 
his will signed and codicil signed, James Bate, Elder, in No. 3, 
His. and Gen. Register, July, 1851, p. 297.) 

After the decease of Elder Bate, Gabrell Meade and Mr. Rob' 
Howard, Not^ Publ'"' witnessed his will, and Rob' deposed to the will 
Jan. 14, 1655. Roger Clap of Dorchester, aged about 46 years, 
testified that he visited Mr. James Bate, in his sickness, and he en- 
treated him to take a witness with him, that it was his will that his 
daughter Gibson should have £10 for her own use and disposal, and 
not her husband. Roger Clap informed Mr. Bate, that if he had a 
written will, it should be added to his will, he replied with earnest- 
ness, that he would have done." These facts were proved before Gov. 
Jo. Endecott, by Roger, Edw'^ and Nich" Clap, Jan. 22, 1655: also 
by James Bate the son, in part. In Elder Bate's later directions, he 
notices his former will, and gave to the three children of his son 
James, viz., Samuel, Allice and Mary, £100 each, when 21 years 
old, and his son James to have the use of the £300 for, and towards 
bringing up said children, provided he should go with his family to 
live in England, and give security to pay the £300. His house, or- 
chard, and three acres of planting land, adjoining with the meadow, 
back of the dwelling house in Dorchester, N. E., he gave his grand- 
son, James fibster, provided his wife Allice Bate liad her support out 
of the house, &c. He also ga^e Rev. Mr. Mather, of Dorchester, 
£20, and the then wife of Gabriel Mead, £20, &c. Signed by James 
Bate, the Elder. (See same No., and page 298, Gen. Reg.) 

BATES, RICHARD, Wm. Barnes, Wm. Brown, Humphrey 
Buckley, Wm. Burton, Mathew Bateman, Lucie Bucklie, Wm. Bar- 
loe, Nicholas Bate, Wm. Bate, Margaret Baylie, Dt-bora Barrie, 
Francis Bullock : the above were transported to Virginia, and em- 
barked in the Globe of London, Jeremy Blackman, Master ; were ex- 
amined by the Minister of Gravesend, of their conformity, and took 
the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, Aug., 1635. (See H. G. Som- 
erhy.) ( See N. E. His. G. R., No. 15, pp. 261, 262.) 

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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 155 

children recorded there, viz., Susanna, b. Feb. 6, 1679 ; Edward, 
Jr., b. 1G82 ; John, b. 1G85 ; Mary, b. 1697, perhaps others. 

BATE, INCREASE, and Mary, of Weymouth, liad a son Ed- 
ward, b. Jan., 1681 ; Ebenezer, b. 1686 ; Anna, b. 1695, freeman 
in 1691, perliups otliers. 

BATE, JOHN, and Su.san, liis wife, of Weymouth, Mass., in 
1655, son Edward. Clement Bates, freeman, Mass., March, 1635- 
6. Geo. Bate, freeman, Mass., May, 1636. James Bate, freeman, 
Mass., 1630. Edward Bates, freeman, Mass., March 9, 1636-7. 

BATE, JOSEPH, Samuel and Benjamin, of Marlb., freeman, 
1672. Clement Bate and James of Hingham, free 1673. Jno. 
Bates, of Chelmsford, freeman, 1682. 

BATES, ROBERT, children b. at Lynn, John, b. March 5, 1673 ; 
Rebecca and Sarah. 

BATES, JOHN, of Chelmsford, freeman, 1689-90. 

The name of Bate has six coats of arms, and the name of Bates 
has eight coats of arms. The name now uniformly called Bates, in 
the early settlement of Connecticut, was generally recorded Bate. 

Clement Bates, a tailor, aged 40, and Ann Bates, embarked in the 
Planter, April 6, 1635, for New England. James Bates, aged 14, 
Clement, aged 12, Rachel, 8, Joseph, 5, and Benjamin Bates, em- 
barked in the Elizabeth, Wm. Stagg, Master, bound for New Eng- 
land, with certificates from the Justices and Minister of the Parish, 
about 1635. 

James Bate, a farmer, aged — years ; Alice, his wife, aged 52 : 
Lyddia, aged 20, Marie 17, Margaret 12, and James Bate, embarked 
from England, in the Elizabeth, W^m. Stagg, Master, for New Eng- 
land, April 17, (about 1635.) 

BATTELL, BATTLE, BATTEL. This name came into the Con- 
necticut Colony, from Milford to Torrington, in the early rettlement of 
the town. Joseph Battle, Esq., a son of the emigrant to Torrington, 
settled at Norfolk, Conn., m. Miss Robbins, a daughter of Rev. Mr. 
Robbins, of Norfolk, where he became a gentleman of large estate, 
and sustained an estimable character, and had a large and highly 
respectable family. His widow survived him, and is yet living at 
Norfolk, sister of Dr. Robins, of Hartford. 

THOMAS, of Mass., in 1654. Battoll has two coats of arms. 

BATTERSON, GEORGE, and WILLIAM, brothers, are the 
first of the name found in Connecticut, at Fairfield : tradition says 
they were from England, probably Scotch. George m. Mary Oys- 
terbanks, of Welch extraction, a weaver by trade. George was there 



15G GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

some time before he married : his children were Stephen, Powell, 
George, Sellick and Betsey. 

BATTERSON, STEPHEN, son of George, m. Sarah Ward- 
well, at Norwalk, Oct. 20, 1784, and had children b. there : Abi- 
gail, William, Isaac and Stephen, Jr. 

BATTERSON, POWELL, son of George, Sen., m. Betsey Wil- 
son, at Norwalk, Jan. 30, 1788, and had children: Clara, b. Oct. 
23, 1788 ; Lewis M., Powell, Jr., and Betsey. 

BATTERSON, GEORGE, Jr., m. Mary Seely, of Weston, Conn., 
who is now, if living, 89 years old : she m. when 16 years old and 
had children viz., 

P4.ebecca, m. Joshua Bonny, of Warren, and had five sons and 
three daughters. 

Amelia m. Charles Gilbert, of Warren, and had five sons. 

Polly m. Seth Morse, of Warren, and moved to Hockhocking, 
Ohio, and had eight children. 

Anna m. Jonathan Todd, and had six sons and three daughters. 

Nathan m. Polly Black, and had issue ; five sons and one daugh- 
ter. 

Simeon d. young. 

Abigail m. Samuel Thomas, of Roxbury, and had three sons and 
two daughters ; settled in Tallmadge, Ohio, about 1816. 

Simeon S., m. Melissa Roberts, of Bloomfield, May 28, 1820 j 
had twelve children. 

Lucinda m. Andrus Dickinson, of Litchfield, had three daughters. 

Albert m. Eliza Brown, of Bloomfield, Conn., Jan., 1830; five 
sons and one daughter. 

Laura m. Harvey Griswold, of Roxbury, had six children. 

Cyrus m. Marsha , of Ithica, N. Y., and had a daughter 

Elvira, all dead. 

BATTERSON, SIMEON S., son of George, Jr., now resides at 
Hartford. He m. Melissa Roberts, of Bloomfield, May 28, 1820. 
He and his son James G., are doing a large business in manufactur- 
ing tombstones, monuments, and all kinds of sculpture in marble, for 
all parts of the United States. His children are, Melissa M., b. 
July 23, 1821 ; James Goodwin, b. Feb. 23, 1823; Sherman S., b. 
Feb. 26, 1825, d. Aug. 30, 1828; Hermon G., b. May 28, 1827; 
George Tomlinson, b. Jan. 24, 1830 ; Henrietta Campfield, b. 
March 3, 1832 ; Mary Eliza, b. March 19, 1834, d. April 14, 1834; 
Mary Jennette, b. May 6, 1836 ; Fanny R., h. Sept. 10, 1838. 



GENEALOGY OF THE rURITANS. 157 

Siiinncr, b. June 15, 1841, d. Oct. 4, 1842 ; Henry Adams, b. Sept. 
I, 1S43 ; Hiram Roberts, b. March 20, 1846. 

BATTERSON, JAMES GOODWIN, m. Eunice Elizabeth Good- 
win, of Hartford, June 2, 1851 ; no issue. 

*GEORGE, Sen., was about seven years in the service of his 
country, in the Army and Navy of Connecticut, during the war of 
the Revolution : he was probably at Fairfield, as early as 1750. 

BATTERSON, WILLIAM, a brother of George, Sen., removed 
with his family to Warren, Conn., where he remained a few years, 
and then removed with his family to Ohio. He had two sons, Will- 
iam and Lewis. 

The Battersons who settled at Fairfield, are the only persons of 
the name known to have come to this country. 

BATTER, EDMOND, freeman in Massachusetts, March. 1635- 
6, and Nicholas, in 1638-9. Mr. Edmond Batter d. at Salem, 
Mass., 1756, aged 84. The Batters were connected by marriage 
with the Gookins, of Massachusetts, (perhaps Batterson.) 

BASCOM, (Bascomb, Boscum,) THOMAS, of Windsor, an early 
settler, had issue: Abigail, b. 1639, baptized June 7, 1640 ; Thorn- 
as, Jr., baptized Feb. 20, 1641 ; Hepzibah, baptized April 14, 1644: 
Thomas, Juror in 1644, at Hartford. 

BASCUM, WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, in 1636, probably in 
Guilford, in 1665. 

Farmer says there was a Thomas Bascom, of Northampton, in 
1658. This name yet continues in Connecticut. Two of the name 
have graduated at Harvard College, and two at Yale College. 

BASCOMB, THOMAS, Sex. and Jr., took the oath of allegiance 
at Northampton, Mass., 1678 ; also Thomas, freeman, 1670. 

Thomas Bascomb is in the list of first settlers at Windsor, in 1640, 
as are Thomas Barber, Thomas Buckland, and others. He probably 
removed to Massachusetts. 

BASCOMB, THOMAS, of Northampton, m.. Mary Newell, 
daughter of Thomas, of Farmington, March 20, 1667. This name 
is yet at Enfield, and other places in Connecticut. 



• The wife of George, Sen., was a weaver, and had just taken a piece of cloth out of the 
loom, when the British set fire to Fairfield. George Jr., then young, under 20 years old, de- 
clared the British should not have the cloth : he took and secreted it in the hollow of 
a large poplar tree. After the enemy had retired, George Jr., took the cloth from its hiding place, 
and his mother made for him a suit of clothes, and he immediately after enlisted in the army, 
where he continued nearly seven years, in the army and navy, and was in several navai actions, 
and aided in taking many English vessels. 

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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



BASEY, JOHN, a weaver by trade, was a respectable and early 
settler at Hartford ; he had fourteen acres in the land division at 
Hartford, in 1639. In 1640, he resided in Hartford, south of Little 
River ; his lot was bounded westerly on Richard Butler, south by 
the road from George Steel's to south meadow, and easterly by Jo- 
seph Easton ; he had a daughter Elizabeth, baptized at Hartford, 
Aug. 23, 1645; Mary, m. Samuel Burr; Lydia, m. John Baker; 
Elizabeth, his third daughter, m, Paul Peck ; his wife was Eliza- 
beth ■. He had a grandson, Paul Peck ; another, Joseph 
Baker, a brother-in-law, John Baker, and a son-in-law, John Baker; 
he left no sons. He d. 1671 ; his wife, Elizabeth, d. 1672. John 
Basey drew 36 acres in the land division in 1672. He made his will 
Aug. 14, 1671. He gave his grandson, Paul Peck, a piece of land ; 
also, his grandson, Joseph Baker, wood land ; also, to his grand- 
son, John Baker, a piece of land ; to his son-in-law, John Baker, he 
gave his loom, " with all the tackling," after his decease. His wife, 
Elizabeth, executrix ; inventory appraised Aug. 29, 1671 ; £383, 
2s. 6d. He mentions no sons in his will. He gave Joseph, son of 
John Baker, seventeen acres of land. 

BASEY, ELIZABETH, widow of John, in her will, gave her 
daughter, Elizabeth Peck, two coats, one that was her husband's cloak, 
and her cow, for her care for her in her sickness ; the remainder 
she gave her three daughters, Mary Burr, Lydia Baker, and Eliza- 
beth Peck. Inventory dated Dec. 13, 1673 ; £60, 145. ; no sons. 

BAYSA'S, STEPHEN, will offered in court at Hartford, Sept., 
1692. 

BASSAKER, PETER, was by trade a blacksmith, and was an 
early settler at Hartford. He had a trial to make nails, with less 
loss, and at as cheap a rate as Thomas Hurlbut, in 1643. Defend- 
ant in court at Hartford, Sept. 12, 1644 ; also in Dec, 1644. March 
5, 1644-5, he was recognized in <£20 to appear at the court in Hart- 
ford, on the first Thursday of the next June. He was fined 20s. for 
resisting the watch, Sept. 2, 1647. Oct. 17, 1648, the court adjudged 
Peter Bussaker, for his filthy and profane expressions, (viz., " that 
hee hopd to meete some of the members of the church in hell, ere 
long, and hee did not question but hee should,")" to be committed to 
prison, and there safely kept during the sermon, and then to stand in 
the pillory the time thereof, and after sermon to be severely whipped." 
Richard Skinner was plaintiff in court against Peter Bussaker, 
March, 1648. He was again a defendant in court at Hartford, 
April, 1649. {Col. Court Rec.) 



GENEALOGY OF- THE PURITANS. 159 

BASS, JOHN, of Windham, and his wife, Elizabeth, had Han. 
nah, b. May 27, 1711 ; Priscilla, b. April 13, 1713, d. 1714 ; sec- 
ond Priscilla, b. June 9, 1715 j Zebulon, b. May 22, 1718, d. 1719; 
John, son of John, d. 1712; second John, b. Jan. 2, 1720, d. same 
day. The father, John, d. Oct. 10, 1753, aged about eighty years. 

BASS, THOMAS, of Windham, m. Dorothy Parish, Nov. 9, 
1726; issue, John, b. Sept. 11, 1727; Mary, b. June 20,1729; 
Elizabeth, b. March 1, 1731 ; Dorothy, b. Oct. 29, 1736 ; Lydia, 
b. April 15, 1738 ; Joab, b. Dec. 9, 1739. Thomas Bass, of 
Windham, d. Jan. 8, 1787, aged eighty -six years. There have been 
several of this name at Windham and Hampton, and the name is yet 
found at Windham and in Litchfield county. 

BASS, JOHN, of Braintree, Mass., m. Ruth, daughter of John 
Alden, of Plymouth, April 12, 1657, and had issue : John, b. Nov. 
26, 1658 ; Samuel, b. March 25, 1660 ; Ruth, Joseph, Sarah ; 
perhaps others. 

BASS, JOSEPH, of Braintree, 1648. 

SAMUEL, of Braintree, freeman, 1634 ; the first deacon of the 
church there, held it over fifty years ; representative 1641, twelve 
years; d. Dec. 3, 1694, aged ninety-four. Ann, his wife, d. Sept. 
5, 1693. 

BASS, WILLIAM, of Mass., freeman, 1638. (Farmer.) 

Seven of this name have graduated at Harvard College. 

BASS, Rev. JOHN, graduated at Harvard, 1637, and settled at 
Ashford, Conn., Sept. 7, 1743, and remained until 1751. 

BASSETT, THOMAS, of Windsor, was made free April 9, 
1640. He was a defendant in court about 1644. He removed to 
Fairfield, where, in 1659, he was exempted from watching, ward- 
ing and training. 

In May, 1651, the General Court requested the Governor, Mr. 
Cullick, and Mr. Clark, to hold a court at Stratford, for the trial of 
Goody Bassett,* for her life, (perhaps for witchcraft,) and in case 
the Governor could not go, Mr. AVelles was appointed in his place. 



• There is. perhaps, no positive record evidence that Goodwife Bassett was executed at 
Stratford, for witchcraft, thouRh such has been the tradition ; noticed by Dr. Trumbull, " as an 
obscure tradition that one or two persons w«re executed at Stratford," for witchcraft, and such 
has been the tradition at Stratford since. The Governor, Mr. Cullick, and Mr. Clarke, were 
desired by the General Court " to go down to Stratford to keepe courte, vppon the tryall of 
Goody Bassett, for her life," and if the Governor could not go, then Mr. Welles was to go in 
bis place. (Coun. Col. Record, printed p. 2'iO,) 



160 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

A Thomas Bassett came from England to Boston, in 1634 ; perliaps 
this Thomas, of Windsor, was the same man. 

BASSETT, THOMAS, had a home lot at Fairfield, two and a 
half acres, Aug. 10, 1655, and was in the colony as early as 1643. 

BASSETT, NATHANIEL, of Windham, m. Joannah Borden, 
Dec. 10, 1695; issue, Joannah, b. Sept. 24, 1697; Ebenezer, b. 
May 4, 1699, d. ; second Ebenezer, b. April 2, 1701, d. 1701. 
( Windham Rec.) 

BASSETT, GooDwiFE, of Stamford, May 17, 1656, made her will, 
and notices her children, viz., Robert, to him she gave her home 
lot at New Haven ; also John, Emery, John Webb, Sarah and Eliz- 
abeth, (perhaps Jonathan;) notices her two daughters, Goodwife 
Emery and Goodwife Webb. 

BASSETT, ROBERT, united with John Chapman and others, in 
1653-4, in Fairfield county, to raise troops. The town of Fairfield 
held a meeting, without authority from the General Court, to raise 
troops to fight the Dutch at New Netherlands, and appointed Mr. 
Ludlow commander-in-chief of their troops, which office he accepted. 
This transaction, it is supposed, caused the departure of Mr. Lud- 
low to Virginia. 

BASSITT, ROBERT, had a daughter, Mary, b. at New Haven, 
March 8, 1649. 

BASSETT, PETER, 1644. 

BASSIT, JOSIAH, m. Allice Camfield, of Milford, April 25, 1717, 
by S. Eells, Assistant; son Josiah, b. Oct. 14, 1719. 

She probably had her trial before the trial of Knapp's wife, for the same offence, at Fair- 
field, by a jury, as most of the first records at Fairfield have long been missing. It is probable 
these records at Fairfield were carried to Virginia, by Hon. Roger Ludlow, who, at least re- 
port says, abstracted the records, and that they were not afterwards recovered. Mr. Ludlow 
left Connecticut for Virginia, about J654 or '5; the same year he was sued by Thomas Sta- 
plies, for saying that Staplies' wife "had caused Knapp's wife to be new searched, after she 
was hanged," &.c. ; also, that "Mr, Ludlow said Knap's wife told him that Goodwife Staplies 
was a witch," &c. Implications on this trial are, that Goodwife Bassett had been tried and 
executed, and Goodwife Knapp also, though there is no positive proof of their execution. Mr. 
Joseph Hawley by way of division of land in Stratford, Feb. 28, 1680-1, had three acres and 
twenty rods of land lying upon the place called " Gallows hill," &.c. ; near this were •' Gallows 
swamp" and "Gallows brooke." The brook has long since disappeared, and it began to be 
doubted whether it ever was ; but by throwing up the embankment for the New York and New 
Haven Railroad, the stone bridge once built over the brook, was uncovered, several feet from the 
surface ; the sides of the bridge were in perfect order ; the wood part of the bridge entirely de- 
cayed : by which the tradition of the execution of a woman in Stratford, for witchcraft, is some- 
what confirmed. See trial of Roger Ludlow, at New Haven, 1G54 ; also see Professor 
Kingsley's Historical Discourse, note L, page 101.) 



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BASSET, BENJAMIN, and wife, Deborah, of N. Stratford, had 
a son, Johnadab, b. Oct. 27, 1751 ; Samuel, b. Feb., 1753 ; John, 
baptized 1754 ; Isaac, baptized May 16, 176G, and others. 

BASSETT, BENJAMIN, of Stratford, m. Deborah Edwards, of 
N. Stratford, (now Trumbull,) July 28, 1748. 

BASSET, SAMUEL, of Stratford, m. Eunice Beach, of N. Strat- 
ford, Feb. 2, 1748-9. 

This was an early name in the New Haven Colony. Farmer 
notices William Bassett, of Plymouth, 1623, Duxbury, 1639; 
representative, 1640 and '44. Also, William, of Lynn, Mass., 
1659. 

Eight of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1850. Na- 
than Basset, in 1719, and Francis Bassett, 1810, graduated at Har- 
vard College. 

BASSETT, WILLIAM, of Mass., was one of the purchasers of 
Middleborough, Mass., with John Adams, Francis Billington, Wil- 
liam Brewster, Peter Brown, Edward Bumpus, Francis Cook, Philip 
Delanoy, Thomas Doty, Sanmel Eddy and others. Bassett, proba- 
bly the son of Basset who came over in the ship Fortune, who set- 
tled first at Plymouth, then Duxbury, and was an original proprietor 
in West Bridgewater, where he removed, d. in 1667. (N. E. G. R. 
and Eddy's note, No. 12, p. 334.) 

BASSETT, WILLIAM, Sen. and Jr., Jonathan Brewster, Wil- 
liam Brewster, Loue Brewster, and Stephen Bryan, of" Duxborrow," 
are found in the list of males able to bear arms, from sixteen years 
old to sixty years, within the several townships of the colony of New 
Plymouth, in 1643. 

BASSITE, WILLIAM, (Bassett,) came in the Fortune, to Ply- 
mouth, at an early period, in 1621. 

BASSET, WILLIAM, of Lynn, son John, b. 1653. 

BASSETT, WILLIAM, Sen., and William, Jr., of Lynn, free- 
men, 1691. 

BASSETT, JONATHAN, by his wife Mary, had born at Weth- 
ersfield, Abigail, b. Sept. 6, 1739; Jonathan, b. Nov. 14, 1743; 
Mary, b. May 20, 1745; Hannah, b. Feb. 13, 1747; William, b. 
April 28, 1749 ; Nathan, b. Dec. 11, 1751 ; Elisha, b. May 6, 1753. 

BASSETT, THOMAS, aged 37; Thomas Barker, aged 21; 
and Mildred Bredstreet, embarked for New England in the Christo- 
pher, de Lo[ndon,] John White, master. 

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Basset has ten coats of arms ; Bassett has twenty-five coats of 
arms. 

BASSETT, WILLIAM, aged nine years, embarked in the Abi- 
gail, for New England, June 17, Robert Hackwell, master. 

Elcy, wife of John Bassett, of Hartford, d. April 14, 1778, aged 
eighty. 

BASSAM, (Bassum,) WILLIAM, had a claim to land in Weth- 
ersfield, which was recovered by Sergeant Seely, in 1G3G, under 
whom Seely claimed. 

BAXTER, THOMAS, of Yarmouth, m. Mary, daughter of John 
Lattimer, of Wethersfield, Conn., May 3, 1705 : son Timothy, b. 
Feb. 26, 1706, and Elizabeth, b. March 23, 1703 ; both born at Weth- 
ersfield. 

BAXTER, TIMOTHY, son of Thomas, m. Sarah Kilbourn, 
of Wethersfield, July 14, 1726, and had John, b. Dec. 28, 1726 ; 
Honour, b. March 2, 1729; Martha, b. Dec. 14, 1730; Elisha, 
b. Oct. 29, 1732 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1735 ; Mehetabel, b.May 25, 
1740. 

BAXTER, ELISHA, son of Timothy and Sarah, m. Honor Wool- 
cott, Dec. 13, 1756, and had Honor, b. Sept. 8, 1757, d. ; Rhoda, b. 
Aug. 24, 1758 ; Elisha, Jr., b. Feb. 8, 1762 ; second Honor, b. 
Feb. 17, 1765; Lucy, b. Mar. 20, 1768; Leonard, b. Oct. 28, 
1771 ; Prudence, b. Feb. 8, 1775 ; Anne, b. June 20, 1778 ; Polly, 
b. Oct. 1, 1781 ; all of Wethersfield. 

BAXTER, THOMAS, New London, husband of Bridget, 1662. 

BAXTER, MARY, daughter of Sally Kilby, b. Oct. 28, 1791. 

BAXTER, THOMAS In 1653, a special warrant was ordered 
by the General Court and given to Jonathan Gilbert, to arrest Thomas 
Baxter, for several misdemeanors in the jurisdiction of Connecticut, 
with power to raise forces to execute his warrant. In 1654, Mr. 
Samuel Mayo complained against said Baxter for seizing his vessel, 
(the Desire, of Barnstable,) and his goods in it, under a pretence of 
his having a commission from Rhode Island. The court adjudged that 
the vessel belonged to Mayo, and ordered Baxter to pay Mayo .£150 
for his unjust seizure of the vessel and cargo; only provided Baxter 
returned the vessel to said Mayo, with the sails and ropes, two swords 
and four guns, taken from the vessel, £18 was to be deducted from 
the £150. In 1654, the General Court ordered that the estate 
attached by the constable of Fairfield, for the forfeiture of the re- 
cognizance ofCapt. Baxter, should be remitted. May 15, 1662, the 



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General Court of Connecticut divorced Bridget Baxter from her hus- 
band, Thomas Baxter. 

Baxter has been an old name at Boston and Roxbury, Mass. 

BAXTER, ROBERT, Jo. Bently, RachoU Adams, and Eliza 
Blanch, embarked for Virginia, in 1G35. 

BAXTER, GREGORY, made free in Mass., in 1631-2. 

BAXTER, SIMON, the second settler of Hartland, Conn., in 
1755. In the war of the Revolution, he turned traitor, fled and died 
in Halifax, 

Baxter has twelve coats of arms. 

BEACHAM, ROBERT, who had resided at Norwalk, in March, 
1657-8, had liberty granted him by the General Court, 1657-8, to 
cohabit at Bankside, (between Fairfield and Norwalk.) He was 
made free as a resident of Fairfiuld, by the General Court, Oct., 
1664; appointed gate-keeper at Norwalk, in 1655. 

Beacliam, is sometimes on Fairfield records spelt Beachen. 

BEACH, RICHARD, a New Haven planter, and unmarried in 
1643. The name was early at Stratford. John and Thomas Beach 
were early settlers at Wallingford. The Goshen Beaches were of 
this family. John was son of Thomas Beach, of Milfbrd, b. Oct. 
19, 1655. The Litchfield Bcaclies descended from Samuel Beach, 
son of John, of Walliiigford, and grandson of Thomas, of Milford. 
George Beach, Esq., of Hartford, is of this stock. Thomas Beach, 
of Milford, had a house lot in Milford, 1648. John, son of Thomas, 
b. Oct. 19, 1655 ; Mary, b. Dec. 27, 1657 ; a daughter of Thomas, 
b. Dec. 27, 1657 ; Samuel, son of Thomas, of Milford, b. June 5, 
1660 ; Zophar, son of Thomas, b. May 27, 1662 ; probably others. 

BEACH, BENJAMIN, of Durham, m. Dinah Birdsey ; she was 
probably a daughter of John Birdsey, a first planter of I\Iilford, who 
afterwards removed to Stratford, from the fact that John Birdsey was 
the only person of the name who came into either Connecticut or 
New Haven colonies. 

BEACH, JOHN, of Colchester, had a son Ebenezer, baptized 1733. 

BEACH, JOHN, was an early settler at Stratford, before 1650, 
and was many years town crier of Stratford. 

BEACH, RICHARD, was also an early settler at Stratford. 

BEACH, AZARIAH, of Killingworth, had Richard, b. Oct. 19, 
1677 ; Thomas, b. Oct. 5, 1679 ; Benjamin, b. Jan. 14, 1682. 
The connexion of Richard Beach, of New Haven, and Thomas, of 
Milford, not known. Thomas Beach, the emigrant, died early, and 
the births of iiis children not all found. The Beaches of Durham, 



164 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Wallingford, and Stratford, are supposed to have descended from 
Richard and Thomas Beach. 

Fourteen of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1850. 

Beech has been an old name at Watertown, Mass. 

BEACH, BENJAMIN, David, Josiah, Daniel, Jemima, wife of 
Benjamin, Hannah, wife of David, Patience, vv'ife of Josiah, Esther, 
wife of Daniel Beach, were all members of the first church at Unity,* 
Nov. 18, 1730. Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Beach, admitted 
Aug. 8, 1731 ; Ephraim Beach, admitted July 20, 1735 ; Israel 
Beach, and his wife, Hannah, admitted Oct. 17, 1736 ; Eunice, 
daughter of David Beach, deceased, admitted Aug. 7, 1737 ; Martha, 
wife of John Blackman, and Martha, the daughter of Mr. Benjamin 
Beach, deceased, admitted Sept. 6, 1741 ; Patience, wife of Benja- 
min, admitted into the church at Unity, from the church atStratfield, 
April 19, 1743. (Unity is Trumbull.) 

BEACH, DAVID, and Hannah, of Unity, had a son, Elijah, bap- 
tized July 4, 1731 ; Edmond, b. Sept. 4, 1733, &c. 

BEACH, DAVID, Jr., m. Ruth llawley, of Stratford, Nov. 30, 
1748. 

BEACH, Lt. josiah, and Patience, of Unity, had Ann, b. July, 
1731 ; Josiah, b. June 24, 1734; Patience, b. Aug. 17, 1737; Mat- 
thew, b. May 18, 1742. (Jethro, a negro of said Josiah, baptized 
Nov. 1, 1741.) 

BEACH, ISRAEL, and Hannah, of Unity, had Phebe, b. Sept. 
16, 1732; Nathaniel, b. July 30, 1735; Mary, b. Feb., 1738; 
Israel, b. 1740 ; Anna, b. Aug., 1747. 

BEACH, DANIEL, and Esther, of Unity, had isSue : Daniel, b. 
Feb. 2, 1736 ; Esther, b. May 14, 1738 ; perhaps others. 

BEACH, EPHRAIM, of Unity, m. Comfort , and had a 

son, Abel, b. at Unity, Sept. 29, 1743; and others. 

BEACH, JOSEPH, and Esther, of Unity, had Richard, b. April 
23, 1739; Ebenezer, b. 1742; Timothy, b. March, 1748. The 
last five families are descendants of John, of Stratford. 

Beech has two coats of arms. 

BEALE, THOMAS, 1639, land-holder in Hartford, in 1655. 

BEADLE, (Beedle,) ROBERT, of Wethersfield, was an early 
settler. He stole gunpowder from Mr. Blackman, of Stratford ; two 
sacks from widow Foot ; from Thomas Welles, two sacks ; from 
Richard Mills, he stole one blanket, and from Thomas Tracy, one 

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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 1G5 

sack, for which he was adjudged to restore double for each theft 
acknowledged by him, and to be severely whipped, and branded in 
his hand, upon the next Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1644; and for his 
loathsome demeanor on the 5th day of March, 1644, he was ad- 
judged on the next lecture day to be severely scourged and kept in 
the house of correction two weeks longer, and then again whipped, 
and be then bound to appear every quarter court, and be whipped, 
until the court should see some reformation in his conduct. On the 
17th day of May, 1649, Robert Beedle and Gary Latham, were 
warned to appear before the court for suffering an Indian to escape, 
who had been committed lo their charge for safe keeping. In March, 
1645, William Latham was charged, by the desire of Mr. Robins, 
in his inventory of debts, £1, 14«., for having delivered Robert Bee- 
dle at Fisher's I.sland, by order of court. 

BEADLE, JOSEPH, of Taunton, Mass., as early as 1652, when 
he died in taking an inventory of the estate of John Barker. 

BEADLE, THOMAS, a seaman, d. at Gloucester, Mass., in 1700. 

BEADLE, BENJAMIN, of Colchester, had a son, Benjamin, 
baptized June 8, 1766 ; David, baptized June 14, 1767 ; Mary, bap- 
tized Jan. 1, 1769 ; Jonathan, baptized Dec. 30, 1770 ; Abigail, 
baptized, 1772. 

BEATLE, (or Beattle,) WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, m. Mary 
Wright, Sept. 21, 1743, and had Sarah, b. July 11, 1744 ; William, 
b. Aug. 29, 1745 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 13, 1747 ; Mary, July 25, 
1748; John, Aug. 11, 1750; James, Nov. 23, 1751; Martha, b. 
Feb. 22, 1753 ; Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1755. 

BEADLE, DAVID, m. Abigail , and had Benjamin, b. Dec. 

18, 1741 ; Jonathan, b. June 20, 1744 ; Ruth, b. June 30, 1748; 
David, b. Sept. 12, 1750. 

BEADLE, WILLIAM, m. Lydia , and had children : 

Lydia, b. Nov. 1, 1774; Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1776. It is not known 
that the last families were relatives of the first Robert or the William 
who follows. 

At a later period, viz., on the 11th day of Dec, 1782, a man by 
the name of William Beadle, resided at Wethersfield ; he was an 
Englishman by birth, from the county of Essex, of a good family. 
He early became familiar with an infidel club, in London, where he 
acquired the rudiments of his principles. He had a mother and sis- 
ter, whom he left in England, in 1755, and went to Barbadoes, with 
Charles Pinfold, Esq., then Governor of the Island, and remained 
there about six years ; he then returned to England, purchased a 



166 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

quantity of goods, and sailed for New York, in 1762, and soon after 
removed to Derby, in Connecticut, and not long after located himself 
at Fairfield, as a merchant ; here he married a lovely woman, from 
Plymouth, Mass., and was prospered in his business, and had ac- 
quired about ^1,200 in property, in 1772. But thinking his location 
was endangered, by being contiguous to the Sound, and of easy ac- 
cess by the British, in case of a war, he removed his family and 
effects to Wethersfield, about 1772, and opened a cash store, where 
he also was for a time successful in trade. But when the continental 
currency began to be used as the circulating medium, he received 
it for goods, and stored up his money, expecting his new money 
would be of par value, to replenish his store with goods. He was 
disappointed, for his money daily decreased in value. He became 
frantic, and parsimonious in all his family "expenses, fearing pov- 
erty should overtake him. He fixed upon the evening succeeding 
the 18th of November, 1782, to execute his murderous design, 
and procured a fine supper of oysters, of which his family partook 
plentifully ; that evening he wrote as follows: " I have prepared a 
noble supper of oysters, that my flock and I may eat and drink to- 
gether, thank God and die." After supper he sent his waiting maid 
to carry a frivolous letter to his friend at some distance, to dispose 
of her, and obtain an answer, expecting she would not return that 
evening, but she returned unexpectedly, which prevented .his hellish 
purpose that night. On the 11th of December, the maid and the 
children all slept in the same chamber ; early in the morning of the 
11th, he went carefully to their chamber, awaked the maid, and 
ordered her to rise gently without awaking the children ; he gave a 
line to her for the family physician, who resided about one-fourth of 
a mile distant, stating that his wife had been ill all night, and ordered 
her to stay until the doctor should come with her. This done, and 
the maid gone, he proceeded to execute his purpose ; he smote his 
wife find each of his children, when sleeping, upon the side of their 
heads, and broke the skull of each ; he then, with a carving knife, 
cut their throats from ear to ear. He took the three daughters and 
laid them side by side, on the floor, and covered them with a blanket, 
and their mothei's face with a handkerchief. He then placed a 
pistol to each of his ears, and fired them at tlie same instant. The 
return to the house by the maid, with the physician, revealed the 
dreadful picture to that quiet neighborhood. He was bui'ied on the 
bank of Connecticut river, between high and low water mark, (after- 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 167 

found, bound upon a sled with cords, the bloody knife tied on his 
breast, without coffin or box, drawn by his family iiorse, cast like a 
beast into the hole there dug to receive it. Beadle was fifty-two 
years of age ; Lydia, his wife, aged only thirty-two years. His 
children were Anscll, Lothrop, Elizabeth, Lydia and Mary Beadle, 
the eldest eleven years, and the youngest six years old. (See Rev. 
John Marshes Funeral Sennon.) 

There is no evidence that Robert Beadle, the first, and the last 
William Beadle were relatives, though they all located at Wethers- 
field, at distant periods of time. 

One of the name of Beadle had graduated at Harvard College, in 
1847, and two at Yale College, in 1844. 

BEARDING, (or Berding,) NATHANIEL, of Hartford, will 
dated Jan. 7, 1673 ; exhibited in court, Nov. 11, 1674. He was a 
planter, He provided for Abigail, his wife : children, son-in-law, 
Thomas Spencer, the elder; Samuel Andrews, and his wife Eliza- 
beth — she was the daughter of the wife of Berding. He also noti- 
ced Sarah, Hannah, Mary and Martha Spencer, daughters of Thom- 
as Spencer, the elder, and grand-daughters of the testator. He also 
noticed John and Thomas Andrews, sons of his wife. He also no- 
ticed Jarrad Spencer, his grandson, who was son of Thomas Spen- 
cer Sen., and made Jarrad, sole Executor of his will. He gave 
Paul Peck and George Graves, 40*. each, and made them overseers 
of his will. Inventory made Sept. 14, 1674 ; £282, 15*. Wd. 

ABIGAIL, widow of Nathaniel Berding, d. March 20, 1682 : her 
will proved 1683. She gave her property to her daughter Hester 
Spencer, and grandson, Samuel Andrews, son of Samuel. Nathan- 
iel Bearding was an early settler and original proprietor at Hartford, 
and had six acres of land in the land division in 1639. He left no 
sons, and the name became extinct in Connecticut. 

BEARDING, NATHANIEL, with John Morris and Wm. Spen- 
cer, were appointed by the town of Hartford, Feb. 16, 1639, to say 
what every man's fence should be in the " Pine Woods," by con- 
sent of the owners of such lands, and be finished by the 7th of 
April, come twelfth month, upon a forfeiture of five shillings a rod 
for all unfinished, at that time. 

BEARDSLEY, WILLIAM, of Stratford, was a deputy to the 
General Court at Hartford, Sept. 11, 1645, and eight sessions more 
before 1665. He was requested by the General Court, Sept. 18 
1649, to assist Mr. Ludlowe, in preparing provisions, and all neces- 



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saries for the design in the two towns. Wm. Beardsley, Andrew 
Ward, and George Hull, were propounded for Assistants to join the 
magistrates, to execute Justice in the towns by the seaside, Oct. 6, 
1651. He was appointed (as Goodman Beardsley,) by the General 
Court, Oct. 6, 1659, with Rev. Mr. Blackman, Mr. Fairchild, and 
Joseph Judson, all of Stratford, as a comnaittee to consider the con- 
diiion of Arthur Bostock, and his wife, and make suitable order 
therein, and report thereon, at the next session of the Court. 

William Beardsley was one of the first settlers in Stratford, Conn. 
Tradition says he was from Stratford on Avon. He brought his 
wife with him. His sons were, Samuel, Joseph, Daniel, John and 
Thomas ; d. 1660. He may have been the Wm. Beardsley, who 
came from Hertfordshire, with John and Joseph Beardsley, to Mas- 
sachusetts, in a vessel called the Planter, (as he had sons, John and 
Joseph.) There was a Thomas Beardsley at Fairfield, in 1656 ; d. 
1656 ; probably son of William, of Stratford. 

This has been a respectable family from the first settlement at 
Stratford. C. H. Beardsley, Esq., former Judge of the County Court, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, is a de- 
scendant of William ; and many other important men in Connecti- 
cut and New York, are descendants of Wm. Beardsley, of Strat- 
ford. There was a Wm. Beadseley, freeman in Massachusetts, 
1686, (perhaps Beardsley.) Bearcly, an old name at Boston, (per- 
haps Beardsley.) Twelve by the name of Beardsley had graduated 
at Yale College, in 1845. Many of the name are now living in 
Fairfield and Litchfield counties. 

BURSLEY, JABEZE, had children at Barnstable, Mass., the 
first b. 1706, and the last, 1724-5. (Perhaps Beardsley.) Beards- 
ley has two coats of arms. Berdsey has one coat of arms. THOM- 
AS BEARDSLEY settled at Milford, about 1647. William, a ma- 
son, aged 30, Maria, aged 26, (probably his wife,) ; Maria, aged 4 
years, John Beardslea, aged 2 years, and Joseph aged 6 months, em- 
barked in the Planter, for New England, in 1635. Wm. Beardsley 
made free in Massachusetts, in 1636. Sarah Beardsley m. Obadiah 
Dickinson, June 8, 1668. 

BEAUCHAMP, JOHN, of Hartford. There was a man of this 
name who was a large merchant in London, at the time Wm. Brad- 
ford, Capt. Miles Standish, and six others, of the Plymouth Colony, 
were appointed or hired the trade of the colony for six years. 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 160 

Ilathcrly, of London, wero joined to the above, and were called the 
undertakers. {Guide to Phjmoulh, p. 142.) 

As John Beauchamp,* of Hartford, came from Boston, to Mart- 
ford, and was born in 1652 ; he may have been a son or grandson 
of the undertaker, John Beauchamp. He d. at Hartford, Nov. 14, 
1740, aged 88 years, where he yet has descendants, in the female 
branch of his family. 

MARGARET, wife of John, d. Dec. 8, 1727, aged 59 ; their chil- 
dren were, Adam, Isaac, m. ; Isaac's daughter m. an Ellmore ; 

Peter, lost at sea, in the year 1719 ; Mary, m. Dr. John Ranchon, 
from whom the Sigourneys are descended ; Marian, f m. Capt, 
John Lawrence, of Jersey, England ; Margaret, m. John Michael 
Chcnevard,of Hartford ; Susan, m. Alexander McLean ; one daugh- 
ter, m. a Leighfon ; and one daughter, ni. a Sheppard. 

MARIAN BEAUCHAMP, was b. June 24, 1696 ; m. Capt. John 
Lawrence, who was b. Dec. 15, 1682, and was lost at sea, in the year 
, 1719. The children of Marian, were, Marian, b. July 4, 1717, 
John,:}: (the Treasurer of Connecticut,) b. June 11, 1719, and d. at 
Hartford, Dec. 25, 1802, aged 84. Hon. John Lawrence, (the Treas- 
urer,) m. his cousin, Margaret Chenevard, Sept. 26, 1748, and had 
twelve children, viz., John, b. Aug. 20, 1749; Mary, b. Dec. 8, 
1750 ; William, b. Dec. 25, 1751 ; Margaret, b. Jan. 16, (new 
style,) 1753, d. Aug. 14, 1753, aged 7 months ; Mareane, b. March 

I, 1755, d. Oct. 2, 1756, aged 19 months; Roderick, b. Jan. 13, 
1757, d. May '2\ 1783, aged 27 — he was a graduate of Yale Col- 
lege ; Edward, b. May 27, 1758, named after Rev. Edward Dorr, 
d. young; 2d Mareane, b. Aug. 2, 1759, d. at Killingworth, Aug. 

II, 1760, aged 1 year, 9 days ; Peggy, b. Oct. 9, 1761, d. Dec. 31, 

* John Beauchamp and wife lie buried in the old Centre burying ground, Hartford. The fol- 
lowing inscriptions are taken from their tombstones. " Here lies the body of Mr. John Beau- 
champ, who died Nov., the 14, ]740, in ye 88 year of his age." 

" Here hes the body of M" Margrete, the wife of Mr. John Beauchamp, who died Dec. ye S'*", 
1727, aged 59 years." 

t In the records of the city of Boston, we find, .\ug. 28, 1713, John Lawrence, of Jersey, (fa- 
ther of llie Treasurer of Connecticut,) was published to Marian Beauchamp, of Boston. 

X John I.awrence was appointed by the King, Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, and 
held the office many years after it became a state ; in all, for a period of more than twenty 
years. He was also Conimisfioner of Loans, and borrowed at one time, a large sum, from Hol- 
land to carry on the war with Great Britain. He faithfully performed the important duties en- 
trusted to him, and Roger Sherman, Wm. Williams, John Hancock, Gov. Trumbull, and many 
other distinguished men of that period, were his sincere and attached friends. 

John Ijwrence, his wife, and several of their children, lie buried in the old Centre burying 
ground, Hartford. 

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170 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

1761, aged 3 months ; Samuel, b. March 17, 1763, d. July, 1825, 
aged 62 ; Mary Ann, b. March 6, 1764, d. young ; Margaret, b. 
Jan. 3, 1767, still living. Margaret, wife of John, d, April 19, 
1775, aged 49. 

John Lawrence, 3d, m. Anna Burr : their children were, John and 
Ann. John m. Clarissa Higley, (they had three daughters ;) Ann m. 
Charles Brewster, and d. Aug. 8, 1849, aged 74. Their children 
were, John Lawrence, Charles Augustus, who d. (and twins that d. 
young;) and Ann. 

John Lawrence Brewster, m. Margaret Josephine Battin, of N. Y., 
and d. in 1845 : their children are, John Lawrence, Margaretta Jose- 
phine. Ann rn. Samuel Barber, of N. Y. ; their children are, ; 
Anna Jerusha, Emily, Samuel, several d. young. 

William Lawrence m. Alice,* (or Alicia,) widow of Elisha 
Ripley, Nov. 24, 1782, she d. at Hartford, Sept. 4, 1845, aged 
88. He d. April 21, 1821, aged 69 ; their children were : Sarah, 
Alicia, William Henry, who d. Nov. 10, 1792, aged 3 years, and 
Roderick. 

Alicia Lawrence m. Charles Sheldon, of Hartford ; their chil- 
dren were : Alicia, Elizabeth Bellamy, Jane, Sarah, Charles Henry, 
William Lawrence, who d. in Michigan, Edward, Catharine, who d., 
George, who also d. and Henry, great-grandchildren of Dr. Bellamy. 

Jane Sheldon m. Panett M. Hastings M. D., of Clinton, N. Y., 
their children are : Alice Lawrence, Charles Sheldon, and Seth 
Clarence, (twins.) 

Edward Sheldon m. Harriet Curtiss ; their children are Harriet 
and Edward. 

Roderick Lawrence m. Hester Sickles, of Philadelphia, (whose 
maiden name was Moliere,) May 29, 1823 ; had one child, Wm. Rode- 
rick : Hester, wife of Roderick, d. at Newark, N. J., July 22, 1830, 
ge<l 34, and was there buried. He then m. Elizabeth L. Lownds, of 
N. Y., she d. 1837, aged 30, and was buried in a family vault under St. 
Thomas' Church, N. Y., ; their children are, John Beauchamp and 
Cecelia Roderika. In 1850, he m. Clarinda Chevers, of New York. 



* Alice Ripley, who married William Lawrence, of Hartford, was born in Canterbury, Conn. 
Her maiden name was Adams, and when young she was engaged to be married to Capt, Na- 
than Hale, who fell a martyr in the service of his country. Her mother married Hale's father. 
There is still preserved in the collection of William R. Lawrence, of Hartford, a fine large pow- 
der-horn, made by Capt. Hale, during the college vacation, when he was a student at Yale. Miss 
Alice Adams, who was at that time a member of the family, often saw him when busily em- 
ployed in the construction of this valuable relic. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUniTANS. 171 

Andrew Sigourney, b. in France, in 1639, left at the revo- 
cation of the Edict of Nantz, 1686, and d. in Boston, April 26, 1727, 
aged 88. His son Andrew was b. in 167;i, and came with his fa- 
ther to America, in 1686. He m. Mary Lumarn, in 1696, and d. 
in Boston, 1748, aged 75. Their son, Andrew, was b. in Oxford, 
Mass., in 1697, and was a sea captain. He m. Mary Ranchon, 
daughter of Dr. John Ranchon, in 1727, and d. in Boston, Nov. 
4, 1762, aged 6.'3. Their children were : 

Mary Sigourney, b. 1728, m. Samuel Sloan ; d. Sept. 28, 1790, 
aged 62 ; John Ranclion, b. 1730, m. Eunice Kidder ; d. May 30, 
1802, aged 72 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1743, m. Thomas Payne ; 

second, Doyle ; third, Henry Lucas, and d. Aug., 1773, aged 

30; Susannah, b. Oct, 13, 1744, m. John Osborn ; d. Jan. 26, 
1766, aged 22 ; Andrew, b. March 27, 1746 ; d. Nov. 23, 1767, 
aged 21; Charles, b. March 4, 1748, m, Susan Frazier ; second, 
Mary (Treonleaf; d. in Boston, May 30, 1806, aged 55; Hannah, 
b. April 30, 1754, m. Capt. John Patten ; second, Benjamin Balch ; 
Charles, b. July 21, 1778, m. Jane Carter, who d, in 1818, leaving 
several children ; he then m. in 1819, Lydia Huntley,* their chil- 
dren, Mary, and Andrew Maximilian Bethune, who d. at Hartford, 
June 24, 1850, aged 19; Sarah, b. Jan., 1781 ; d. Nov. 5, 1802; 
Henry, brother of Charles b. in 1783, m. Rebecca Carter, in 1809 ; 
she d. in 1826. He then m. in 1829, Margaret Barker. He d. in 
Boston, Feb. 1848, aged 65, and left a son,»and a daughter. 

Marian Lawrence, (sister of the Treasurer,) m. William Keith,f 

• Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney was the only child of Ezekiel Huntley, Esq., of Norwich, 
Conn., where she was born, Sept. 1, 1791. She received an excellent education, and when on- 
ly eight years of age, bepan to develope those poetical talents, which have since made her so 
widely and favorably known. In 1819, Miss Huntley was m. to Charles Sigourney, Esq., a lead- 
ing merchant of Hartford, and a gentleman of education, and literary taste. Mrs. Sigourney is 
one of the most popular writers of the day, and her poems, which include almost every variety 
of subject, are all happily made to subserve a high moral sentiment. A heart of the liveliest 
and tenderesl susceptibilities, has thrown a charm into her Verse, which has won not only ad- 
miration, but esteem and love, not only in the higher literary circles, but in every village and 
hamlet in the land. (See HUNTLEY.) 

t Rev. Alexander Keith, (brother of William,) was an Episcopal clergyman, and resided in 
Charleston, S. C. There is a curious relic in the possession of William R. Lawrence, of Hart- 
ford, which formerly belonged to him. It is a snulT-hox, made from a Ram's horn, of a grace- 
ful form, and beautifully poli<ihed. The lid wliich is part wood, and part silver, bears three in- 
scriptions, vix., " Rev. Mr. Alexander Keith, A. U. 1770." " R. Lawrence, 1803." "Wm. R- 
Lawrence, 1831." 

Capt. John Keith, aitother brother, m. the widow of Capt. John Lawrence. He accompanied 
Capt. James Cook, in one of his voyages of discovery, and a portion of a quadrant, formerly his, 
bearing tliis inscription, " Made ty lauics Halsy, 1720, for lohn Keith," is still preserved in the 
family. 



172 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

a Scotchman, they had two children, Maryan and Susan, (after her 
husband's decease, she m. Rev. Jonathan Marsh, of New Hartford.) 

Susan Keith m. William Ellery, Esq., of Hartford ; their children 
were, Susan Ellery, and Jane. Susan m. Edward Blagg ; second, 
Dr. Edwards. 

Jane Ellery m. Henry Seymour, Esq., their children are, Mary, 
Gov. Thomas Henry Seymour, and William. Mrs. Seymour d. at 
Hartford, 1851. William Seymour m. Mary Brooks, in 1851, at 
Philadelphia. 

Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in 1369. 

Richard, Earl of Warwick, and Regent of France, in 1438. 

In the reign of* King Henry IV., d. John, Lord Beauchamp, of 
Bletsho, leaving a son and a daughter, the son died, and Margaret, 
his sister, became sole heir of the family. She m. Sir Oliver St. John, 
(from whom are descended the Lords St John, of Bletsho, as also, 
the Viscounts Bolingbroke,) and for her second husband, John Beau- 
fort, Duke of Somerset. Their only child, Margaret, m. Edward, of 
Hadham, Earl of Richmond, their son was King Henry VII. 

Edward Beauchamp was a freeman in Mass., 1642-3. Beauchamp 
has twenty-three coats of arms. Beauchampe has eighteen coats of 
arms. Buchampe has one. 

BEEBIE, JOHN, of Hartford, d. 1650 ; small estate ; also JOHN 
BEEBE, of Hartford, in 1662. JOHN, of Colchester, had his 
daughter, Ruth, baptized Jan. 20, 1734; Ann, baptized 1735; Mar. 
tin, baptized Oct. 8, 1738. JAMES, of Stratford, m. Sarah, daughter 
of Thomas Benedict, Sen., of Norwalk, Dec. 19, 1679, and had a 
daughter, Sarah, b. at Norwalk, Nov. 13, 1680; it would appear 
from the birth of Sarah, at Norwalk, that Mr. Beebe had resided 
there, before he settled at Danbury. He was originally from Strat- 
ford. He was the first justice of the peace at Danbury. He had 
two sons, James and Samuel, probably born at Danbury. James, 
Jr., remained at Danbury. Samuel Beebe'ssons removed to Litch- 
field, and afterwards aided in the settlement of Canaan, where the 
name is yet found. Five of this name had graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, in 1829. 

BEEBE, Rev. JAMES, was ordained Pastor, at North Stratford, 
May 6, 1747 ; the church gathered the same day ; ordained by 
presbyters, viz , Rev. Zephaniah Goold, of Stratford ; Jedediah Mills, 
of Ripton ; Rev. John Graham, of Woodbury, (Southbury society ;) 
Joseph Bellamy, of Woodbury, North Purchase, (Bethlem ;) David 
Judson, of Newtown, and Thomas Canfield, of Roxbury, and Mr. 
Woodbridge, of Amity. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 173 

BEEBE, Rev. JAMES, Pastor, of North Stratford, m. Rutli Cur- 
tis, July 13, 1749, and had a daughter Elizabeth, b. March 19, 
1750, d. Dec. 19, 1754 ; James, b. Nov. 29, 1751 ; Mary, b. Jan. 
20, 1754 ; second Elizabeth, b. July 19, 1756 ; Ruth Anne, b. Jan. 
27, 1758 ; Sarah, b. July 28, 1759, baptized by Rev. Mr. Ingersol, 
of Ridgefield, " her father being then in the army," at Ticonderoga ; 
David L., b. Jan. 16, 1763 ; Claret, a negro servant of Rev. James, 
baptized June 2, 1762. 

BEEBE, EBENEZER, (the grandfather of William Bcebe, Esq., 
now of Litchfield,) removed from Danbury to Litchfield, where he 
died since 1806. Dr. Abel McEwen, of New London, is a relative 
of this family. 

BEEBE, JONATHAN, removed from New London to Haddam, 
after the first settlement. He had sons : Jonathan, William, Joshua, 
and Caleb. Jonathan, Jr., had sons ; Jonathan, David, Samuel, 
Daniel, and Ebenezer. William, son of Jonathan, had Abner, Silas, 
Asa, William, and Elihu. 

During the war of the Revolution, viz., in 1778, Bezaleel Beebe, 
(of the Litchfield branch of the Beebe's,) was appointed major of the 
regiment, of which Noadiah Hooker was colonel. The General As- 
sembly of Connecticut, in 1777, directed that recruiting officers, to 
enlist men for the continental army, and to take and secure deserters, 
should be appointed in each brigade of militia, in Connecticut, and 
directed the Governor and Council to appoint such officers, and the 
place of rendezvous for said recruits, in each brigade. Major Beza- 
leel Beebe was appointed the recruiting officer for the sixth brigade 
of militia, to rendezvous at Litchfield. He was an efficient, bold and 
most useful officer, durin" that eventful struffcrle. 

Beebee has one coat of arms, and Beeby one. 

There was a family of this name early at New London ; the con- 
nexion between that family and the family who were early at Strat- 
ford, Norwalk and Danbury, is not known. James Beebe, of Had- 
ley, Mass., lost a son James, by death, at Hadley, Jan. 3, 1669. 
James, of Hadley, m. Mary Boltwood, Oct. 24, 1669. 

John Bebce was appointed ensign by the General Court, in Capt. 
George Denison's company, in New London county, over the sixty- 
eight men raised in that county. May 11, 1676, for the standing army, 
and a part of the 350 men raised in the colony of Connecticut, in 
1676. (See Col. Eec.) John Beebe, in 1671-2, was one of many 
others in New London, presented to the court " for attempts" to 
drive Mr. Matthew Griswold and Lieut. William Waller, " by vio- 
15* 



174 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

lence off their lands, resistance to authority and assault." {Truvt- 
hulVs Col. Rec, p. 558.) Samuel, Thomas and Nathaniel Beebe, 
were of New London, in 1670, and Thomas Beebe sworn a freeman 
of New London, in 1666. 

BEERS, THOMAS, came to Connecticut as early as 1645, and 
was a constable in '47 — whether he was a relative of the brave Capt. 
Beers, who, in Philip's war, was killed, with twenty of his men near 
Northfield, is not known. The name soon after '47 disappeared in 
Hartford. Joseph Beers resided at Stratford, in 1672. Joseph had 
a son Daniel, who, after a settlement had commenced at Woodbury, 
located himself there, and married a Miss Walker, either a daughter 
or grand-daughter of the Rev. Z. Walker, who had also moved to 
Woodbury. They had sons ; Josiah, Zechariah, and Lewis, born 
at Woodbury. Josiah was the father of Hon. Seth P. Beers, late 
Commissioner of the School Fund, of Connecticut. Josiah, of Strat- 
ford, and James, of Fairfield, were jurors in 1730. 

BEEKS, (or Bears,) NATHAN, resided at Norwalk, as early 
as 1745, and had children, viz., Nathan, b. Sept. 8, 1745; Eben- 
ezer, b. Sept. 28, 1747 ; Samuel ; Lydia, d. 1796; Hannah ; Abi- 
jah, d. 1784 ; Ezekiel, d. 1795 ; Sarah, b. March 12, 1760, d. 1781 ; 
Abigail, Mary, Anna and Esther, b. 1770. 

BEERS, JAMES, resided at Fairfield, and had a daughter, Mdry, 
m. there to John Marvin, March 22, 1704. There was an Adam 
Beere or Beers, a Dutchman, who died at New Haven in 1649, and 
in August 7, 1649, Mr. Ruderford and Philip Galpin, were appointed 
to appraise his estate; he died at the house of William Andrews, in 
New Haven. In Sept., 1649, Mr. Gibbard and Richard Miles, were 
also appointed appraisers of the estate of Adam Beere, a Dutchman, 
who died at the house of William Andrews, and ordered to bring into 
court the inventory of the property. He appears to have been a sea- 
faring man. 

In January, 1743-4, David Beers, of New Haven, was appointed 
guardian for his son, Benjamin, who d. at Milford. David Beers, of 
Milford, in 1743-4, chose Stephen Sanford, of Milford, for his guard- 
ian. John Beers was a settler at Stratford, about 1670, and the 
first of the name there. James, of Fairfield, made free Oct., 1664. 

BEERS, RICHARD, was an early settler at Watertown, Mass., 
where he had six lots of land ; his wife, Martha, had a son, Isaac, b. 
there July 5, 1646 ; Marha, (or Martlia,) b. March 10, 1643 : Rich- 
ard and Elizabeth Beers, had Juduh, b. 1646 : Richard and Eliza- 
beth Beers, of Watertown, Mass., had Jabez, b. Oct. 4, 1651 : Rich- 
ard and Martha, had Abigail, b. 1653 ; Joseph, b. 15th of the 10th 



GENEALOGY OK THE PURITANS. 175 

hlo., 1G55. Anthony and Elizabeth Beers, had Samuel, b, 2d day 
of 3d mo., 1647 ; Ephraim, b. July 5, 1648 ; John, b. Jan. 20, 
1651 ; Hester, b. Oct. 16, 1654; recorded at Watertown. Farmer 
notes Anthony Beers, of Mass., freeman, 1657; Richard, of Water- 
town, Mass., freeman, 1637, Deputy from 1663 to 1675, thirteen 
years, and captain in Pliilip's war; he was killed in bat-tie, by the 
Indians, at Northfield, Mass., Sept. 4, 1675 ; name spelt Bears, 
Beer, Beers, and Beares, on Colony Record. Four of this name had 
graduated at Yale College, before 1848. John Beere, of Gloucester, 
Mass., ni. Mary Fowler, Jan. 20, 1673 ; his son Joseph, b. Dec. 7, 
1675. Bcre has six coals of arms ; Bcare has six ; (Beers, none.) 
This name, in the settlement of Coimecticut Colony, for many years 
was spelled Bere, Beer, and Beere, on the records in dilferent towns. 
There are many of the name of Beers in Fairfield county, and in 
New Haven and Woodbury, at this time. 

John Beers was wounded and disenabled in the swamp fight, and 
the General Court of Connecticut ordered the public treasurer of the 
colony to pay him £16 as a recompence, in 1677. [See printed Col. 
Rec.,\i. 320.) Robert Beers, of llehoboth, was shot by the Indians, 
when reading his Bible as a protection against them, March 28, 1676. 
{Rchobolh Town Rec.) 

BEGUE, (or Bigul,) JEREMIAH, of Colchester, daughter, Pru- 
dence, baptized Oct. 17, 1762; Clandy, baptized April 24, 1768. 

BECKLEY, Skrg. RICHARD, was an early settler at Wethers- 
field ; wife, Frances ; had children: John, eldest son, d. 1696 ; Na- 
thaniel. Benjamin, b. 1650, second Sarah, Mary, Hannah ; son 
Nathaniel, sole executor ; will dated May 15, 1689 ; he d. Aug. 5, 
1690 ; estate, £383, 5.s. ; will proved, 1690 ; noticed Richard, his 
grandson, son of John. 

BECKLEY, NATHANIEL, son of Richard, Sen., d. Oct. 30, 
1697 ; he m. Comfort, daughter of Jonathan Deniing, Sen., May 18, 
1693; issue: Daniel, b. May 8, 1694; Joseph, b. Sept. 19, 1695; 
Mary, b. March 1, 1697, and the father died; estate, £141, 11*. 
His widow m. Morton. 

BECKLEY, JOHN, son of Richard, Sen., of Wethersfield ; prop- 
erty distributed in 1699; left a widow ; children: Robert, Richard, 
Samuel Spencer, Matthew Cadwell, and Catherine Beckley ; Spen- 
cer and Cadwell probably m. two of the daughters of John Beckley. 

BENJAMIN, son of Serg. Richard, m. Rebecca, Oct. 17, 1685 ; 
issue: Martha, b. Oct. 15, 1692; John, b. Oct. 16, 1695; Benja- 
min, b. Dec. 16, 1698 ; his wife d. and he m. Miriam, for his sec- 



176 CENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS. 

ond wife, Nov. 11, 1702, and had issue : Miriam, b. May 4, 1707; 
Hannah, b. March 24, 1710. The father d. April 27, 173G, aged 
eighty-six years. 

JOSEPH, son of Nathaniel, b. Sept. 19, 1695, m. Mary, daughter 
of Benjamin Judd, of Farmington, Oct. 23, 1723, and had issue: 
Mary, b. April 6, 172.5, and d. ; Josiah, b. April 28, 1726 ; Joseph, 
b. Aug. 23, 1727 ; Thankful, b. Nov. 11, 1728 ; Ruth, b. Oct. 11, 
1730, d. ; Eunice, b. Nov. 11, 1731; second Mary, b. Jan. 12, 
1733; Zebedee, b. March 8, 1734 ; Hepzebah, b. April 16, 1735; 
Silas, b. Nov. 5, 1736, d. Nov. 11, 1757 ; Abigail, b. Dec. 22, 1737 ; 
Ruth, b. April 15, 1739, d. ; Comfort, b. Sept. 4, 1740, d. ; David, 
b. Feb. 17, 1742 ; Jonathan, b. Feb. 12, 1743, d. ; Dorcas, b. Mar. 
6, 1744; Honour, b. July 3; 1745 ; the mother died, and Lieut. Jo- 
seph m. Sibil Porter, March 29, 1753. He d. Jan. 30, 1772. He 
had seventeen children. 

BECKLEY, RICHARD, son of John, is noticed in his grand- 
father's will; he m. Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Doming, Sen., 
Nov. 23, 1699 ; had issue : Nathaniel, b. Aug. 27, 1700 ; Abra- 
ham, b. January 12, 1702 ; Elizabeth, b. June 27, 1703. 

DANIEL, son of Nathaniel Beckley, m. Martha North, daughter 
of Thomas, of Farmington, Aug. 6, 1719; issue: Martha, b. Oct. 
27, 1720 ; Daniel, Jr., b. Nov. 29, 1724 ; Lois, b. Nov. 17, 1730. 

JOHN, son of Benjamin Beckley, m. Mary Woodruff, March 16, 
1727 ; issue: Sarah, b. June 27, 1728; Mary, b. July 16, 1730; 
John, b. Dec. 22, 1732 ; Elias, b. Feb. 27, 1735 ; Achsah, b. Jan. 
25, 1743. 

BENJAMIN, son of Benjamin, b. 1698, m. Mary Lee, March 4, 
1730 ; issue: Rebecca, b. April 22, 1732; Benjamin, b. April 30, 
1738 ; Theodore, b. Sept. 12, 1740, d. ; Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1742. 
The father died Nov. 12, 1777. 

DANIEL, son of Daniel Beckley, m. Ruth, and had issue : Seth, 
b. July 28, 1753 ; perhaps others. 

ELIAS, b. 1735, son of John Beckley, m. Lois Parsons ; issue : 
Elisha, b. Feb. 13, 1760 ; Rowena, b. April 2, 1763 ; Olive, b. 
June 17, 1765 ; Selah, b. March 31, 1767 ; Sylvester, b. April 1, 
1771 ; Lois, b. Nov. 6, 1773. 

BECKLEY, RICHARD, a planter in New Haven colony, in 
1643; perhaps the same Richard who was at Wethersfield. Rich- 
ard, Sen., d. at Guilford. 

Beckley has two coats of arms. 

BECKWITH, MATTHEW, resided on lot 10, in Main street, in 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 177 

Hartford, 1645. He was fined 10s. for unseasonable and immoder- 
ate drinking at the pinnace, 1639 ; plaintiff" in a case before the par- 
ticular court, in 1642 ; also plaintitT in a case in 1644. In 1649, 
Matthew Marvin sued him in slander, and Beckwitii made a peni- 
tent, public confession of his evil in slandering him, and the fine was 
remitted by the court, and the plaintitT. Mathew Becquet, made 
free, 1658. Stephen Beckwith, defendant in a case at Hartford, 
1649. He was fined ten shillings for using ardents, 16:59. Stephen 
Beckwith was of Hartford, in 1649. 

BECKWITH, NATHANIEL, Haddam, died in 1717, and left 
Sarah, his widow, with £>2Q9 estate. His children were. Job, Na- 
thaniel, Jerusha, Sarah, Joseph and Patience. Nathaniel, of Lyme, 
was appointed by the court, guardian of the children of Nathaniel 
Beckwith, deceased, of Haddam. It is probable the two Nathaniels 
above, were the sons of Matthew and Stephen, brothers, who were 
early settlers in HartfoRJ, neither of whom appear to have died at 
Hartford. He owned a part of a vessel. 

BECKWITH, BENJAMIN, had an ear-mark at Lyme, in 17.34, 
and William, his ear-mark, in 1736. George and Allen Beckwith, 
in 1738. 

BECKWITH, Rev. GEORGE, was settled as pastor over the 
third society in Lyme. 

There was a Steplien Beckwith, an early settler at Norwalk ; he 
sold his farm to Richard Holmes, in March, 1663. The town voted 
in 1667, " that Stephen Bcck>v ith, or some other man, should be hired 
to fetch the cows, out of the Neck." 

Five of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1848. 

BECKWITH, ROBERT, John Harris and others, imbarkcd from 
England, for Virginia, July 4, 1635. (N. E. G. Reg., No. 12, p. 
389.) Btckwith has four coats of arms. 

BECKWITH, STEPHEN, is in (Hall's) list of original'scttlcrs 
at Norwalk, in 1655. He was at Hartford, in 1649, and probably 
removed to Norwalk before 1655, and is found there as late as 1687. 

BELCHER, Mr. ANDREW, m. Sarah, daughter of Mr. Jona- 
than Gilbert, of Hartford, July 1, 1670. He lived on lot No. 10, in 
Main street, Hartford, in 1670. He erected and owned a warehouse 
at Saybrook, in 1675. He came from Mass., and had a son Andrew, 
b. at Hartford, March 12, 1671-2. 

BELCHER, SAMUEL, of Windsor, d. in 1756. His will was 
presented to the court, by Col. Joseph Richards, of Dodham, Mass., 
as executor. Mabel, his widow. Supposed to have been killed at 



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or near Crown Point. He left no children, and gave all his estate 
to his widow and his cousin Belciier Richards, son of Joseph, of Ded- 
ham, except small sums to his brother-in-law, Rev. Andrew Tyler, 
and Rebecca Welton ; estate .£^296. . 

BELCHER, CoL. SAMUEL, who deceased at Hartford, in 1849. 
Inventory $37,000. He was the son of David Belcher, of Wren- 
tham, Mass., and grandson of Samuel, of the same place. Children 
of Samuel, Sen., were, Andrew, Elizabeth, John, David, Wood- 
bridge, all born at Wrentham. 

DAVID, m. Rachel Burr, of Hingham, and removed to Belling, 
ham, and in 1782, to Thompson, Conn., and in 1798, to Stafford, and 
died there in 1811. David's children-were. Col. Samuel, b. at Bel- 
lingham, in 1779 ; Sarah, b. at Bellingham, in 1782 ; David, b. at 
Thompson, Conn., 1785; John, b. at Thompson, 1787, d. aged two; 
Rhoda, b. at Thompson, 1789, Sarah m. John Perry, of South 
Brimfield, and had three sons and seven daughters ; she died at 
Hartford, 1846. David, (brother of Col. Samuel,) m. Miss Sawyer, 
of Wales, Mass., and had seven children; he d. 1841. Rhoda, m. 
Sewall Shaw, of Wales, and had two children. 

Col. Samuel Belcher, of Hartford, m. Pamelia Pinney, daughter of 
Eleazer, of Ellington, April, 1805, and had two. children ; both died 
single, before their father. 

Nine of this name graduated at Harvard College, before 1840, 
and one at Yale College. This name is yet at New London. 

BELCHER, Mr. EDWARD, took the oath of freeman in Mass., 
1631. 

Belcher has three coats of arms. 

BELCHER, ANDREW, the first innkeeper at Cambridge, about 
1052, when " the townsmen granted liberty to Andrew Belcher, to 
sell beare and bread, for entertainment of strangers and the good of 
the towne." 

BELCHER, JONATHAN, Governor of Mass., between 1730 
and '41. Was Governor of New Jersey. 

BELCHER, Mr. JOSEPH, of Dedham, about 1700. 

BELCHER, Mr., senior counsellor, appointed Lieut. Governor of 
Nova Scotia, and was succeeded by Col. Wilmot, in 1703. 

BELCHER, Rev. Mr., preacher at the Isle of Shoals, about 
1690. 

BELCHER, Rev. SAMUEL, graduated at Harvard College, 
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BELCHER, JEREMY, aged twenty-two years, embarked in the 
Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, master, for New England. 

BELCHER, EDWARD, u servant, aged eight years, embarked 
in the Abigail, for New l-^ngland. 

BELDEN, RICHARD, (spelt Bayldon and Belding, for many 
years ) He was one of the early settlers of Wethersfield, The 
land record of Wethersfield says, " The 2d month and 7th dale, 1G41, 
the lands of Rich Bayldon, (those given him by the townc, and 
those he bought of Jonas Woods,) lying in Wethersfield, on Connec- 
ticut River." Eight pieces were thus "given and bouglit " and 
their location and description given. In Oct., 1654, he gave his son 
Samuel, a piece of land. 

BELDEN, WILLIAM : tradition says, that two brothers by the 
name of Belden, were among the first settlers of the colony of Con- 
necticut, and that they made their first location at Wethersfield, but 
that one of them, (William,) after a while, on the settlement of Nor- 
walk, removed thither. As early as Feb. 7, 1041, and among the 
earliest grants, Richard had eight distinct tracts of land allotted to 
him by the town, and little or no mention is made of William, save 
that he had three sons, Samuel, Daniel and John, b. by his first wife, 
'I'omisin ; yet William's death is found in Wethersfield, about 1G60, 
and Samuel and John are found at Norwalk, about 1G73, (sons of 
William.) William's children were : Samuel, b. July 20, 1647; 
Daniel, b. Nov. 20, 1648; John, b. Jan. 9, 1650; Susannah, b. 
Nov. 5, 1651 ; Marie, b. Feb. 2, 1653; Nathan, b. Nov. 13, 1654. 

John Belding, a soldier, had the remainder of the swamp, in 1676, 
after his father Hale's land should be laid out, &c. (NoricaJlc Rec.) 

BELDEN, RICHARD, of Wetiicrsfield, was defendant in Court, in 
1643. In 1645 was bound in Court for the appearance of George 
Chappel, and for the good behavior of said George, till the next 
Court. Samuel Belden made free, 1657, and John Belden made 
free at the same time : the latter was an enlisted trooper under Maj. 
John Mason ; March, 1657-8, approved by the General Court. 

BELDEN, SAMUEL, Jr., son of Samuel, m. Hannah, Jan. 14, 
1685. They had issue : Samuel, b. July 25, 1689 ; Daniel, Feb. 
14, 1691; Gideon, March 24, 1693; Prmlence, Feb. 12, 1694; 
Richard, April 18, 1699; Matthew, June 13, 1701, and Hannah, 
Sept. 25, 1704. 

DANIEL, 2d son of Samuel, Jr., m. Margaret Clark, widow, 
daughter of Peter Blin, Nov. 23, 1714. They had issue, five daugh- 
ters, Margaret, Lois, Prudence, Eunice, and Thankful, b. Sept. 10, 



180 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1715, June 14, 1717, Jan. 28, 1719, March 17, 1722, Nov. 10, 
1724 ; no sons. 

SAMUEL, 3d son of Samuel, Jr., m. Mary Spencer, of Haddam, 
April 10, 1712. They had issue: Samuel, b. April 2G, 1713; Ja- 
red, Jan. 19, 1715 ; Nathaniel, June 24, 1716 ; Lydia, May 24, 
1718; Asa, April 1, 1720; Mary, Dec. 11, 1721; Ann. Nov. 7, 
1723 ; Seth, Sept. 18, 1725 ; Daniel, May 19, 1727 ; Richard, Dec. 
SO, 1728; Phineas, Sept. 14, 1730; Dorothy, Sept. 6, 1732; Es- 
ther, June 22, 1734, and Martha, June 6, 1730. 

SAMUEL, 4th, eldest son of Samuel 3d, b. April 26, 1713, m. 
Elizabeth, and had issue: Abner, b. Jan. 12, 1744; Bildad, Sept. 
9, 1745; Seth, Aug. 7, 1747; Moses, June 18, 1749, and three 
daughters, Prudence, Rebecca and Mary. 

RICHARD, 7th son of Samuel, 3d, b Dec. 30, 1728 : m. Elizabeth 
Hurlbut, Oct. 30, 1749 ; had issue : Amos, b. Oct. 26, 1750 ; Jeremi- 
ah, March 26, 1753 ; Othniel, March 27, 1755 ; Caleb, Feb. 10, 1757. 

PHLNEAS, 8th son of Samuel, 3d, b. Sept. 14, 1730, m. Hannah 
Deming, March 22, 1751 ; had issue : Charles, b. April 3, 1752, 
and a daughter Mary. 

GIDEON, 4th son of Samuel, Jr.. m. Elizabeth, daughter of Zach- 
ariah Seimer, (Seymour,) Feb. 7, 1712. They had issue: Eunice, 
Elisha, b. July 22, 1715, Ruth, Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah, Heze- 
kiah, b. Oct. 26, 1725, Sarah and Experience. 

MATTHEW, .5th son of Samuel, Jr., b. June 13, 1701, m. Eliz- 
abeth, daughter of Samuel Williams, April 16, 1729; had issue: 
a daughter Mercy. 

JOHN, the 2d son of Richard, m. Lydia, April 24, 1657. They 
bad issue, John, b. June 12, 1658 ; Jonathan, June 21, 1660 ; Jo- 
seph, April 23, 1663 ; Samuel, Jan. 3, 1665 ; Daniel, Oct. 12, 1670 ; 
Ebenezer, Jan. 8, 1672, and two daughters, Sarah and Margaret. 
He was much employed in the public affairs of the town. He d. in 
1677, aged 46. Estate £911. 

JOHN, Jr., son of John, m. Dorothy, daughter of Josiah Willard, 
June 15, 1682 ; had issue : Josiah, b. Feb. 14, 1683 ; John, Dec. 3, 
1685; Benjamin, 1687; Stephen, May 21, 1697; Ezra, Nov. 27, 
1699, and three daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Dorothy. 

JOSIAH, eldest son of John, Jr., m. Mabel, daughter of Serg't. 
Samuel Wright, May 1, 1707, and had issue: Josiah, b. June 11, 
1713; Ozias, Nov. 18, 1714; Return, Jan. 28, 1721; Solomon, 
May 22, 1722 ; and six daughters, Mabel Wright, Dorothy, Rebec- 
ca, Abigail, Lydia and Hannah; d. Sept. 5, 1746. 



GENEALOGY OF T[IE PURITANS. ]81 

BELDEN, SILAS, son of John, of Wethcrsfield, m. Abigail Rob. 
ins, daughter of Capt. Joshua, Nov. 30, 1716, and had issue : Silas, 
Jr., b. Nov. 13, 1717 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 4, 1720, (m. Thomas Hurl- 
but, of Wethcrsfield;) Josliua, Charles, Lydia, Oliver, and Jona- 
than, b. Nov. 16, 1737. While Silas continued at Wethcrsfield, he 
was highly respected and employed in public business. He sold his 
estate, and expected to remove witti his family to Canaan, Conn., in 
the spring of 1741, wjiere he purchased a large tract of land. He 
also purciiased lands in Dutchess county, N. Y., and Berkshire 
county, Mass., for the purpose of settling his children on his new 
lands. In the autumn of 1741, he returned to Wethcrsfield, to close 
his concerns there, and remove his family to Canaan. He was seiz- 
ed with a malignant dysentery, while at Wethersfield, and died. 
SILAS, Jr., his eldest son, settled at Canaan. JOSHUA, his 2d 
son, graduated at Yale College, in 1743, and settled in the ministry, 
at Newingfon, Nov. 11, 1747, where he continued until Nov., 1803; 
m. Anne, daughter of Lieut. Ebenezer Belden, 1749, and had nine 
daughters. His wife, Anne, d. Oct. 29, 1773. He m. for his sec- 
ond wife, Honor Whiting, widow of Capt. Charles, of Norwich, and 
daughter of Hezekiah Goodrich, Esq., of Wethersfield, Nov. 14, 
1774, and had a son Hezekiah, b. Feb. 17, 1778 : he d. July 23, 
1813. Joshua Belden, 2d son of Joshua Belden, Jr., graduated at 
Yale College, 1825 ; he settled and m. widow Agnes Morton Graves, 
of Glasgo, Missouri, and has a daughter Elizabeth Morton. Chaun- 
cey Belden, the 3d son of Joshua Belden, was educated a physican, 
at Yale College, and settled in West Springfield, where he had a 
family of children, and d. there, in 1846. CHARLES, the 3d son 
of Silas Belden, settled at Dover, N. Y. : this family has furnished 
a member of Congress. OLIVER, the 4th son of Silas Belden, b. 
Nov. 19, 1732, settled on a fine farm in Lenox, Mass. : two of his 
sons have represented Lenox, in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and 
some of the descendants are yet at Lenox. Thomas Belden, 1st, had 
a son Joseph, who was b. Nov. 24, 1733 ; his son Thomas settled 
at Hartford, where he d. a kw years since, and left a family. 

SIMEON, (son of Thomas, 1st,) b. Feb. 24, 1737, graduated at 
Yale College, 1762, m. Martha, daughter of Rev. James Lockwood, 
Nov. 3, 1765. His son Simeon, b. April 27, 1769, settled at Fay- 
etteville N. C ; he m. a daughter of Hon. L. B. Sturges, of Fair- 
field. 

SAMUEL, b. Jan, 3, 1665, the 4th son of John, 1st, supposed re- 

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182 GENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS. 

moved to New London ; and Daniel, the 5tli son of John, 1st, b. 1670, 
supposed removed to Norwalk. 

The Beldings were early settlers at Hatfield, Mass. Daniel, Sam- 
uel, Sen., Stephen and Samuel, Jr., were there, and took the oath 
of allegiance, in Massachusetts, Feb., 1678, and the name is yet nu- 
merous at Hatfield. DANIEL and Elizabeth, his wife, of Hatfield, 
had a son William b. there, Dec. 26, 1671, and others. SAMUEL, 
and Mary, of Hatfield, had a son Richard b. there, March 29, 1672— 
3, and others. Twenty of this family have graduated at Yale Col- 
lege. The name for many years was spelled Be/ding on the 
records at Wethersfield, and was many years after by consent of 
the ditferent branches of the family, ciianged to Belden, which was 
the original name in England. 

BELKNAP, SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth, and had a son Elisha, b. 
at Wethersfield, Dec. 1, 1708. 

Elizabeth Belknap d. at Ellington, Feb. 5, 1793. Simeon Bel- 
knap d. at Ellington, Dec. 3, 1804. 

This name came late into the Colony from Massachusetts. 

Farmer notes Abraham, of Lynn, 1637 ; Salem, d. a 1643. (Felt, 
Lewis.) Joseph, of Boston, probably his son, a member of the ar. co., 
1658, freeman 1659. His children : Joseph, b. Jan. 26, 1659; Na- 
thaniel, b. Aug. 13, 1663 ; Thomas, John, Abraham, Joseph, Jere- 
miah, b. Jan. 1, 1687. 

SAMUEL, of Woburn, 1734. 

BELKNAPPE, (Warwickshire,) has one coat of arms. 

BELLAMY, MATHEW, was first settled at Fairfield, and upon 
the 17th day of August, 1682, B. Stone of Guilford, conveyed to 
Mathew Bellamy, of Fairfield, lands in Killingworth, (B. 1, p. 186, 
Kill. Town Rec.,) two deeds in Fairfield, of this kind. Mr. Bella- 
my removed to Killingworth, and on the 25th day of Feb., 1698-9, 
Mathew Bellamy, of Wallingford, son of Mathew, Sen., of Killing- 
worth, then deceased, conveyed all his father's interest in all his lands 
in Killingworth, to Henry Crane, of Killingworth. {Town Bee, B. 
1, p. 4, in Kill.) Mathew, Jr., probably was in that part of Wal- 
lingford, then called West bury, or New Cheshire, now Cheshire, 
where his son Rev. Joseph Bellamy, D. D., was born. 

Mathew Bellamy, the son of Mathew, Sen., of Killingworth, him- 
self of Wallingford, m. Mary, and had a large family of children, 
viz., Mathew, 3d, Samuel, Moses, Aaron, John, James, Joseph, D. D. ; 
daughters, Sarah, Hannah, Mary Grey : sons-in-law, Benjamin 
Grey and John Roys. Mathew, 2d, d. about 1752. His will [Pro- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN3. 183 

bate, N. H.) is dated Nov. 3, 1744 : his wife Mary, Executrix, and 
son Mathew, Executor, (the last refused to act.) He Avas a farmer 
and owned a vast estate in lands ; his personal estate was inventoried 
and appraised at iI26fiO, 2*. He had four negro servants, (a negro 
woman appraised at JCIOO ; Mingo jEoOO ; Lewis JCoOO, and Phillip 
jE140 :) hi.s son James lived at \Vcst!)ury, upon one of his father's 
farms, at date of the will. He gave his son, Samuel, his farm in 
Farinington, 123^ acres, and £200. Moses and Aaron had his farm 
and buildings in Wallingford, where he lived, and he provided thus 
liberally for his other children and wife. He gave <£4 to the 
church in Bethlcm, where his son Joseph preached : witnesses to the 
will, were " Waite Ebernathe, Damaris Abernathe," and David 
Dutton. 

BELLAMY, JOSEPH, D. D., was b. at Wallingford, 1719, in 
the Colony of New Haven. His father was a wealthy farmer, and 
of great good common sense ; he early discovered in his son Joseph, 
talents, which only required an education to make him a useful 
member of society. He graduated at Yale College, in 1735, and 
was a class mate of Aaron Burr, (the father of Col. Aaron,) Dan- 
iel Buckingham and John Trumbull. He soon prepared himself for 
the pulpit, for which he was most admirably fitted, not only by his 
piety, but by his most powerful and persuasive eloquence. His 
general appearance was commanding, being tall and strait in per- 
son ; his face was full of firmness and dignity, and in his old age, his 
aspect was commanding and venerable, particularly when he was 
adorned with a large white wig. He became like the first Presi- 
dent Edwards, the very embodiment of Divinity, in Connecticut. 
Soon after Dr. Bellamy was prepared for the pulpit, viz., on the 2d 
day of November, 173S, when, what is now Bethlem, was called 
the North Purchase of Woodbury, he went there to preach, Nov. 2, 
1738, and obtained society privileges there, in Oct., 1739. Upon the 
20th day of February, 1740, the people of Bethlehem were advised 
by the Eastern Association of Fairfield county, to call Mr. Bellamy 
to settle with them as their pastor, which was done by a unanimous 
vote, March 12, which he accepted ; and the 27th day of March, 
1740, was set apart as a day of fasting and prayer. He was or- 
dained April 2, 1740. His salary in 1780, was £90. 

In 1708, he received his Doctorate in Divinity, from the Univer- 
sity of Aberdeen, in Scotland. His correspondence in Europe was 
extensive. He kept up a constant interchange of letters for many 
years, upon religious subjects, with the Rev. John Erskinc, D. D., 
of Edinburgh, and many other learned Divines, in ditfcrcnt parts of 



184 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Europe. Dr. Bellamy made many important publications: his 
" Essay upon the Gospel ;" " The Great Evil of Sin ;" " The Law 
a School-master ;" " True Religion Delineated," and many others. 

He m. about 1744, Miss Frances Sherman, of New Haven, a la- 
dy of great worth : by her he had seven children, five of whom sur- 
vived their parents, viz., 

Rebecca, m. Rev. Mr. Hart, of Preston, Conn ; she d. Dec. 24, 
1788, aged 41. 

Jonathan, graduated at Yale College, 1772, an Attorney. 

David, Esq., d. at Bethlcm, May, 1826, aged 75. 

Elizabeth m. Charles Sheldon, of Springfield, Mass. 

Samuel, m. and had children, Charlotte, and others ; he d. at 
Bethlem : one daughter m. a Mr. Gurnsey, of Watertown, Ct., and 
William. 

His son Jonathan graduated at Yale College, in 1772, read law 
and was soon admitted to the Bar, in Connecticut ; soon after whicli, 
hostilities commenced with Great Britain : in Avhich he took an ac- 
tive part Avith the Americans. On his return home, after the cam- 
paign, in 1776, he was attacked with the small pox, and d. at Ox- 
ford, Essex county, in New Jersey, Jan. 4, 1777, aged 23 years. 

Rebecca, daughter of Dr. Bellamy, m. Rev. Mr. Hart, of Pres- 
ton, an amiable and pious woman ; she d. Dec. 24, 1788, aged 41 
years. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Bellamy, m. Charles Sheldon, then of 
Springfield, Mass., afterwards of Suffield, where she d. in 1792, of 
small pox. Charles Sheldon, Esq., of Hartford, is a son of hers. 
Charles, of Hartford, grandson of Dr. Bellamy, has children, viz., 

Alicia Sheldon. 

Jane Sheldon, m. Dr. P. M. Hastings, of Clinton, N. Y. 

Sarah Sheldon. 

Charles H. Sheldon. 

William L. Sheldon, d. at Romeo, Michigan. 

Edward Sheldon, m. Harriet Curtiss. 

Henry Sheldon. 

Catharine Sheldon, died. 

George Sheldon, died. 

Samuel, a son of Dr. Bellamy, m. Anna Steel of Bethlem, and had 
four sons and one daughter. He d. at Bethlem, many years since. 

Samuel had children : Jonathan, Daniel, Joseph, Edward and 
« 

Note. — The first society in the Nortli-purchase, in Woodbury, was made a society by tjie 
name of Bethlehem, Oct., 1739. Town incorporated in May, 1787. by the name of Bethlein. 



GENEALOGY OP THE PUUITANS. 185 

Charlotte: the daughter lived with her uncle David Bellamy, Esq., 
and d. unmarried ; two of his sons left children, who reside in West- 
ern New York: the children of Samuel are all deceased. 

David, Esq., son of Dr. Bellamy, was a gentleman of strong pow- 
ers of mind ; he was many years a merchant in his native town ; a 
magistrate, and frequently represented the town in the legislature. 
He early m. Miss Silence Leavitt, daughter of David Leavitt, of 
Bethlem, and had an o-ily child Joseph II. His wife d. July 3, 
1814, aged 61 years. Esq. Bellamy m. in his old age, Mrs. Spald- 
ing or Miner, of Roxbury. He d. llth May, 1826, aged 7.3 years. 

William, his youngest child was the pet of his father; he m. in 
early life, and though he d. when young, he left one or more sons to 
perpetuate his name. After his decease, his widow removed to Brook- 
lyn, N, Y., where she d. about 1848. 

Joseph Hart Bellamy, Esq., son of David, Esq., graduated at Yale 
College, in 1808; he read law with Judges Reeves and Gould, at 
Litchfield, and opened his office in his native town. He m. Miss 
Hillhouse, of Montville, in New London county, and had two sons 
and two daughters : the sons both d. young, and the daughters are 
yet living with their mother in the family mansion at Bethlem. 

Dr. Bellamy's first wife d. Aug. 30, 1785, in the 63d year of her 
age. He m. for his second wife, the widow of Rev. Andrew Storrs, 
deceased, of Watertown, Conn., in 1786. On the 19th day of Nov., 
1786, soon after his second marriage, he was seized with a paralytic 
shock, which deprived him of the use of his limbs on the left side, 
and much impaired his intellect; he d. March 6, 1790, in the 72d 
year of his age, and the 50th year of his ministry. {Funeral Sermon 
preached by Rev. Noah Benedict, then of Woodbury.) 

In 1674, a Scotch gentleman by the name of Mathew Bcllingham, 
(record,) or M. Bellamy, was employed to teach school, one winter, 
and one summer, at Saybrook, perhaps the same man afterwards 
found at Fairfield, and Killingworth. Tiiis employment to teach 
school at Saybrook, is the first record there is upon the suijject of 
schools at Saybrook. In 1690, Edward Lawry or Laurie, left a 
bequest for the use of schools, in Saybrook. Coats of arms : Bella- 
my, (Lord Mayor of London, 1735,) one. Bellamy, (Middlesex,) 
one. And others for this name. Mary Bellamy, of Wallingford, 
m. Elijah How, Jan. 28, 1703, by Mr. Street. 
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186 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

*BELL, FRANCIS, Stamford, 1642. Mr. Bell was one of the 
early settlers, and an important man in the colony-^a firm Puritan 
in forms and principles. Rev. Mr. Denton, Mitchell, Ward, Law, 
Rayner, Bell and Hollys, were important men in Stamford, in its 
first settlement. Some of the descendants of Francis have a Bible 
which was brought to New England, in the Mayflower, in which is 
a record of the first male child born in Stamford. Francis Bell is 
favorably noticed by Cotton Mather, in company with Slauson. 

Francis Bell, Richard Law, Jonathan Selleck, George Slauson, 
and John Holly, of Stamford, made a second purchase, of Taphanse 
and Powahay, and other Indians, of the town of Stamford, Jan. 7, 
1067, and signed the deed for Stamford, and Taphanse and Powa- 
h ly, for the Indians. When it became necessary to procure a suc- 
cessor to the Pwev. Mr. Denton, at Stamford, Francis Bell and George 
Slauson were appointed to go to Boston, in search of Rev. John 
Bishop, to preach at Stamford. Though the danger from Indians 
must have been great, yet they took their provisions and went on 
foot to Boston, and found him in that neighboi'hood. He accepted 
their call and returned on foot with them, with his Bible under his 
arm, and was settled at Stamford, their second minister, where he 
preached about forty-nine years, and died in 1693. The Bible he 
brought with him is now in the possession of one of his descendants. 
Lt. Francis Bell, John Holly and George Slason, (Slauson,) were 
the first townsmen at Stamford. Mr. Bell was an important man in 
the early settlement of Stamford. He was one of the committee to 
form a union of the two colonies, in 1664. The Bells, Hollys, Laws, 
Sellecks, Weeds, and many otiiers of the first settlers of Stamford, 
yet have descendants there. Francis Bell left children at Stamford ; 



♦ Those who signed to settle Stamford, were thirty families, in 1640, " in May to move; Rev. 
Rich. Denton, Ma. Mitchell, Thur. Raynor, Rob' Coe, And*" Ward, Richd Gildersleeve, Ed™ 
Wood, Jon. Wood, Jer. Wood, Samuel Clarks, Tho^ Weeks, John Woods, Jon Jaggar, Jo. 
Knapp, Jo Seaman, Sam. Sherman, Hen. Smith, Vincent Siraking, Dan. Finch, Jo. Northend," 
twenty families. {Stamford.) 

In 1641, thirty men at Stamford paid in one hundred bushels of corn, which was after- 
wards allowed them, in May, 1641, at New Haven, viz., " Serg' Math. Michell, 14 3 bushels, Mr. 
Denton, 04,1, Andrew Ward, 04,1, Ro. Coe, 04,1, Ri. Gildersleeve, 4,0, Ric. Law, 3,2—40, 3. 
total, Jo. Renould, 3,'2, Jo. Whitmore, 3,1, Ri. Bates, 3,1, Rich. Crab, 3,1, Sam. Sherman, 3,1, 
Jo. V. Finer, 3,1, Dan Finch, 3,0, Jo, Northend, 2,03, Jonas Wood, 2,3, Cim. Wood, 2,2, Jon. 
Wood, 22, Sam. Clark, 2,2, Francis Bell, 2,2, Jon Jagar, 2,2, Jelfery Ferris, Tho. Moorhouse," 
and other names cut off by a red line on the record. 

Nov. 2, 164], the following were chosen to order the town : " Math^ Mitchell, Thurston Ray 
ner, And* Ward, Jo. Whitmore, llichj Law, and lUchard Crabb." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 187 

his son Jonathan, b. in Sept., 1C41, first white male child born there, 
and several of his descendants liave honored their ancestor. 

April 22, 16G5, the following inliabitants of Stamford signed their 
names for the benefit of the horse pasture, viz., fifty-three names ; 
fiur Ilowes, three Hollys, three Slasons, two Bates's, two Finches, 
two Noyes's, two Weeds, two Newmans, two Millers, two Dibbles, 
two Bells, two SellecKs, Law, Seely, Dan Hardy, Brown, Buxton, 
Thompson, Gurnsey, Jagger, Ferris, Stevens, Simkins, Theal, Wes- 
cott, Lockwood, Scofield, Smith, Ambler, Green, Clason, Petit, 
Webb, Crissy, Steedwell, Knapp and Hoyt. 

BELL, ROBERT, Hartford, was fined c£lO, in 1083, for selling 
Tucker a pint of liquor with which he became into.xicated, in viola- 
tion of law. Robert Bell was a son-in-law of Edward King, of Po- 
dunk, in Windsor. King gave Bell a deed of all his land in 1682. 
Bell died July 29, 1634. He left issue : John, aged six years ; 
Robert, four ; and Mary, one. 

BELL, THOMAS, of Fairfield county, 1G70. His property dis- 
tributed January, 1686. 

BELL, JOHN, m. Rachel Woodruff, Dec. 7, 1727 ; she died 
April 23, 1777, aged seventy ; had children : Elizabeth, b. Sept. 27, 
1728; Ruth, b. Feb. 15, 1729-30; Ellenah, b. Oct. 15, 1731; 
Huldah, b. April 13, 1733; John, b. Aug. 13, 1734; Rachel, b. 
March 2, 1735-6 ; Solomon, b. Sept. 25, 1738 ; Hezekiah, b. July 
19, 1740 ; Elisha, b. Sept. 5, 1743. 

BELL, JOHN, Jr., m. and had issue : Phebe, b. June 28, 1764 ; 
Patience, b. April 26, 1766. 

SOLOMON, son of John Bell, m. and had Harvey, b. Jan. 13, 
1765 ; Salmon, b. May 3, 1767 ; Dennis, b. 1769 ; Amos, b. Dec. 
1, 1772 ; Jerusha, b. Aug. 5, 1775. 

ELISHA, son of John Bell, m. and had Rachel, b. June 3, 1770; 
Margretta, b. June 2, 1772; Luthene, b. Feb. II, 1775. 

Farmer notices Thomas Bell, of Roxbury, Mass., admitted free- 
man, 1636. Thomas, member of the ar. co., 1654, had a son Jo- 
seph, b. in 1653 ; Sarah, b. 1640; a son John, b. 1643. 

The Bells of Glastenbury, are probably descendants of Robert 
Bell, of Hartford. 

BELL, THADDEUS, Esq., of Darien, who died there, Oct. 31, 
1851, aged ninety-three years, was a descendant of Francis Bell. 

BELL, JOHN, of Sandwich, Mass., in 1643. 

BELL, ABR.\HAM, was a planter in the New Haven colony, 
in 1643. 



188 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

Bell is an old name at Roxbury and Boston, in Massachusetts. 

Jo. Bell, Tho. Browne, Jo. Browne, James Barnes, Ilumfry 
Blackman, Marie Booth, Jo. Butler, Richard Brooks, Jo. Billings, 
and Francis Barker, were transported from England, to Virginia, in 
the ship Safety, John Grant, master, August, 1635. 

Three by the name of Bell had graduated at Yale College, in 1844, 
and four at Harvard College, in 1847. 

Bell has twenty-five coats of arms. 

BELL, THOMAS, was made free in Mass., May 2.5, 1636. 

Jo. Bell, aged thirteen, embarked in the Hopewell, William Bur- 
dick, master, for New England, probably 1635. 

BELLINGHAM, MATTHEW, a Scotch gentleman, was early, 
1674, a schoolmaster at Say brook, Conn., and was employed one 
winter and one summer to teach school there ; (perhaps the Matthew 
Bellamy who is found at Killingworth and Fairfield ;) yet the name 
of Bellingham was in Mass. ; Mr. William, freeman there in 1640, 
and Mr. Richard Bellingham, freeman there in 1636. Farmer no- 
tices Richard, of Boston, representative, 1635, assistant, 1636, four- 
teen years, deputy governor, 1635, governor, 1641, and major gen- 
eral, 1664, and d. Dec. 7, 1672. 

BELLINGHAM, RICHARD, Esq., (probably of Rowley,) was 
entrusted, in company with his uncle, Richard Dumer, gent., by the 
will of Thomas Nelson, of Rowley, to have the education of his two 
sons, Phillip and Thomas ; will dated Dec. 24, 1645. {His. G:n. 
Register, No. 11, p. 267, see will.) 

Bellingham has fourteen coats of arms. 

BEMENT, (or Beaman,) WILLIAM, of Saybrook, m. Lydia 
Danford, Dec. 9, 1643. (This is the first of the name found in the 
colony of Connecticut ; the name is spelt as above ; also, Beaumont, 
Bemen, Bemont, Bemond, and Beamon, on different records in the 
colony.) William and Lydia had issue: Lidia, b. March 9, 1644; 
Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1645 or '7 ; Elizabeth, b. March 2, 1649 ; Debo- 
rah, b. Nov. 29, 165- ; Abigail, b. Feb. 20, 1654 ; Samuel, b. Feb. 
1656 ; Rebeka, b. Sept. 7, 1659 ; Abigail, d. Sept. 29, 1683 ; Lydia 
wife of William, d. Aug. 16, 16S6 ; the father d. Feb. 4, 1698-9.J 
William, of Lyme, sold land in Lyme to John Tilleston, 1673. 

BEXMOND, SAMUEL, of Windsor, had Hannah, b. April 2, 
1693; Samuel, b. June 6, 1704. 

BEAUMONT, WILLIAM, was made free, 1652, in Connecticut. 

BEMENT, JOHN, of Enfield, Conn., first settler on lot now oc 
cupied by his descendants, in Enfield; came in 1682 ; d. 1634; left 



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three sons. John, d. 1703; had two sons; Benjamin, b. 1699, m. 
Elizabeth Abbo, 172-3, removed to Simsbury ; John, b. 1701, history- 
unknown ; William, second son of John, Sen., m. Hannah Terry, 
daughter of Capt. Samuel Terry, 1707, settled in the east part of the 
town, died 1728, left four sons ; William, b. 1708, m. Phebe Mark, 
ham, and removed to Windham ; Samuel, b. 1720 ; Ebenezer, b. 
1723 ; Joseph, b. 1725, settled and died in Enfield, without children ; 
Edmund, third son of John, Sen., rn. Prudence Morgan, 1700, and 
Priscilla Warner, second wife, 1703 ; d. 1745 ; had three sons ; 
Jonathan, b, 1705, removed to Suffield, d. in the Cape Breton expe- 
dition ; Dennis, b. 1711, m. Mary Abbe, daughter of Thomas Abbe, 
1737, d. 1789, had two sons, Dennis and Edmund, both settled and 
died in Enfield; Edmund, third son of Edmund, Sen., b. 1713, set- 
tled in East Hartford. 

BEAMON, SYxMON, of Springfield, m. Alice Young, Dec. 15, 
1654, and had issue born there, viz., John, b. the 12lh oftl e second 
month, 1657 ; Daniel, b. y' 15th of the first month, 1658 ; Thomas, 
b. the 29th of the 10th month, 1660 ; Josias, b. Feb. 4, 1062 ; a son 
born Aug. 20, 1671 ; daughter b. June 11, 1673. John Bemout, 
Sen., of Enfield, d. Dec. 27, 1684. 

BEMAN, SAMUEL, of Scotland, in Simsbury, d. in 1752. Mar- 
garet, his widow, 

Frederick D. Beman, graduated at Yale College, 1824. George 
A. O. Beaumont, graduated at Yale College, 1842. 

These names are only the French name Beaumon, or Beaumont. 

BEMENT, WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, m. Phebe, and had a 
daughter Phebe, b. Jan. 22, 1734; Penelope, b. Oct. 11, 1735; 
William, b. Aug. 21, 1737; Asa, b. Feb. 4, 1739; Ebenezer, b. 
Jan. 3, 1741 ; Samuel, b. Dec. 25, 1742 ; Hannah, b. Oct. 25, 1744 ; 
Edith, b. Sept. 14, 1746, d. ; second Edith, b. April 26, 1748 ; Sa- 
rah, b. June 10, 1750; Chloe, b. May 7, 1752; Freelove, b. March 
26, 1754 ; Rebecca, b. Nov. 18, 1755, d. 1757 ; Rebecca, b. Sept. 
11, 1757, d. 1760. 

BEMENT, ASA, son of William, m. Ruth Neal, Jan. 15, 1761, 
and had issue : Rebecca, b. March 10, 1762. BEAMONT, JOHN, 
Isaac Buck, Walter Briggs, Thomas Byrd, John Bryant, of Scituate, 
in the colony of N. Plyniouth, are in the list of Scituate, of those 
able to bear arms, Ijetween the ages of 16 and 60 years, in 1043. 
BEMOUNT, NOAH, and Patience, his wife ; daughter Katherine, 
d. at Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 19, 1710, aged 19 years. His daugh- 
ter Sarah d. there July y' 3, 1711, aged 27 years. {Harris.) Noah 



190 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Beman was in Dorchester, and made free in 1690. BEAMON, 
DANIEL, took the oath of allegiance at Springfield, Mass., 1678. 
BEAMONT has one coat of arms. BEAUMONT has sixteen, and 
BEAUMOND three coats of arms. Dr. Beaumont, a noted French 
doctor, now of St. Louis, Missouri, was b. at Lebanon, in Conn., and 
descended from the family first at Saybrook, of this name. He has a 
brother residing in Hartford. Gamaliel Bement, aged 12, embarked 
for New England, in the Eliza and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, 
May 7. Jo. Beam'^nd, 23, William Beamond, 27, came over in the 
Elizabeth, from London, William Stagg, master. Bemond, Thomas, 
from New Haven, was propounded to the General Court to be made 
a freeman. May, 1671. William Beamont is in the list of freemen 
at Saybrook, as late as 1669. 

BEMIS, (Bemus,) EPHRAIM, and Lydia Thomas, his wife, of 
Windham, m. Oct. 1, 1736 ; issue: James, b. Aug. 6, 1737 ; Mary, 
b. May 15, 1739, at Windham. DANIEL and Ruth Bemis, had a 
daughter Abigail, b. at Hampton, June 26, 1724 ; Chileab, son of 
Daniel and Ruth, b, at Hampton, Nov. 17, 1723 ; also James, bap- 
tized Feb. 26, 1727 ; and Sarah, June 9, 1728, an adult ; Ephraim 
Bemis, an adult, baptized Sept. 29, 1737 ; his son James, at the 
same time, and his daughter Mary, baptized 1739 ; Jonas Beaumus, 
son of Daniel, baptized Feb. 26, 1727 ; the above were baptized by 
Rev. Mr, Billings. Ruth Bemis, wife of Daniel, admitted to the 
church in Hampton, Nov. 17, 1723. In 1731, Jan. 29, Nathaniel 
and his wife Abigail Hovey were summoned before the church, at 
Hampton, to testify on a charge against James Bemus, " for hard 
drinking." Elizabeth, wife of Francis Bemus, joined the church at 
Hampton, July 22, 1764. The name of Bemis Jias been at Enfield. 
" GEORGE and Sary Bemiss" had a daughter Martha, b. at Wa- 
tertown, Mass, May 24, 1649, perhaps others. Farmer says Joseph 
Bemis was at Watertovvn, Mass., in 1640. Mr. John was at Walt- 
ham about 1700 ; his wife d. there in 1716, aged 53. The name is 
now at Dorchester, Mass., and in several towns in Conn. Seven of 
the name of Bemis had graduated at Harvard College, in 1836. 

BENEDICT, WILLIAM, in 1500, son WILLIAM, son WIL- 
LI AM, son THOMAS and Mary, all born in England. Tradition 
says the first William resided in Nottinghamshire, England, about 
A. D. 1500, and was an only son, and he had an only son William, 
who resided in the same shire. This second William had also an 
only son William, in Nottinghamshire, who also had an only son 
Thomas, who was born in England, in 1617. He m. Mary Bridgum, 



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and was by trade a weaver. His father m. a second wife, Mrs, 
Bridgum, (a widow,) whose daughter Mary, ni. Thomas when ol 
age, (16M8.) Tlioiuas Benedict and Mary caine to Mass. in the 
same vessel, and were soon after married. He remained for a time 
there and then removed to Southold, L. I., where they iiad nine ciiil- 
dren born, viz., Thomas, John, Samuel, James, Daniel, Betty, Mary, 
Sarah ar.d Rebecca. From Southold he removed to Huntington, L. 
I., and resided there in June, 1656. He removed to Jamaica, where 
his son Thomas m. Mary Messenger. On the 'Z6{h of Sept., 1664, 
Bailey, D'l Denton, Thos. Benedict, dc, applied to Col. Nichols to 
settle upon the river, (Arthur-Cull Bay,) now Elizabethtown, in New 
Jersey : the petition was granted. On the 8th of Feb., 1664, Gov. 
Nichols issued an order of election, dated at James Fort, in New- 
York, to the magistrates of ihe towns upon L. I., to elect two dele- 
gates in each town, of the most sober, able and discreet persons, to 
meet at Hempstead, on the last day of Feb., to enact laws, &c. 
Daniel Denton and Thomas Benedict were elected delegates by the 
town of Jamaica. This was probably the first English legislature 
ever held in what is now the stale of New York. He received a 
Lieutenant's conmiission in a foot company at Jamaica, from Gov. 
Nichols, dated at Fort James, in New \ ork, April 7th, 1665. Dur- 
ing tiie same year Thomas removed to Norwalk, in the colony of 
Connecticut, with his family. In Feb., 1666, he was elected town 
clerk and selectman ol Norwalk. He was also chosen town clerk 
in 1669, also in 1672, at twenty shillings a year, which ofiice he 
held many years. (See Hairs NoruHiIk and Southold Record.) 

Thomas, Sen., in 1669, purchased of Samuel Campficld, his home 
lot, which had been granted him by the town of Norwalk. He was 
to have the meeting house swept for the year 1665, at twenty shil- 
lings. Daniel Benedict, a soldier in the swamp fight against the In- 
dians, had twelve acres of land given him by Norwalk for his 
service. 

Thomas Benedict, Sen. and Jun., of Norwalk, were propounded 
for freemen in Conn., in Oct., 1667. In May, 1670, Thomas Bene- 
dict and Walter Hoyte, were deputies to the General Court of Conn. 
At a session of the General Court in May, 1672, Richard Olmsteed, 
Thomas Benedict, &c., gave " in thier names for begining a planta- 
tion neare the backside of Norwalke, and by thier deputies desired 
the countenance of the court tlierein.*' The petition was granted, 
and a committee appointed, " to make a plantation." John and Sam- 
uel Benedict, sons of Thomas, of Norwalk, were " propounded" 



192 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

freemen for Norwallc, with Ralph Kelor, &c., in May, 1674. This 
was early a highly respectable family in the colony. {Col. Rec.) 

BENEDICT, THOMAS, 2d, b. on L. I., removed with his father 
from L. I. to Norwalk, in 1(365. He m. Mary Messenger, of Jamai- 
ca, L. I. ; children, Mary, b. 1666 ; Thomas, b. 1670 ; Hannah, b. 
Jan. 8, 1676; Esther, b. Oct. 5, 1679 ;, Abigail, b. 1682, and 
Elizabeth. (See Hall and Jamaica and Southold Records.) 

BENEDICT, Deacon JOHN, son of Thomas, Sen., was b. on L. 
I. ; he removed to Norwalk with his father. He m. Phebe, daugh- 
ter of John Gregory, of Norwalk, Nov. 11, 1670, and had children : 
Sarah, Phebe, b. 1673 ; John, b. March 3, 1676 ; Jonathan, Benja- 
min, Joseph, James, b. Jan. 5, 1685 ; Mary and Thomas. John 
succeeded his father as deacon of the church in Norwalk. Deacon 
John died Jan. 16, 1766, aged 89 ; wife died 1749, aged 72. 

BENEDICT, SAMUEL, son of Deacon Thomas, removed to Nor. 
walk, and on the 7lh day of July. 1670, he m. Rebecca Andrews, of 
Fairfield, and had issue : Joanna, b. Oct. 22, 1673 ; Samuel, b. 
March, 1675 ; Thomas, b. March 27, 1679 ; Rebecca, Esther, Na- 
thaniel and Absalom, b. June 21, 1681. 

This Samuel, with his brother James, and James Beebe, their 
brother-in-law, and others, in 1694-5, purchased lands of the In- 
dians, in what is now called Danbury, and made a settlement there. 
BENEDICT, JAMES, removed with his father, from L. I. to 
Norwalk ; he m. Sarah Gregory, of Norwalk, May 10, 1676, and had 
issue : Sarah, b. June 16, 1677 ; Rebecca, Phebe. James, John, Thom- 
as, and Elizabeth. He settled at Danbury, with his brother Samuel 
and brothers-in-law, J. Beebe and Dr. Woods, an Englishman. 

BENEDICT, DANIEL, son of Thomas, Sen., of L. I., removed 
with his father, from L. I. to Norwalk, and m. Mary Marvin, of the 
latter place, and had issue : Mary, Daniel, Mercy, and Hannah. 
Daniel also removed to Danbury, and sold his land at Norwalk, 
March, 1690. 

BENEDICT, BETTY, daughter of Thomas, Sen., m. John 
Slauson, of Stamford, and had issue : Mary and Thomas. 

BENEDICT, MARY, daughter of Thomas, Sen., m. John Olm- 
stead, " Lieut. Olmstede," of Norwalk, Nov. 11, 1670, and had issue: 
John, Mary, Jane, Sarah, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Daniel, Richard, 
Eunice and Deborah. 

BENEDICT, SARAH, daughter of Thomas, Sen., m. James 
Beebe, of Stratford, Dec. 19, 1679 ; children : Sarah, b. at Nor- 
walk, Nov. 13, 1680 ; James and Samuel, b. at Danbury. He was 
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BENEDICT, REBECCA, daughter of Thomas, Sen., of Nor. 
walk, m. Dr. Samuel Woods or Wood, an Englishman, born and 
educated in England. He was an early settler at Danbury, and a 
valuable citizen. 

BENJAMIN, Benedict, son of Deacon, settled at Ridgefield, about 
1720, and was Deacon and selectman there ; he died at Stamford, 
July 3, 1773. Joseph, son of Deacon John, also removed to Ridge- 
field; his first wife died there Dec. 9, 1716. James, a brother of 
Joseph, m. Sarah, daughter of Thomas Hyatt, of Norwalk, in 1709 ; 
he also settled at Ridgefield, and was one of the original purchasers 
of the Indians. He held many town offices, and represented Ridge- 
field in the Legislature ; a Justice of Peace, Captain, &c. ; he died 
there Nov. 25, 1762, aged 76 ; his widow died 1767, aged 80. 

BENEDICT, (Benedick,) THOMAS, upon the petition from 
Huntington, L. I., to the General Court of Connecticut, in 1662, con- 
firmed Jonas Wood and Thomas Benedict, with liberty to act in 
point of government, according to the liberties granted that town by 
the General Court of Connecticut, (1662.) In 1664, Tliomas Ben- 
edict and Mr. Robert Coe, were appointed Commissioners for Jamai- 
ca, L. I., by the General Court of Connecticut. 

BENEDICT, Rev. NOAH, the third minister of Woodbury, set- 
tled Oct. 23, 1760, wiio was born at Waterbury, was of this family. 
The Benedicts of Sheffield are also descendants of Thomas Sen. 
Thomas Benedict was the only early settler found in the Colony of 
Connecticut, by the name of Benedict. 

Thomas Benedict, Mr. Walker, Henry Witny, Mr. Smith, Jo- 
seph Smith, Dan Penton, John Bayless, Sulk Davis, were accepted 
freemen by the General Court of Connecticut, May, 1664, for Jamai- 
ca, L. I., (if they accepted.) 

Mr. Thomas Benedict and Walter Hoyt, were Deputies to the 
General Court at Hartford from Norwalk, May, 1670, and Benedict 
in 1675. 

' BENEDICT, Rev. JOEL, D. D., b. at Salem, New York, 1745, 
son of Peter Benedict, and brother of Rev. Abner, of Middlefield So- 
ciety in Middletown. 

NoTK. — ^The descendants of Thomas Benedict are numerous and scattered in all directions 
■.n Norwalk, New Canaan, Danbury, Ridgefield, New Milford, Canaan, New Haven, Waterbury, 
.'I'ew York, &c , but all are descendants of Thomas. 

NoTs. — Most of these facts are from Rev. E. Hall, and the L. I. Court Record. 

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194 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Rev. ABNER was b. at N. Salem, N. Y. ; graduated at Yale 
College, 1769; settled Nov. 20, 1771. 

• Rev. JOEL graduated at Princeton College, in 1765 ; he settled 
first in the ministry at Lisbon, Conn., Newent Society, where he re- 
mained about eleven years ; ordained there Feb. 21, 1771. 

Dr. Benedict, who was a scholar and gentleman, and one of the 
most distinguisiied divines of his time, having been dismissed at New- 
ent ,was installed over the church and society at Plainfield, Conn., 
Dec. 23, 1784. He d. at Plainfield, Feb. 18, 1816, aged 71 years, 
having been in the ministry forty-five years. Dr Benedict m. soon 
after his first settlement. Miss Sarah Mackown of the state of Maine ; 
she d, at Newburgh, New York, about 1830. Dr. Benedict had a 
large and interesting family, especially daughters, who were re- 
spectably connected in life, most of whom are deceased. The child- 
ren were viz., 

SARAH, b. about 1776; she m. Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL . 
D., President of Union College; she d. early and left three children, 
Maria, the deceased wife of Bishop Potter of Penn. ; Joel and Benja- 
min yet living. 

ROBERT, son of Dr. Benedict, b. about 1778, m. Miss Dow of 
Sterling, and removed to the State of New York; a daughter of his 
is now the wife of Bishop Potter. 

MARY, daughter of Dr. Benedict, b. about 1780, m. Benjamin 
Allen, LL. D. of Hyde Park, New York, May 6, 1799 ; she died 
some years since and left four sons and one daughter. Dr. Allen 
is deceased. 

RICHARD HUDSON, son of Dr. Benedict, was b. about 1782; 
a Baptist minister ; he has been twice married and had several chil- 
dren, names not known. 

ANNA, daughter of Dr. Benedict, b. about 1784, d. unmarried 
June 30, 1806, aged 22 years. 

SUSAN, daughter of Dr. Benedict, baptized April 9, 1786, m. 
Rev. Samuel Phinney, an Episcopal minister, they reside in New- 
burgh, New York, and have three children. 

WILLIAM MACKOWN and ELIZABETH, twins, baptized 
June 1788, children of Dr. Benedict. William M. was a physician, 
and was twice married ; and d. in 1847, at Millbury, Mass., and 
left three children. 

ELIZABETPI m. Robert Hudson, Esq., Aug. 21, 1809 ; a lawyer 



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of Schenectady, New York ; she died early and left a son John, now 
a lawyer in BnlFalo. 

MARGARBT, daughter of Dr. Benedict, b. about 1792, m. James 
Hunter of Philadelphia. He d. without issue; his widow is yet 
living. 

LOUISA KIRTLAND, daughter of Dr. Benedict, baptized Feb. 
14, 1796; m. James Brown, merchant in Baltimore, now of the 
wealthy firm of Brown and Sons, New York. She d. in Paris 
(France) about 1830, and left six children. Her oldest soon after 
his marriage, was killed about three years since, by an accidental 
shot on the fourth of July. 

BENEDICT, Rev. NOAH, graduated at Yale College in 1760; 
ordained in the first society of Woodbury, Oct. 22, 1760, where he 
prenclied until his death. 

BENEDICT, AARON, Esq., of Waterbury, long since deceased, 
(the father of Aaron Benedict, Esq., now of Waterbury,) was a broth- 
er of Rev. Noah, of Woodbury deceased. Hon. Noah B. Benedict, 
of Woodbury, and Gen. Tiiomas Benedict, (who was conspicuous in 
the war of 1812,) were brothers, and descendants of Thomas Sen., of 
Norwalk, Conn., and sons of Rev Noah. 

BENFIELD, WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, petitioned the Court 
of Magistrates, to be divorced from his wife Elizabeth, which was 
granted, Dec. 6, 1662. 

BENFIELD, MARY, of Fairfield, in 1667 had a child, wiiich 
the Magistrates ordered a sum paid by Deliverance Blackman, for 
bringing up the child. Mrs. Jane Blackman, his mother, petitioned 
the General Court, in 1667, to ease her son of the payment of 
said sum, which was referred to the County Court at Fairfield. In 
1668, the Court appointed Mr. Gold and the commissioners of Fair- 
field and Stratford, to settle the controversy between Goode Blen- 
field, and D. Blackman. Benfield one coat of arms. 

BENIIAM, JOSEPH, of New Haven, daughter Mary, b. 7° 18, 
1657 ; Joseph, Jr., b. May 25, 1659; a daughter b. 1660 ; Joanne, 
b. July 25, 1062; Elizabeth, b. St-ptember 13, 1664, d. Aug. 1, 
1669; John, b. Dec. 28, 1666, d. Nov., 1670. Sarah, d. 1668. 

BENHAM, or BEECHAM, JOHN, of New Haven, m. widow 
Sarah Wilson, Feb. 8, 1654; son John, b. Nov. 4, 1665, d. Nov. 
12, 1665; Sarah, b. 7° 17, 1656; Mary, b. April 10, 1660; 
Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1661 ; John born Sept. 15, 1664, (perhaps Ben- 
ham,) Sarah his wife d. May 30, 1667. The name of Benham 



196 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

was in the New Haven Colony, several years before it is found in 
the colony of Connecticut. 

BENHAM, RICHARDS, daughter Hannah, b. July, 1683; Re- 
becca, b. 1685. Samuel Bcniiam of Farmington d. about 1753 ; 
wife, Azuba ; children, Azuba and Luce ; he owned a farm in 
Southington. John Benham admitted freeman in Mass., in 1631. 
( Farmer.) Benham has one coat of arms. 

BENJAMIN, JOHN, in Suffolk County, Mass., probably of 
Watertown, made his will, and notices his son John for a double 
portion of his estate ; he mentions seven other children, yet does 
not give their names, (see will, Hist. ^- Gen. Reg., No. 10, p. 177 ;) 
will proved 1645. Mary Benjamin, of Watertown, made her will, 
May 16, 1646 ; notices her aunt Wines, sister Abigail Stubbs, her 
brother, and her cousin Anne Wyes. 

Farmer says the above John Benjamin of Watertown, Mass., was 
freeman there in 1632, and one of the proprietors of Cambridge; 
that he died, June, 1645, and that his oldest son was John ; also noti- 
ces Richard Benjamin, at Watertown in 1640. 

BENJAMIN, RICHARD, who was at Southold, L. I., and applied 
to the General Court of Conn., with Jeffery Jones and others to be 
made a freeman under Conn., in May, 1664, and to whom the free- 
man's oath was administered by Capt. John Young, of Southold, L. 
I., was probably the same Richard Benjamin, who is mentioned by 
Farmer as having been at Watertown, Mass., in 1640, and a son of 
John who died at Watertown, in 1645 ; if so, tradition says with 
Farmer that John (who came to Conn.) was a son of John of Water- 
town, who was made free there in 1632, and a brother of Richard, 
of L. I. 

BENJAMIN, JOHN, who came to Conn., was probably the son 
of John of Watertown ; died at Hartford in 1653, and left a widow 
Hannah, and children — John (gave £50 ; ) Caleb, (a house and four 
acres of land east of the river,) and a son Samuel, (£50.) His son 
David died before his father, (and left two children ;) Gideon also son 
of John and Hannah was executor of his will, and had the residue 
of his father's property ; Gideon's son Gideon, was the grandfather 
of Edwin Benjamin late deceased of Hartford, who was 25 years a 
Clerk in the Comptroller's Otfice at Hartford ; Jonathan, son of Gid- 
eon, m. Miss. Woodbridge, and had a family ; John, son of John and 
Hannah Benjamin, m. Hannah of Hartford, and bad children viz: 
Samuel, b. May 30, 170S ; Caleb, b. July 15, 1710; John, birth 
not found. 



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SAMUEL, son of John and Hannah Benjamin, resided at IIoc- 
canum in Hartford, or Windsor. He d. in 1069, and left sons 
Samuel and John, and daughters Mary and Abigail, and left his es- 
tate with his wife Mary. He made his brother Caleb, overseer of 
his family and estate. Thomas Atwood then threescore years old, 
and Thomas Edwards, then aged about forty-seven years, testified 
"they heard him make his will." Inventory of his estate offered 
by Nathaniel Rusco and Stephen Hopkins, Nov. 9, 1670. The 
widow engaged to pay the daughters Mary and Abigail, <£'10 each 
when eighteen years old. 

BENJAMIN, JOHN, son of John, and wife Hannah of Hartford, 
had issue, Samuel, b. May 30, 1708 ; Caleb b. July 15, 1710. 

BENJAMIN, JOHN, of VVetliersfield, m. Ann Latimer July 26, 
1699, and had a son John, b. May 12, 1700, and Ann, b. Jan. 1, 
1704 ; born at Wethersfield. 

BENJAMIN, JOSEPH, and HANNAH, of Hampton, Conn., had 
children; William, b. June 18, 1748 ; Samuel, b. Dec. 1749; Peleg 
b. March 5, 1752 ; Judah a son, b. July 8, 1755. Samuel, Peleg, 
Judith and Mary, baptized at Hampton, Sept. 3, 1758. 

BENJAMIN, CALEB, of Wethersfield, son of John who died in 
1653, and a brother of Samuel ; wife Mary. Caleb d. May 8, 1684. 
His children were Mary, aged 13 years; Sarah 8; Samuel 5; 
Abagail 11 ; John 6, and Martha 3 years old. Caleb petitioned the 
General Court to form a Town in the Webaquassett Country in 1682. 

SAMUEL, son of Samuel Benjamin of Hoccanum, had a son 
Samuel, and two daughters. 

JOHN, son of Caleb Benjamin, m. Mary Smith, daughter of Pliil- 
lip, of East Hartford, and removed to Stratford. John and his wife 
Mary in a deed of land in Hartford given by them, of Stratford, to 
her brother David Smith of Hartford, March 3, 1735-6. John and 
Mary also of Stratford, for £20 paid "by our brother David Smith, 
of Hartford," deeded him other lands in Hartford east of the river, be- 
ing the " tenth part of eighty-nine acres which accrued to us from 
the estate of our honored father, Mr. Phillip Smith of said Hartford, 
late deceased, 1736." John and his v.ife Mary in 1740, for the con- 
sideration of j£l73 money, sold land in Hartford, to David Smith of 
Hartford. The deed was acknowledged in Wethersfield, April 7, 
1740. John and Mary Benjamin of Stratford, also sold land in 
Ilartfjrd, to David Smith of Hartford, for £20 in July, 1734. It was 
by this John Benjamin, that the name of Benjamin was introduced 
into Fairfield County. 
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198 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BENJAMEN, has one coat of arms. 

The Benjamins of Mass., Conn., and Long Island, were probably 
all descendants of John, Sen., of Watertown, Mass., Avhose will was 
proved in 1645. 

BENJAMIN, RICHARD, of Long Island, Barnabus Wines, Jr., 
Caleb Horton, Benjamin Horton, Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas 
Moore, and Jeffrey Jones, were accepted as freemen of Conn., and 
Capt. Young to give them the oath, 1684. 

BENNET, BENNITT, BENET, JOHN, of Windsor, was an 
original or first settler there, and the first of the name in the Colony, 
probably not a relative of the Bennets from Ipswich, to Windham or 
Hampton in Conn. He and Mary Holt, were sentenced to be whipped 
and sent out of the Jurisdiction of Conn., in 1639, but he is again 
found in the Colony in 1648, when he was recognized in a bond of 
£20 to "keep good behavior to the next Court." He promised to con- 
fess his fault publicly at Windsor. John Drake of Windsor com- 
plained against him in 1648, for saying he had gained the affections 
of Drake's daughter. In 1649, he was a'defendant incourt at Hart- 
ford. In 1652, John Benit was allowed by Windsor "to be Enter- 
tayned by Will Hayden in his family." John, supposed of Fairfield, 
was propounded for a freeman at Hartford, 1672. 

BENNET, JAMES, from Concord, Mass.' moved to Fairfield, 
Conn., in 1644; he had a son Thomas b. Nov. 16, 1642, before he 
left Concord, and had others born at Fairfield. He had a house lot 
of two and a half acres at Fairfield about 1649, and several other lots 
of land there. He had a son James. Jr. Thomas, Sen., was made 
free in Oct., 1664. The name has been and now is, numerous and 
respectable in Fairfield County. 

BENNET, HENRY, at Lyme, m. Sarah Champion of Lyme, 



Note. — Banks, Bankes, Bancks, John ; there appear to liave lieen three persons of this name 
about the same time in Conn. The first Jnlm Banks was an early settler at Windsor, and one 
of the leaders of the town for several years. He was a clerk for Windsor, to size weights and 
measures for the town, Apr., 1643; and represented the town at the General Court, in 1651. 
In May, his fine, with others from Fairfield, of 20.9 each, was ren)itted, (imposed on them July 
8, 1650.) I find Mr. John Banks, Deputy to the General Court at Hartford, from Fairfield, Oct., 
1665 ; also May, 1G66 ; and Commissioner lor Fairfield, 1666 ; also Deputy Oct., 1666 ; also Dep- 
uty May, and Oct., 1673; also in 1674, '5, '6 and '7. Mr. John Banks and Peter Disbroe, Deputies 
to General Court, at Hartford, from Rye, May, 1670; Mr. John Banks, Deputy from Bye, May, 
1671, and May and Oct., 1672. Mr. Johu Banks of Greenwich. Deputy Oct., 1673. Mr. John 
Banks and Capt. Roberts, Deputies Oct.. 1676, and John of Fairfield the same session. Mr. 
John Banks, of Faitfield, Mr. John Banks, of Greenwich, and Mr. John Banks, of Rye, were all 
Representatives to the General Court, in Oct., 1677. (See Banks, also see Colony Record ) 
(Perhaps one wan represented three towns, not probable.) 



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Sept. 9, 1673, and had issue, John, b. 1680 ; Sarah, b. 1683 ; Love, 
b. 1685; Dorete, b. 1688; Henry, Jun., b. July 29, 1691, perhaps 
others. This was also a respectable family, though I have few 
facts concerninfT them, 

BENNET, WILLIAM, and his wife Sarah from Ipswich, Mass., 
joined the church at Hampton, Conn., July 7, 1738. Lucy Bennet 
admitted to same church Nov. 15, 1741. Eleanor Bennet admitted 
to the church in Hampton, Mar. 7, 1742. Deacon Isaac Bennet and 
Sarah his wife, entered on church record at Hampton, Dec. 9, 1764. 
Hannah Bennet joined the same church, Oct. 20, 1772. Isaac was 
deacon from 1779 to 1815. His second wife d. Mar. 6, 1815. 

BENNET, WILLI \M, and wife Sarah from Ipswich, Mass., were 
admitted to full communion by Mr. Mosely in the church at Hamp- 
ton, Conn. July 7, 1738. Lucy Bennet admitted 1741. Eleanor 
Bennet admitted March, 1742 ; also Isaac Deacon and Sarah Bennet 
his wife, admitted 1764 ; Deacon Isaac d. July 17, 1817. Peggy his 
second wife was from Pon)fi'ct. John Bennet and Sarah his wife ; 
daughter Mary, b. at Hampton, Apr. 22, 1753 ; Lois, b. May 23, 1755. 

BENNET, WILLIAM, and Sarah, above, had a daughter Han- 
nah baptized Jan. 20, 1740; Eunice baptized Nov. 1, 1741 ; Eliza- 
beth baptized June 17, 1744; second Hannah baptized 1746. 

BENNET, Deacon ISAAC, of Hampton, m. Sarah Cady, Nov. 2, 
1763, and had issue ; William, b. Apr. 18, 1766 ; Jarcd, b. Aug. 23, 
1768 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 5, 1770 ; Lydia, b. Dec. 5, 1772 ; Hannah, b. 
Jan. 5, 1775, m. Samuel Holt; Lucy, b. Oct. 29, 1776; Clarence 
or Charity, b. June 24, 1780, d. July 4, 1780 ; Isaac, Jun., b. Jan. 
5, 1782 ; Sarah, wife of Deacon Isaac, d. July 17, 1782, and the Dea- 
con m. Margaret Pain, Sept. 9, 1784. H'^ d. July 17, 1817, aged 
about 76. This family of Bennets, from Deacon Isaac to the pres- 
ent time, has proved one of the best families in Hampton, kind, pious 
and useful citizens, His son William, Esq., is yet living on his old 
fium, two miles south of the village of Hampton, and the oldest man 
in the town. He and his father before him, have both been mem- 
bers of the church. Esq., William, was a member of the Legisla- 
ture 1841, and was elected in 1842, but declined the honor. No 
gentleman in Hampton is more highly respected, or is more deserv- 
ing of it. 

BENNET, WILLIAM, Esq., and Anna Fuller, had issue, Isaac, 
baptized at Hampton, July 9, 1805; William 3rd, Samuel, Fidelia 
and Lyman. Anna, wife of Esq. William, d. June 18, 1846, aged 
73. Esq. William, son of Deacon Isaac, was b. Aug. 14, 1764, 



200 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

and his wife Anna, b. Sept. 1, 1772. A man by the name of Henry 
Bennite (perhaps the same name) was Secretary to King Charles 
II., and sifjned the Commission or letter for Col. Richard Nicolls 
Sir Robert Carr, George Cartright, &c., in 1664, to the Governor of 
Connecticut, in behalf of the King. William Bennett of Willington, 
Conn., deceased 1768; widow — children, William, Elizabeth Web- 
ster, George, Prudence, Nathan. 

BENNET, JAMES, of Concord, Mass., had a daughter Hannah, 
b. in 1640; James, b. in 1642; EDWARD, freeman in Mass., 
1636; JAMES, freeman in Mass., 1638-9; RICHARD, of the 
First Church in Boston, freeman in 1673; RICHARD received his 
pay for military service in Philip's war, from Dedham, Mass., 1676. 
Joseph of Wethersfield, Conn., in 1648. Farmer mentions Ed- 
mond of Weymouth, Mass., freeman, 1636 ; George of Boston, 
drowned in 1653; James of Concord, freeman 1638, removed to 
Fairfield, Sept., 1644, his son Thomas, b. Nov. 16, 1642 ; John of 
Salem, 1638, Marblehead, in 1648 ; Richard of Boston, 1645 ; Sam- 
uel of Lynn, 1637; William of Salem, 1637; b. 1603, d. 1683. 
Four by the names of Bennett and Bennet graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege before 1840. Two of the name of Bennet, and two of the name 
of Bennett, graduated at Yale College, before 1844. 

BENNETT, MATTHEW, came to this country in the Paul, of 
London, Leonard Betts master, bound to Virginia, per certificate 
from the minister of Gravesend, of his conforinitie to the church 
of England, July 6, 1635. {H. G. Somerhy.) 

BENNET, THOMAS, received his certificate to be transported 
to Virginia, in the America, William Barker, Master, June 23, 1635, 
also Henry Barker, also Walter Brooks, George Brookes and Wil- 
liam Brookes. 

BENNET, JANE, aged 16, embarked in the Elizabeth and Ann, 
R. Cooper, Master, April 29, 1635. Bennett has eight coats of arms, 
Bennet has twenty-one, and Bennette one coat of arms. 

BENNET, JOHN, sold land in Windsor, in 1640, to John Styles, 
and purchased land by the river in Wmdsor, in 1640. He had a 
son Joshua. John Bennet and Josiah Clark, propounded for free- 
men May, 1672. He was plaintiff in two cases in Court, March, 
1649, and released from his bond for good behavior, same Court. 
Defendant in Court June, 1649, in two cases, and execution granted 
to him against William Edwards. 

BENNET, ARTHUR, and his wife from Plymouth, Mass., had 
a daughter Elizabeth, b. at Saybrook, Sept. 4, 1747. 



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BENNET ; the General Court Oct., 1065, desired tlie Governor 
and Secretary to perfect tlie address, then read in Court, to present 
** to his Majesty, by the Hon. Secretary Bennet," to whom a letter 
was to be directed for that purpose by the Governor and Secretary, 
and the Governor requested to sign the address in the name of the 
Colony. (See Col. Rec.) Sir Henry Bennet, (aiterwards Lord 
Arlington,) appointed a Secretary of State in lG6-"i, on the removal 
of Sir Edward Nicholas. (See note, Prin. Col. Rec, p 27, Vol. 11.) 
Farmer notes David a physician, d. at Rowley, Feb. 4, 1719, ngtd 
103 years, Edmond, Weymouth, free 1636; John, Salem, 1038; 
Marblehead, 1648; Richard, of Boston, 1637; Samuel, of Lynn, 
1637, a carpenter, member of ar. co., 1039; William, of Salem, 
1637. 

BENNET, JOHN, of iMystic, 1657; sons, John, Joseph and 
William. 

BENTON, ANDREW, is first found at Milford, in a list of the 
first settlers there recorded Nov. 20, 1639, as free planters, with lib- 
erty to vote for public officers, to carry on public affairs in that 
plantation ; when they settled the power in the church to choose 
persons out of themselves, to divide the lands into lots, as they siiould 
have light from the word of God, and take order for the timber. It 
was at this meeting, with these voters, that Milford started her own 
little Republic. They appointed William Fowler, Edinand Tapp, 
Zechariah Whitman, John Astwood, (d. in England, July, 1054,) 
and Richard Miles, judges in all civil matters, as a court, to try and 
punish any offense and sin against the Commandments, until a l;ody 
of laws should be established. The judges to observe and apply 
themselves to the rule of the written word of God. The little Rcpub- 
lie of Milford, upon the 24th day of Nov.. 1640, at a meeting of the 
freemen, named the town Milford, and confirmed the ai)pointment of 
Fowler, Tapp, Whitman, Astwood, and John Sherman, as magis- 
trates, with power to hold a General Court, and Particular Courts, 
with power to punish all misdemeanors according to the rule of God. 
Andrew Benton made freeman 1605. Mr. Benton m. at New 
Haven, and resided at Milford, until they took a dismission from the 
church in Milford, to the church at Hartford in 1000, and removed 
to Hartford the same year. Thougii it appears fron) his having 
been a juror and holding land in Hartford in 1604, he must have per- 
sonally resided at Hartford, before he removed there in 1600. His 
wife Sarah, was admitted to the church, Oct. 13, 1049. He died at 
Hartford, July 31, 1083, aged 03, and Joseph Benton appointed ad- 



202 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ministrator ; liis widow had £40 personal estate, and one-third of the 
real estate. Ho liad issue by his first wife, Andrew, who d. 1703-4, 
Samuel, b. Aug. 15, 1658; Joseph, Mary, b. April 14, 1655; Doro- 
thy, John, b. Oct. 7, 1656, died; and by his second wife, Ebenezer, 
aged 9, Lydia 7, and Hannah 5 years old, at the time of the father's 
decease: Estate £364, 1*. 4(1. Andrew was juror at Hartford in 
1664. 

BENTON, JOSEPH, of Hartford, son of Andrew, m. Sarah Wa- 
ters, 1697, and had Ruth, b. Feb. 9, 1698, d. 1712; Sarah, b. June 
28, 1700, d. 1712; Isaac, b. Feb. 8, 1702;, Aaron, b. March 25, 
1704; Jemima, b. March 21, 1708; Jehial, b. Jan. 27, 1710. Jo- 
seph, removed to Tolland amongst the first settlers there, and was 
sworn first town clerk in Tolland, in 1719, (see T. Thrall,) and on 
the Committee to build the meeting house at Tolland. 

BENTON, SAMUEL, of Hartford had children, viz., Samuel, Jr., 
b. Jan. 28, 1680, m. Mary Pomeroy, daughter of Medad, of North- 
ampton, Jan. 2, 1704 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 28, 1685 ; Hannah, b. March 
14, 1688, m. Samuel Kellogg, May 11, 1711 ; Abagail, b. Dec. 9, 
1691 ; Caleb, b. March 1, 1695; Daniel, b. June 26, 1696; Jacob, 
b. Sept. 2], 1698, m. Abagail Carter, July 6, 1724 ; Moses, b. April 
25, 1702. 

SAMUEL, Jr., and Mary Benton had Medad, b. Oct. 25, 1705; 
Ruth, b. Sept. 2, 1707, (perhaps others.) 

BENTON, EDWARD, from Guilford to Wethersfield, d. Feb. 
20, 1698, and Mary his widow d. Aug. 8, 1702. His children were 
probably all born before he removed to Wethersfield, 

BENTON, SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, m. Mary Bradfield, 
daughter of Samuel, Feb. 1, 1705, and had issue, b. at Wethersfield, 
viz., Sarah, b. March 19, 1707; Hannah, b. July 1, 1710; Nathan- 
iel, b. March 8, 1714, d. an infant ; Jonathan, b. Oct. 23, 1715 ; Na- 
thaniel 2d, b. April 9, 1718 ; Abagail, b. Nov. 4, 1720. The moth- 
er d. Dec. 6, 1747, and Samuel, the father d. in 1752. 

"BENTON, JONATHAN, son of Samuel and Mary, b. 1715, m. 
Hannah Beckley, May 6, 1742, and had issue, Lydia, b. Feb. 1, 
1743; Samuel, b. Sept. 4, 1745; Jonathan, Jr., b. March 18, 1748. 
His \yife Hannah d. Jan. 18, 1750, aged 39 years, and he m. for 
his 2d wife Deborah Williams, Aug. 24, 1750, and his 2d wife d. 
Nov. 12, 1784. 

BENTON, NATHANIEL, b, 1718, son of Samuel, of Wethers- 
field, m. Dorothy Cook, Oct. 13, 1745; John, b. March 13, 1746; 
Mar, b. March 30, 1751, and Nathaniel the father d. Dec. 3, 1753. 



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BFilNTON, JOHN, supposed son of Natlumiel, b. 1746, m. Mary 
Blin of VVethersfield, May 3, 1764, and liad issue b. at Wethers- 
field, Nathaniel, b. June 29, 1765; George, July 1, 1768; Mary, b. 
Jan. 30, 1771 ; Rebecca, b. Feb. 21, 1773; Dorothy, b. Aug. 22, 
1776; John, Jr., b. Feb. 16, 1779; Simeon, April 1-5, 1781 ; Haney, 
(dr.) b. March 14, IISI, and Harriet, b. March 22, 1786. 

BENTON, EDWARD, is in the list of freemen of Guilford, Sept. 
24, 1669, as is Daniel Benton, Andrew Benton, chosen commission- 
ers fdr Guilford, May, 1669, also Nathan, and Stephen Bradley, &c. 
Andrew Benton, admitted freeman at Hartford, 1665. Edward 
Benton's death is recorded at Wethersfield, Feb. 20, 1698, and Mary 
his widow Aug. 8, 1702. 

BENTON, ANDREW, Jr., oldest son of Andrew, of Milford, 
perhaps settled at Hartford as early as 1664, and had a family there, 
and died before his father, perhaps had children Andrew, Samuel 
Derilter, Mary and others. There was an Edward Benton of Hart- 
ford, who signed to remove to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, sup|)osed to 
have been from Guilford. Edward Benton was at Guilford in 1650. 
His death i. e. Edward Benton is recorded as having died at W^eth- 
ersfield, Feb. 20, 1698, and his widow Mary, Aug. 8, 1702. Estate 
£453, 10s. Children, Samuel, Edward, Rebecca, Mary, Ellen, Der- 
rits, who were all over 21 years at his death, e:icept Edward. Ed- 
ward, Jr., m. Mary and settled at Glastenbury, where he d. May 3, 
1713; Estate £188. Children, Josiah, 8 years ; Ephraim, 6 years, 
and Mary, 3 years old at the decease of their father. Edward Ben- 
ton a first settler at Guilford, removed to Wethersfield, but returned 
to Guilford where he died. {So says Guilford Record.) 

BENTON, JACOB, was town clerk at Harwinton, in 1740, though 
he is not in the list of original proprietors at Harwinton. 

Benton has six coats of arms. 

In 1668, the General Court impowered Mr. Samuel Wyllys, and 
others to make a deed of sale to Andrew Benton of Nathaniel Green- 
smith's house and land, which was seized for charge expended on 
Greensmith, and sold to G. Benton. There appears to have been 
an Andrew Benton a commissioner at (juilford in May, 1669. An- 
drew from Milford to Hartford, in 1669, resided south of Little 
River in Hartford. 

Hartford confirmed the land they had appointed to Andrew Ben- 
ton Feb. 17, 1664. 

BERDING, NATHANIEL, of Hartford, a planter, wife Abigail, 
He notices in his will, his son in law Thomas Spencer the elder 



204 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

Samuol Andrews, and Elizabeth his wife ; also notices Sarah, Han- 
nah, Mary and Martha Spencer, the four daughters of Thomas Spen- 
cer Sen. ; also John and Thomas Andrews, sons of his wife ; also 
Jarrad Spencer his grandson, and son of Thomas, Sen., and made 
Jarrad, sole executor of his will, dated Jan. 7, 1673. Inventory 
£282, 15s. lOd. He made his mark, to the name of Nathaniel 
Berdino;, ( perhaps Barding.) 

BERRINGHAM, or BARRINGHAM, PATRICK, of Hartford, 
d. in 1753, and left his widow with a good estate. 

BERR.Y, NATHANIEL, of Mansfield, Conn., d. about 1718, and 
his widow Elizabeth took letters of administration on the estate at 
Hartford, Sept. 2, 1718. July 7, 1719, the Court at Hartford ap- 
pointed Elizabeth the widow, guardian for the children, viz : Sarah 
Berry about 14 years; Abigail 11 years; inventory dated Aug. 16, 
1718, being £135, 18s. (kl. Other children; Nathaniel, Rachel 
Fulcham, Ann Fenton, Bethia Gove, and Elizabeth. 

BERRY, RICHARD, shipped for Virginia, in the ship Thomas 
and John in 1635, from England. 

BERRY, ANTHONY and BOREMAN, of Yarmouth, were en- 
rolled there as able to bear arms, in 1643. 

BERRY, WILLIAM, free in Mass., 1642. 

BERRY, RICHARD, of Medford, 1636. 

BERRY, AMBROSE, of Cape Porpus 1653. 

BERRIE, (Westerbogie, Scotland,) one coat of arms. 

Berry has 10. Bery has 19 coats of arms. 

BERRY, NATHANIEL, and his wife Rebecca, of Middletown, 
had issue : Marah, b. Aug. 18, 1723 ; Jonathan, b. May 12, 1725 ; 
Joseph, b. Feb. 17, 1726-7 ; Rebecca, b. July 9, 1729; Elizabeth, 
b. Dec. 18, 1731 ; Anna, b. March 31, 1734 ; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 
29, 1736. 

This was an early name at Mansfield, and this family is found at 
Tolland also. 

BERRY, DIVAN, is early found at Meriden, about 1720 ; his 
children noticed there on church record, are, Mary, who d. before 
1734, and b. 1732 ; John, b. April 8, 1733 ; Divan, Jr., b. May 
1735 ; Bethia, b. Sept. IS, 1737 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 27, 1741 ; Mary 
b. June 20, 1742, (perhaps others.) At a later period, Thomas and 
Ephriam Berry had children at Meriden, Conn. Thomas Berry's 
wife d. Sept. 23, 1743 ; Divan d. Oct. 15, 1752 ; widow Berry, 
aged 85, d. March, 1797. The name has been somewhat numerous 



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in Meriden, Conn., and its vicinity. Farmer notes William of Pas- 
catequa 1632,; freeman 1642. 

BESVVICK, GEORGE, of Wethersfield. Inventory of his estate 
exhibited in court, Dec. .5, 1672, £40, '2s. 6d; no' children. 

BESUM, JOHN, drowned at Windsor in 1C76. Wm. Bassum, 
of Wethersfield. In 1G36, it was ordered by the consent of Scrgt. 
Seely, Plaitititf vs. the town of Watertown, Defendant, attempting 
to compel the people of Watertown, Mass., to remove to Conn., with 
their families within a given time, or have no interest in the division 
of the land, and " y' the hand or the consent of the said William 
Bassum is herevnto," 

BETTS, JOHN, at Hartford, was bound to the Commonwealth 
in a bond of o£20 for his good behavior in his course of life, in 1648. 
The court freed him from the bond in Dec, 1648. He was con- 
firmed a sergeant at Wethersfield in 1657. His fine of twenty shil- 
lings was remitted in 1663. He removed to Huntington, L. I., 
where he died. The inventory of his estate in Conn, was appraised, 
by John Chester, Sen., and Nathaniel Foot, of Wethersfield, about 
1693, (no date.) The Belts farm, so called, of 150 acres, eight 
miles below Wethersfield, they appraised at £150; eight acres in 
Wethersfield town, at £20, and eight acres in Wet Swamp, at £18. 
John, the son of John, Sen., was administrator and made oath to the 
inventorv. John, Sen., resided at Wethersfield in 1648. John 
Belts had many lots of land in Wethersfield in the great meadow, al 
great plain in west-field, beyond great river, in west swamp, and he 
was an early settler there. 

BETTS, MARY, owned a house lot in Hartford in 1640, north 
of little river. She is called widow Belts, and was a proprietor in 
Hartford, and as such drew four acres in the land division al Hart- 
ford in 1639. Goode Belts, (probably) Mary, kept the first ladies' 
school in Hartford, while Wm. Andrews kepi the school for older 
children. She was called " Goody Bets the school dame." The 
children of John Belts, Sen., who died on L. I.', are not found, ex- 
cept John, Jr., neither is it known wh(>ther the family of John, Sen., 
were ancestors of any of this name al Norwalk, Conn. (See John 
Burwell. ) 

BETTS, THOMAS. (There appears lo be in Norwalk two 
distinct families by this name.) This Thomas Belts and liis wife 
Mary and family removed from Guilford, Conn., to Norwalk in 
1664 ; their children were Thomas, b. June 3, 1G5U ; Hannah b. 

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206 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

Nov. 22, 1652; *John b. 165'), and Stephen, b. Oct. 4, 1657. 
Thomas settled at Norwalk not as early as sonne others ; he purchased 
the home lot of Nathaniel Eli, and sold half of it to Christopher 
Comstock. He also purchased the house and home lot of Ralph 
Keeler, four acres, recorded about 1660. Belts Thomas, of Nor- 
walk in Oct., 1664, was accepted by the General Court to be made 
free the next May, and Mr. Campfield to administer the oath. Betts, 
Thomas, and James Hubbard were justices for the county of Kings, 
L. I., in July, 1671. Betts, Mr. Richard, and Capt. John Coe, were 
appointed commissioners for Newtown, L. I., in 1664, by the Gen- 
eral Court of Conn. Richard and Thomas at Newtown, L. I., 1655. 
Betts, widow Thomas, of Colchester, d. 1769, aged 66. Beets or 
Bets, William of Colchester, had a daughter Hannah VVyatt, bap- 
tized Jan. 11, 1767. John Betts' fine remitted by the Court, 'SOs. 
March 1663. Richard Betts of Newtown, L. I., made free by Conn., 
May, 1664. Betts, Thomas, of Milford, had Samuel, b. April 4, 
1660. Betts, Roger and Thomas, were settled at Milford about 1658. 
Betts, Thomas, Jr. of Norwalk, purchased of Benjamin Fenn of Mil- 
ford in 1677, the home lot which had been owned by his brother Jo- 
seph Fenn. James Betts received of Norwalk five acres of land for 
sending a man into the Indian war, (1698.) 

Betts, has two coats of arms. Bettes four. Bettie two. 

BETTS, THOMAS, in the list of freemen of Norwalk, Oct. 11, 
1669. Farmer, notes Tiiomas of Guilford Conn., 1650. Richard of 
Ipswich, 1643. John, Cambridge, 1640, proprietor of Lexington, 
1642. Thomas Betts, Richard Olmstead, Thomas Benedict, Wal- 
ter Hoyte, John Rusco, Daniel Kellog, Nathaniel Hayes, Matthew 
Marvin Jr., Edward Nash, Mark Sension, Thomas Seimor, Samuel 
Hayes, Thomas Taylor, and Henry Whitney, all of Norwalk, gave 
their names for the beginning of a plantation near the back side of 
Norwalk, in May, 1672, which was granted. Betts Thomas, Mat- 
thew Marven, Daniel Kellogg, Mark Sension, John Bouton, Edward 
Nash, and Thomas^Lupton, of Norwalk, were accepted to be made 
free Oct., 1664. 

*This John was admitted a planter in Guilford, in 1G73, and E. Hall says, soon after he 
removed to Norwalk. From him descended Dr. Thaddeus Betts, a highly respectable physician of 
Norwalk, and the father of William M. Betts, Esq., who was many years Post Master and Judge 
of Probate of Norwalk, a worthy and excellent man. He was the father of Hon. Thaddeus Belts, 
of INorwalh, who represented Conn., in the Senate of the United Slates, and d. at Washington 
during the session of Congress in 1840, at the age of 52 years. Where is now a monument 
erected to his memory, though his remains repose in the old grave yard, in his native town, 
pointed out by another monument to his memory. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 207 

BETTS, ROGER, was in a land division in Branford, in 1648, 
he had a child b. at Branford, Feb. 20, 1651; daughter Mary b. 
10r)3, probably othf rs. A son of his d. at Branford, Oct. 3, l(5r);3. 
Roger Belts d. Aug. 31, 165-. Samuel Betts of Branford, had about 
one acre of upland of the town of Branford, near his house in the 
town in 1683. 

BEVIN, or BEVINS, ARTHUR, of Glastenbury, died in 1697. 
Estate £315, ll.y. iid. Wife Mary ; children, John, b. 1676, Mary 
1678, Grace, 1679, Mercy, 1681, Thomas, 1682, Desire 1681, Ar- 
thur, 1686, Joanna, 1687, Elizabeth, 1690, Abigail, 1692, Sarah, 
1694, and Anna, 1696. Arthur Bevin came early to Wethersfield, 
before Glastenbury was incorporated as a town. Arthur died at 
Glastenbury. Mary widow of Arthur, d. Dec. 18, 1712. 

BEVIN, THOMAS, son of Arthur ni. Abigail Blake, daughter 
of John, of Middletown, in 1704 ; had a daughter Eunice, b. July 

17, 1705. The mother d. about 1706, and Thomas Bevin had 
children by Martha his 2d wife, viz : Abigail, b. March 3, 1710-11 ; 
Thomas, Jr., b. May 18, 1713 ; Martha, b. July 1715 ; Mary, b. 
Nov. 1719 ; Benjamin, b. Sept. 1, 1721 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 5, 1725. 
His wife Martha, d. Nov. 8, 1725, and he m. Mary Hubbard, April 
21, 1726. Thomas died. Mary his widow, d. Sept. 14, 1746. 

BEVEN, BENJAMIN, was at East Hartford before 1687. 

* BEVIN, JOHN, of Middletown, and his wife Susannah, had 
children : John b. Feb. 17, 1699; Jean, b. Sept. 24, 1702; Bulah, 
b. Jan. 17, 1705; Susannah b. Jan. 18, 1708; Hipsibeth b. Feb. 
10, 1714, d. 1714 ; William b. March 19, 1715 ; Tabatha, b. Dec. 

18, 1717 ; Stephen, b. Dec. 21, 1720, d. 1750; Ezra, b. July 22, 
1723; Mr. John the father, d. Jan 12, 1764. 

Bevan has three coats of arms. Bevaans or Bevins one. 

BIBBINS, ARTHUR, (Arter,) and Experience his wife, of Wind- 
ham, had issue : Ebenezer, b. Feb. 1, 1715 ; Jacob, b. Oct. 2, 1717 ; 
E.xperience, b. April 6, 1722, d. Nov. 12, 1729. His wife d. May 
7, 1730, and Arthur, m. Elizabeth Ames, May 26, 1731, and had 
issue ; Experience, b. June 10, 1732 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 20, 1733 ; 
Amos, b. May 14, 1736 ; Ann, b. March 2, 1738 ; second Eliza- 
beth, b. April 17, 1740 ; Eunice, b. Dec. 24, 1742, d. Dec. 9, 1756 ; 
Thankful, b. March 26, 1746. His son Amos, d. at Fort Edward, 



•The following are some of the first sellers of East Hampton Society, in Conn., viz : John 
Clark, from Middletown, 1743 : John Bevin. from Chatham old Society ; David Bailey, from llad- 
dam ; Jonathan Parmelee, from Branford ; Isaac Smith, Barnstable Ma.«s ; James Bell later from 
Lebanon; Joseph Buel, from Colchester, also later, Morgan, Welsh, and Webb, about 1775. 



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July 16, 1757, and his daughter Elizabeth, d. Feb. 5, 1768. Ben- 
jamin Bibbins, d. Dec. 27, 1756. Arthur Sen., d. 1788, aged 108. 
BIBBINS, ARTHUR, Jr., of Windham, m. Abigail Follet, Nov. 
8, 1732, supposed he removed to Ashford ; children ; Patience, b. 
Oct. 23, 1733; Benjamin, b. 1736; Abigail, b. July 8, 1738; Eli- 
jah, b. Sept. 18, 1740; Samuel, b. Dec. 12, 1742; William, b. 
Nov. 23, 1745; Israel, b. Jan. 18, 1748; Arthur, b. June 14, 1750, 
d. Nov. 1, 1754. Arthur, Jr., the father, d. at Ashford, and his 
widow Abigail, d. March 18, 1784. Ebenezer, son of Arthur, m. 
Surannah, and had, Jacob, b. April 26, 1742; Molly, Ebenezer, 
John, Sarah, Phebe, and Elizabeth b. Aug. 1, 1758; Ebenezer the 
father, d. Nov. 19, 1761, aged 46. 

BICKATT, MATTHEW, was a first settler at Brainford, (or 
Totoket,) New Haven Colony. 

BIDLAKE, BIDLOCK, BEDLAKE, BIDLACK, CHRISTO- 
PHER, d. at Windham, Feb. 23, 1741, aged 80. His wife Sarah 
d. Nov. 25, 1739, aged 74 years. He purchased land in Windham 
before 1700. 

BIDLAKE, BENJAMIN, was an early settler at Windham, 
(probably son of Christopher,) m. Lydia Abbe, Sept 22, 1722: Is- 
sue; Sarah, b. Nov. 24, 1723; Benjamin, Jr., b. July 10, 1725; 
James, b, Jan. 3, 1727, d. 1728 ; second James, b. Oct. 28, l'i28 ; 
John, b. Oct. 28, 1730 ; Mary, b. July 29, 1732, d. 1733 ; second 
Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1733 ; Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1737; Bethia, b. May 
22, 1738; Hannah, b. Aug. 26, 1741. Benjamin the father, d. 
Feb. 3, 1740-1. Lydia wife of Benjamin, was admitted into the 
church at Hampton village, June, 17, 1723 ; also Elizabeth Bidluke. 
Benjamin, Sen., was one of the seventeen first founders and members 
of the first church at Windham Village June 5, 1723, and of course 
a respectable family. 

BIDLAKE, BENJAMIN, Jr., (son of Benjamin sen., and Lydia) 
m. Edeth Spaulding, Nov. 11, 1742, and had issue ; Jonathan, b. 
Nov. 19, 1744 ; Ruth, b. July 14, 1747, d. 1751 ; Sarah, b. Nov. 
29, 1748, d. 1751. Bidlake has one coat of arms. 

BIDLAKE, JOHN, (son of Benjamin and Lydia,) m. Mary, and 
had a son Amos, b. May 19, 1754, d. Aug. 23, 1777 ; John the 
father, d. Aug. 23, 1776. 

The above James Bidlake, (son of Benjamin and Lydia,) b. Oct. 
28, 1728, at Windham ; was the same Capt. James Bidhike who re- 
moved to Wyoming, and was taken prisoner there, with Captains, 
Robert Durkee, and Samuel Ransom, by the British Tories and In- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 209 

dians at the battle at Wilksberry, in 1778. Bidlake was striped, tied 
to a tree, his flesh stuck full of sharpened pine knots, and pine knots 
placed around him, and set on fire. The monsters in human form, 
then placed Ciiptaiiis' Durkee and Ransoin in the fire, and held them 
there with pitch-forks, where they soon expired. Bidlake has one 
coat of arms. This name is yet found in Pennsylvania, and one of 
same name in Pennsylvania, has been a member of congress. 

BIDWELL, BIDLE, BIDDALL, BEDALL, BIDOLL, BID- 
DLE, JOHN, of Hartford, was an early settler at Hartford, and had 
four acres of land alotted him, in the division of lands in Hartford, 
in 1639. In 1640, he had a house lot north of Mary Betts, and 
south of Seth Grant, and West of John Skinner, in Hartford. John 
Bidwell owned a tan yard, on an island in Little River, in Hartford, 
south of Nathaniel Richard's house lot, in 1640. His wife, Sarah. 
He died in 1683. , He gave to his son John, his swamp east of Con- 
necticut river, also all his lands and buildings, in Hartford, west of 
the river. To his son Joseph, he gave £30 ; to his son Samuel, 
£20 ; to his daughters, Sarah House and Hannah Wadams, £20 
each ; to his daughter Mary Meekins, half his upper lot, and the 
other half to his grandson, John Meekins, provided John should live 
M-ith him and his wife until he became twenty years of age ; he gave 
his wife, Sarah, half of all his estate not disposed of ; to his son 
Daniel, he gave the property which he had devised to his wife, after 
her decease. He afterwards made a codicil and added to and altered 
his will. Estate £419, 10s. 6d. 

BIDDOLL, JOHN, Jr., of Hartford, son John, b. Sept. 1, 1679; 
Hannah, b. Aug. 31, 1680; Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1681 ; Thomas, b. 
Dec. 27, 1682 ; Jonah, b. March 5, 1684. 

BIDWELL, DANIEL'S son Ebenezer, d. Oct. 18, 1702 ; daugh- 
ter Dorothy, d. July, 1708 ; Aaron, son of Daniel, d. Feb. 1 1, 1712 ; 
Mr. David, d. June 24, 1758. 

BIDWELL, DANIEL DENISON, son of John of Hartford, and 
Elizabeth, had Daniel, b. Oct. 19, 1682 ; Dorothy, b. by his second 
wife, Dorothy, Aug. 18, 1692 ; d. July 1708 ; Mary, b. Sept. 18, 
1694, ; Hannah b. June 2, 1697 ; Aaron, b. Dec. 5, 1699 d. 1712 ; 
Ebenezer b. Feb. 28, 1701, d. 1702 ; William, b. Nov. 27, 1703; 
Lydia, b. April 20, 1706, d. about 1720 ; Hannah, m. Daniel 
Bigolow. 

BID WILL, JOSEPH, son of John, Sen., resided in Wethersfield. 
He m. Mary, May 18, 1675, and had issue; Mary b. March 12, 
1676 ; Amey, b. Oct. 1, 1678 ; Joseph, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1680 ; Ben- 
18* 



210 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

jamin, b. Sept. 26, 1684 ; Ephraim, b. Aug. 16, 1686; Lydia, b. 

May 13, 1689. Estate £1081. 

BIDWELL, SAMUEL, son of John, Sen., settled at Middletown, 

where he married Elizabeth Stow, daughter of John Slow, of Rox- 

bury, Mass., and sister of Rev. Samuel, John, and Thomas Stow, 

Nov. 14, 1672. Issue, born at Middletown ; Sarah, b. Sept. 20. 

1674; Samuel, b. June 10, 1677; Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1679, Ann, 

Samuel, Sen. d. 1715. 

BIDWELL, SAMUEL, Jr., and wife Sarah of Middletown, had 

a daughter Thankful, b. Dec. 8, 1695, and his wife Sarah d. 1696. 

He then m. Abigail for his second wife, and had a son Moses, b. 

Jan. 9, 1698. His daughter Thankful m. Edward Yeomans, Sept. 

5, 1716. Abigail wife of Samuel, Jr., d. March 8, 1733. 

BIDWELL, SAMUEL, of Middletown, m. Ann Stanbarrow, of 

Long Island, Nov. 1, 1707, and had issue ; Samuel, b. Oct. 24, 

1708, and Ann, b. May 2, 1710. His wife Ann d. and he m. Mary 

Barnes, Dec. 2, 1714, and had issue ; Daniel, b. Nov 18, 1716, and 

Sarah, b. Jan. 29, 1719. The father, Samuel Bidwell, d. March 

1727— distribution 1728. 

Bydewell, or Bidwell, has one coat of arms.- 
Bidewell, has two coats of arms. Bydall one. Bydale one- 
Bedell has seven coats of Arms. Bedle or Bedell one. (London.) 
Bidall, has one. Biddell, Biddle or Biddelle, has one. Bidwell 

has three coals of Arms. 

BIDLE, RICHARD, was an early settler at Windsor, and had a 

daughter Hannah, b. there Oct. 22, 1644. 

BIGILOW, JOHN, at Walertown, Mass., took^the oath of iidel- 

ity 1652, in Mass.; m. Mary -W«ai^, or Warren, bet.' 36\'l642. 

His wife Mary, d. Oct. 19, 1691, and he m. for second wife, Sarah 

Bemis widow of Joseph 1st of Walertown, Oct. 2, 1694. He d. July 

14, 1703, aged 83 years — born in England, 1617; he was Juror, 
1638 ; they had issue : 

1. John, b. Oct. 27, 1G43, and settled in Ilartlbid, Conn. 

2. Jonathan, b Dec. 11, 1646. 

3. Mary, b. March IS, 164S-9, m. Michael Flagg, June 3, 1671. 

4. Daniel, b. Dec. 1, 1650; settled at Framingham, and had six children. 

5. Samuel, b. Oct. 2S, 1653, m. Mary Flagg, June 3, 1674, and settled at 
Watertowu ; had ten children. 

6. Joshua, b. Nov. 5, 1655, m. Elizabeth Flagg, Oct. 20, 1676— settled first 
at Walertown, Mass. — in old age removed to Westminster, and d. Feb. 2, 
1745; aged 90 years. He had eleven children, b. in Watertown. His 
son Daniel settled at Worcester, and was the father of Col. Timothy Bige- 
low, of the Revolutionary Army, and grandfather of Hon. Timothy, and 



GENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS, 211 

great grandfiithur of the late Mayor of the City of Boston, and late Secre- 
tary of State. 

7. Elizabeth, b. June 15, 1G57, in. Lieut. John, of BiUerica, and had several 
children. 

8. Sarah, b Sept. 29, ICJU, m. Isaac Lamed, July 23, 1G70. The Learneds 
of Conn., are her descendants. 

9. James, (no record of birth) in. Patience Brown; he had two other wives 
and four children. 

10. Martha, b. April 1, 10(3-2, m. John Woods. 

11. Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1603-4, ni. Dec. 10, 1064, Benjamin Harrington; had 
four children. 

12. Hannah, b. and d. March, ItO.j-G. 

13. Son, b. and d. Dec. LC07. (See John's will dated, Jan. 1, 1702-3, record- 
ed at Watertown, Vol. 10, p. 300.) ( Com.) 

BIGELOW, JOHN, the oldest son of John and Mary, of Water- 
town, Mass., b. 1643, settled at Hartford, Conn., where his land was 
listed May 3, 1669, his residence was south of little river near where 
Trinity College is now located, in Cooper Lane lot No 52. He rn. 
Rebecca Butler, and unfortunately died without issue, and after pro- 
viding amply for his widow, he gave all his estate to Jonathan But- 
ler, a relative of his wife. (Deeded in 1705, Vol. 1, p. 307.) 

• BIGELOW, JONATHAN, b. 1646, brother of John, and son of 
John of Watertown, Mass., settled at Hartford, Conn.,, with his 
brother John. He lived in Wethersfield Lane in Hartford, in 1677. 
He first m. Rebecca Shepard in 1672, daughter of John Shepard ; 
she d. March 7, 1697, and was the mother of his cl)ildren. He m. 
for his second wife, Mary, daughter of Samuel Olcott, of Wethers- 
field, and had no children by his second wife. He d. Jan. 19, 1710, 
aged 64, and his widow Mary, m. John Shepard, March, 19, 1712. 

• Jonathan and Rebecca's children were : 

Jonathan Bigelow, born in 1672, married Mabel Edwards, Jan. 
11, 1699; died July 10, 1749. 
*John Bigelow, married Abigail Richards, Jan. 11, 1710. 



*Capt Johu Bigelow of Conn., was taken in the West Indies, July 8, 1777 by the British. 
Andrew Phillip Skeen, of Skeensborough, New York, on the 9lh of May, 1775 was taken at 
home, with his aunt two sisters and a Mr. Beach, and brought prisoners to Hartford, Conn. 
General Skeen, applied to the Legislature to return to Ills farm and be protected on his return 
with his family, or send a suitable person to take care of his farm at Skeensborough. He ob- 
tained leave for his family to return home, or to Uuebec, under the direction of John Bigelow, 
O. Wolcolt, and Elisha Sheldon of Salisbury. Gen. Skeen remained a prisoner at Hartford. In 
1777, the Committee of Pay Table were directed to draw an order of £-H). (six in Specie,"} in 
favor of John Bigelow, who had been sent to N. York, under a flag to negotiate an exchange 
of Capt. Judd, of the Antelope, for Capt. Manly of tlie Hancock, and other public services of 
said Bigelow. In 1770 he was Captain of a Company of Artillery in Col. Burrall's Regiment. 
In Feb. 1777, Thomas Grosvenor was appointed Major, in Col. Wylly's Regiment, in place of 



212 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Mary Bigelow, married John Williams, Feb. 20, 1G99. 

Sarah Bigelow, married John Bigelow, son of Joshua, of 

Violet Bigelow, married Stephen Taylor, Sept. 1, 1709. 

Joseph Bigelow, died in 1731. 

Abagail Bigelow was born in 1690. 

Daniel Bigelow, was born in 1692, and died May 14, 1733. 

Samuel Bigelow born in 1687 ; settled at Mid. Society 1748. 

BIGELOW, SAMUEL, (son of Jonathan,) b. 1687, settled at 
Middletown, Conn., where he died in 1748. His children were, 
Timothy, Isaac, Samuel, Jr., Abigail and Mary. 

BIGELOW, JOSEPH, son of Jonathan, m. Mary Spencer, May 
21, 1713, and settled in Hartford. His children were; Sarah b. 
Sept. 6, 1714, or 15; Joseph, b. Aug. 14, 1717 ; Abigail, b. June 
9, 1719, d. Oct. 27, 1725; Elisha, b. June 27, 1723, d. June 22, 
1796, aged 73; Josiah, b. Jan. 3, 1726, d. May 14, 1754; second 
Abigail, b. Sept. 8, 1729. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, son of Joshua Bigelow of Worcester, Mass., 
m. his cousin Sarah Bigelow, Nov. 4. 1709, daughter of Jonathan, 
and settled at Colchester, Conn. 

BIGELOW, JONATHAN, son of Jonathan, b. 1672, m. Mabel • 
Edwards, Jan. 11, 1699 ; he d. July 10, 1749 ; children: 
Timothy, b. June 20, 1702; m. Abigail Olcott. 

Mabel, b. Nov. 12, 1704. 

Rebecca, b. 1708 ; d. Jan. 8, 1754. 

Jonathan, b. 1714; d. Jan. 23, 1779. 

Jerusha — Irena, m. Daniel Marsh. Jonathan, Sen., the father, d. 
July 29, 1749, aged 75, and Mabel his wife, d. May 16, 1765. 

BIGILOW, TIMOTHY, son of Jonathan, b. 1672 ; m. Abigail • 
Olcott, and had children ; Hezekiah, b. Feb. 9, 1728, d. aged 20. 
Timothy, Jr., b. May 22, 1730 ; Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1732; Anne, 
b. Sept. 27, 1735 ; Martha, b. Nov. 22, 1737 ; John, b. Nov. 20, 
1739; James, b. 1741. 

Maj. Bigelow, resigned. In 1778, Otis and Andrews, of Boston Dep. Clothiers for the Con- 
tinental Army, by request of the Governor, and Council of Conn., had sent cloths &c., to be 
made into garments, for the Continental soldiers, and requested the Governor to nominate a 
proper person to take the management and oversee, and Maj. John Bigelow was appointed to 
oversee the same. The Governur, and Council of Conn., April 28, 1778, appointed Maj. John 
Bigelow to purchase woolen cloths, suitable for Officers' clothing, from Conn., in the Continen. 
tal service, not to exceed X3 000 lawful money ; also to take half the pieces of linen in hig 
hands parchased of (^apt. Michel, master of the French Ship at New London, suitable for Offi- 
cers shirts &c. Maj. Bigelow acted as Capt. Major, and Commissary of clothing &c., and was 
a most useful soldier, and citizen during the Revolution. 



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213 



Timothy, m. Iliiiiiiuli Hyde, Dec. 17, 1757, and had cliildren ; 
Mary, Langrell, and Hannah. Mary m. Aaron Olmsted, of East 
Hartford ; Hannali, m. Ward Wood bridge ; Timothy d. in Charles- 
town, N. H. 170-2 ; Hannah his wife d. Aug. 20, 1764. 

Abigail, b. 1732, ; ni. James Caldwell, Dec. 18, 1755; Anne, b. 
1735, m. Jonatiian Olcott, 1753; Martha, b. 1737, ra, Dr. Samuel 
Flagg of East Hartford, May 22, 176- ; John b. 1739, ni. Hannah 
Wadsworth, June 30, 1771 ; James b. 1741, d. in Barbadoes unmar- 
ried, Timothy the father d. 1747; Capt. Daniel, ni. his widow, 
Nov. 6, 1748, and d. 1776. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, b. 1739, son of Timothy, m. Hannah - 
Wadsworth, a descendant of Hon. William of Hartford, June 30, 
1771, and had issue, viz; John, b. March 10, 1772, d. Jan. 12, 
1775 ; James, b. June 10, 1774 ; 2d John, b. Dec. 6, 1775 ; Henry, 
b. Dec 19, 1777, d. 1703 ; Richard, b. Dec. 29, 1779, was lost at 
sea 1797. 

BIGELOW, JAMES, son of Jolin and Hannah, m. Anne Spen- • 
car and removed to Nantucket, where he d. and left a family in 
1845. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, b. 1775, son of John and Hannah, m. Clar- — 
issa Hillyer, and had issue; Richard, b. Aug. 22, 1797, a gentle- 
man of great wealth in New York ; merchant in New York and St. 
Louis ; Fanny, b. Nov. 14, 1799, d. a young lady, unmarried ; Wil- 
liam, b. Aug. 13, 1802 ; lives in New York urtmarried ; John, b. 
April 27, 1805, mcrcliant in Northampton, Mass. ; Clarissa b. 
Sept. 18, 1808, unmarried. 

BIGELOW, RICHARD, Esq., (son of John and Clarissa,) b. 
Aug. 22, 1797, (of New York City,) m. Marther Smith, b. Nov. 28, 
1798, daughter of Deacon Normand Smith of Hartford, Conn., Sept. 
3, 1823, and had issue, viz: 

1. Mary Elizabeth born March 10, 1S-2G; m. George R. Lockvvood, June 7, 
ISIS; merchant in New York. 

2. Richard Hillyer, born Aug. 22, 1S27; m. Columbia L. Johnson, of New 
York, Sept. 25, 1851 ; merchant in New york. t 

3. Frances, born Sept, 1, 1829. 

4. Eliza King, born Sept. 24, IS.^l. 

5. Alfred, born Sept. 25, 1833; died March 12, 1S34. 

6. Martha, born April 2, 1S35. 

7. Edward, born March, 27, 1837, died, Jan. 22, 1852. 

8. James, born Feb. 25, 1839. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, son of John and Clarissa, b. 1805, m. Jane 
AshU'y Hinman, Oct. 18, 1838; children, viz; Jane Frances, b. 



214 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Oct. 11, 1839 ; John H. b. Aug. 8, 1841, d. Sept. 22, 1844, at Hart- 
foni, aged 3 years ; William Henry, b. at Hartford, Aug. 19, 1845, 
and d. at Boston, June 9, 1846; George Ashley, b. Feb. 12, 1848; 
baptized by W. S. Potts, D.D. at St. Louis, Missouri. 

The line of this family is, first, John Bigelow of Watertown, Mass., 
d. 1703 ag'd 86 ; second, Jonathan, b. 1646, d. Jan. 10, 1710 ; third, 
Jonathan, son of Jonathan, b. 1672, d. July 10, 1749 ; fourth, Tim- 
othy, son of Jonathan, b. June 20, 1702, d. 1747 ; fifth, John, son 
of Timothy, b. Nov. 21, 1739, d. June 26, 1780; sixth, John, son 
of John, b. Dec. 6, 1775, d. Nov. 7, 1809 ; seventh, Richard, b. 
Aug, 22, 1797, now living in New York, David and Edith Bige- 
low, of Colchester, had a son Azariah, b. March 28, 1740 ; John 
and Sarah Bigelow of Colchester, had a daughter Lydia, b. Sept. 
11, 1743. This name has been, and now is, spelled in various vvays, 
upon the records and by different fiimilies of the same stock, viz ; 
John Bigolough, Samuel and John Barnard, and John Bush &c., 
took the oath of fidelity in Mass., in 1652 ; Bigiilo Samuel of Water- 
town, Mass., free, 1690 ; Bigalo Samuel, free 1690, &c. This family 
has produced its full share of respectable men, and the name is now 
dispersed in all quarters of the Country, and are probably descended 
frpm John of Watertown. Three of this name have graduated at 
Yale College, and eighteen by the name of Bigelo ■ , and six of the 
name of Biglow, have graduated at Harvard College ; probably all 
descendants of John, Sen. 

BIGGS, WILLIAM, from Mass., settled at Wethersfield, Conn., 
as early as 1640, where he remained until about 1667, he removed 
to Middletown. March 23, 1667, he pul^ased a farm at Middletown, 
(for his son William, Jr.,) of John Wilcox. He was located near 
the Wethersfield town line, at Dividend Brook, so called, and adjoin- 
ing the Connecticut River; also other tracts of land, at Pistol Point, 
(the nooks) in Middletown opposite Churchill's landing. July 6, 
1668, he mortgaged this land to David Sage, in which he and his 
wife made their marks, to the deed. In 1671, William Biggs sold 
half of his land, thirty-two acres, at Pistol Point, to Arthur Scovill, 
of Boston, (probably a friend of Biggs, and who settled near him.) 
Farmer names John Biggs of Boston, freeman 1634 ; Ipswich, 1635 ; 
member of the ar. co. 1641. John Biggs was a member of the first 
Boston church, in 1630; also William Biggs in Boston, 1642, and 
Walter Biggs of Taunton, Mass., 1656. The strong probability in 
this case, is, that the above named William, of Boston, had a son 
William, who came to Wethersfield, and for whom he purchased the 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 215 

land at Middletown, in 1667, for it appears that William, the son of 
William and Mary, was b. in 1666, for whom his father would not 
have purchased a farm, not only so, but he would not have mort- 
gaged the land or sold it to Scovill in 1671, when only five years 
old. The General Court, Oct. 12, 1676, " William Biggs by reason 
of his age, is dissmissed from paying rates for his person." The 
last William above must have been the aged father, of William Biggs 
the active farmer of Middletown, whose children are below ; as four 
of the children were born after 1671, and he was married about 
1665. The William who was released from taxes on account of his 
age, was probably the William of Boston, in 1642, and the father of 
William who first settled at Wethersfield, who came to Wethersfield 
to reside with his son, and purchased for him lands in Middletown. 

William Biggs, gave his son William, Jr., four acres at Pistol 
Point, Jan. 16, 1671. 

William Biggs and his wife Mary, had children, viz: 

1. William, b. 166G. 

2. Mary, b. 1667. 

3. Thomas, b. 1672. 

4. Elizabeth, b. 1673. 

5. Sarah, b. 1675. 

6. John, b. 1677. 

William Biggs d. Aug. 19, 1681. Estate, £139, Is. 6d. Inven- 
tory offered by his widow Mary, Sep. 1, 1681, (probably William, 
Jr.) The property distributed in 1684; one third to his widow ; 
j£34 to his son William, and the other children £17 each, to tiie 
sons at twenty-one, and the daughters eighteen. 

BIGGS, WILLIAM, Jr., above son of William (2d,) settled in 
Middletown, on the homestead before 1700. Thomas Biggs settled 
at Wethersfield before 1700, and John Biggs at Dividend Brook 1726, 
on a part of his father's estate. John Biggs Jr., ni. Mary Baker, of 
Wetliersfield, May 8, 1735. It is probable William Biggs of Boston, 
d. at Middletown in his old age, in the family of his son, though his 
death is not recorded. This name is occasionally spelled Briggs on 
the Connecticut record. 

BIGG, RACHEL, aged years, embarked for New England in 

the ship Elizabeth, William Stagg,Master, April 17 Thomas 

Biggs, aged 13 ; Jo Briggs, aged 20, embarked for New England, 
in the Blessing, John Lester, Master. The name Bigg, has five 
coats of arms. Bigge one. Bigges one, and Biggs four. (I am 
indebtu-d to Hon. Mr. Stearns for a part of the above record.) 

Bigg has 5 coats of arms. Bigge 1. Bigges 1. Biggs 4. 

BILL, PHILIP, is the first of the name found in Conn., he was a 



216 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

member of the church at Ipswich, Mass., before he came to New 
London, he was at Groton or Ledyard, as early as 1670, and d. there 
July 8, 1689. His eldest children, Philip, Samuel, John, Elizabeth, 
and perhaps Margaret, were b. at Ipswich, the last d. at Groton, 
1689. His widow Hannah, m. Samuel Bucknall for her 2d husband. 
His son Philip m. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Lester, and resi- 
ded in Groton, where he d. in 1739, over eighty years of age. 

PELEG, of Colchester, had a daughter Jerusha, baptized July 
25, 1756, and Abiel, June IB, 1758. AMOS, of Colchester, had a 
daughter Jerusha, baptized Dec. 17, 1758, and Bethel, May 20, 1759. 
OLIVER, of Goshen Society, had a daughter Epapha, baptized Oct. 
30, 1768. SOLOMON, was of Wethersfield, and m. Sarah, and 
had a son John, b. at Wethersfield, March 28,, 1769. This name 
came late into the Colony, first at New London, and the name is now 
found at Lyme in several respectable families. JAMES, Esq., was 
Deacon at East Hampton, in 1795. LODOWICK, Esq., is now 
well known in Conn., and his promising family of sons. OLIVER, 
of Lebanon, m. MarthaS kinner, of Bolton, Sept. 5, 1763. JONA- 
THAN, m. Elizabeth Dunham, March 3, 1756. JAMES, of Bos- 
ton, freeman Feb. 7, 1682-3. THOMAS, of Dorchester, freeman 
1671. JOSEPH, of Boston, free 1690. BILL, has five coats of 
arms. THOMAS BILLS, of Eastham, Mass., m. Anna Twining, 
Oct. 3, 1672 ; she d. Sept. 1, 1675 ; by whom he had children ; An- 
na, b. June 28, 1673; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1675. He m. for 2d 
wife, Joanna Twining, May 2, 1676, and had issue ; Nathaniel, b. 
June 25, 1677 ; Mercy, b. April 14, 1679 ; Mehitabel, b. March 26, 
1681; Thomas, b. March 22, 1684; Gurshom, b. June 5, 1686; 
Joanna, b. Dec. 2, 1688. (His. Gen. Reg.) ROBERT BILLS, 
aged 32, husbandman, embarked July 23, for New England, in the 
Pied Cowe, Ashley, Master. BILL, ROZZEL, and Rebecca, of 
Hampton, Conn. ; daughter Eunice, b. April, 1798; Rebecca, wife 
of Rozzel, and her children Elisha, Hannah, Amanda, Estlier, Ru- 
fus, and Rozzel, Jr., all baptized Sept. 25, 1799. BILL, MARCE, 
embarked in the Planter for New England, in 1635. WILLIAM 
BILLS, of Barnstable, Mass., 1640. One of this name graduated 
at William's College, 1805 Bill has five coats of arms. 

BILLING, BILLINGS, RICHARD, was not as early a settler at 
Hartford as some others, he was not in the land division at Hartford-, 
in 1639, but he had six acres of land in the division of the river in 
1640. He signed the contract with Gov. Webster and others, to re- 
move and settle Hadley, in 1659, which he performed and died at 
Hadley, Massachusetts. 



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BILLINGS, WILLL\M, Rev., (supposed from Iladlcy, Mass.) 
He <ria(luated at Yale College in 1720 ; he m. Bethia Otis, daughter 
of Joseph Otis, Esq., of Mass. Ho was ordained at Windham Vill- 
age, Canada Society, (now Hampton,) June 5, 1723, and the church 
was organized at the same time, which was then, and now is, the 
first church in Han)pton ; it then had seventeen male members in- 
cluding Mr. Billings. He continued there until his death. The 
ministers present at his ordination with their messengers, (delegates,) 
were. Rev. Samuel Easlerbrooks, of Canterbury ; Rev. Joseph Coit, 
of Plainfield; Rev. Eleazcr Williams, of Mansfield ; Rev. Sanmel 
Whiting, of Windham ; Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of New London. 
Mr. Billings had children; William, b. March 20, 172.'3-6 ; Be- 
thiah, b. Nov. 5, 1727; Hannah, b. Nov. 9, 1729; Patience, b. 
June 6, 1731 ; 2d Patience, b. April 8, 1733 ; {Ch. Rec. Hamp ) Mr. 
Billings d. May 20, 1733, and was interred at Hampton. He did 
not remove to New London ; his church records of baptisms, &c., 
arc continued until his death, May 20, 1733, aged 35. (The above 
births ditfer some in the days of the months, on the same record.) 

BILLINGS, BETHIAH, widow of Rev. William, m. for her 2d 
husband, Rev. Samuel Moseley, July 4, 1734, the 2d minister of 
Canada Society in Windham, and had children by 2d marriage ; 
Hannah, Elizabeth, Samuel; Ebenczer, d. 1825, aged 84; Mary, 
Anna, and John; Bethiah the mother, d. May 20,1750. (See 
MOSELY.) 

Five of this name have graduated at Harvard College, and 9 at 
Yale.. Hon. Noyes Billings of New London, son of Hon. Codding- 
ton, graduated at Yale College in 1819, and has held many impor- 
tant offices in Conn. SAMUEL d. at Hadley, 1677 ; he m. Sarah 
Fellows 1661. RICHARD, of Hatfield, m. Hannah Marsh, in 
1703. Farmer notices JOHN of Portsmouth in 1640. Nathaniel 
of Concord, free 1641, d. Aug. 24, 1673, and left sons, Nathaniel 
and John ; Roger of Dorchester member of the church, 1640, free, 
1643; William, of Lancaster, 1654; Roger, of Dorchester, and his 
wife Mary, had a daughter Mary, b. 1643 ; Joi)n, Mass., 1658 ; Na- 
than, of Concord, free, 1673; Ebenezer, of Dorchester, free 1690. 
Samuel and Sarah his wife, (Sarah Foot,) of Hatfield, had a son 
Richard, b. April 17, 1672. John, b. Oct. 11, 1674. One of 
this name, graduated at Brown University; eight at Yale ; five at 
Harvard, and two at Williams College. 

Billing has four coats of arms. Billings (Bedfordshire) has one. 
(Burk.) 

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218 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

William Billing of Stonington, received lands of Thomas Stafibrd, 
in 1677, which was laid out to said Stafford at Pachaug, in 1674. 
(Col. Rec. note, p. 138. 

BlNGHAlvi; this name is first found in Conn., at Say brook ; 
soon after Thomas Bingham is at Norwich, and m. Mary Rudd, Dec. 
12, 1666, and had issue; Thomas, b. 1667; Abel, b. 1669; Mary, 
1672; Jonathan, 1674; Ann, 1677; Abigail, 1679; Nathaniel, b. 
1681; Deborah, b. 1683; Samuel, b. 1685; Joseph, b. 1688; Ste- 
phen, b. 1690. Thomas Bingham made free from Norwich by the 
General Court 1671. Miss Calkins says in her history of Norwich, 
page 98, Thomas Bingham 2d m Hannah, daughter of Lieut. Wil- 
liam Backus, and settled in Windham. Deacon Thomas, Sen., d. 
at Windham, June 16, 1730, aged 88. His wife Mary d. Aug. 1, 
1726, aged 78. 

BINGHAM, ABEL, son of Thomas of Windham, b. 1669, m. 
Elizabeth, and had a daughter Abigail, b. at Stratford, June 7, 1696 ; 
Mary, b. at Stratford, Dec. 17, 1697; John, b. at Stratford, Feb. 9, 
1700; Elizabeth, b. at Stratford, March 27, 1702; Abel, Jr., b. at 
Stratford, June 17, 1704 ; Ann, b. at Stratford, Sept. 13, 1706. He 
then returned to Windham, and had Jemima, b. at Windham, Oct. 

Note. The ministers settled at Hampton, their deaths and time of service as Pastors. 

Rev. Wm. Billings, ordained June 5, 1113; served 10 years, 11 months, 15 days. Died May 
20, 1733, aged 35. 

Rev. Samuel Mosely, ordained May 15, 1734 ; served 57 years, 2 months, 11 days. Died 
July 26, 179.. 

Rev. Ludovicus Weld, ordained Oct. 17, 179-3 ; served 31 years, 4 months, 16 days. Died 
March 2, 1824. 

Rev. Daniel G. Sprague, installed May 26, 1824 ; served 14 years, 10 months, 21 days ; dis- 
missed April 17. 1H39. 

Rev. Daniel Clark Frost, ordained Sept. 15, 1840; dismissed Oct 19, 1841. 

Rev. William Barnes, ordained Sept. 21, 1842 ; dismissed Sept. 21, 1847. 

Note. Deacons of the first society of Hampton. 

John Durkee and Thomas Marsh, chosen June 19, 1723. 

John Clarke and William Durkee, Aug. 17, 1737. 

Thomas Stedraan, Oct 2, 1738. 

Ebenezer Griffin. March 1, 1744. 

Nathaniel Mosely, Jan. 9, 1761. 

Isaac Bennet, March 28, 1779. 

Ebenezer Mosely, .^pril 16, 1788. 

Abijah Fuller and Thomas Williams, Dec. 20, 1815. 

Asahel Simons and Ransom Kingsbury, Sept. 25, 1824. 

Rufus Lummi.«, April 27, 1825, > and Thomas Smith. 

Henry Lummis, April 27, 1830, ) brothers, 

Lester Burnet, 1H38. 

Chauncey Bowers, April 10, 1839. 

James W. Sprague and Lyman Foster, Sept. 13, 1841. Mr. Sprague d. Sept. 22, 1841, and 
Robert Dorrance chosen Sept. 20, 1842. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN3. 2l9 

24, 1703 ; Jonathan, b. at Windliam, Aug. 17, 1712, and David, b. 
at Windham, Supt- 12, 1714. 

BINGHAM, JONATHAN, son of Thomas of Windham, m. Ana 
Huntington Oct. 28, 1697. 

BINGHAM, NATHANIEL, son of Deac. Thomas, b. 1681, 
m. Sarah Lobdil, July 25, 1708, and had issue, born at Windliam. 
Isaac, b. July 1, 1709; Mehitabel, b. Nov. 21, 1713; Jeremiah, 
b. Jan. 27, 1716. Deacon Nathaniel d. at Windham, Dec. 16, 1754, 
aged T.i, and Sarah his widow d. June 28, 1763, aged 80. 

BINGHAM, SAMUEL, of Windham, b. 1685, son of Deacon 
Thomas and Mary, m. Faith Ripley, Jan. .5, 1708, and had issue ; 
Jerusha, b. Feb. 2, 1709; Abisha, b. Jan. 29, 1710; Lemuel, b. 
Sept. 20, 1713 ; Anne, b. Nov., 1716 ; Mariah, b. Feb. 10, 1721, 
d. 1721. Faith his wife, d. Feb 11, 1721. He m. for his 2d wife 
Elizabeth Manning, Nov. 23, 1721, and had Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 
1722, d. Dec. 26, 1722; Samuel, Jr., b. Nov. 11, 1723; Thomas, 
b. Sept. 12, 1725, d. 1726 ; Thomas 2d, b. June 20, 1727 ; D.bo- 
rah, b. May 4, 1729 ; Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1731. (Elizabeth, widow 
of Samuel, d. March 27, 1780.) Jonathan, b. March 19, 1734; 
Abigail, b. July 18, 1736. Capt. Samuel d. March 1, 1760, aged 74. 

BINGHAM, JOSEPH, b. 1688, son of Deacon Thomas, m. Abi- 
gail Scott, Dec. 14, 1710, and had issue, Lydia, b. Feb. 9, 1712; 
Gideon, b. July 3, 1714 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 2, 1716 : Elijah, b. June 
1, 1719; Joseph, Jr., b. Aug. 10, 1721. His wife Abigail d. March 
30, 1741, and he m. for his second wife Rachel Huntington, of Nor- 
wich, Nov. 30, 1742. Jo-seph, Sen., d. Sept. 4, 1765, aged 77. 

BINGHAM, STEPHEN, b. 1690, son of Deacon Thomas and 
Mary, m. Mary Kingsbury Dec. 11, 1712. His wife Mary d. Dec. 
6, 1714, and he m. for 2d wife Rebeclcah Bishop, Nov. 30, 1715, 
and had issue, Elizur, b. July 13, 1716; Rebeckah, b. Nov. 28, 

1720. {Windham Record.) 

BINGHAM, ABEL, son of Abel, m. Abigail Moultan, March 1, 
1726, (of Windham,) issue, Abigail b. Jan. 15, 1727; Elizabeth, b. 
March 27, 1729; Sybal, b. Sept. 20, 1730; Sarah, b. Sept. 16, 
1732. 

There was a Thomas Binijham of Windham, m. Sarah Iluntinor. 
ton, April 23, 1724. 

BINGHAM, JOHN, of Windham, m. Mary Moultan Dec. 6, 

1721, and had issue, Mary b. Aug. 28, 1723, d. 1729; Ithamer, b. 
Sept. 7, 1724; second Mary, b. Sept. 28, 1726 ; Lucy, b, Nov. 23 
1728; Josiah, b. May 25, 1731 ; Jerusha, b. Aug. 22, 1733 ; Ithamer 
settled at Ellington, was a Deacon, and d. at I'^llington April 26 



220 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1791 ; Ithamer, Jr. also d. there 17S7. Mrs. Sarah d. there 1805. 

BINGHAM, JONATHAN, son of Abel, m. Mary Abbe, May 9, 
17M4, and had Jonathan, b. Feb 20, 1735. Mary his wife d. March 
4, 1735, and he m. widow Sarah Vinten Jan. 7, 1736. Malatiah 
Vinten was her first husband and he had a daughter Sarah, b. Dec. 
8, 1733. Jonathan and Sarah had issue, Malatiah, b. May 2, 1738; 
Elisha, b. July 13, 1740 ; Phebe, b. Ap'l 26, 1742 ; Naomia, b. May 
13, 1744. Jonathan, the ftither, d. Feb. 16, 1800, aged 87 years. 

BINGHAM, GIDEON, (son of Joseph and Abigail,) b. July 3, 
1714, m. Mary Carey, June 13, 1734, and had issue, Gideon, Jr., b. 
Dec. 2, 1735; William, b. March 6, 1738; Eliphalet, b. May 4, 
1740; Thomas, b. July 3, 1743 ; Elias, b. May. 14, 1744, d. April 
20, 1745; James, b. June 1, 1749, d. 1753; Anna, b. 1751, d. 
1752; 2d Anna, b. April 1, 1753; John, b. Nov. 26, 1755 ; two 
sons b. Dec. 3, 1758, both d. Dec. 6, 1758. Mary the mother died 
Dec. 22, 1758. 

BINGHAM, ABEL, Jr., m. Abigail and had issue, Hannah, b. 
Dec. 27, 1734 ; Jerusha, b. April 24, 1737 ; Delight, b. Aug. 4, 
1739; Abel, b. May 24, 1741 ; Josiah, b. Sept. 22, 1743, d. 1746; 
Elizabeth, b. and d. April 23, 1747; Abigail, b. d. 1747. Ab- 
igail, wife of Abel, d. Sept. 17, 1750. Abel m. Betty Phelps for 2d 
wife Oct. 13, 175-3% Betty d. Nov. 8, 1771 or '90. 

BINGHAM, ELIJAH, b. 1719, (son of Joseph and Abigail,) rn. 
Theody Crane, March 2, 1739, and had issue, Elijah, Jr., b. Nov. 
24, 1739; Silas, b. D.c. 3, 1742; Abigail, b. Oct. 20, 1746. The- 
ody, his wife, d. April 6, 1751, and Deacon Elijah m. Sarah Jack- 
son for 2d wife July 19, 1753, and had issue, Roswell, b. April 27, 
1754, d. Nov. 6, 1754. Talitha, (a daughter,) b. June 24, 1755; 
Eunice, b. June 18, 1756; James, b. Aug. 23, 1758; Nathan b. 
Jan. 4, 1760, d. 1760; Calvin, b. July 30, 1'62; Harrison, b. 

Nov. 17, 1763; Vine, b. May 27,1765; Lucy, 26,1767; 

Daniel b. April 10, 1769; Truman or Freeman, b. Feb. 17, 1771. 

BINGHAM, LEMUFL, (son of Samuel and Faith, ^ m. Hannah 
Perkins, April 2S, 1737, and had issue, Hannah, b. April 26, 1738 ; 
Zeruiah, b. March 5, 1740; Lucy, b, Sept. 14, 1742. d. Feb. 7, 
1777 ; Jcdadiah. b March 3, 1^48 ; Anna, b. Sept. 12, 1750; Elias, 
b. Sept. 28, 1753 ; Jerusha, b. July 3, 1756. Lemuel the father, 
d. Nov. 3, 1788, and his widow Hannah, d. Oct. 21, 1793. 

BINGHAM, JEREMIAH, b. 1716, (son of Nathaniel and Sa- 
rah,) m. Mary Filly or Tilly, Sept. 25, 1740, and had issue, Sarah 
b. June 29, 1741; Mary, Lydia, Jeremiah, b. Aug. 24, 1748; 
Uriah, b. Nov. 10, 1751, and Huldah, b. March 27, 1757; Mary 



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his wife, d. Aug. 9, 1768; Jeremiah the father, d. Sept. 4, 1784, 
aged 6S years. 

BINGHAM, JOSEPH, b. 1721, (son of Joseph and Abigail,) m. 
Sarah Whelock Dec. 21, 1742, and had issue, Jerusha, b. Oct. 15, 
174.'} ; Tryphena, Sarah d. ; Chester, b. Sept. 7, 1748 ; Ozias, b. 
June 12, 1750; Ralph, b. Oct. 12, 1755; Salome and Belinde. 

There was a John Bingham at Norwich, 1736, where he had three 
rattlesnakes' tails to obtain his reward. Four persons of this name 
had graduated at Yale College in 1850. Coals of arms — Bingham, 
(Earl of Lucan,) had one. Bingham, (Lord Clanmorris,) one; 
Bingham, (Hertfordshire,) one. Bingham, (Kent,) one, and five 
others. Bingham, Rev. Silas, b. in Hebron, Conn., June 27, 1765, 
graduated at Yale College 1790; settled in Addison County, V. T., 
June 22, 1804, and remained tliere about 4 years. Samuel Bingham 
of Windham received a deed of land from Thomas Bingham of 
Windham in 1716. Joseph of Windham, deeded to his brother Sam- 
uel of Windiiam l';i7. Tiiomas Bingham of Norwieh charged the 
town Dec. 30, 1718, £1, 0*, 8f/, fur bounty on snakes' tails and for 
drumming. 

This family has been connected by marriage with several of the 
best families of Conn., and have produced several excellent men. 
Four have graduated at Williams College; four at Yale. 

BIRCHARD, BIRCH WOOD, BIRCH ER, THOMAS, was an 
original settler and proprietor in Hartford, in 1639, and had twenty- 
six acres of land, in the land division in Hartford, in 1639; (by the 
name of Birchwood.) Porter says, his lot was in what is now called 
Trumbull street ; he remained a few years at Hartford, and removed 
to Saybrook, which town he represented at the General Court, in 
1850 and 1551. He was Juror at H irtfjrd, in 1639. He was 
probably the same Thomas Bircher, made a freeman in Mass., in 
1637. His daugliter Sarah, m. Bartholomew Barnard, of Hartford, 
in 1047. In 1651, when Mr. Birchard and John Clark were repre- 
sentatives at the General Court, there was a debate upon the neg- 
lect of the town of Saybrook, to pay their proportion of taxes assessed 
against them. Birchard, Thomas, and John Clark, of " Seabrooke," 
in May, 1651, were appointed by the General Court, to go to Pequett, 
and view the 500 acres there, given to fiveofCapt. Mason's " sould- 
gers" at the Pequett war, which had been taken up by Pequett, 
which they desired might be recompensed (by land) at Niantecutt; 
and lay out so much land to said "souldgers," as should be fully 
equivalent to the 500 acres at Pequett. The Court granted and fixed 
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222 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

bounds of Pequett, to go to Bride Brooke, provided it should not come 
within the bounds of Seabrooke, &c. Thomas Bichard elected Depu- 
ty to the General Court, May 16, 1650, but was absent. Birchard, 
(spelt Birch wood,) was located at Hartford, in the west part of the 
village in 1640, on a lot bounded east on the road from Seth Grant's 
to Centinel Hill, south on John Clark, and north on Ozias Goodwin. 
John, who afterwards settled at Norwich, and became a proprietor 
and clerk, selectman, constable and commissioner there — perhaps 
was the same to whom the General Court sent a warrant to enforce 
payment of the Charter tax against Mystic. His sons, as stated by 
Miss Caulkins, were Samuel, b. 1663; James, b. 1665; Thomas, b. 
1669; John, b. 1671 ; Joseph, b. 1673; and Daniel, b. 1680. 

BIRCHARD, SAMUEL, had a daughter Abigail, b. at Hartford, 
July 24, 1704. 

BIRCHARD, Mr. JOHN, of Norwich, as late as 1676, was ap- 
pointed Commissioner, by the name of " Mr. John Birchwood." 
{Col. Rec.) 

BIRCHARD, or BIRCHWOOD, JOHN, was the first school mas- 
ter at Norwich. He was probably a town clerk at Norwich, as Miss 
Caulkins says, (p. 65.) that "some of the earlier records are in the 
hand writing of John Birchard, and Capt. James Fitch." He was 
one of the two first Commissioners of the peace in Norwich, perhaps 
a son of Birchard, a Juror at Hartford, in 1639. 

The first Thomas Birchwood was probably the same Thomas 
Brchwood, who was an original proprietor at Hartford, in 1639, and 
ror the same year. He went to Saybrook, soon after which, the 
name of Thomas Birchard appears there. 

BARTCHERD, THOMAS, (perhaps Birchard,) embarked for 
Virginia, in the ship Merchant's Hope, Hugh Weston, master, after 
the usual examination at Gravesend by the minister. 

BIRCHARD, SAMUEL, was gaoler at Hartford; his daughter 
Abigail b. at Hartford, July 24, 1704. Birchwood had a daughter 
Sarah who m. Bartholomew Barnard, Oct., 1647, at Hartford. 

BIRCHER, EDWARD, is mentioned in the will of the first Dr. 
Samuel Fuller of Plymouth, and gives his son Samuel " land at Straw- 
bury-hill, given Dr. Fuller, by Edward Bircher if Mr. Roger Wil- 
liams refuse to accept it as he has formerly done." Perhaps Thorn- 
as Birchwood, first at Hartford, was the same Thomas Bircher made 
free in Mass-, in May, 1637. One Birchard and one Birchett grad- 
uated at Harvard College ; two at Yale College before 1851. 

BIRCHARD, JOSEPH; the town of Norwalk, in 1709, voted to 
give to said Birchard and others, liberty to dam a creek in Norwalk^ 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 223 

and the stream that runs into the creek, if Birchard &c., should erect 
a grist-mill at the dam witiiin one year, and finish said mill within 
three years, «Sic. BurcluiU one, and Burchar one coat of arms. 

THOMAS BURCHARD, aged 40, laborer; MARY BURCH- 
ARD, aged 38; ELIZABETH, 13; MARIE, 12; SARA, 9, SU- 
SAN, 8; JO, 7, and ANN BURCHARD. 18 months old, embarked 
for New England in the Truelove, Jo Gibbs, master. 

BIRCH, BURCH, DANIEL, and his wife Anna, of N. Stratford, 
had a son David, b. May, 1161 ; Ruth, b. March, 1771 ; Silas, b. 
March 12, 1775, lived at Quaker Hill. An Englishman of this name 
now resides in Hartford. 

Byrch, three coats of arms, Byrche, has three coats of arms. 
Birch, has six coats of arms. Burche, has two coats of arms. 

This name yet continues in Fairfield County. Two by this name 
have graduated at Yale College. 

BIRD, THOMAS, was appointed bayliffat Dorchester, Mass., in 
16.34. He died, (sen.,) aged 54 years, in 16G7. 

BIRD, THOMAS, located in VVethersfield Lane, in Hartford, as 
early as 1645 ; he was not an original proprietor in Hartford. Jo- 
seph Bird removed to Farmington ; he was made free in 1657. 
James Bird was made freeman tiie same year. Thomas, Sen., ap- 
pears to have resided at Windsor and Hartford ; he died at Hartford, 
in 1653 ; wife Mary ; children, Joseph. His widow Mary d. in her 
old age, Jan. 22, 1729-30 ; Joseph, son of Thomas, d. 1695; James, 
son of Thomas, m. Lydia Steel, March 31, 1657 ; Hannah, daughter 
of T'homas, had two husbands ; 1st Edmand Sc( tt, and 2d Mr. North. 

BIRD, JOSEPH, son of Thomas, was the first of the name that 
settled at Farmington. He had children viz. 

Thomas, d. 1701, unmarried ; he noticed Samuel, son of his broth- 
er Samuel, William Smith, son of his sister Mary, and Ebenezer 
her son, Joseph, son of Joseph, and the remainder of his estate, two- 
thirds to his mother, and one-third to his sister Mindwell Burd. 
James, d. 1728. Mary, m. Jonathan Smith. Elizabeth. Samuel, 
m. Esther Woodrutf, 1695; he d. 1699, she d. 1742. Nathaniel, 
m. Sarah Woodford ; he d. in 1703-4, she d. 1750. Estate, .£139, 
14*. Mindwell b. in 1081, d. unmarried. 

*BIRD, JAMES, son of Thomas, Sen., settled at Farmington ; he 
m. Lydia Steel, had issue viz. ; James, Jr., d. in 1708 ; Hannah, m. 
'Nathaniel Morgan, of Springfield ; Rebecca, m. Samuel Lamb; Me- 
hitabel, b. 1682, m. Simon Newell, May 22, 1710; Elizabeth, b. 
1684, m. Ebenezer Alfard, or Alvord ; Thomas, m. Mary Woodford ; 



224 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

slie d. Nov. 9, 1725, and he m. for 2d wife, widow Sarah Smith ; 
she d. in 1737, and he d. 1725; Lydia, m. Peletiah Morgan, of 
Springfield. 

BIRD, JOSEPH, Jr., m. Mary Steel, and settled at Norlhington, 
they hud issue ; Samuel, who m. Eunice Wadsworth, Feb. 13, 
1729-30. Ruth, m. John Patterson, Jan. 28, 1730-1. Mary, Dec. 
, 1722, m. Joseph Hart. 

BIRD, SAMUEL, son of Joseph, Sen., m. Esther Woodford, and 
had issue: Esther, b. Feb. 28, 1696-7; Samuel, Jr., b. 1699, only 
two children ; the father d. 1699. Estate, £113, 1*. 6rf. 
• THOMAS, son of James, m. Mary Woodford ; in 1690 he settled at 
Northington, and had issue : Mary, b. Dec. 25, 1691, d. 1693 ; John, 
b. Aug. 15, 1695, he settled at Litchfield ; Joseph, b, Dec. 24, 1696, 
had two wives, Dorcas Norton, and widow Sarah Eldridge ; Jona- 
than, b. Dec. 28, 1699, d. 1748, m. Hannah Thompson in 1732; 
Mary, b. 1702, m, Thomas Hart, April 30, 1725 ; Rebeckah, b. Jan- 
14,1703-i ; Lydia, b. 1707, d. single in 1759. 

JOx\ATHAN,son of Tho's of Northington, removed and settled at 
Kensington ; he m. Hannah Thompson and had issue viz. : Thomas, 
b. April 5, 1733, d. in 1734; Zeruiah, b. March 30, 1734, m. Wha. 
pies; Abijah, b. June 21, 1736, d. in '36; Mehitabel, b. July 15, 
1738, m. Thomas Hart, 1758 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 5, 1740-1, m. Ne- 
heiniah Clark, 1764 ; Lydia, b. May 24, 1744, m. Jeremiah Tryon, 
1766 ; Jonathan, Jr., b. March 6, 1746-7; he graduated at Y. C. 1768, 
and was a physician and preacher for several years, he d. in 1813. 

SAMUEL son of Samuel, Jr., m. Rhoda Havvley, in 1770 ; he set- 
tled at Avon, where he had a daughter b. in 1770, and d. same year. 
Ira Wadsworth Bird, b. 1772 ; Samuel, O., b. 1774 ; Rhoda, b. 1776 ; 
Mary, m. Jesse Judd, (doubted,) James, son of Joseph, of Thomas 
m Abigail Gridley. 
*Bird, Rev. Samuel, installed at White Haven, 1751, (in N. H.) 

Bird, Capt. John, Deputy of Milford, Oct., 1677. 

Dr. Seth Bird, formerly of Litchfield, was b. at Bethlem, in 1733. 
He was a man of superior talents, and skillful in his profession, and 
had a large practice in Litchfield County. He had two unfortunate 

propensities, which injured his practice and his character. He d. 

_ — •- 

Note. Thomas Bird of norchester, d. Jan 1667, aged 64; his widow Ann d. Aug. 2, 1673. 
Thomas of Hartford d. IG.'iS, aged about 50, and had daufjhters m. at his decease. ''Hannah 
had two husliands." Hartford records say the e,\'rs paid "To Hannah Scott £~" and to " good- 
wife North £14 13s. Ad:' — so it appears there were two dauf;liters. 
*Rev. Samuel Bird was b. at Dorchester, Mass., he entered Cambridge University, aged about 

16 years — m. Mabel dau>,'hter of Hon. Jeimer of (Jharlestown, for 2d wife, '2d daughter of 

John Prout.Esq.ofNew Haven, Conn., and had 12 children ; he was settled as pastor of the church 
at Dunstable, Mass., In 1747, and installed at N. Haven, Con., about 1731, and dismissed Jan., 1768. 

Bird of White Haven, was Samuel Bird of Dorchester, installed at New Haven. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 225 

at Litchfield in 1805, aged 72 years. His son John, graduated at 
Yale College, 1786. He became an eminent lawyer ; he firstly 
opened his law office in his native town, (Litchfield,) but removed 
to Troy, N. Y., about 1794; his brilliant talents soon recommended 
him to his new accjuaintanccs in his adopted State, and he was elect- 
ed a member of the Legislature, and afterwards a member of Con- 
gress, in both of which positions, he distinguished himself by his su- 
perior powers of mind. He d. at the age of 38, in 1806. He mar. 
ried Eunice daughter of Joshua Porter, Esq. ; 2d, Sally Buel of 
Litchfield, an elegant and accomplished woman, who too often smart- 
ed under his reproofs. He has one son by his first wife. 

(len. David Bird, g'd son of John resided at Bethlem, Conn., was a 
leading man in the town, and d. there when about 80 years of age, 
in 1849. 

John and Joseph Bird, from Farmington, removed to Litchfield, in 
the first settlement of the town, in 1721. Joseph Bird and Ebenez- 
er Marsh, were the first Representatives from Litchfield to the Leg- 
islature, in May, 1740. He was also Deputy, in Oct., 1743; May 
and Oct., 1744; May and Oct., 1745; and May and Oct., 1746; 
and May, 1749. He was Justice of the Quorum, at Litchfield, in 
1753, to 1754. John Bird represented Litchfield in the Legislature, 
in Oct., 1740, and three other sessions before 1750. John Bird was 
Town Clerk at Litchfield, from 1733 to 1738 ; and were both among 
the best early settlers. Joseph Bird removed to Salisbury, where 
he became one of the first Deacons of the church. He was the 
great grand-father of Rev. Isaac Bird ; wjio was son of Isaac Bird, 
and grand-son of James, of Salisbury. Joseph's great grand son 
Rev. Isaac Bird, njw of Hartford, Conn., was b. at Salisbury, 
June 19, 1793; graduated, Yale College, in 1816, read Theology at 
Andover, in 1817 ; afterwards attended two courses of medical lec- 
tures at Boston and New Haven. He m. Ann, daughter of Capt. 
William Parker, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, Nov. 18, 1822, and 
Went to Syria the same year, as a missionary. His missionary ser- 
vice was chiefly at Bevroot fourteen years, during which time he 
visited Mt. Lebanon, Jerusalem, Malta, and Smyrna, Tripoli and 
Tunis, in which places he continued about fourteen years. Wliile 
there he became acquainted with the Italian, Arabic, Syriac, and 
French languages, particularly with the two first. He returned to 
America in 1836, and became agent for the American Board, for 
about two years. He wae instructor of Theology at the Gilmnnton 
Seminary, and was instructor in Sacred Literature, and chosen pro- 
fessor of this department. July 9, 1844. Mr. Bird is now teaching a 



226 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

select school at Hartford, Conn. ; his wife Ann Parker, b. in East 
Bradford, Mass., in 1799; had children. William, b. at Malta, Medi- 
terrancan, 1823; graduated Darttn'tli College, 1844; Emily Ann, 
at Beyroot, Syria, 18'25 ; m. Rev. H. J. Van Lennep, of the mission 
at Constantinople, 1850 ; James, b. at Beyroot, Syria, 1326, grad- 
uatcd at Yale College 1848 ; Martha Jane, b. at Malta, Mediterra- 
nean ; Henry P. first, b. Beyroot, in Syria, d. ; Henry P. second, 
b. Beyroot, in Syria, d. 1833 ; Mary E., b. Beyroot ; Caroline, b. 
at Smyrna, Asia Minor; Ellen, b. at Gorham, Me., U. S., d. ; 
George B. W., b, at Gilmaoton, New Hampshire, d. 

Farmer notes John Bird of Mass., freeman 1045. Jathnell re- 
ceived a grant of land in Ipswich, 1641. Simon, Braintree, freeman 
1644, a proprietor of BiUerica, where he d. July 7, 1667. Thom- 
as, Scituate, 1639, and Thomas, Dorchester, 1042. Joseph Bird 
went from Litchfield to Salisbury, and the Birds of Litchfield from 
Farmington. 

BIRD, THOMAS, and Anne had a son Thomas, b. at Dorchester, 
Mass., 1040; John, b. 1641. 

BIRD, LYMAN, free, Mass., 1644; John, 1645. 

BIRD, ENSIGN, JAMES, d. at Dorchester, Mass , Sept. 1, 1723, 
aged about 77 years. His wife Miriam, d. there the same year. 
This name yet is found in Dorchester, probably distant relatives of 
Thomas Bird who came to Hartford from Dorchester, Mass. Eliz- 
abeth, wife of Mr. John Bird, d. at Dorchester, Oct. 20, 1724, aged 
77 years. 

Aaron and Mary Bird, had a daughter Mary, aged 11, d. at Dor- 
chester, Dec. y' 16, 1715. James and Miriam Bird had a son 
George, d. there, aged 20 years and six months, July y"' 23, 1716. 

BIRD, JAMES, and Ann of Dorchester, Mass., daughter Eunice, 
d. there Aug., 1709, aged 29 years. Thomas Bird, d. there Ian. 30, 
1709-10, aged about 69 years. Joseph d. Feb. 28, 1711-12, aged 
about 44 years. (Harris.) 

BIRD, THOMAS, of Dorchester, and James, free 1690. 

In the year 1715, Hartford and Windsor appointed a committee to explore the "Western 
lands." The object was to explore Bantam, and purchase the Indian rights. John Marsh of 
Hartford, was one of this committee, and risked his life through the wilderness, from Farming- 
ton to Litclificld, for which he charged Ihe town of Hartford X-2. The Indian deed of nantam, 
executed at Woodbury, is dated, March 2, 1 7 1 5. O. S. ; which for the sum of £ .5, paid in mon- 
ey, they granted Bantam to Col. William Whiting. Mr. John Marsh, and .Mr. Thomas Seymour, 
the committee for Harlford, to Mr John Eliot, Mr. Daniel Griswold. and Mr. Samuel Rockwell, 
a committee for Windsor, in behalf of the two towns, with a particular description of this large 
tract of country. Two of this name have graduated at Brown University, two at Harvard, and 
seven at Yale College. 



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BIRD, JOHN, of Dorchester, freeman 1673. This is an old 
name at Weymouth. 

BIRD, Rev. SAMUEL, was installed Oct. 13, 1751, at White 
Haven, Conn. 

Thomas Burd, embarked in the ship Alice, from England for Vir- 
ginia, Richard Orchard, master, in July, 1635. 

Bird, has eight coats of arms. Burd or Byrde, has one coat of 
arms. Byrde, five. Byrd, has one coat of arms. 

BIRDSEYE, JOHN, came first into the New Haven Colony, and 
settled at Milford, where he was a free planter in Nov. 29, Id'-id. He 
was dismissed from the church at Milford, March 19, 1649, and re- 
moved with his wife Philipi, and family to Stratford. His half di- 
vision of land in Milford, was granted to him June 22, 1648, located 
next to Thomas Baker, at the north end of the plain, " going to the 
new meadow." He purchased of Timothy Baldwin, a home lot of 
five acres, and woods in 1647. Richard Bryan, purchased of John 
Birdseye, Dec. 12, 1649, his hoilsc, housing, home lot, his second 
division of land, his 1st Meadow, in the great meadow, with all 
appurtenances thereto, in Milford. He was a leading man at Mil- 
ford and Stratford. He d. soon after he removed to Stratford, and 
left a family, a son John, and daughter Joanna, and perhaps others. 
John his son was selectman in Stratford, in 1669. His dauglitcr Jo- 
anna, m. Timothy Wilcockson, son of William, of Stratford. 

BIRDSEYE, ABEL, and his wife Phebe, of North Stratford, had 
a son Ebenezer, b. and baptized, Jan. 25, 1749 ; James, b. and bap- 
tized July 14, 1751 ; Eunice, b. Sep., 1753, &;c. ; descendants of 
Jolin, of Milford and Stratford. Hon. Mr. Birdseye, late member 
of Congress, from the State of New York, is also a descendant of 
John and Philipi. Rev. NATHAN BIRDSEYE, graduated at 
Yale College, in 1736 ; (grand-son of John,) he preached first at 
Stratford, and was settled at West Haven, Oct., 1742, and dismissed 
in 1758. 

Dr. S. Peters, in speaking of John Birdseye, Esq., of Stratford, 
Conn., remarks of him in these words, viz., " being a Puritan in Eng- 
land, in 1636, resided at Reading in Berksiiire ; he emigrated to 
New Haven with his two sons. One settled at Middletown on Con- 
necticut river, the other at Stratford." 

BIRDSEYE, JOHN, Jr., of Stratford, was nominated for a free- 
man in Oct., 1668. John Birdseye, Sen., is in the list of freemen in 
Stratford, 1669. 

Three of this name have graduated at Yale College, one at Wil- 
Hams College, and one Birdsall, at Williams College. 



22-J GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BIRGE, RICHARD, was one of the early settlers and pioneers 
from Mass., to Windsor; he came from Dorchester, Mass., with Mr. 
Warham, a member of his church. He had a home lot in Windsor, 
Feb. G, 1G40. He also had sixteen acres " beyond the 2d Pine plain, 
west side of Mill brook, and eight acres south of Mill brook ; eight 
and one-fourth acres on the side of Pine Hill," and many other lots 
of land on both sides of the river, most of which is afterwards found 
in possession of his son Daniel Birge ; deeds dated before 1646. 
Richard purchased land in Windsor of Nathan Gillet, in 1644, and 
assigned it to Daniel Birge, he also purchased land of James Enno, 
of Windsor, in 1647. Richard, Sen., was Juror in 1649. He was 
a large landiiolder and farmer. This name is spelled on the records, 
Burge, Birdge, Birydge and Birge. Richard Birge, m. Elizabeth 
Gaylord, daughter of Hon. William, Oct. 5, 1641, and had issue; 
John, b. 1642, d. 1643; Daniel, b. Nov. 24, 1644; Elizabeth, b. Ju- 
ly 28, 1640, d. soon; Jeremy, b. May 6, 1648; John, b. Jan. 14, 
1649; Joseph, b. Nov. 2, 1651, d. July, 1705; Richard, d. Dec, 
1651 ; Elizabeth, his widow, m. for her second husband, Thomas 
Hoskins, of Windsor. Jeremy after the death of his father Richard, 
viz., Dec. 19, 1663, contracted with his father-in-law Thomas Hos- 
kins, tci scr\e him until he became 21 years old, but he d. at the 
age of 20 years and six months, and if Jeremiah d. before he was of 
age, his brother John was to serve out the time of Jeremy, which 
John performed and had the benefit of the land under the contract. 

BIRGE, DANIEL, son of Richard, was propounded for a free- 
man. May, 1670. He m. Debra Holcom, Nov. 5, 1668, and had 
issue: Elizabeth, b. April 25, 1670; Debra, b. Nov. 26, 1671 ; 2d 
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 3, 1674; Mary, b. Dec. 25, 1677; (she m. before 
her father d.) Daniel, b. Sept. 6, 1680; Abigail, b. 1684 ; John, b. 
1890; Cornelius, b. July 30, 1694, and d. 1697; Esther, b. 1697; 
Daniel, the father d. Jan. 26, 1697-8, and left a widow. 

BIRGE, JOHN, son of Richard, b. 1649, m. Hannah Watson or 
Matson, March 28, 1678 ; issue; John, Jr., b. Feb. 4, 1679-80 ; Han- 
nah, b. June 17, 1682 ; Jeremiah, b. Sept. 22, 1686 ; Mary, b. Sept. 
9, 1888; John, the father, d. Dec. 2, 1697. 

BIRGE, JOSEPH, b. Nov. 2, 1651, son of Richard, Sen., m. 
Mary. 

BIRGE, JOSEPH, of Windsor, was one of the early settlers at 
Litchfield about 1722, probably son of the above Joseph Birge. 

BIRGE, DANIEL, from Windsor to Hebron, about 1709; he 
held offices in Hebron, 1710; wife Rebecca Tarbox, March, 1721 ; 




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had issue b. at Hebron ; Rebeckah, b. Dec. 10, 1722 ; Daniel, Jr., 
of flobron, b. Dec. 13, 1728, m. Elizabeth Knox, Oct. 17, 1743; 
2d Rebeckah, b. Nov. 14, 1725, m. Rurrous^lis; Coziah, (a daugh- 
ter.) b. Feb. 16, 1729; Deborah, b. April y* 29, 1732, m. Holdridge; 
Lidde, b. July y" 2, 1734, m. Root; Jonathan, b. \ug. 14, 1736, m. 
Rachel Strong of Colchester, Feb. 23, 1758; Daniel the father, d. 
at Hebron, Oct. 26, 1737 ; Rebeckah, his wife d. In a deed from 
Nathan Hurlberl, in 1708, Daniel is described as from Windsor, 
and was a lister at flobron 1714. 

BIRGE, JONATHAN, son of Daniel, Sen., and Rebeckah of He- 
bron, m. Rachel Strong of Colchester, Feb. 23, 1758, and had issue ; 
Ezekiel, b. Aug. 11, 175-^, (at Lebanon,) m. Jerusha Gott of Hebron, 
Oct. 17, 1779 ; Hozea, a Revolutionary pensioner, b. Feb. 12, 1760, 
d. Aug. 16, 1«43, in Chatham, New York, and left children there; 
Olive, b. Feb. 22, 1762; Content, b. March 23, 1764; Elijah, b. 
May 14, 1765, m. Azubah, and had Mary, Ann and Lyinan ; Ra- 
chel, b. July 24, 1767; Debra, b. June 18, 1769; Anna, b. Feb. 10, 
1771 ; Roswell, b. April 8, 1777, m. Sarah White, daughter of 
Adonijah, in 1800 ; Mary, b. Sep. 13, 1773, m. Joel Swetland of He- 
bron. He died. She m. Loomis, and removed to the state of New 
York ; Jonathan, Jr., b. Oct. 3, 1775, d. March 11, 1776. 

BIRGE, ROSWELL, son of J^.nathan and Rachel Strong, had 
issue, *Hon. Alonzo White Birge, an only child, b. Nov. 26, 1801 ; 
Roswell d. in 1812; his widow m. Zenas Loomis, of Coventry, in 
1817, and d. Jan. 25, 1834, without i-ssue by the 2d marriage. Hon. 
Alonzo W., only child of Roswell of Hebron, m. Dec, 1826, Mrs. 
Eliza Enswortli, the widow of IMaj. John Ensworth, her maiden 
name Kennedy, daughter of Maj. John Kennedy of East Hartford; 
she had two children, Jane Eliza, and John W. Ensworth, but had 
no' issue by her 2d marriage ; she d. Dec. 4, 1843, and he m. Hetty 
I Belden of Hartford, daughter of Thomas Belden deceased, for his 2d 
wife, Oct. 23, 1849. 

BIRGE, ELIJAH, son of Jonathan and Rachel, m. Azubah, and 
had issue ; Mary, Ann and Lyman, perhaps others. 

•non. Alonzo White Birge, wtiose name is found in the list of this family, was born at He- 
I broo, in 1801 ; and whose likeness accompanies this number, is strictly entitled to all his merit, 
1 being self-made, by a constant life of industry. lie has been honored by his fellow-citizens, with 
I several highly responsible places of trust. lie was a member of the lower house of the Legis- 
\ lature, from Coventry, in 183.3 — State Senator 1837 — Elector of President and Vice-Pres- 
ident of the U. S., in 18-10 — Judge of Probate at Hebron, in 1812 and '3, tec. — Treasurer of the 
; Stale of Conn., in 1817 ; and though yet a young man, is able to retire upon his own resources, 
(and not by a niggardly pari^imony ;) bis heart and hands are ever open to aid the needy, 

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230 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANg. 

BIRGE, DELIA, daughter of David, m. Joseph Weeks of Hart- 
ford, and d. aged 27 ; left children Joseph and George. 

BIRGE, DANIEL, Jr., son of Daniel and Rebeckah of Hebron, 
b. 1723, m. Elizabeth Knox, Oct. 17, 1743 ; issue, Elizabeth, b. Jan. 
10, 1744; Mary, b. jMarch 20, 1747; Elenor, b. Jan. 14, 1749; 
Daniel, b. Jan. 20, 1751 ; Jerusha Birge, b. Dec. 10, 1753; John, 
b. Jan. 9, 17-55; Jonathan, b. June 21, 1756; Lydia, b. July 20, 
1759; Annif, b. June 5, 1765; Dennis, b. May 7, 1769, d. 1769. 

BIRGE, CORNELIUS, son of Daniel, Sen., b. 1694, m. Sarah 
Loomis, Feb. 8, 1721 ; she was b. 1694, and d. 1776. Issue, Sarah, 
b. 1722, m. Swetland; Isaac, b. July 26, 1725, d. 1761 ; Jonathan, 
b. 1734, d. 1776; Hannah, b. 1727, m. Grant; Abigail, b. Feb. 15, 
1731. (perhaps Esther,) m. James Spencer 1751, The father d. 
June 23, 1763; Isaac d. 1763, and gave his estate to his brother 
Jonathan. Wife Sarah d. Oct. 2, 1776. 

BIRGE, JEREMIAH, son of John and Hannah, m. Mary Gris- 
wold, of Windsor in 1718; issue, Jeremiah, b. Dec. 23, 1719; Mary, 
b. Aug. 23, 1721; Jolin, b. Aug. 25, 1723; Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1726; 
Peletiah, b. Sept. 8, 1728 ; Hannah, b. March 18, 1730 ; Mindwell, 
b. March 24, 1732; Lucia, Sept 23, 1736; the father d. 1775. 

BIRGE, PELETIAH, b.l728, son of Jeremiah, m. Mary Grant 
and had issue, Daniel, b. July 14, 1768, d. Sept. 13, 1803; David 
Birge, b. Sept. 30, 1770, d. Aug. 27, 1847; Eli, b. Oct. 18, 1772, 
lives in Suffield ; Rhoda, b. Sept. 8. 1774, lives at Windsor Locks 
single; Seth, b. June 17, 1776, d. Oct. 16, 1777; Achsah, b. March 
23, 1778, lives at Windsor Locks single; 2d Seth, b. Feb. 26, 1760, 
lives at New Hartford, New York ; Asa, b. Jan. 29, 1782, lives at 
Windsor unmarried ; Horace, b. Aug. 30, 1784, lives single at Wind- 
sor Locks ; Alexander, b. Aug. 23, 1786, d. June 15. 1789. 

BIRGE, DAVID, son of Peletiah, b. Sept. 30, 1770, m. Clarissa 
Merriman and had issue, Cynthia, b. March 17, 1806, unmarried; 
Anson, b. Jan. 3, 1808, lives in Suffield; Delia, b. May 16, 1811, d. 
aged 27, m. Joseph Weeks, d. 1841 ; Henry, b. June 28, 1814, lives 
at Windsor single; Orra, b. June 20, 1818, d. aged 9. 

BIRGE, SETH, son of David, b. 1780, m. Hannah James, and 
had children, four living, viz., Seth, Allen, John, David, Allen, 
Reuben. 

BIRGE, ELI, son of Peletiah, b. 1772, m. Charlotte Barnard and 
had issue, Orrin, Ilariet, Tirzah, d. at 17 years old, Horace, Sidney, J 
Luman, Ruth, and Eli, Jr., five of them married. 

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tiali, m. Tirzah Ann Ilatliway and has issue, Frances A. b. Sept. 13, 
18:i:i ; Charles A., b. Oct. 10, 1840; Morton B., b. Aug. 20, 1842. 
HIRGE, Capt. JONATHAN, son of Cornelius, m. Priscilla Ham- 
mond of Bolton, Mirch 24, 1713, where he settled. He was killed 
in the battle at White Plains, in the war of the Revolution, at the 
head of his company, 1770; is.sue, Isaac, b. March 1, 17G4; Jona- 
than, Priscilla and Anna, Rutii, Simeon. 

BIRGE, IS A. AC, son of Capt. Jonathan of Bolton, m. Pamelia, 
who settled his estate ; issue, Marvin, b. 1788; Jonathan, b. 1790; 
Pamelia, b. 1792; Simeon, b. 1794; Chester, b. 1796; Alfred, b. 
1798; Elethia, b. 1800; Julia, b, 1803; Aurelia, b. 1805; Mary 
Ann, b. 1807; Lazel, b. 1810. 

BIRGE. JONATHAN, son of Capt. Jonathan of Bolton, settled 
at East Windsor, he m. Mary Baily, Dec, 1791 ; issue, Baily Birge, 
b. Aug. 4, 1793 ; his wife Mary Birge, d. Oct. 25, 1793, and he m. 
for 2d wife, Sarah Warner, May 8, 1794, and had issue, Backus 
W. Birge, Feb. 8, 1795, d. July 29, 1832 or '37; Julius Birge, b. 
Sept. 24, 1796; Edwin Birge, b. June 8, 179S, d. 1845, aged 45; 
Mary Birge, b. April 12, 1800; Sarah W. Birge, b. Mar. 28 1807 ; 
Francis Birge, b. Dec. 22, 1803, d. 1846, aged 43; Henry Birge, 
b. Feb. 22, 1808 ; Jonathan, the father, d. Dec. 12, 1820, aged 52. 
BIRGE, HENRY, son of Jonathan, b, 1808, merchant in Hart- 
ford, ni. Jane E. Filly, May 9, 1836, and had issue, William Henry 
Birge, b. Jan. 7, 1838 ; Mary Ann Birge, b. Oct. 26, 1839 ; Charles 
Warner Birge, b. March 23, 1841. 

BIRGE, FRANCIS, .son of Jonathan and grandson of Capt. Jon- 
athan Birge, was b. at East Windsor, Dec. 22, 1803, is a merchant 
in Hartford, m. Charlotte Flint of East Windsor, April 17, 1834 ; 
issue, George F. Birge, b. Sept. 8, 1h35 ; Irene C. Birge, b. Oct. 
27, 1838, d. March 29, 1841 ; James F. Birge, b. Dec. 24, 1843, d. 
July 26, 1844 ; Walter F. Birge, b. April 7, 1846. 

BURGE, SAMUEL, of Yarmouth, m. Sarah Stoers of Barnstable, 
Mass., Feb. 26, 1695-6. Samuel Stoers, Jr., of Windham, m. Mar- 
tha Burge of Yarmouth, Oct. 31, 1700, (Otis and record.) Perhaps 
the Birges of Windsor were from Yarmouth; the name of Burge 
was at Windham in the church. 

One by this name graduated at Yale College in 1825. 
Coats of arms. Burge one, viz., gu. a cross or. Crest, an olive 
branch ppr. Burg fifteen. Burgcs fifteen. 

BISCOE, JOHN, owned one lot of land at Watertown, Mass., in 
the first settlement of the town. This name was not in Conn., as 
early as many others. There was a Nathaniel Biscoe of Milford^ 



232 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1669. James Biscoe of Milford was propounded for a freeman in 
1671. 

BlSflOP, Ma. JOFIN, of Welhersfield, m. Sarah at Welhersfield 
Jan. 'iO, 1675 ; lie died there in 1678, and left a widow Sarah ad- 
ministratrix, and requested Mr, E. Kimberly to assist the widow to 
close his estate. He had a daughter Sarah, b. July 3, 1678. He 
was at VVethersfield in 1648. 

* BISHOP, JOSEPH, settled at Stamford as early as 1650; not 
known where he was from to Stamford. A John Bishop was at 
Wetherstield as early as 1648. Bishop, Anne, Guilford — died in 
1676. Children, John, Stephen, and a daugiiter who married James 
Steel. 

David Bishop was an early settler at Enfield and had a son Thom- 
as born there. Whether the above were allied to the family of Hon. 
James Bishop who was secretary and assistant at New Haven, is 
not asserted. 

BISHOP, JOHN, was bound to appear and answer the charge 

•The records of Staiiifi)rd go back to the first settlement of the town, but the first book is 
in a tattered and confused condition ; the leaves separated, misplaced, torn and worn, and iiiiich 
of it badly written at best, yet two leaves containing consideralile of the first setilenient of ihe 
town, and most of the names of the first settlers from VVeiliersfield to Stamford, at lea>t twen- 
ty of them ; about ten of the whole number having beeen cut off by a red line In the book and 
lost; and the edges of the leaves badly worn and obliterated On the 30tli of Oct., 1040 the 
twenty individuals next below, having before puriliased of the Indians.) purchased of the i\ew 
Haven Colony, Rippowams, (now Stamlbrd,) on condition tlial Rev. Richard Denton should re- 
move there by the following March, and the others by Nov., 1641, Tile following are the names 
legible as far as deciphered, viz : 

Richard Uenton, John Norihend, Henry Smith, 

Thurston Uaiiier, Thomas Weekes, Andrew Ward, 

Joanas Wood, Riatiliew Mitchell, Richard d'ildersleeve, 

Jonas Wood, Jr., Robert Coe. John Seaman, 

Jeremiah Wood, Samuel Sherman, Daniel tinch, 

Ediiiond Wood, Jeremiah Jagger, Samuel Clark, 

John Jessiip, Vincent Simking. 

These all came according to the contract and accompanying them the following persons, viz; 
Rich ird Law, John VVhitmore, Iticliard Crabb, 

John Ferris, j John Keynoltls. Robert l'"islier. 

perhaps JefTerry, ) Thomas .Morehouse, 

Robert Hales, from Weth'fd. Francis Hell, 

And soon after Ihe latter part of 1041, or the beginning of 1042, as appears by the purchase 
of land, and distribution by vote of the company in meeting the fi-llovving aie found, viz: 
Thomas Anneta.s, John Ogden, Thomas IJyat, 

Henry Aceily, • John Smith, Daniel Scofield, 

John Underhill, John iMiller. John Pinch, 

Thomas Slauson, VVm. Newman, John Holly, 

p'rancis Holly. * Joseph liishop. 

* tight by the nanie of Bishop liave graduated at Yale College ; tliree at Brown University; 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 233 

made by the Indians against him in 1G48, Bishop, David, resided at 
the Neck in Hartford in 1685. Eight have graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, and three at Harvard College before 1850. 

BISHOP, JOHN, of Guilford, 1639; and Stephen and John in 
1650. 

BISHOP, STEPHEN, John, Sen., and John Bishop, Jr., were 
first settlers at Guilford. 

By a vote of the town of VVethersfield, the heirs of Mrs. Bishop 
were voted twelve acres of land wiiich Wethersfield had taken from 
her; Dec. 1680. 

BISHOP has five coats of arms, and Bishoppe one. (Bisshop.) 
Bisshopp has two coats of arms. 

BISHOP, JOHN, fined 40^. in the Connecticut Colony, for boast- 
ing of his lying and other misdemeanors 1648. Recognized in £20 
and John Hall, Jr., in £10, that if notice be given said Hall before 
the first Thursday of June next, that said Bishop should appear and 
answer the complaint of the Indians against him March, 1648. 

BISHOP, BENJAMIN, in 1742 removed to Farmington from 
Goshen, wife Sarah, had children, viz; Rebecca, b. 1741, m. Josiali 
Andrews 1762, d. 1803, aged 62; Joseph, b. Sept. 8, 1743, he m. 
Susannah ; he d. at Fort Ann in 1776 ; Benjamin, b. Sept. 22, 1745, 
wife Elizabeth, she d. in 1830, aged 83 years; he d. in 1833, aged 
88 years, he had resided in West Hartford, left no issue; Sarah, b. 
Sept. 25, 1748, d. 1766 ; Mary Bishop, b. Oct. 18, 1750, m. Dea. 
con E. Woodford in 1774 ; Mary d. in 1832 ; Elizabeth Bishop, b. 
March 31, 1753, m. Roger Woodford; Anne Bishop, b. April 21, 
1755, m. Ezekiel Woodford in 1773 ; Samuel Bishop b. May 6, 
1757, a twin son d. ; Samuel, m. Damaris, daughter of Rev. Eben- 
ezer Booge, d. in 1814, his wife d. in 1831, aged 70; Tho's F. 
Bishop, b. Oct. 20, 1763, m. Lucy Foot, daughter of Jacob; both 
d. in 1851. Benj'm Bishop, Sen., d. in 1794, aged 85 years; his 
wife Sarah, d. in 1773, aged 51 years. 

BISHOP, (Ruth Byshop,) daughter of Tho's Byshop of Enfield, d. 
aged about two months in Oct., 1690. 

BISHOP, Hon. JAMES, settled at New Haven, he m. Elizabeth 
Tompkins of Milford, 10 m. 12, 1665, first wife Mary. He had his 2d 
wife, as his daughter Hannah was b. May 29, 1651 ; Grace, Jan. 17, 
1652 ; Sarah, July 28, 1655; Elizabeth, b. 5 m. 3, 1657; Abigail, 
b. Oct. 30, 1659; John b. May \'i, 1662; Ruth, b. Nov. 22, 1664; 
Samuel, b. Nov. 21, 1666, and Mary b. March, 1668. Mr. James 
Bishop, d. June 21, 1691 ; widow Elizabeth Bishop, d. Oct. 25, 
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234 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1703; Mary his first wife, d, Nov. 26, 1664. (Patience wife of 
Henry Bishop, d. July 24, 1655.) Mr. J. Bishop was an important 
citizen of the N. Haven Colony, before the union under the Charter 
of Charles II., and was a Deputy to the General Court Aprili, 665 ; 
May, 1665 ; Oct., 1665 ; May, 1666 ; Oct., 1666 ; May, 1667 ; Oct., 
1667. Hi, with Mr. Gill, and Capt. N.ish were appointed Commis- 
sioners for N. Haven, by Conn., May, 1665, and if they accepted the 
office to take the freeman's oath, and were empowered with the as- 
sistant to hold a Town Court, as had been granted to Mil ford. Mr. 
Bishop was appointed a Commissioner for 1666, 16(57 ; an assistant 
April, May and October sessions, 1668 ; May and Oct., 1669; May 
and October, 1670; May and Oct., 1671 ; May and Oct., 1672; 
also assistant May, ]673, Oct., 1674; May and Oct., 1675; May 
1676 ; May, 1677, &.c. Mr. Bishop was appointed in Oct., 1665, 
one of a Committee to hear and consider the complaints of Uncas, 
in the place of Capt. Nash; Clerk of the County Court at N. Haven 
1666. In 166rf a Committee with Mr. Samuel Wyllys and Tho's 
Stanton to hear and report the difficulty between Uncas and the Ni- 
antic Indians. In 1669 he had a grant of 300 acres of land which 
was laid out to him in 1670. One of the assistants of the Council 
of War July 8, 1675; also Sept. 18, 1675, and other sessions. In 
1675 the Gen'l Court allowed him JCIO for his attendance "on pub- 
lique occasions this year." One of the auditors of the treasurer's 
accounts in 1670 and 75. Hon. James Bishop was Lieut. Gov. of 
Conn., from 1683 to '87, and from 1689 to 1691 inclusive. Hon. 
James Bishop was one of the most efficient and useful men in the 
New Haven Colony ; and after the union of the Colonies, sustained 
his influence and standing. He has been succeded at N. Haven by 
several of its most talented and able men of the name, and most of 
them his descendants ; such men as Hon. Samuel, and Abraham 
Bishop. 

BISHOP, Rev. JOHN, of Stamford, succeeded Mr. Denton the 
first minister of Stamford. Mr. Bishop was from near Boston and 
settled at Stamford in 1644, the year Mr. Denton removed to Hemp- 
stead, L. I. Mr. Bishop d. at Stamford, 1694. After Rev. Daniel 
Denton left Stamford, Mr. Francis Bell and Slauson of Stamford 
started on foot through the wilderness to Boston, in search of Mr, 
Bishop for their minister, and history says, found him in that neigh- 
borhood (near Boston.) They engaged him to return on foot with 
them to Stamford, and become their pastor. He started with them 
with his Bible under his arm, and performed the journey, settled and 
died there. It is said one of his descendants now has the same old 



OENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS. 235 

Bible which his ancestor brought through the woods to Stamford 
under his arm. This name has produced its full share of important 
men in Connnecticut. 

BISHOP, RICHARD, free in Mass., 1642; Nath'l 1644. 

BISHOP, ANN, of Guilford, widow, notices her son John Bishop; 
grand-daughter Elizabeth Hubbard ; noticed her old servant Tho's 
Smith. Sht! gave most of her estate to be "divided betwixt her 
three children, John and Steven Bishop and James Steele," and made 
James Steele her son-in-law sole Ex'r, and gave him £Q over and 
above his third part of all her estate in this Country and in England. 
Will dated June 20, 1673 — made her mark — will proved before 
Wm. Leete. Inventory £81, 9*. Id. dated May 1, 1076. A part 
of her property was at Hartford, but the larger share of it at Guil- 
ford, at her decease. 

*BfSSELL, Mr. JOHN, of Windsor, was a Juror at Hartford in 
1640, 1643, Oct. 1645, and March "47 and '8 ; Deputy to the General 
Court in 1642, and attended 46 sessions of the General and Particu- 
lar Courts before the union of the Conn., and N. Haven Colonies, and 
in all served as Juror 12 sessions of the Court at Hartford. He was 
an enlisted trooper for Windsor, in 1657-8. He was an important 
and early settler at Windsor as early as 1640, tiiis family were con- 
nected with several of the best families in the colony by marriage. 
John Bissell was ferry-man at Windsor in 1640. He was frequently 
appointed upon important Committees by the General Court of Conn. ; 
his wife d. 1665. Thomas Bissell in 1674, and Samuel Grant of 
Windsor were appointed by the General Court, to lay out a grant of 
land to Goodman Buckland, another grant to " Sarg't John Wads- 
worth ;" also 120 acres granted to Mr. John Porter. John Bissell 
of Windsor was confirmed by the. General Court, Quarter Master of 



* March 24, 1051 ; "theare ware three men chosen to take a vew of the Towne (of Wind- 
sor.) according to the order of Court for that purpose," viz., Henry Wolcott, Commissioner; 
John Bissell, Matthew Grant. 

Aug. 24, 1653; John Uissel, David Wilton, Wm. Gaylord, and John Moore, were " chosen 
Debetys for the Gmerall Court "to be held on the 2d thursday in Sept. Me.xt." 

Dec. 6, 1658; John Bissell Sen., Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Newbery, David Wilton, and Matthew 
Grant, appointed selectmen of W'indsor, and on the 13th of Dec. "determined that provision 
should be made upon the top of the meeting house, from the Lanthorn to the ridge of the howse 
to walk conveniently, to sound a trumpet or drum to give warning to meetings." 

John Bissell, Mr. Phelps, Deck". (Jaylor, and David Wilton, were elected at Windsor, to the 
General Court of Conn , Aug. 21, lti52. for the ne.xt May. " Aug. 20, 1052 ; dcbities chosen for 
yt Gineral Court to be holden on y' 9th day of September following, Mr. Pholps, Deak". Gayler, 
John Bissell, David Wilton." Matthew Grant, chosen Town Clerk. Townsmen chosen, Dcken 
Gayler, moderator, David Wi.ton, Jobc Uissell, John Strong, John Moore, Thomas Ford, and 
Matthew Grant, 



236 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

the Country Troop of the county of Hartford, in 1677; (the first 
troop of horse in the colony.) {Col. Rec.) John Sen., and Jun., 
Thomas, Samuel, and Nath'l Bissell, were freemen at Windsor in 
May, 1669. Nathaniel Bissell contracted for the ferry over the 
great river in Windsor for seven years ; in 1675, the council at 
Hartford, ordered " a, garrison kept at Nath'l Bissell's, Tho's Burn., 
ham's, Mr. John Crow's, and at Nabuck, and Mr. Willy's his farm." 
His will was dated Sept. 25, 1673 ; his sons John and Tho's Exec- 
utors ; Deacon John Moore, and Hon. Dan'l Clark, overseers of his 
will ; codicil to his will dated April 6, 1077. Inventory, £520, 16«. 
'id. ; appraised Oct. 22, 1677 ; he d. Oct. 3, in 1677 ; wife unknown ; 
issue, Nath'l, baptized Sept. 27, 1640, m. Mindwell Moore, Sept. 23, 
16 — ; Mary, m. Jacob Drake ; Joice, m. Samuel Pinny ; John, Jr., 
m. J. Mason, June 17, 1658 ; he d. 1693 ; Thomas, m. Abigail 
Moore, Oct. 11, 1655 ; Samuel, m. Abigail Holcomb, June 11, 1658; 
Nathaniel, b. Sept. 24, 1640; some of his children appear to have 
been born before he came to Windsor. The mother d. 1665; John 
the father d. Oct. 3, 1677, aged 86 years. 

BISSELL, JOHN Jr., m. J. Mason, June 17, 1658; children, 
Mary, b. Feb. 22, 1658; John, b. May 4, 1661 ; * Daniel, b. Sept. 
29, 1663; Coronet Daniel, d. Dec. 9, 1738, aged 74; Dorathy, b. 
Aug. 10, 1065; Josias, b. Oct. 10, 1670; Hezecia, h. April 30, 
,1673; Ann, b. April 28, 1675; Jeremiah b. Feb. 22, 1677; John, 
Jr., d. 1693, (brother of Daniel.) John, Jr., was the first settler in 



* In 1748, April, a bridge was asked for, by individuals at Windsor, over tlie Tunxis river in 
Windsor, and tlie town gave liberty to any persons to build one, provided they did so, at their 
own expense, and made it a free bridge forever, (liberal.) In Dec, 1748, Isaac Burr, Peletiah 
Allyn, and Daniel Bissell, accepted the offer and built the first bridge erected over Tunsis River 
in Windsor. 

* Epitaph. — " Here lyes the body of Mrs. Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Daniel Bissell, who died 
June y'^ 9th, 1749, aged 21 years. Also in memory of her father Capt. Roger Newbury, who 
died in the Kings servis in the Spanish West inges, March 6th, 1741, aged in the 35th year." 
(Should be, wife of Daniel, Jr.) 

♦Epitaph. — In memory of Mr. Benoni Bissell, vv'ho died August 26, 1761, in the 72d year 
of his age. (Stone.) Erected by the first society of Windsor in grateful remembrance of his 
generous gift for the support of their school. 

•John Bissel having made complaint of Susannah Denslow for reproachful speeches which 
she hath spoken against the wife of s'd Bissell. The court Iiaving considered the complaint, do 
order that Henry Denslow, or his wife, shall severely correct their daughter with a rod upon her 
naked body, in the presence of Mrs. Wolcott, and Goody Bancroft, this day; and in case it be 
not attended to this day, the constable is to see it done the next opportunity, and the .s'd Susan- 
nah ia to give security for her good behavior till the court in Sept. next ; May 18, 1664. (Court 
Rec. Hartf., Sec. office.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 237 

Coventry — and received his deed of Israel Everett, of Lebanon, 
Oct. 1715; was tiie tirst captain in Coventry ; jield slaves. Though 
he moved from Lebanon to Coventry, he originated at Windsor. 

BISSELL, THOMAS, son of John Sen., m. Abigail Moore, Oct. 
11, Idrtij; children, Tiiumas Jr., b. Oct., 12, 1G5G ; Abigail, b. Nov. 
•J3, 1058; John, b. Jan. 26, 1660; Joseph, b. April 18, 1663; Eliz- 
abeth, b. June 9, 1666, m. Stotan ; Benjamin, b. Sept. 9, 1669 ; Isaac, 
b. Jan. 9, 1671 ; Ephraim, baptized April 11, 1676 ; Esther, b. April 
22, 1677, d. 1678 ; 2d Ephraim, b. Sept. 4, 168;), and Luke, b. Sept. 
22, 16S2. His will provtd 16(^9. Left a widow. One daughter 
m. John Stotan, perhaps a daughter Sarah. Estate £8(38; d. 1689. 

BISSELL, SAMUEL, son of John, Sen., m. Abigail Holcom, 
June 11, 1658, she was b. 1638; children viz , John, b. April 5, 
1659; Ahagail, b. July 6, 1661 ; Jacob, b. March 28, 1664; Mary, 
b. Sept. 15, 1666; Samuel, b. Jan. 11, 1668, wife Mary, d. June 
24, 1718; Benaja, b. June 3;), 1671 ; ElizabL-th, b. March 4, 1677; 
Debora, b. Oct. 29, 1679; (Joshua noticed in his will.) Depuiy to 
Gcneriil Court March 26, 1656. 

BISSELL, NATHANIEL, son of John, Sen., was b. 1640, m. 
Mindwell Moore, daughter of Dea. John Moore, Sept. 23, 1662, and 
had children, viz., Mindwell, b. Oct. 3, or July, 1663 ; Nath'l, Jr., 
b. Jan. 7, 1665; Jonathan, b. July 3, 1668, d. young; Hannah, b. 
Jan. 12, 1670; Abigail, b. St-pt., 1673; 2d Jonathan, b. 1674; 2d 
Abigail, b. March 9, 1676; Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1679. 

NATHANIEL, Jr., son of Nath'l Bissell, m., left a widow, and 
had issue : 

1. Jonatlian, had a son Jonathan m. Eliz'th Ilolladay, 1743. 

2. David. 

3. MindwL-11. 

4. Abigail. 

5. Elizabeth. 
C. Dorothy. 

7. Anne. 

8. Mary. 

9. Hannah, m. Bancraft and haJ 6 children. 

Jonathan and David his sons, executors of his will. The will is 
dated Sep*. 23, 1713; the will proved 1714. Estate £655, Is. 5d. 

BISSELL, JOSEPH, son of Thorn's, m. a daughter of Return 
Strong, he had two sons, perhaps others, and his wife was pregnant 
at his decease. He died about 1688 or '9; his widow and Lieut. 
Return Strong, administrators. Estate if 194, 4«. 

BISSELL, HEZEKIAH, son of John, Jr. His brother Daniel 



238 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

administrator 1700, property distributed to his four brothtrs and three 
sisters, viz., Daniel, Josiali, Jeremiah, Samuel, Dorotiiy, Ann, and 
Mary. Ho d. Oct. 17, 1709. Estate £149, 18*. lOd* 

BISSELL, EPHHAI.VI, son of Tho's of Windsor, settled and d. 
at Tolland ; d. 1717-18. Isaac Bissell his brother of Windsor, one 
of the administrators; children, Eph'm, 14; Benj'n, 3 years; Tiio's 
Bissell, Jr., (ruardian for sons Abel and Steph«i, Joseph Stedman, 
guardian. £93, IBs. Sd. 

BISSELL, Rev. HEZEIvIAH, of Windsor— Bloomfield. Mary 
his widow, agreed with her son Hezekiah, Esq. of Windham, and 
Mary her daughter of Windsor, to settle the distribution with the 
widow in 1781; his will dated May 1.5, 1780; she had the negro 
boy Caesar. 

BISSELL, THOMAS, son of Thoma.s, m. Elizabeth, or Esther, 
daughter of John Strong of Northampton, Mass., Oct. 15, 1678; 
issue, Esther, b. Sept. 10, 1679 ; Abigail, b. Oct. 20, 1681. ( Wind, 
sor Record.) 

BISSELL, BENJAMIN, son of Tho's; distribution to Thomas, 
Jolin, Isaac, Eph'm, his brothers, Natji'l Gaylord in right of his wife, 
Dan'l White of Hatfield 169"^ ; ( Abigail his widow.) Jeremiah 
Bissell, m. Mehitabel White of Hatfield, Mass., 1705. 

BISSELL, SAMUEL, son of John, m. Abigail, daughter of Wm. 
Filly, Aug. 26, 1680, he aged 20, and his wife 22 ; his daughter 
Abigail b. Aug. 3, 1681 (Perhaps others.) 

BISSELL, JOHN, son of Sam'l of VVind.sor, 1685. His widow 
Abigail Ad'.x. He d. and left a son and daughter; Abigail three 
and one half years old, and John two years old, £127. Inventory 
1684. 

BISSELL, SAMUEL, Sex., of Windsor. Jamss Enno, and John 
Pettiboiie, .1 r., his sons-in-law and Exr's presented his will in 1700. 
Mary his relict, was his 2d wife. His children were Samuel, Abi- 
gail, Mary, Eliz'th, Di borah, Harnah, Joshua, Jacob, John. Sam- 
uel died before his father. Mary, widow of Samuel, d. June 24, 
1718. Afier the death of his son Samuel, he made a codicil to his 
will and appointed James Enno and John Pettibone his E.xr's in 
1700. He died Dec. 3, 1700. Estate, £495, Ss. Id. His son Ja- 
cob marr'd Mary and resided in Simsbury, where he died Aug. 1, 
1694. Estate £166, I65. and left his wife Mary with Jacob, an 
only child aged three months. Mary the widow of Jacob, married 
Peter Buell for her 2d husband, and she with her husband were 
admr's on her first husband's estate. Jacob, Jr., b. June 8, 1694 ; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 239 

hn died at the age of 16 yonrs, and Iiis property was distributed to 
liis uncles and aunts, the children of Samuel then decea'd. Debo- 
rali daughter, of Sam'l m. Steplien Pettebone, and Efizabeth her sis- 
tcr ni. John Pettebone, and James Enno, marr'd another sister. 
John Bissell also a son of Samuel, mar'd and had a son John, Jr., 
who died about 1693 and had neither wife or children. Estate £64, 
18s. John Pettibone, Jr., m. Mary, daughter of Jacob Bissell, Sen., 
and Stephen Pettibone m. her sister Deborah. 

BISSELL, EZEKIEL, from Windsor was a proprietor and early 
settler at Harwinton 1733-4. 

The Bissells of Litchfield are descendants of John of Windsor. 

BISSILL, JOHN, removed from Lebanon in 1716, and became 
the first settler of Coventry ; he became wealthy, and had two daugh- 
ters who m. Jonathan and Israel Fowler. 

BISSELL, EZEKIEL of Sufficld, m'd Ruth Devotion, Dec. 23, 
174-2, and had Ebcnezer, b. Oct. 25, 1743; Eliphas, b. Oct 11, 
1744; Ezekicl, b. March 14, 1746; Margaret, b. Oct. 28, 1747, 
d. Dec. 1747 ; Ruth, b. April 20, 1750 ; 2d Margaret, b. Sept. 1748, 
died the same month. 

BISSELL, JOSHUA, weaver of Elizabethtown, N. Jersey 1711, 
appointed Josiah Ogden of Newark, in N. J., his Lawful Att'y, to 
take possession of an estate in Windsor, as heir apparent to said Ja- 
cob Bissell's estate, his deceas'd brother and his son Jacob then de- 
ceas'd, nephew of said Joshua, dated at Elizabethtown, N. Jersey, 
Sept. 28, 1711. 

Byssell has one coat of arms. Bissell has one coat of arms. 

BISSELL, Rev. HEZEKIAH, graduated at Y. C. 1733, and set- 
tled in the ministry at Wintonbury, (Bloomfield,) Jan. 1740. 

John Bissell, Sen., John, Jr., Nathaniel Bissell, Samuel and 
Thomas Bissell, were all freemen at Windsor as early as 1069. 
Bcssell or Bissell, John, took the oath of fidelity at Pamaquid in 1674. 
Eighteen of this name have graduated at Yale College. 

BLACKBOURN, of Canaan, a transient person, d. in that town 
in 1741, and administration taken on his estate at Hartford by Rich- 
ard Seymour of Canaan, Ap'l 20, 1741. Blackbourn, 1 coat of arms. 

BLACHFORD, BLATCHFORD, RLACHFIELD, PETER, 
was fined in Court at Hartford in 1639, for a fowling piece, (by the 
name of Peter Blachfield.) He was also fined 5*. in 1644. In 
1649 he testified in Court, and was Deft in Court in 1647, and was 
made a freeman in 1658- He removed to Haddam where he died 
Sept. 1671. His name is also found at Saybrook in 1063. He had 



240 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

children at the lime of his decease, viz., Joanna 5 years old ; Peter 
4 years, and Mary one. One of the name of Blatchford has grad- 
uated at Y. College. Peter Blatchford gave a legacy to Hunger- 
foot'.s two daughters, by his will. Peter BlachP)rd of Haddann was 
Deputy to the Gen'l Court in May, 1669, and May, 1670. Inventory 
X2:39, 2s. The Gen'l Court, Oct. 12, 1671, gave the heirs of Peter 
Blachford 50 acres of land for pay as a Pequot soldier. 

Coats of arms. Blachford (London and Dorsetshire, granted 1629) 
one. Blachford (Lord Mayor of London 1750) one. Blatchford has 
also one coat of arms. One of this name grad'd at Yale College 
1796, and one at Wm's College. 

BLACHLEY, BLATCHLY, THOMAS, was in the Conn't Col. 
in 1641 ; he embarked in the Hopewell, Tho's Babb Master, for 
Mass. A man by this name was at E. Hartford in 1651. This 
name in the persons of Thomas and Aaron Blatchley was at* 
Branfurd, and there signed the rules formed by a company to govern 
their town on the Passaick River in the Province of New Jersey, 
Oct. 30, 1665, and probably most of them removed to (now) New- 
ark as soon as 1666. Aaron Blatchly m. Mary, daughter of Dan'l 
and Mary Dod of Newark, N. J.; she was born in 1647. Thomas 
Blatchly was at Newark with Edward Riggs, <Sc.c., in 1666. {New 
Jersey Rec.) Joseph Blatchley. m. Mehitable Keeler, daughter of 
John of Norwalk, Oct. 14, 1703; he died Oct. 14, 1704; his daugh- 
ter Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1704. His widow m. Caleb Hoyt or Hayt, 
Feb. 25, 1707-8 ; she had two children by her 2d marriage, Bena- 

*rhe names of Blakely and Blachl^ are in some cases difficult to discriminate which name 
is intended by the recorder. 

* Jlinisters of Bravford Congregational Church. In Neal's History of N. E. we find that a 
Mr. Bruce who was " in orders in the church of England" came to N. England for the free ex- 
ercise of his ministry and preached in Brainford, for a time before Mr. Pierson was settled 
there, how long is not knOAfn. After him, Rev'd Ab'm Pierson who had been settled at South- 
ampton. Long Island, removed to, and was settled at Brainford. The years he came and loft, is 
not shewn at Branford,as he left no church records. His daughter Grace was born at Brain- 
ford July 13, 1650, and recorded. Mr. Pierson was at Newark, N. J., af soon as 1667. No 
minister was settled at Branford after Mr. Pierson, until March 7, 1688, when Rev. Samuel 
Russell was settled and the church reorganized. He was a son of Rev. Mr. Russell first of 
VVelhersfield, and afterwards of Iladley, Mass. Rev. Samuel had been previously settled for a 
short time in Mass; he died at Branford June 25, 1731, aged 74 years. Rev. Philemon Rob- 
bins was ordained at Branford Feb. 7, 1732-3, and died Aug. 13, 1781, in the 72d year of his 
age, and 49(h of his ministry. (Tlie grand-father of Rev. Thomas Robbins of Hartford, D. D.» 
yet living. 

Rev. Jason Atwater was ordained at Branford March, 1784, and died June 10, 1795, aged 
35, and in the 11th year of his ministry. Rev. Lynde Huntington was ordained at Branford 
Oct. 28, 1795, and died Sept. 20, 1804, aged 38 years. 

Rev. Timothy P. Gillett, the present worthy Pastor, was ordamed at Branford June 15, 1808" 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 241 

jah and David ; she d. March 21, 1755. Tlio's and Moses Blach- 
ly were early at Branford. Thomas Blaclily is in the list of free- 
men there in 16G9. SAMUEL BLATCHLY was at Guilford as 
early as 1650, and perhaps a first planter there. THO'S BLACH- 
LEY was Deputy to the Gen'l Court of Conn., after the union of 
the Colonies in May, 1667; elected Oct. 1668, but absent; Oct. 
1669, absent; May, 1670; May and Oct. 1671, and May and Oct. 
1672, 6cc. 

The inhabitants of New Haven and Branford for the purpose of 
establishing the bounds between the towns, Oct. 5, 1669. New Ha- 
ven for this purpose selected Hon. James Bishop, Lt. Thomas Mun- 
son, Wm. Andrews, John Moss, and John Cooper, Sen., for N. H. 
Branford appointed Mr. John Wilford, Thomas Blachly, Michael 
Taintor, Thomas Harrison and Samuel Ward for Branford. Mr. 
Wm. Tuttle was substituted for John Cooper, Sen., by N. Haven. 
MIRIAM BLACHLY of Branford, m. Sam'l Pond of Branford Jan. 
4, 1669, (an ancestor of Lieu't Gov. C. H. Pond of Milford.) 

Tho's Blachly or Blackly was a Deputy to the Gen"l Court May, 
1667. The Gen'l Court granted Tho's Blachley sixty acres of land 
where he could find it, upon tJie usual terms in May, 1670. Depu- 
ty for Branford May, 1671, and Capt. Wm. Curtis and L't Rich'd 
Olmsted were appointed a committee Oct. 9, 1673, to lay out his land 
before granted. He was a man of influence in the Colony. Moses 
Blachly of Guilford proposed for a freeman May, 1673. 

BLATCHLEY, SAMUEL, of Stamford d. there Oct. 15, 1756, 
aged 86 years. AARON BLATCHLY of Branford, was allowed 
two acres of land west of Dirty Swamp in Branford in 1686. 

One of this name (Joel S.) grad'd at Yale College, 1850. 

BLACKLEACH, JOHN, Farmer says was of Salem, admitted 
freeman (in Mass.) 1635, representative in 1636, had a family of 9 
persons — that his son John of Boston, had a son John b. in 1660 — 
that the name is written Blachleeche on the Salem records. He is 
found on the Conn't records Blackleech, Blackleach, Blackledge. 
JOHN, of Boston, appears to have removed to Hartford about 1660. 
John Blackleage, Jr., was admitted an inhabitant of Hartford by ths 
town, 1659-60. Porter locates him at the corner of Main and Arch 
streets in Hartford, in 1660. He was a constable with Thomas Cat- 
lin at Hartlord, in March, 1663. John purchased land in Wethers 
field, of John Hubbard of Hadley for £70, March 21, 1661, and his 
wife Eliz'th held it Sept. 11, 1672. He was a noted merchant at 
Hartford. His son John was largely engaged in commerce. John 
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242 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Blackleach, Sen., d. at Wethersfield Aug. 23, 1683, and his wife's 
death is recorded at Wethersfield, July 20, 1683. The inventory- 
was offered in court, and Samuel Butler appointed administrator, 
Sept., 1683; at the same court, John, Jr., appeared and siated that his 
father's book shewed that his father had disbursed upon his father, 
the sum of £225, 95. Id. ; £69, 6s. 3d. of which, the General Court 
May 13, 1675, ordered paid out of his estate in lands, &c., after his 
decease. The court ordered L't Steel and Serg't Doming to appraise 
so much of the land, and housing as would pay s'd sum, and deliver 
it to Mrs. Blackleach, and after payments of debts, to distribute the 
remainder to his children, who were then living, (at his decease,) 
according to his deed of gift on record, viz., to Mr. John Blackleach, 
Jr., Exercise Hodges, Mary Jeffries. Benoni it was thought by the 
court might then be living, an absent son, therefore the court or- 
dered Steel and Deming to divide the land in four parts equally, 
and if Benoni should prove to be deceased, to divide his share to the 
other three children. Mrs. Exercise Hodges presented the inven- 
tory of her father's estate, dated at Wethersfield, Sept. 8, 1683. 

BLACKLEACH, Capt. JOHN, Jr., wife Elizabeth. He was an 
extensive merchant in Hartford and Wethersfield, and largely con- 
cerned in commerce, and a man of wealth. Mr. John, Jr., of Weth- 
ersfield, in 1698, went to sea; during his absence his wife died, and 
the Court appointed Cyprian Nichols, John Olcott, and Mr. Samuel 
Hooker, to take charge of his property until his return, and Mrs. 
Eliz'tii Blackleach requested the Court, held Sept. 1, 1698, to appoint 
Mr. John Olcott guardian to the cliild (John,) son of Mr. John Black- 
leach, Jr., decea'd, about 2| years old. Mr. John Blackleach of 
Farraington (record says) decea'd ; the Court appointed Mr. John 
Olcott administrator, Jan. 17, 1698-9, and Olcott offered the inven- 
tory, April 8, 1700, dated at Wethersfield. John Blackleach, Jr., 
daughter Mary, m. John Olcott and the inventory of John's estate 
was presented by John Olcott and Mary his wife, in March, 1708-9. 
Mary tlie daughter of s'd Blackleach, m. first Tho's Welles a grand- 
son of Gov. Welles's, and while his widow, she m. John Olcott, son of 
Tho's, Sen. John Olcott d. 1712 ; after his decease, Mary his wid- 
ow m. for her 3d husband, Capt. Joseph Wadsworth of Hartford, of 
charter memory. Capt. John Blackleach, Jr., d. Sept. 7, 1703, 
aged 77 years ; his widow d. June 12, 1708, aged 74 ; had 480 acres 
of land in Middletown, he also owned lands at Stratford, Hartford 
and Wethersfield ; the inventory of his estate, besides his property at 
Antigua, was £1576, 195. His son John was at Farmington. His 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 243 

daughter Eliz'li Harris, in. in Boston, and liad received £500, her 
full portion before the death of her parents, and her mother f^ave all 
lii>r estate and that left by her husband to her daughter Mary Olcott. 
He had other children, Mrs. Jesse. Thomas VViukham aged 57, 
testified Aug. 2, 1708, that in June, 1708, Mrs. liliz'h Blackleach 
sent to him to bring to her, lier will, iliat iie read it before her and 
her daughter, that the daughter wished to examine it, and he left it 
in her daughter's hands. Sarah Benjamin at the same Court testified 
that Mrs. Blacklciich gave her will to her daughter Mary, to keep 
and do as she pleased with, and remarked that her liaiighter in Bos- 
ton had received iier portiotj about £r)00, and that her daughter 
Mary had not received hers. John Blackleach of Farmington, m. 
Susannah Hooker »• idow of Wm. Hooker deceased, &c. Tiiere 
were so many Johns in this family without dates, it is difllcult fol- 
lowing the different records. There was a Mr. Richai'd Blackleach 
in Stratford, who contracted with the people of Milford in 1712, to 
ferry people over Stratford river, if the people of Milford erected a 
ferry house on the east side of the river. Jonathan Frisbie of Bran, 
ford, sold land to Richard Blackleach of Stratford, la-ids he purchased 
of Moses Crafts in 1094, of Branford. Mr. John Blackleach was cho- 
sen Coma)issioner for Stratford May, 1069. John Blackleach of 
Farmington, m. Susannah, the widow of VVm. Hooker deceased, of 
Farmington ; she was his wife at his, John's decease ; she had a 
daughter Susan by VVm. Hooker, and a son John by Mr Blackleach 
who d. young. 



Note. — .Mr. John DIackleach Sen., was allowed bj- the General Court in IG67, to retail wine 

and liquors to his huiiest nniglibors, snber huusc-hoidcrs and those only, till the last of Nov John 
Blackleach was made a freeman as of Srralfnrd, May, 1G69. The same Court he applied for lib- 
erty to use his endeavours to make known to the Indians soniertiing of the knowledge of God, 
&c. In Oct., 1G74, the (Jeneral Court granted John Blackleach Jr., '-'00 acres of land, provided 
he took it not injuring any former grant. At a meeting of the Council (of the Colony.) Oct. 
1 1, lfi75 they found it neceftary to be more vigorous in making preparations for securing' of 
the towns, especially for the head quarters in Hartford, when the Council should sit, and ordered 
Flankers placed in or near the outside houses of the town, so that they could connnatrd from 
Flanker to Flan<er around the town, and to be prosecuted until accomplished ; and that a com- 
mittee bi! appointed to order and dispose of the same, and direct what men should carry on the 
work and attend each Flanker in case of alarm. This important and tru>tworthy Committee, 
were Maj. John Talcoit. Mr. Gardner, Mr. Gillierd, Ensign Scanley, Mr. Hlacklcach,'V\vi't- Bunce, 
Jaine:! Steele, L't Webster. C. John Gilburt, and Geo. Grave, impowered to appoint and require 
•II inhabitants and team^ to pursue the work until finished. Mr. John Blacklich is in the list 
Of freemen at Hartford, Oct., 1660. John Blackledge, Jr., adtnitted an inhabitant of Hartford in 
16CI. Mr. Richard Blackleach gentleman, a merchant of .Stratford, was plaint ifl against Mr- 
Win. Hoadly a merchant of Branfnrd. had a protracted law suit for years coticerning some ne- 
gro slaves. Blackleach sold Hoadly, which was continued from 1698 to 170-2. Mr. Richard 
Blackleach of Stratford, was attorney for Dugal Makensey, in Court May 10, 1707, 



244 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BLACKMAN, BLAKEMAN, Rev. ADAM, was b. in Staffbrd- 
rhire, England — educated at Oxford University- His name is spelled 
Blakeman, at the time he graduated at College, and is occasionally 
so spelt on the Conn't records. He was Episcopally ordained in Eng- 
land, and preached at Leicester, and in Derbyshire in England ; he 
came early to N. England, and preached for a time at Scituale, in 
Mass., and removed from thence to Stratford, Conn., where he was 
installed the first minister in Stratford, in 1640. He was a man of 
eminent piety, and held an exalted rank with the ministers of his day 
in Conn't. He was appointed a committee with Mr. Ludlow, and 
Gov. Hopkins, to settle the line at Uncoway, in Fairfield County, by 
the General Court, and was otherwise favorably noticed by the Gen- 
eral Court. Flis wife was Jane ; he was married before he came to 
N. England ; his children were Samuel, James, John, Deliverance, 
Benj'n, and Tho's, d. young, and one or more daughters. Sam'l and 
James m. daughters of Moses Wheeler of Stratford. Tradition says 
his son Deliverance was the first child he had born in this country, 
and that his name was given him, for the happy deliverance of the 
family from British persecution. Dr. Trumbull says " he was fol- 
lowed by a number of the faithful into this country, to whom he 
was so dear, that they said to him in the language of Ruth," " Entreat 
us not to leave thee, for whither thou goest, we will go ; thy people 
shall be our people, and thy God our God." He d. at Stratford in 
1665, and his wife Jane survived him. Rev. Israel Chauncey 
succeeded Mr. Blackman at Stratford, in 1665, and died there 
March 14, 1722. Upoti the settlement of Mr. Chauncey, a part of 
the town seceded and formed a 2d society, and settled * Rev. Zach- 
ariah Walker; soon after, such were the troubles in the societies that 
Mr. Walker removed*with many of his flock and settled the town of 
Woodbury. His sons Jacob and Joseph Walker remained at Strat- 
ford, where some of their descendants yet reside. A manuscript 
volume of sermons preached in Stratford on lecture days, by Rev. 
Mr. Walker, is now in possession of one of his descendants. Hon. 
Samuel C. Blackman of Newtown, Hon. Alfred Blackman of New 
Haven, Dr. Wm. Blakeman of N. Y. City, are descendants of Rev. 



•The following persons signod an instrument placed upon the records at Stratford, (recorded 
1C77,) shewing they were members of Rev. Z Walker's Society, in Stratford, but they did not 
all remove to Woodbury with him, viz., Jeremiah Judson, John Hurd, Sen., Richard Beach, John 
Thompson, Edward Hinman, Samuel Galpin, Rich'd Uuller, John Jlinor, Robert Clarke, Samuel 
Bherman, Jr., John Wheeler, Matthew Sherman. Ephraim Stiles, Samuel Sherman, Sen., Edmond 
Sherman, Caleb Nichols, Samuel Stiles, Daniel Titherton, Hugh Griffin, and Joseph Judson. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 245 

Adam, as are Col. Reuben Blackmail, and others of the name in 
Fairfield and Litchfield counties. 

BLACKMAN, JOHN, was appointed BaylifT at Dorchester, Mass., 
in 1662; he probably was not of the family of Rev. Adam. Four 
of the name of Blackman had frraduafed at Y. College in l'^46, and 
one at Harvard Collejie. BENJAMIN, who graduated at Harvard 
College in 1663, and preached at Maiden 1675, is not known as a 
kinsman of Rev. Adam. 

JOHN, and Jane Blackman liis wife, lost a son Samuel at Dor- 
chester, Mass., aged 21 years Dec. 9, 1722 ; the name is yet found 
in Dorchester. 

BLACKMAN, JOHN, of Dorchester, Mass., freeman 1665, and 
John in 1690. 

BLACKMAN, (London and East Indies,) has one coat of arms. 
Adam Blakeman was admitted at Oxford College, England, May 23, 
1617, at the age of 19 years, where his name was spelled Blakeman, 
which was probably his true name, though after he was settled at 
Stratford, Conn't, his name was spelt Blackman, generally on the 
Connecticut records. Few facts can be gathered concerning him 
from any church records at Stratford. Blackman, Samuel, from Dor- 
chester, Mass., resided at Hampton, Ct., Sept. 2, 1739, and had daugh- 
ters Sarah and Mary, baptized 1739. Elisha Blackman who was 
at Wyoming in the Tory British and Indian battle, was from Coven- 
try, Conn't, and was of the Dorchester family. Rev. Adam Black- 
man of Stratford, Oct. 6, 1659, was one of a committee appointed 
by the General Court to consider the difference on the petition of 
Arthur Bostick and his wife. Mr. Benjamin Blackman of Stratford, 
was propounded for a freeman in May, 1670. Mrs. Jane Blackman 
survived her husband, Rev. Adam, and in 1667, had trouble with 
her son Deliverance, as to the support of Mary Benfield's child, 
which was afterwards on the petition of ]\lrs. Jane, referred to Mr. 
Nath'n Gold, and the Comm'rs of Fairfield and Stratford, &c. In 
1672, Mrs. Jane is again before the Gen'l Court with her son Mr. 
Benj'n Blackman, and Jacob Walker of Stratford, concerning books 
and rents of land, of s'd Mr. Benjamin Blackman. In 1673, the 
Gen'l Court recommended Mr. Jacob Walker to forbear troubling 
the widow of Mr. Blackman about the use of the lands he claimed, 
during her natural life, which would grieve the widow, and be dis- 
pleasing to the Court. Rev. Benjamin, wl)0 grad'd at H. College 
in 1663, preacher in Maiden, 1675, m. Sarah Scotton, April 1, 1675 ; 
lie left Maiden about 1678. John, of Dorchester, admitted to the 
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246 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

church 1658, free 1669, his sons Jonathan and Joseph. (Farmer.) 
In May, 1649, the Gen'l Court desired Mr. Ludlow to lake care that 
a sum be levied for the maintainance of Mr. Blackman, for what 
was behind and the future, as provided by order of the country. 
Humfry Blackman, James Barnes, Francis Barker, Rich'd Allen, 
James Atkinson, Jo Bell, Tho. Browne, Jo Bag, Jo Browne, James 
Allin, Joan Allin, Marie Booth, Jo Butler, Rich'd Brooks, Jo Bil- 
lings, &c., embarked in the Safety for Virginia, Aug. ,1635. 

BLACKMORE, SAMUEL, united in full communion with the 
church at Hampton, Conn., Sept. 10, 1739; his daughters, Sarah 
and Mary baptized Sept. 2., 1739, and son Samuel baptized June 

15, 1740, (perhaps Blackman.) Has eight coats of arms. 
BLAGUE, JOSEPH, appears not to have been one of the first 

settlers at Saybrook. He m. Martha Kirtland, Feb. 10, 1685, and 
had issue, Elizabeth, b. May 26, 1687 ; Joseph, Jr., b. Nov. 17, 1689, 
d. 1691 ; Mary, b. Aug. 27, 1692 ; 2d Joseph b. Oct. 7, 1694. He 
was a constable of Saybrook in 1690. In Feb., 1703, liberty was 
given to Joseph Blague to erect a wharf in the water, and build a 
ware-house there, provided he did not damage the channel of the 
river at Saybrook. 

BLAGUE, JOSEPH, a son of Joseph, m. Mary Hamlin, April 
18,1717; issue, Mary b. June 30, 1720; Joseph, b. April 30, 1722; 
Hamlin, b. Dec. 15, 1725 ; Giles, b. March 2, 1728 ; Elijah, b. April 
26, 1730 ; Love, b. March 25, 1732. 

Some of the descendants now reside at Saybrook. Two of the 
name had graduated at Yale College in 1750. JEREMIAH 
BLAGUE, of North Lyme, m. Thankful Roach of Milford, July 
31, 173p. Joseph Blague, Esq., Deacon at Saybrook, where he d. 
in 1742, son of Joseph. 

BLAGE, HENRY, of Braintree as early as 1642. 

BLAGE has three coats of arms. Blagge one coat of arms. 

BLAGUE, ( Hollinger Co., Suffolk, originally of Kent.) Col. 
Thomas Blague, groom of the Bed-chamber to King Charles I. and 
Charles II., left four daughters his co-heirs, of whom the oldest, 
Henrietta Maria, m. Sir Thomas Yarburgh, Knight, of Balne Hall 
and Snaith, &c. Ar. two bends engr. gu, — coat of arms. 

BLAKE, JOHN, was an early settler at Midd'n, wife Sarah Hall ; 
they had children, viz., a daughter Mercy, b. Nov. 16, 1673, m. 
Samuel Robeits ; Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1675, m. John Roberts; Mary, 
b. July 29, 1677, m. Nath'l Johnson, Feb., 1699 ; Eliz'th b. March 

16, 1679, m. Joseph Johnson ; Abigail, b. Jan. 25, 1681, m. Tho's 
Givins. John, b. May 19, 1633, m. Eliz'th Johnson, Oct. 20, 1705; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 247 

Jonathan, b. July 27, 1G85, m. Mary Johnson, Sept. 19, 1710; Ste- 
phen, b. July 15, 1G87, m. Hannah Cole of Hartford, July 2, 1711 ; 
she d. Nov. 12, 1732, (perhaps Richard.) Mr. John the father, d. 
Dec. 11, 1690. The inventory of his estate was made in 1690, his 
widow administratrix, with her fatlier Richard Hall, and her brother 
John Hall overseers. Estate .£234, 12*. (id. His son Richard was 
eleven months old at the death of his father. 

BLAKE, JOHN, Jr. son of John, m. Eliz'th Johnson, daugh- 
ter of Isaac, Oct. 20, 1705, and had children, Richard, b. Aug. 9, 
1706 ; Ann, b. Nov. 1, 1707, d. Jan. 25, 1707-8 ; John, b. Dec. 
2, 1708 ; Joseph, b. Sept. 24, 1713. Mr. John, Jr., the father, d. 
Dec. 8, 1724 ; his widow Eliz'th, d. March 17, 1735-6. 

BLAKE, JONATHAN, son of John, Sen., m. Mary Johnson, 
Sept. 19, 1710; children, Daniel, b. April 24, 1711 ; Abigail, b. 
Feb. 12, 1712-13, d. 1727 ; Mary, b. Jan. 27, 1714-15 ; Eliz'th b. 
Feb. 18, 1716-17; Prudence, b. April 8, 1719, d. March 28, 
1739-40 ; Jonathan, Jr., b. May 12, 1721, d. Oct., 1721 ; 2d Jon- 
athan, b. Aug. 29, 1722 ; Mercy, b. Jan. 12, 1724-5, d. Oct. 17, 
1736 ; Sarah, b. July 20, 1727 ; Stephen, b. Feb. 18, 1730-1 ; 
Jonathan the father died Oct. 17, 1733. (Ster.) 

BLAKE, RICHARD, of Middletown, m., died and left children to 
whom his property was distributed, viz., JoJm, Joseph, Hannah, Ab- 
igail and Eliz'th, minor children of Richard. Frcelove Blake was 
supposed deceased in 1748. 

BLAKE, WILLIAM, was a rater (or assessor,) at Dorchester, 
Mass., and selectman in 1645, 1647, and 1651. In 1656, AV'm. 
Blake, Sen., was elected Recorder of the town of Dorchester, Clerk 
of y' Writs for y'" County of Suffclk, at 205. a year and rate free. 
He was an important settler at Dorchester, Mass., where he d. in 
1663. 

BLAKE, 'WILLIAM, in 1675 received payment for his military 
services, of Dedham, Mass. 

The name of Blake was at Gloucester, Dorchester and Springfield, 
before it was in Conn. It yet continues at Hartford, Middletown, 
and New Haven. It has been a respectable family from the first 
settler at Middletown. - Five of this name had graduated at Y. Col- 
lege in 1848, and eleven at Cambridge in 1835. 

BLAKE, STEPHEN, (son of John and Sarah, Sen.,) m. Han- 
nah Cole, July 2, 1711 ; no children found. Mrs Hannah, wife of 
Stephen, d. Nov. 1, 1732. 

BLAKE, WILLIAM, of Dorchester, Mass., free 1638. Drake 



248 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

says, his children were Wm. b. in England, 16'20, d. in Dorchester, 
1703; James, b. in England, 1023, d. in Dorchesler, 1700; John, 
b. in England, d. in Boston, 1088 ; Edward, b. in England, d. in 
Milton, 1692, and Anna, m. Jacob Lagare of Boston. (Perhaps 
John, son of Win., d. at Middletown.) 

BLAKE, JAMES, of Dorchester made free, 1(5.52. Rep. 1677 ;. 
ordained Deacon, June, 30 1672 ; held it fourteen years. Ruling El- 
der afterwards fourteen years. [H. G. Keg. No. 15, p. 275.) John 
Blake free Mass., 1644. Richard Blake free, 1644, Mass. Hen- 
ry Blake, 1644. Wm. Blake, hee, Mass., 1651. John Rlake, d. 
May 25, 1700; Anna Blake daughter of Joanna Blake, d. April 
2, 1704, all of Wrentham. Edward Blake of Dorchester, freeman 
1665. 

BLAKE, JOHN and JOANNA, of Wrentham, had a son James 
b. Oct. 1, 1689, and others. 

BLAKE, JOHN, of Dorchester, free 1690. 

BLAKE, this name has twenty-two coats of arms. Eleven of 
this name have graduated at Harvard College ; five at Yale Col- 
lege ; two at Brown University, and one at Wm's College. 

BLAKELY, BLACKSLEY, BLACKELY, SAMUEL, was an 
early settler in the New Haven Colony, where many of the name 
are now found. SAMUEL m. Potter, Dec. 3, 1650. His daughter 
Hannah b. at N. Haven, 8° 22, 1657 ; Mary b. Nov. 2, 1659 ; Sam- 
uel, b. April 8,, 1662; Ebenezer, b. July 17, 1664; 2d Hannah, b. 
May 22, 1666, d. July 8, 1669; Jonathan, b. March 3, 1668. Sam- 
uel Blakely, d. May 17, 1672. MATTHEW, son of Ebenezer, Jr., 
d. Jan. 26, 1.707-8. JOHN BLACKSLEY, d. March l2, 1712. 
(iV. Haven Rec.) Farmer notices EDWARD BLACKLEY early 
at Roxbury, Mass. One by the name of Blakeslee, and two by the 
name of Blakesley have graduated at Y. College. This name is now 
found in several of the towns in New Haven and Litchfield Coun- 
ties. It was voted at Hartford, Feb. 8, 1650, that Thomas Blakely, 
Billings, Tho's Porter, James Wakely, Sam'l Gardner, should have 
lots in Hartford, if the townsmen see no just cause to the contrary, 
and accept of them upon such terms as the townsmen should see 
cause to propose. Thomas Blackley who was in this Colony in 
1641, embarked in the Hopewell, Tho's Babb master, for Mass., 
some time previous. 

BLANCHER, BLANCHARD, PETER, was collector of rates 
against the inhabitants of Mystic. 

BLANCHER, RICHARD, of Hartford, d. 1091. Inventory da- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 249 

ted April 19, 1691 — Will ihited March 19, lG91_Codicil dated 
April 17, 1G91 — Estate, ^181, lis. Sd. He left an only child, 
William, to whom he gave all his property when he should arrive 
to the age of 21 years, which would be three years from the 10th 
of the next June after tiie date of his will. He put his son in 
the care of his Executors, Mr. Timothy Woodhridge and Joseph 
Easton, until he became of age. Wm. was bound an apprentice to 
John Easton until 21 years old, by the selectmen of Hartford. lie 
was of Paugatuck in 16G2. Richard Blancherd. at Hartford, April 
19, 1G91. Inventory, .£181, 11*. 8d. Richard Blanchard in East 
Hartford in 1G82, probably the same. BENJAMIN BLANCH- 
ARD m. Ruth Wilcockson of Simsbury, Aug. 27, 17.52. Blanch- 
ard, Wm., and wife Sarah, are described in a deed, as of Hartford, 
Jan. 22, 1721, and had a daughter Sarah, b. at Hartford, Oct. 29, 
1719. Fie m. Sarah Cowlcs, Oct. 5, 1618. One by the name of 
Blanchard graduated at W'ms College, 1647; two at Yale College, 
1821 ; and seven at Harvard. 

BLANCHARD, NICHOLAS, of Willington, sold to Richard 
Abbe of Windham, for £127, 100 acres in Willington, and 32 acres 
in Ashford. Deed, dated Feb. 18, 1725-6. Farmer mentions JOHN 
BLANCHARD, a freeman in 1649, as probably one of the founders 
of the church at Dunstable, Dec. 16, 1685. NATHAN, of Wey- 
mouth in 1GG2. JOSEPH, of Boston, d. Dec, 1637. THOMAS, 
of Charlestown, who came in the ship Jonathan, in 1639, and d. 
16.54. WILLIAM BLANCHARD, admitted to the church in Sa- 
lem, Feb. 7, 1641, and freeman, 1641. This name is found on the 
Records in Conn., spelled Blanchard and Blancher. Two persons 
of the name of Blanchard had graduated at Y. College before 1827, 
and seven at Harvard College. BLANCHARD, WILLIAM, free 
in xMass., 1641. 

Blanchard, John, free, Mass., 1649. 

BLANCHER, JOHN, and Abigail his wife of Weymouth, had a 
daughter Sarah, b. 1686 ; Mary, b. 1G89 ; John, b. 1691, &c. Eliz- 
abeth Blanchard, d. at Maiden, July 15, 1688 ; wife of Josiuh ; Sam- 
uel, b. 1697. 

BLANCHARD, JACOB, of Woburn in 1727. Mr. Tho's Blan- 
chard, m. Rose Holmes of Marshfield, Mass., March 1698-9. Na- 
thanicl and Susan Blancher, of Weymouth, 1660. 

Blanchard has two coats of arms. Blanch has one. 

BLANCHARDS, WILLIAM, of Boston, a Tailor. His will 
proved Nov. 18, 1652, and dated "the 27th of y' 7 mo. 1652." 



250 Gi;!VEALOGY OF THE PURITAN'S. 

Wife Hannah ; cliildrcn, John and Hanna. He also noticed Iris 
brother John — His sister Garlick's chihlren — flis mother, Anne 
Bianchard — His father-in-law, James EverelTs tiiree children. (See 
Will, His. G. Reg. No. 18, pp. 239, 40.) Blancher Nath'l, of 
Weymouth, in 1073; an old name in Boston. 

BL.\NCHER, SAMUEL, of Windham or Hampton, Ct. m. Mercy 
Richardson, March 27, 1727. Issue, Samuel, Jr., b. Nov. 4, 1727 ; 
Daniel, b. Feb. 1.3, 1728-9; Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1731-2; Jedediah, 
b. Jan. 21, 1731-2; Mercy, b. July 4, 1734; 2d Samuel, baptized 
May 14, 1732 ; Mercy, baptized April 24, 1737 ; Mehitabel, bap- 
tized March 2.'), 1739. 

BLANCHER, JOHN, and Lois, of Hampton, Conn., had a son 
John, baptized Oct. 17, 1762 ; also Alpheus, Darius, Lois, Betty, 
Clara and Hannah, baptized at Hampton, Sept. 10, 1780. BLANCH- 
ARD, WILLIAM, of Hampton, and wife Sarah, had a daughter 
Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1719. Samuel Blancherd, of Windham, or 
Hampton, owned the Covenant at Hanifiton, 1724. This name is 
yet found in Windham County. 

BLANEY, Mk. JOHN, and Mr. Andrew Bellcher, had liberty of 
the Gen'l Court of Conn., to lade their vessels with corn before the 
order of liberty of transportation should be published, &.c. May, 1676. 
Perhaps i\Ir. Blaney was not a cilizen of Conn. 

BLINGF1I^:LD, peter, fined 5s. at Hartford, for neglecting to 
do military duly in 1644. Perhaps Peter Blachfield or Blachford, 
probably Peter Blachford. 

BLIN, BLEN, BLYN, BLINN, PETER, was not as early a set- 
tier at Wdthersrtdld, as many otliers. His wife was Joanna. He 
was a joiner l)y trade. He gave iiis silver-headed cane, to his grand- 
son George Blyn by his will ; he d. in 1724, aged 8.5 yeais ; ihey 
had children, Mary, (prol>ably d. young,) Peter, James, Wm., De- 
liverance, Mary Murlburt, 1). Dec. 2, 1677; Daniel, b. March 2, 
1679 ; Jonathan and Margaret Belden, b. March 10, I6bl. 

BLIN, WILLIAM, son of Peter, m. Anna, daughter of John Colt- 
man, Nov. 13, 1701, and had issue, Daniel, b. Dec. 27, 1703; Mary, 
b. March 18, 1706; William Jr., b. July 29, 17ii9 ; Anna, b. Feb. 
4, 1713; Peter, b. Feb. 4, 1713, (iwins ; ) Eph'm, b. Jan. 21, 1716; 
Thankful, b. Aug. 9, 1720, d. 1724. His wife Anna d. Oct. 17, 
1724, and he m. Thankful Nott, daughter of John Nolt of Wethers- 
field, Dao. 22, 172'), and had issue, Gersh.un, b. S^pt. 18., 1726 ; 
Thankful, b. Nov. 24, 1729; Patience, b. May 16, 1732; Samuel, 
b. April 12, 1735; Abraham, b. Fed. 2, 1738, d. ; Elizlh, b. April 
17, 1741. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 251 

BLIN, JONATHAN, son of Peter, m. Hannah Clarke, daughter 
of VVm., Dec. 9, 1708, and had issue, Jonathan, Jr., b. Oct. 1, 1711 ; 
Lucy, b. Sept. 2, 1713 ; his wife d. Sept. 11, 1713, and he ni. Abi- 
gail Nott, June 26, 1740. 

BLIN, DANIEL, b. 1703, son of Wm., ni. Martha Stedman Jan. 
15, 1736, and had issue, Martha, b. Nov. 21, 1736; Daniel, Jr., b. 
May 18, 1738; Hezekiah, b. July 5, 1741; Esther, b. March 20, 
1743; Justus, b. Nov. 29, 1748, also James. 

BLIN, WILLIAM, Jr., and his wife Sarah had issue, Solomon, 
b. March 26, 1734; Deliverance, b. Jan. 13, 1739 ; Wm., b. Sept. 
14, 1742; Hosea, b. Dec. 1, 1744; Sarah, b. Sept. 28, 1746. 

BLIN, PETER, son of Wm. m. Martha Collins, March 10, 1734, 
and had issue, David, b. Oct. 10, 1735 ; Christian, b. Au^. 17, 1737, 
d. 1755; Anne, b. Aug. 17, 1739; Ab'm, b. Jan. 14, 1742; Lois, 
b. May 13, 1745; Comfort, b. Oct. 15, 1749; Peter, b. Dec. 7, 1752. 

BLIN, GERSHAM, b. 1726, son of Wm., by his 2d wife, m. 
Chloe Butler, Dec. 29, 1756, and had issue, Mehitabel, b. June 6, 
1757 ; Gersham, Jr., Nov. 15, 1759, d. ; 2d Gersham, Jr., b. Dec. 2, 
1761, d. 1768; Simeon, b. March 26, 1764; Mary, b. June 23, 
1766; 3d Gersham, Jr., b. Oct. 13, 1770, d. Nov. 1, 1770; Thank- 
ful, b. Oct. 21, 1771. 

BLIN, SOLOMON, son of Wm., b. 1734, m. Desire Andrus 
and had issue, Polly, b. Sept. 20, 1785 ; Levi, b. Jan. 6, 1787 ; Han- 
nah, b. Sept. 8, 1788 ; Henry, b. Feb. 4, 1791 ; Burzilla, b. Jan. 31, 
1793; Geo., b. Feb. 27, 1796. 

BLIN, JUSTUS, son of Daniel, b. 1748, m. Margaret Crofoot 
Sept., 1772, and had issue, Justus, b. 1775; Wm., b. 1777; Eliz'th, 
b. 1731; Joseph, b. Oct. 23, 1784; Esther, b. 1787; Charles, b. 
June 11, 1798 : his wife d. July 2,1798, and he m. widow Mary 
Stoddard, June 27, 1800. 

BLINN, ELISHA, went to Goshen about 1750, and purchased 
land there in 1760. He m. Huldah Nash, daughter of Samuel of 
Goshen, March 3, 1755, and had children, infant, b. June 5, 1755, 
d. ; infant, b. June 10, 1756, d. ; infant, b. July 15, 1758, d. ; infant, 
b. Oct. 6, 1759, d., and his wife Huldah d. Oct. 28, 1761, aged 26 
years. He m. for his 2d wife Sarah, daughter of Barnabas Beach 
July 7, 1763, and had Huldah, b. July 11, 1764, d. Aug. 1. 1765; 
Erastus, b. Feb. 5, 1765, d. at Barrington ; Elisha, b. March 19, 
1770, d. at Barrington ; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 24, 1772. The Blinn 
family has been an old and respectable family at Wethersfield, where 
several of the descendants of Peter Blinn now reside. 



252 GErfEALOGY OF THE PURITAN'S. 

*BLINMAN, (Blynman,) Rev. RICHARD, came from England 
to this country in 1641. Mr. Richard Blindman made a freeman 
in Mass., Oct. 7, 1641. {Gen. Reg. vol. 9, p. 189.) He first 
preached at Marshfield, for a short time; he is next found at Glou- 
cester as founder of the church. About 1648 or 50, he became the 
first minister at New London. Several persons had been to Pequot 
before Mr. Blinman, and left there, and Jie probably was accompa- 
nied by other settlers. In 1649-50, about 40 families had located 
at N. L., some of whom proved the most valuable men in the Colony, 
viz., Gov. Winthrop, Tho's Miner, Avery, J. Morgan, Allyn, Sam- 
uel Lathrop, O. Bruen, &c. Minot, (Miner,) and Samuel Lothrop 
were formed into a court, for the trial of small cases at Tawawag, 
in 1649. In May, 1651, John Dyer testified that Mr. Blinman and 
another person from Pequet, were at Saybrook, and he ferried them 
over the river in a canoe, towards'Pequett. In Feb., 1656, the Gen'l 
Court of Conn't, appointed Mr. Blinman, Mr. Warham, Mr. Stone, 
and Russell, to meet the "first fiftli day of June, (then) next at Bos- 
ton, to confer and debate the questions formerly sent to the Bay 
Court, or our own," with other divines from other Colonies, &ic. In 
i\Iay, 1657, the Gen'l Court ordered the inhabitaiUs of Mistick and 
Paugatuck, to pay Mr. Blinman his dues for the last year's service. 
{CoL Rec.) In May, 1667, C&pt. Denison confessed he had wronged 
Mr. Blinman, and had spoken corruptly, by saying Mr. Blinman did 
preach for Paugatuck and Mistick being a town before he sold his 
land at Mistick. Mr. Blinman remained at New London about eight 
years ; he then went to New Haven, where he is found in 1658, where 
the record says he was in want of corn, &c. ; from New Haven he 
went to Newfoundland, and returned to England. Mather says he 



* The first ministers of N. London. The Rev. Richard Blynman, was the first minister at Pe- 
quet, (N.L.,) he came there in 1648 or 50, and had the Pastoral care of the church until 1658, 
when he removed to N. Haven. (See Blynman) 

Rev. Gershom P.ulkley preached there for a time, and removed 166G. 

Rev. Simeon Bradstreet ordained there jn 1666 or 7, returned to Boston; he d. in October, 
lG83;Trum'l says 1670. 

Rev. Gurdon Saltnnstall, ordained there Nov. 25, 1691, he was elected Gov. of Conn't, in Dec, 
n07,and d. 17i24,aged 59, (removed Jan., 1707.) 

Rev. Eliphalet Adams, ordained Feb. 9, 1709, d. 1753, aged 77. 

llev. Mather Byles, ordained Nov. 18, 1757, dismissed 1768. 

Rev, Eph'm Woodbridge ordained Oct. 11, 1769, d. 1776, aged 31. « 

Rev. Henry Channing, May 17 ; 1787, d. 

Rev. .lames Hillhouse, 2d church, installed Oct. 3, 1722. 

Rev. David Jewett, 2d church, ordained Oct. 3, 1739. Dr. Trumbull says there seems to have 
been no church formed in N. London, until the ordination of Mr. Bradstreet, and probably nei- 
.ther Jlr. Blynman or Mr. Bulkley ware installed or ordained in the New London church. ^ 



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253 



'* concluded his life at the city of Bristol, where one of the last things 
he did, was to defend in print, the cause of infant baptism." Miss 
Caulivins in her most excellent late History of New London, gives 
many new facts as to IMr. Blinmnn ; she supposes he was a native 
of Gloucestershire, where he had preached — that Cape Ann was 
probably named Gloucester in compliment to him — that he remained 
at Gloucester or Cape Ann about eight years — that he probably m. 
in this country, and that the registry of births at Gloucester, shows 
his wife was Mary — and the births of three children, viz., Jeremiah, 
b. 20th of July, 1042; l^zekiel, 10th Nov., 1643; Azarikam, b. 2nd 
Jan., 1046, (Azrikam.) He is first found at Pequet, (N. L.) at a 
town meeting, Nov., 1750 ; others came with him — he remained at 
N. L., until 1658, and the same year describes himself of New Ha- 
ven. When he returned to his native country, he went to Bristol, 
in Gloucester County — his son Jeremiah was found in this country 
many years after his father's return to England. {Miss Caulkins.) 
BLISS, THOi\L\S, Sex., though not an original proprietor in 
Hartford, had a house lot of 58 acres, and his son Tho's, Jr., had one 
of 59 acres of land, and they were of the number of Hartford set- 
tlers, who had certain rights of pasture for cows and swine, &c., by 
the courtesy of the town, not being original proprieters. Tho's, Jr. 
came to Hartford with his father's family, though he appears to have 
been a man over 21 years of age at the time. Bliss Tho's, Sen., was 
located south of Little river, in the south-west part of the village of 
Hartford, his lot bounded north on Tho's Selden, east on Paul Peck, 
and west on the road to John Barnard's. Tho's Bliss, Jr., had a house 
lot south of his fallier's, bounded north on the lot of Tho's Bliss, Sen., 
east on Henry Wakeley, and west on the road to John Barnard's, in 
1640. Tho's Sen's, wife was Margaret, and his children born be- 
fore he came to Hartford ; he and his son Thomas, Jr., were both orig- 
inal settlers, and probably removed to Hartford with Mr. Hooker's 
company or soon after in 163G, from Cambridge, Mass., after which 
his widow and most of her children removed to Springfield. Their 
children were Mary Bliss, who m. Robert Chapman of Saybrook, 
April 29, 1642, was probably a daughter of Tho's, Sen., yet it is not 
certain; Thomas, Jr.; Nathaniel, d. Nov. 8, 1654; Lawrence, d. 
1676 ; Samuel, d. March 23, 1720 ; John, d. Sept. 10, 1702 ; Mary, 
m. Joseph Parsons of Springfield, Nov. 26, 1646; Sarah, m. John 
Scott, July 20, 1659; Eliz'h, m. Serg't Morgan, Feb. 15, 16G9; 
Hannah, d. Jan. 25, 1661 : all were probably by their ages born in 
England, and came with their parents to N. England. 
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254 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BLISS, THOMAS, Jr., known on the Hartford record as Thos. 
Bliss, Jr., son of Tho's, Sen., removed after the death of his father to 
Saybrook, where he m. Eliz'th, in Oct., 1644 ; from thence he removed 
to Norwich, about 1660, where his children are recorded, viz., Eliza- 
beth b. Nov. 20, 1645, b. at Saybrook ; Sarah, b. Aug. 26, 1647, b. at 
Saybrook ; Mary, b. Feb., 1649, b. at Saybrook ; Thomas, b. March 
3, 1651—2, b. at Saybrook, d. 1681, probably unmarried ; Deliver- 
ance, b. Aug., 1655, b. at Saybrook; Samuel, b. Dec. 9, 1657, d. 
1731, b. at Saybrook; Anne, b. Sept., 1660, the 2d white child b. 
in Norwich ; Rebeckah, b. March, 1663, all except the two last were 
probably b. in Saybrook, before he removed. Thomas Bliss was fined 
in 1646, two shillings for neglecting to train at Hartford. In 1663, 
he was made free at Norwich with Tho's Adgatt, Simon Huntington, 
John Post, &c., from Norwich, and accepted by the Gen'l Court of 
Connecticut. 

BLISS, NATHANIEL, son of Thomas, Sen., removed from Hart- 
ford to Springfield, in 1645, (about a year before his mother Marga- 
ret removed there ;) he m. Catherine Chapin, daughter of Deacon 
Samuel, Nov. 20, 1646. They had issue, Samuel, b. Nov. 7, 1647, 
d. June 19, 1749, aged 102 years; Margaret, b. Nov. 12, 1649, m. 
Nath. Foot of Colchester, d. April, 1745 ; Mary, b. y= 23 of y^ 7th 
month 1051, m. Nath. Holcomb, Feb. 27, 1670 ; Nathaniel, b. y' 
27th of y^ 1st month 1653, m. Deborah Colton Dec. 28, 1676, and d. 
without issue Dec. 23, 1736 ; Lydia, b. y' 29th of y' 8th month 1655. 

BLISS, LAWRENCE, (son of Thomas, Sen.,) of Hartford, m. 
Lydia Wright, Oct. 25, 1654, and had issue, Lydia, b. Nov. 29, 
1655 ? d. March 27, 1656 ; Sarah, b. May 11, 1657, d. June, 1657 ; 
2d Sarah, b. April 4, 1658, d. 1659, Sept. 25 ; Samuel, b. June 7, 
1660, d. June 22, 1660 ; 2d Samuel, b. Aug. 16, 1662, d. March 15, 
1733 ; Hannah, b. May 26, 1G65, m. Capt. Tho's Colton, d. Nov. 6, 
1737; 2d. Sarah, b. Nov. 27, 1667, m. Geo. Webster, Dec. 13, 
1695 ; Wm., b. April 28, 1670, d. March 15, 1733 ; Peletiah b. Aug. 
19, 1694, d. Jan. 2, 1748. 

BLISS, SAMUEL, son of Tho's, Sen., (called on Hartford record 
Samuel, Sen.,) removed to Springfield ; he m. Sarah, daughter of 
John and Sarah Leonard, Nov. 10, 1664, and had issue, Hannah, b. 
Dec. 20, 1666, m. a Mr. Colton in 1691 ; Thomas, b. Feb. 8, 1668, 
d. Nov. 10, 1733 ; Mary, b. Aug. 4, 1670, m. Philip Smith Feb. 1, 
1687; Jonathan b. Jan. 5, 1672, m. Sarah Eggleston of Enfield, 
March 7, 1702, and removed to E. Windsor; Martha, b. June 1, 
1674, m. Samuel Ely Nov. 10, 1697; Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1677 ', 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 255 

Experience, b. April 1, 1679, d April 7, 1697; Mercy, b. July 18, 
1630, m. John Ely Dec. 3, 1703; Ebenezer, b. July 29, 1683, d. 
Sept. 7, 1717; Margaret, b. Sept. 11, 1684, m. Samuel Colton of 
Longmeadow, Jan. 16, 1707, d. Jan. 19, 1736; Esther, b, 2d 1688, 
ni. Henry Chapin of Chicopee, May 10, 1716. 

BLISS, JOHN, (son of Tho's,) of Longmeadow, m. Patience Burl, 
daughter of Henry, Oct. 7, 1667, and had issue, John, Jr., b. Sept. 
7, 1669; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 26, 1671 ; Thomas, b. Oct. 29, 1673, d. 
Aug. 12, 1758; Joseph, b. 1676, d. March 1, 1754, single; Han- 
nah, b. Nov. 16, 1678, m. Henry Wright May 24, 1705; Henry, b. 
Aug. 15, 1681, d. Nov. 30, 1684; Ebenezer, b. 1683, d. Nov. 4, 
1761. 

BLISS, SAMUEL, of Norwich, Conn., son of Tho's, Jr. of Nor- 
wich, m. Anna Elderkin Dec. 8, 1681, (she d. 1748.) Issue, Thom- 
as, b. Sept. 1, 1682; Samuel, b. Nov. 13, 1684, d. Sept. 20, 1763, 
(the great-grandfather of Geo. Bliss, Esq. of Norwich, Sheriff of N. 
L. county ;) Eliz'th, b. Feb. 28, 1686, d. Aug., 1758 ; John, b. Oct. 
23, 1690, lived at Hebron, d. Feb. 1, 1741 ; Peletiah, b. Nov. 17, 
1697 ; Thankful, b. March 7, 1699. 

BLISS, SAMUEL, of Longmeadow, Mass., son of Nath., m. 
Sarah Stebbins, daughter of Tho's and Hannah Jan. 2, 1672; she 
d. Nov. 6, 1721 ; their children were Samuel, b. Aug. 10, 1677, d. 
single Aug. 31, 1692; Nath. b. Sept. 8, 1679, d. March 12, 1751 ; 
Sarah, b. Oct., 1681, m. Nathaniel Mighil of Westfield, Jan. 15, 
1702 ; Margaret, b. Nov. 23, 1683, m. Benj'n Cadey Jan. 31, 1701 ; 
Thomas, b. Aug., 1685, d. Sept. 4, 1767, had 6 daughters and no 
sons ; Hannah, b. Aug., 1687, m. Eleazer Warren Jan. 9, 1707, of 
Springfield, d. April 15, 1711 ; John, b. Nov. 4, 1690, the father of 
Hon. John Bliss of Wilbraham, who was Col'l of the 1st Reg't of the 
Hampshire militia. Judge of Common Pleas Court, member of the 
Provincial Congress of Mass., held during the Revolution, member 
of the House of Deputies and of the Executive Council in Mass. ; d. 
Oct. 8, 1784; Samuel, b. April 25, 1694, d. Dec. 21, 1724; Ebe- 
nezer, b. ^iarch 4, 1696, d. Aug. 19, 1784. 

BLISS, SAMUEL, of Springfield, called on the records of the 
town, Samuel Bliss, 3d, son of Lawrence, m. Hannah Stiles Jan. 21, 
1686, and had issue, Hannah, b. May 1, 1689, m. James Warriner 
Dec. 24, 1713; Sarah, b. 1692 ; Lydia, b. Nov. 24, 1695, m. Na- 
than Collins of Springfield, Nov. 1, 1732; Samuel, b. March 20, 
1701. His wife Hannah d. Dec. 8, 1704, and Samuel 3d m. for his 
2d wife, Elizabeth Brace of Hartford, Ct., Oct. 3, 1705. 



256 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BLISS, WILLIAM, son of Lawrence of Springfield, rn. Margaret 
Lombard, daughter of David and Margaret, Oct. 12, 1710; issue, 
William and Margaret, (twins,) b. July 1, 1711, the daughter d.; 
2d Margaret, b. June 3, 1715, m. James Burt July 30, 1747; Abi- 
gall, b. July 10, 1717; Lydia, b. March 12, 1720; David, b. Dec. 
19, 1722. 

BLISS, PELATIAH, of Springfield, son of Lawrence, m. Eliz'th 
Hitchcock (daughter of Luke and Sarah,) April 21, 1698 ; she was b. 
1679, d. 1756 ; issue, Jonathan b. March 6, 1699, a physician, d. Oct. 
29, 1761, left no issue; Peletiah, Jr., b. March 3, 1701, (grand- 
father of Rev. Seth Bliss of Boston, secretary of Am. Tract Soc.,) 
d. Sept. 5, 1764; Eliz'th, b. Feb. 11, 1704, m. Josiah Day, son of 
Sam'l and Mary; Thankful, b. Jan. 31, 1706, d. Feb. 24, 1706; 
William, b. July 19, 1707, d. single -1727 ; Luke, b. Feb. 2, 1711, 
d. Sept. 23, 1761 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 16, 1712, m. Wm. Pincheon, son 
of John, Dec. 14, 1738, d, 1796; Caleb, b. Feb. 16, 1717, d. May 
22, 1758; Moses, b. Aug. 6, 1720, d. Oct. 23, 1761. 

BLISS, THOMAS, of Springfield, son of Samuel, m. Hannah; 
issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 12, 1699, m. Hubbard of Brimfield, Dec. 1, 
1724; Samuel, b. March 5, 1701 ; Martha, b. Jan. 1703, m. Benja- 
min Parsons May 15, 1723; Tho's, Jr., b. April 20, 1704, removed 
to Brimfield, Mass. ; Ichabod, b. Dec. 19, 1705, removed to Brim, 
field, d. Aug. 16, 1766; Rachel, b. 1707, m. Nath'l Sikes Jan. 7, 
1729; Abel, b. Feb. 18, 1709, settled at Wilbraham, d. April 30, 
1762; Mary, b. 1710, m. Jonathan Sikes Jan. 16, 1731 ; Timothy, 
b. March 2, 1713, d. Aug. 18, 1769; Daniel, b. Jan. 21, 1715, grad- 
uated at Y. C. 1732, m. Phebe Walker of Stratford, Ct., in 1738, 
and settled at Concord, Mass., same year, (the father of Daniel judge 
at New Brunswick, who was father of John Murray Bliss, member 
of the Council and Chief Justice of a Court in that Province,) d. 
May 11, 1764; Edward, b. June 27, 1719; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 1722. 

BLISS, EBENEZER, of Springfield, son of Samuel, m. Mary 
Gaylord of Windsor, Conn., Jan., 1707; issue, Jedediah, b. Feb. 7, 
1709. (The father of Hon. Moses Bliss of Springfield, who gradu- 
ated at Y. C. in 1755, an eminent lawyer and Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas. His son Hon. Geo. Bliss, LL. D., of Springfield, 
graduated at Y. C, 1784, received his degree of LL. D. from Har- 
vard College in 1823, an eminent lawyer, and many years success- 
ively a member of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Exec- 
utive Council in Mass., d. 1830. The last was the father of Hon. 
Geo. Bliss of Springfield, who graduated at Y. Col., in 1812, and be- 



GENEALOGY OF TUE PURITANS. 257 

came as celebrated as his father.) Ebenezer, b. Aug. 17, 1710 ; 
Anne, b. July 27, 1712, ni. Charles Brown ; Moses, b. Aug. 9, 1714, 
d. young; Mary, b. March 14, 1716, m. Isaac Brewer April 22, 
1736; Martha, b. Dec. 27, 1717, d. 1719. 

BLISS, JOHN, of Enfield and Lebanon, son of John, m. Ann 
Terry in 1698 ; issue, Ann, Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1699 ; Hannah, b. 
1702 ; Ebenezer, and Azariah. 

BLISS, NATHANIEL, of Enfield and Lebanon, Conn., son of 
John, m. Mary Wright, 1697 ; issue, Nath'l, b. Nov. 16, 1698, d. in 
infancy; Henry, b. Oct. 25, 1701, and Joseph, b. 1704. 

BLISS, THOMAS, t)f Longmeadow, Mass., son of John, m. Mary 
Macrany ? May 27, 1714; issue, Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1715, m. Nicho- 
las Holbrook 1736; Thomas, b. May 30, 1719, m. Rachel Parsons 
1747 ; Henry, b. Dec. 5, 1722, d. young. Rev. John Bliss settled 
at Hebron in Oct., 1717, and was dismissed in 1734. 

BLISS, EBENEZER, of E.Windsor, m. Ann Gaylord, both of 
Windsor, 1744; he d. 1776. John and Ann Bliss Executors ; relict 
Ann. He gave his negro girl Patience, and one-third of all his per- 
sonal estate forever to his wife Ann, also one-third of his real estate 
to her for life. To his daughter Ann Watson he gave all his lands 
in Colebrook, viz., to the heirs of her body begotten, and to their 
heirs forever. The remainder of all his estate he gave to his son 
John, by John's paying to his sister Ann Watson, £20 ; will dated 
March 28, 1768. Estate, £2139, 35. 2d. 

BLISE, THOMAS, (Rehoboth;) will dated 4 8', 1649; exhibited 
in Court June 8, 1649. Issue, Jonathan, the wife of Tho's Williams ; 
Mary, wife of Nat'l Harman, son-in-law, Nicholas Ide ; son Nath'l. 
Inventory taken by Stephen Paine and Rich'd Bowin, 1647 ; amount 
£117, 165. 4d. {His. Gen. Reg. No. 15, 1282.) Bliss, Geo., re- 
moved from Lynn to Sandwich, 1637; John, Northampton, 1658; 
Moses and Jonathan lawyers in Springfield, 1774. Bliss has three 
coats of arms in England, {Burk.) TJiis family have produced sev- 
eral eminent men. 

BLISS, HESTER. In the old account book of Col. John Pynch- 
on of Springfield, it is noted that Mr. Pynchon made a contract with 
Hester Bliss at Boston, to serve him a year for £4, and began her 
service with him Nov. 1, 1658. He paid for her at Boston, 25. to 
the " Pinnace Master," probably she had then arrived and owed the 
Pinnace master a balance of 25. for her passage. She was not of 
the Hartford family. She m. Edw'd Foster a servant in the family 
of Mr. Pynchon, Dec. 26, 1661. • 

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258 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BLISS, THOMAS, fined 2s. for neglecting to train March 4, 
1646. Plaintiff in Court May, 1647, and Juror 1649. 

BLISS, THOMAS, Wm. Baceas, and John Birchard of Norwich, 
were accepted to he made free Gen'I Court Oct., 1663. 

BLISS, Goodman, is noticed on the Hartford town record Dec. 
6, 1642, to have three acres of land of John Sables in Hart'd. Tho's, 
Sen., was ordered two acres of land near Hoccanum pound, as the 
committee should appoint, and Tho's, Jr., two acres near said pound 
by the town. Eight of this name have graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege, twenty-one at Yale College, two at Brown University and three 
at Williams College. 

BLODGET, BLOGGET, BLOGHEAD, BLOGGOT, BLODG- 
IT. Tins name in the person of Thomas, of Cambridge, freeman 
1636. Daniel Blodgett of Chelmsford, freeman 1652. Farmer no- 
tices that the name was anciently written Bloghead. This was not 
an early name in Conn. Thomas Blogget or Bloghead, was in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 1641, where he made his will. His children were 
Daniel, Samuel and Susanna. Tho's and Susan his wife had a daugh- 
ter Susan, b. at Boston 1637 ; Tho's d. 1639, probably son of Tho's, 
Sen. Samuel Blogct of Woburn free in 1690. Thomas Blogget, 
(glover,) aged 30, wife Susan aged 37, and sons Daniel aged 4, and 
Samuel one and a half years old, embarked in the Increase from 
London for New England, April 18, about 1635. 

BLODGET, DANIEL and JOSIAH, from Woburn, Mass., were 
first settlers at Stafford, Conn., about 1718, as were Samuel, Paul, 
Joshua and Benzin Blodget first settlers at Stafford, and most of them 
original proprietors of the Town. Two of the name have gradua- 
ted at Yale, and one at Cambridge College. Henry, of Sufiield, m. 
Dorcas, and had Lois, b. April 6, 1731; Archippus, b. Aug. 16, 
1733 ; Elijah, b. Nov. 1, 1736 ; Dorcas, his wife, d. Feb. 25, 175- ; 
•Roswell Bloget of E. Windsor, d. before 1782; Ebenezer Blodget 
d. and his \vidow Jerusha had dower set out to her before 1778, of 
East Windsor. Jerusha, widow of Ebenezer of Ellington, d. June 
11, 1822, aged 81 years. Josiah Blogot of Stafford, d. 165G ; Mar- 
garet his relict — Inventory about £160. Job Blodget of (East) 
Windsor, d. 1758. Estate about £56. Elijah Blodget administra- 
tor gave bond with Josiah Blodget of Windsor, April 1759. Elijah 
Blodget of (East) Windsor, d. 1762; widow Hannah administratrix, 
April 1, 1762 ; Inventory exhibited in 1764, £113, 7^. Id. Josiah 
of (East) Windsor, d. 1768; Abigail his widow administratrix; in- 
ventory, £152, VZs. Id. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUlllTANS. 259 

BLOGGET, Dr. WILLIAM, of Plaiufield, Conn., was probably 
at Plainfield as early as 1715, as he had practiced in his profession 
some years before 1721. He was highly approved of, as a Physi- 
cian in Plainfield and Canterbury, and in 1721 he applied to the 
Gen'l Court for license to practice medicine, with full proof of his 
good moral character, and the satisfaction of the people of the town 
aforesaid of his skill and success, but his petition was negatived on 
the ground that he was illiterate and should not be reckoned with 
tiie members of any learned profession. (See Dr. Simmer's address 
before the Conn. Medical Society, 1851, p. 36. 

BLOOMER, and J. Scott of Long Island in 1663 had a contro- 
versy, and the Gen'l Court of Ct. appointed Mr. Wyllys and Matthew 
Allyn, to go to Long Island and settle the government on the west 
end of the Island as agreed at Hempsted in Feb., 1663, and settle 
the issue between J. Scott and Bloomer, and take in the Commis- 
sioners of those towns to regulate any disturbances there. Robert 
Bloomer in Conn., in 1664. Blomer two coats of arms. Blomer, 
or Bloomer, one. 

BLOER, BLOWER, Mr. PYAM, admitted freeman in Mass., 
March, 1689-90. Mr. Gilbert was permitted by the Gen'l Court, 
May, 1676, to transport thirty bushels of Wheat for Mr. Bloer to 
Boston, and 100 bushels for himself. The Council of Conn., Nov. 
4, 1675, granted Mr. Stevens of Salem and his company liberty to 
transport 100 bushels of corn for their families' supply • and twenty 
bushels for Mr. Pyam Blores. Mr. Bloers was probably in Conn., 
but was a citizen of Boston or Salem. Has one coat of arms. 

BLOSS, JA]\IES, was voted not to be an inhabitant of Hartford, 
but he was allowed by the town to continue there until the spring 
of 1660. 

BLOIS or BLOSS, EDMOND, had three lots at Watcrtown, 
Mass., in 1039 ; at Cambridge in 1641. The name is spelled on the 
Cambridge and Conn, records, Bloss, as it now stands recorded. 
Edmond removed to Conn., not as early as many other settlers. 
This name is now found in Litch'd County, Conn. Farmer notices 
ED.MOND at Watertown, admitted freeman in 1639, and Francis 
freeman Camb'ge, 1641. Spelled at Watertown, Bloise, and Blois. 

BLOICE, RlCtL\RD, Anthany Beers, Sam'l Benjamin, Sam'I 
Barnard, John Barnard, Jno. Bush, John Bigolough, took the oath of 
fidelity in Mass., in 1652. Samuel Bloss graduated at Brown Uni- 
versity, R. I. 1807. This name is now spelled Bloss in Conn. 

BLOIS, has one coat of arms. Bloss (Ipswich,) one, (Co. Suf- 
folk ; ) and BLOSS (Ireland,) two. BLOYS, has three. 



260 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BOYSE, MATHEW, made free in Mass., May 22, 1639, 

BLOYS, RICHARD, aged 18 years, son of Richard Bloys, de- 
ceased of Killingly, on the 1st of Aug., 1746, at New Hartford elec- 
ted Joseph Mackentire of New Hartford for his guardian. 

BLOYCE, FRANCES, free 1641 ; also Joseph Boyse in 1642. 

BLUET, JOHN, of Enfield, d. in 1763 ; Nathaniel Prior adm'r. 
Three coats of arms. 

BLUMFIELD, WILLIAM, was freeman in Mass., 1635, and 
was an early settler in Conn. He was in the battle against the Pe- 
quot Indians in 1637 — was in the land division at Hartford in 1639. 
He resided in Hartford south of Little river, east of Ralph Keeler's 
in 1640. He had land at south meadow in Hartford 1642. He had 
a son John baptized at Hartford, Aug. 23, 1645, and Samuel b. July 
12, 1647, at Hartford, and other children. He was freed from train- 
ing by the Gen'l Court in 1657-8. In June 1663 he took an appeal 
in Court held at Hartford to the Gen'l Assembly. He sold a house 
lot in Hartford to John Hale before 1640. 

BLUMFIELD, RICFIARD, had a son John baptized at Hartford 
Dec. 30, 1649. This is probably the name now known in Conn, 
and N. Jersey, as Bloomfield. Tho's Blumfield is noticed by Cof- 
fin and Farmer as of Newbury, Mass., in 1638, who removed to 
Woodbridge, N. Jersey, before 1668. His children were Mary, 
Sarah, b. 1643 ; John, b. March 15, 1640 ; Tho's, b. Dec. 12, 1648, 
Nath'l, b. 1651; Ezekiel, b. 1653; Ruth, b. 1659, and Timothy, 
b. 1664. These children were probably all born before Thomas 
removed to N. J. (Perhaps a brother of Wm. Blumfield who set- 
tled in Conn.) 

BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL, was of Newtown, L. I., in 1655-6. 
BLOMEFIELD has two coats of arms. BLOOMFIELD or 
BLOMFIELD, 2. BLOOMFIELD, 2. BLOUMFIELD, (Essex, 1. 
Wm. Blumfield had four acres of ground where " the pound 
standeth East of the River," March 24, 1640. (This must intend 
west of the river, as there was probably no pound east of the river 
as early as 1640.) 

BLUNT, HANNAH, a member of the church at Hampton, Ct., 
May, 31, 1730. One of this name graduated at Harvard College 
in 1727. Rev. John Blunt of New Castle, was a relative of the 
Frosts, Pepperells, Wentworths, &c. Joseph and Nath'l Blunt, and 
Edward and George, of N. Y., are his descendants. Rev. John 
Blunt m. Sarah Fro-st as early as 1713. Mary Blunt of Andover, 
m. Henry Gray, May 3, 1699. Wm. Blunt was a freeman in An- 
dover, Mass., in 1691. Has one coat of arms. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 261 

BLUSH, BENJAMIN, of Colcliester, m. Mary, and had a son 
Jeremiah b. March, 174G. JOHN BLUSH, of Colchester, m. Ab- 
igail, and had Susannah, b. Marcli 2, 1755. Abraham Blush, was 
one of the grantees of" Brattle's Close," in Boston, in 1G98, where 
Brattle Church was located, in Brattle Square. Abraham Blush, in 
the list of those able to bear arms in Barnstable, New Plymouth, 
1G43. 

BOARDMAN, Capt. ISRAEL, of the Brig Derby, went from 
England to Pensacola, Florida, where he owned a plantation. His 
1st wife died there. He then moved to Stamford, Conn., where it is 
supposed his son William was born. His second wife, Miss Isabella 
Warriner, he married in VV^ethersficld, and returned to Pensacola, 
where he died ; his widow returned to Wethersfield. His children 
were : 

1. Betsey, died young at Pensacola. 

2. Charles, was in New Orleans about the year ISOO. 

3. Sally, married Thomas Hall. 

4. William, married Jennett Catlin, daughter of Mr. Ebenczer Catlin of 
Hartford. 

5. Polly, married Cummings, and writes from Chelsea, England. 

The following was copied from a New Haven paper, at the His- 
torical rooms. "Just imported from Dublin, in the Brig Darby, a 
parcel of Irish servants, both men and women, to be sold cheap by 
* Israel Boardman at Stamford, 5th January, 1764." 

BOARDxMAN, WILLIAM, 4th child of Capt. Israel of Stamford, 
b. March 2, 1763, m. Jennett Catlin, b. Aug. 25, 1765, m. March 
27, 1785. They had issue, Lewis Catlin, b. Feb. 17, 1786, m. So- 
phia Woodruff Dec. 1, 1814, d. Dec. 11, 1831, aged 53; Laura, b. 
July 23, 1788, m. Eli Wadsworth Sept. 24, 1809, d. 1844 ; Fanny, 
b. March 23, 1791, m. Wni. Webster, d. May 29, 1826; Catherine, 
b. Aug. 27, 1794, m. Leonard Winship, d, Jan. 22, 1816; Jane, b. 
March 20, 1801, m. Flavel Goldthwait Aug. 2, 1831, d. Nov. 9, 
1845; Wm. L., b. May 29, 1806; Flavel, d. March 3, 1836; 
Charles H. Boardman, b. Aug. 26, 1810, m. Nancy Maria Holmes 
Nov. 2, 1835; Mr. Wm., the father d. May 29, 1821 ; Mrs. Jennett 
his widow d. Dec. 14, 1849. The Boardmans of Fairfield County 
are descendants of this Capt. Israel Boardman. This family are 
not known as relatives either of William Boreman of Guilford, in 
1650, or of Samuel Boreman of Wethersfield, in 1640. 

Boardman or Bordman has but one coat of arms, viz., Ar. a chev. 

* S«e Israel Boardmaa son of Daniel ; perhaps son of Israel, Jr. 



262 GENEALOGY OF TIIR PURITANS. 

vert, bordured gu. Crest, A lion sejant, collared and lined or. Bor- 
man has three. Bourdman has one. Buwnian has six. 

BORDMAN, ANDREW, Esq., deceased of Cambridge. Eliz'th 
Boardman daughter of W. H. Boardrnan of Boston, m. H. G. Otis. 
Ruth Bordman of Mass., m. John Higginson Dec, 1719. Thomas 
Boreman of Ipswich, 1648, about 1C43, of Barnstable. Tho's Bore- 
man and John Bowman were taxed in the Plymouth Colony as early 
as 1633. Tlio's Boreman freeman at Boston as early as 1634. 
Tho's Boreman freeman at Ipswich, 1G82. Thomas Boreman of 
Salem, free 1682. Jacob Boreman of Ipswich, m. the widow of John 
Rogers in 1699. The name of Boorham is found in New Jersy, and 
the name of Boorman in the city of New York. 

BOREMAN, WILLIAM, was a plaintiff in Court in Hartford, 
Dec. 4, 1645, against John Stadder of Wethersfield. He appears to 
have been in the Conn. Colony for a time, though there is no evi- 
dence that he was a relative of Mr. Samuel Boreman of Wethers- 
field. William's name was not entered in the list of planters of Guil- 
ford, until 1650, and not on any list of freemen there ; he was un. 
married, or had no wife in Conn. Colony, or in Guilford. He died 
about 1659. " At a Particular Court held at Guilford, the 6th of 
Febuary Anno 1661," (1662, present style.) "An inventory of the 
estate of Wm. Boreman was presented by Henry Dowde and Wm. 
Seward, with whom the said Boreman sojourned, and left the chief 
part of his estate in custody, when he went away and perished in his 
journey." " The foresaid was proved in Court," and the just value 
thereof. '• Mr. [Brayan] Rossitcr requested on behalf of Thomas 
Dunk of Saybrook, and Daniel Butcher of Hawkhurst in Kent, Old 
England, brother-in-law to the said Boreman deceased, and so next of 
kin for aught that appears, that no alienation may be made of the 
estate so far as may occasion imparity of payment unto them or 
any that have just debts to claim from the estate after due trial." 
Daniel Butcher appears by the record to have been a brother-in-law 
of said Boreman ; he was then in England; also by a letter found in 
his chest after his decease, this fact was confirmed. No evidence is 
found that he was in any way a relative to the Boreman family of 
Wethersfield. Wm. Boreman is noted in June, 1654, on the record 
at Stratford, " that he and Samuel Barrett had been ordered to wear 
a halter." (Under rates of Stratford.) 

BORMAN, BOREMAN, BORDMAN, BOARDMAN, SAMU- 
EL, Esq., was an Englishman ; he probably came to Ipswich, Mass., 
as earlv as 1637, and either married his wife Julian in England or 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 263 

Ipswich ; a letter now found in possession of one of liis descendants 
of Wethersfield, dated 1641, (see letter,) from Samuel's mother to 
her son Samuel, was directed to him at Ipswich ; the exact time Mr. 
Borman removed from Ipswich to Wethersfield is not certain, his 
first cliild Isaac, was born at Wethersfield, Conn., Feb. 3, 1642 ; he 
probably was at Wethersfield, as early as 1641, with his wife Julian. 
It appears by the letter referred to above, that when Samuel left 
England, his father was living, as his mother writes her son " your 
Father hath been dead almost this two years" — that Mr. Samuel 
was married before he came to Wethersfield, his mother says at the 
close of her letter, " praying to God to bless you and your wife, un- 
to whom we all kindly remember our loves, your ever loving mother 
Julian Borman." It also appears by the letter that when Mr. Sam- 
uel left England, his father's family consisted of his fatlier, his moth- 
er Julian, his brother Christopher, and five sisters. Few of the nu- 
merous descendants of the first settlers of New England, have pre- 
served as much evidence of their family in England, as is contained 
in this letter of the Borman family, in tliis well written (old red) let- 
ter of Julian Borman, the mother of the Bormans in Conn. Few of 
the first settlers of Conn, came here with a better reputation, or sus- 
tained it more uniformly through life, than Mr, Borman. As early 
as Oct., 1046, he was a Juror, also in 1647, and in March, 1648, 
&c. In 1649, he was appointed by the Gen'l Court, to the office of 
Sealer of all measures and weights in the town of Wethersfield ; Mr. 
Borman was Deputy from Wethersfield to the Gen'l Court of the 
Colony, Oct., 1657, May and Oct., 1658, May, '59, May, '60, May, 
Aug. and Oct., 1661, May, '62, March, 1662-3, and many j^ears af- 
terwards; iew if any gentleman in the Colony, represented his town 
at the Gen'l Assembly as many sessions as Mr. Borman. He was 
a member of the grand jury of the Colony in May, 1660, and was 
nominated for an assistant in May, 1670. Distributor of the estate 
of Mr. Williams in 1662. In 10G2, the Gen'l Court appointed Mr. 
Samuel Borman and Serg't Nott to notify those in Wethersfield, in- 
debted to the country in behalf of Mr. Cullick, to prepare payment, 
to enable the country to discharge such sums as should be charged 
by Gov. Winthrop, for procuring tiie charier for the Colony. Mr. 
Borman and James Steel, were appointed Oct., 1603, by the Gen'l 
Court, to lay out the bounds of Middletown, at the expense of the 
town. Mr. Borman, Mr. Chester, and Samuel Welles of Wethers- 
field were appointed Oct., 1664, to dispose of the estate of Nath'^ 
Williams' wife, and pay the debts. Mr. Borman, Mr. Samuel 



264 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Wyllys, Mr. James Richards, and Lieut. Samuel Welles, were de- 
sired by the Gen'l Court May, 1665, to settle the difficulty between 
the Indians, who dwelled about Middletown, and fix the bounds of 
the lands the Indians should have, in an equitable way. (See Col. 
Rec.) In Oct., 1660, a petition was pending before the Gen'l Court 
to settle a plantation at Thirty Mile Island, upon which the Court 
appointed a committee to view the place and dispose of it, as should 
be most suitable to attain the objeet ; Mr. Wyllys and Wm. Wads- 
worth, were of the committee for Hartford, Mr. AUyn and Edward 
Griswold, Mr. Treat and Samuel Borman for Wethersfield, and 
John Hart for Farmington, with power to purchase such rights as 
the Indians owned there. (See Col. Rec. p. 354.) Borman of Weth- 
ersfield, and Nathaniel White of Middletown, (son of John White,) 
were desired by the Gen'l Court in 1665, to view the land Goodman 
Higby petitioned for, and report to the Court in Oct., 1665. The 
before stated fully proves the standing which Mr. Borman held and 
sustained in the Colony until hie. death. Mr. Borman's name was 
uniformly spelt upon the Wethersfield records "Borman" and Bore- 
man until 1712, when the letter D was added to the name (Bordman ;) 
many years after, the letter A was added to the name, as now spelt 
by the family, (Boardman,) and by so doing have lost the coat of 
arms of their original name and family. That the name was Bor- 
man, is proved by the record, by the pronunciation of the name down 
to this day in Wethersfield. But the signatare of Julian Borman, 
in her letter to her son Samuel, in 1641, is strong, if not conclusive 
evidence that the original English name of the father and mother of 
Mr. Samuel, was Borman. (See her letter in note.) Coat of arms, 
Borman, (Devonshire and Somersetshire) has one, and two other 
coats of arms for the same name in England. Bordman has but one 
coat of arms, viz. Ar. a chev. vert, bordered, gu. Crest, A lion sejant 
collared and lined, ar. Samuel Borman d. about April or May, 
1673. The inventory of his estate was appraised by the selectmen of 
Wethersfield, May 2, 1673, at .£742, 15^. Flis son Isaac is not 
named in the settlement of his estate, perhaps he had previously re- 
ceived his patrimony. 

BORDMAN, BENJAMIN, the 11th child, son of Daniel, Sen., 
had one son named Thaddeus, who lived on the west border of Mudge 
pond in Sharon. In 1786, the elder and younger Boardmans, of 
Sharon, sold their real estate to Frederick Lord, of Hartford, and 
went to the west. (Scdg.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 265 

*BORMAN, IVra. SAMUEL, an early settler at Wethersfield, 
wife Mary, had issue, Isack b, Feb. 3, 1642 ; Mary, b. Feb. 14, 
1644; Samuel, Jr., b. Oct. 8, 1048; (Joseph, b. March 12, 1650;) 
John, b. Jan., 1653, d. 1676;|Sarah, b. March 4, 1655; Daniel, b. 
Aug. 4, 1658; Jonathan, b. Feb. 4, 1060; Nathaniel, b. April 12, 
1663 ; Martha, b. Aug. 12, 1066 : Mary the mother d. in 1684. Her 
Estate £257. His daughter Sarah m. Robins. 

BORMAN, ISACK, (son of Samuel, Sen., and Mary,) b. 1642, 
m. Abiah, and had issue, Isaack, Jr., b. July 21, 1660, d. 1719 ; Sam- 
uel, b. July 7, 1068 ; Thomas, b. Nov. 14, 1671 ; Eunice, b. June 
29, 1682 ? Mr. Borman the father, d. May 12, 1719, in his 77th 
year ; his widow Abiah, d. Jan. 6, 1723. 

BORMAN, SAMUEL, Jr., b. 1648, m. Sarah Steele, daughter 
of Lieut. Steel, Feb. 8, 1082, and had issue, Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1083 ; 
Sarah, b. March 13, 1080, d. 17 days old; Hannah, b. June 27, 
1087, d. 1688; David, b. June 1, 1092; Joseph, b. April 6, 1695; 
Samuel, Jr., the father {Clerk.) d. Dec. 23, 1720, aged 72 years. 

BORMAN, DANIEL, 7th child of Hon. Samuel, Sen., of Weth- 
ersfield, was b. Aug. 4, 1658. He married Hannah Wright June 
8, 1683; Daniel the father d. 1724, aged 67 years; Hannah his wid- 
ow d. Feb. 25, 1746, aged 83 years ; Daniel and Hannah had issue : 

1. Richard, b. Sept. 1, 16S4. 

2. Daniel, b. July 12, 1G87, first minister of New Milford, d. Aug. 1744. 

3. Mabel, b. May 30, 1GS9, m. Josiah Nichols. 



•The following is a copy of an original letter in 1641, by Julian Borman, to her son Samuel 
Borman, which was found carefully preserved by Wm. Bordman of Wethersfield, one of her 
7th generation. The place where dated cannot be deciphered, but it is evidently written in 
England. 

Good Sonne — I have receaved your letter ; whereby I understand, that you are in good health, 
for which I give God thanks, as we are all — Praised be God for the same. Whereas you desire, 
to Bce your brother Christopher with you, he is not ready for so great a journey, nor doe I think 
he dare lake uppon him so dangerous a voige. Your five sisters are all alive, and in good health 
and remember their love to you. Your Father hath been dead almost this two years, and thus 
troubleing you no farthur at this time, I rest, praying to God to bless you and your wife, unto 
wbome we all kindly remember our loves. 

Your ever loving mother, 
Obrydon 7 the Julian Borman. 

5lh of February, 

1G41. (Superscription.) 

to her very loveing Sonne 

Samuel Boreman 

Ipswich, in New England, 

give this with 

baste. 

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266 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

4. John, b. Nov. IS, 1G91, d. Dec. 31, 1712. 

5. Hannah, b. Dec. 18, 1693, m. John Abbe. 

6. Martha, b. Dec. 19, 1G95, m. Sam'l Churchill. 

7. Israel, b. Oct. C, 1697. 

8. Timothy, b. July 5, 1699, d. 19th same ?!ionth. 

9. 2d Timothy, b. July 20, 1700, d. Dec. 27, 1753, at Wethersfield. 

10. Joshua, b. Nov. IS, 1702, went to Springfield. 

11. Benjamin, b. March 10, 1705, settled at Sharon, in 1742. 

12. Charles, b. June 13, 1707, d. Feb. 20, 1724. 

Daniel, Sen. above gave his son Joshua, his house at Wethersfield, 
and half his lands at Litchfield and New Milford, and his son Benj'n 
the other half of the same lands by will ; his widow m. Treat for 2d 
husband and d. Feb. 25, 1746, aged 82. 

BORMAN, (Ensign,) JONATHAN, son of Sam'l, Sen., m. Mer- 
cy, daughter of John Hubbert of Hatfield, Mass., Oct. 22, 1685, and 
had issue, Mercy, b. July 4, 1637 ; Joseph, b. April 18, 1690, died 
in 1692 ; Jonathan, Jr., b. May 16, 1697 ; Abigail, b. May 20, 1700, 
d. 1718; Hepsibah, b. Feb. 16, 1702: Lieut. Jonathan the father, d. 
Sept. 21, 1712, aged over 51 years. 

BORMAN, SAMUEL, son of Isack, m. Mehitabel, daughter of 
Samuel Cadwell of Hartford, Nov. 5. 1696, and had issue, Stephen, 
b. Aug. 5, 1698; Moses, b. May 8, 1701; Mehitabel, b. June 20, 
1703; Abia, b. Nov. 19, 1704; Rachel, b. Nov. 16, 1706; Sarah, 
b. Sept. 7, 1708; Anna, b. July 16, 1710; Deborah, b. March 13, 
1712; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 22, 1713; Abigail, b. Sept. 3, 1717; 
Thankful, b. Nov. 15, 1719; Jonathan, b. Feb. 28, 1724; Moses 
settled at Middletown, d. about 1746, widow Silence, children, Sam- 
uel, Moses and Lucy. Supposed 2d m of Samuel, Jr. 

BORMAN, ISAACK, Jr., m. Rebecca, daughter of widow Ben- 
ton, Dec. 7, 1699, and had issue, Isaac, b. Sept. 11, 1700; Edward, 
b. Nov. 6, 1702; Josiah, b. June 30, 1705; Eph'm, b. Feb. 15, 
1711 : the father d. May 9, 1719, aged 53. 

BORMAN, THOMAS, son of Isaac, Sen., m. Mary, daughter of 
Nath'l Chittenton of Guilford, Ct., May, 1699; issue. Prudence, b. 
Aug. 15, 1700; Thomas, Jr., b. Oct. 19, 1707, at Wethersfield, d. 
aged 50.) 

BORDMAN, RICHARD, son of Daniel and Hannah, m. Sarah, 
daughter of Edward Camp of Milford, March 11, 1707, and had is- 
sue, Sarah, b. June 13, 1708; Gamaliel, b. Oct. 2, 1711, d. Sept. 17, 
1754; Mary, b, Sept. 19, 1719. (This is the first instance where 
the letter d is used in the name on the Wetiiersfield record.) 

BORMAN, NATHANIEL, son of Sam'l, Sen., m. Eliz'th, daugh. 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 267 

ter of Lieut. Return Strong of Windsor, April 30, 1707, and had 
Nath'l, b. Feb. 19, 1711 ; the father d. Nov. 29, 1712, aged 49. 

BORDMAN, DAVID, m. Abigail, daughter of James Treat, Dec. 
6, 1717. 

BORDMAN, THOMAS, son of Isaac, Sen., m. Sarah, widow of 
Abraham Kilbourn, Oct. 15, 1718, 2d wife; his wife Sarah, d. Oct. 
17, 1719, and he m. for his 3d wife Hannah, widow of Wm. Butler, 
Dec. 24, 1729 ; Thomas d. aged 50. 

BORDMAN, ISRAEL, son of Daniel, Sen., m. Eliz'th, and had 
Alice, b. Aug. 10, 1718; Elisha, b. July 20, 1720; Israel, Jr., b. 
March 19, 1725. 

BORDMAN, TIMOTHY, son of Daniel, m. Hannah, daughter of 
Israel Crane, Dec. 21, 1721, and had Damaris, b. Nov. 11, 1722; 
Charles, b. Sept. 4, 1725; Timothy, b. Dec. 2, 1727; Hannah, b. 
Dec. 12, 1729 ; Eliz'th, b. Oct. 14, 1731, and d. Nov. 6, 1731 ; Dan- 
iel, b. Sept. 29, 1732; John, b. Aug. 6, 1735; Eliz'th, b. Oct. 5, 
1737 ; Seth, b. April 21, 1742; Olive, b. Nov. 3, 1745; Timothy d. 
Dec. 27, 1753, aged 54. 

BORDMAN, ISAAC, m. Eliz'th, and had Ichabod, b. Oct. 25, 
1725. Removed or died. 

BORDMAN, JONATHAN, son of Jonathan, m. Mabel, daughter 
of Jonas Holmes, June 30, 1725 ; issue, Jonathan, b. March 27, 
1726 ; Elnathan, b. Oct. 17, 1727; John, b. Dec. 5, 1729; Mercy, 
b. April 12, 1733; his wife d. Nov. 15, 1741, and he m. Elizabeth 
Beckley for his 2d wife March 10, 1743, and had Eliz'th, b. July 7, 
1744. 

BORDMAN, JOSEPH, son of Daniel, m. Mary, daughter of Jo- 
seph Belding, Feb. 17, 1726, and had Mary, b. March 3, 1727 ; Sa- 
rah, b. Feb. 4, 1731 ; Eunice, b. Nov. 11, 1733; Hannah, b. April 
20, 1736 ; Levi, b. May 6, 1739 ; Rhoda, b. April 29, 1742; Sam- 
uel, b. Dec. 4, 1744 ; Abbigil, b. May 7, 1748 : Cornet Joseph, d. 
Jan. 19, 1771, aged 71 ; his wife Mary, d. April 30, 1769, aged 66. 

BORDMAN, NATHANIEL, son of Nath"l, m. Ruth Parker, Feb- 
28, 1733, and had issue, Nath'l, b. Jan. 25, 1734; Eliz'th, b. Sept. 
22, 1736 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 20, 1739 ; Return, b. Jan. 14, 1744 ; Ruth, 
b. Jan. 14, 1747. 

BORDMAN, ELISHA, son of Israel, m. Hannah Dix, Aug. 2, 
1739, and had Lucy, b. July 12, 1740; Olive, b. Feb. 9, 1743; 
Leonard, b. Feb. 1, 1746 ; Ozias, b. April 16, 1749. 

BORDMAN, GAMALIEL, son of Richard, m. Sarah Sherman, 
and had John, b. Feb. 9, 1740; Sherman, b. July 17, 1741 ; Esther, 
b. Dec. 22, 1743. 



268 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BORDMAN, ISRAEL, son of Israel, m. Rebecca Meekins^ 
Aug. 4, 1746, and had Theodore, b. Dec. 22, 1746 ; Benajah, b. 
May 14, 1749 j Elijah, b. March 31, 1752; Samuel, b. Jan. 24' 
1755 ; Rebecca, b. June 3, 1759. 

BORDMAN, JONATHAN, Jr., m. Martha Cole, June 13, 1754, 
and had Abigail, b. Oct. 22, 1755; Mercy, b. Aug. 2, 1757. 

BORDMAN, CHARLES, son of m. Abigail Still- 
man, and had Wm., b. Feb. 3, 1756; Rhoda, b. July 29, 1757; 
Abigail, b. March 20, 1759; Charles, b. Feb. 4, 1761 ; George, b. 
Nov. 22, 1762; Hannah, b. July 24, 1765; Sarah, b. April 13, 
1768 ; John, b. Nov. 17, 1770. 

BORDMAN, DANIEL, son of m. Eunice Beld- 

ing, June 29, 1756. 

BORDMAN, JOHN, son of m. Eliz'th Warner, 

and had Rebecca, b. July 27, 1760; Jason, b. Jan. 16, 1762; Me- 
hitabel, b. Aug. 26, 1763 ; Frederick, b. June 16, 1765 ; Ashbel, b. 
Sept. 13, 1767; Daniel, b. April 30, 1771. 

BORDMAN, SHERMAN, son of Gamaliel, m. Sarah Deming, 
April 16, 1761, and had John, b. May 11, 1764; Sarah, b. March 
6, 1768. 

BOARDMAN, ELIJAH, son of Israel, m. Nancy Deming, and 
had Lucy, b. Oct. 10, 1780. (This is the first instance where the 
letter a is used in the name of Boardman on the VVeth'fd record.*) 

BOARDMAN, Rev. DANIEL, son of Daniel and Hannah, was 
born at Wethersfield, July 12, 1687, O. S. He graduated at Yale 
College, in 1709 — he was called to preach the Gospel, {Record,) 
March 17, 1712, at New Milford, no church having been then formed 
there — he was ordained there in 1716 — he gave tone and character 
to the new settlement by his devotion and active service — he was 
the first settled minister, and died in the ministry with his people, 
Aug. 25, 1744 — he was twice married — he first married Hannah 
Wheeler of Stratford, and by her had one daughter, Hannah, who 
m. a Mr. Dayton, and had a family : some of her descendants are 
now living. Rev. Mr. Boardman's first wife d. June 20, 1719, and 
Nov. 1, 1720, he m. for his second wife, Mrs. Jerusha Seeley, of 
Stratfield, or Poquannock Parish, widow of Mr. Ebenezer Seeley, by 
whom she had one son, named Eben'r ; this son of hers was brought 
up and educated in the family of Mr. Boardman, and afterwards 
lived and died in Kent. Mrs. Boardman was one of nine dauirhters 



*Thus far is the entire record of Wethersfield, of this family to 1790; it is probable some 
children have not been recorded, and famiUes left the town. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 269 

of Deacon David Sherman of Poquannock, all of « horn were respect- 
ably married, most of whom left children, but had no sons. Mrs. 
Boardman was b. June, 1693, and d. Aug. 30, 1777. Mr. Board- 
man by his 2d wife had issue: 

1. PENELOPY, b. Dec. 26, 1721. This daughter m. Dr. Riverius Carring- 
ton, who lived and d. at New Milford, Sept., 1753: by this marriage Dr. Ca>- 
rington had a son Daniel, who died in infancy; Anne, m. T. S. Hayes, and had 
a numerous family; she d. 1799. Solomon, the son of Dr. Carrington, lived 
and died in New Milford, and left a family; Penclopy, the mother d. Oc,. 13, 
1799. 

2. TAMAR, b. March 26, 1723, she m. Rev. Nath'l Taylor, Feb., 1719, and 
had issue, John Boardman, d. in infancy ; Urania, who m. Daniel Everet, Esq. 
a lawyer at New Milford, Jan. 1, 1778, where he had a family, and died. 

Nathaniel, b. April 7, 1753, he m. Anna Northrop, April 31, 1774. 

Gen, Augustine Taylor, m. Miss Huldah Canfield, May 5, 1782, and lived in 
Sharon, but died in New Milford, and left cliildren, Wm., and others. He was 
Maj. Gen'l, and commander of the militia at New London, in the war of 1812, 

Tamar Taylor, b. May 9, 17S6, m. Nicholas S. Masters, Esq., a lawyer of 
great promise ; she had two sons and one daughter, (all now deceased.) 

Taylor, Col. Wm., m. Abigail Starr, of Danbury, Dec. 3, 17S6, and had sev- 
eral children, of whom Dr. Geo. Taylor of N. Milford, is one ; Maria, m. S. Can- 
field, and Lawrence, now living. 

3. MERCY, b. Feb. 9, 1725, m. Gillead Sperry, and became the mother of one 
son and five daughters, viz., Jared, Esther, Penclopy, Mercy, Hannah, and Ma- 
bel; Esther m. Joseph Wheaton, and afterward Julius Stone, and had children 
by both, and lived to her hundredth year. Penelopy m. C. Stone. Mercy m. 
Sylvester Wheaton, and was the mother of the Rev. Dr. Wheaton of Hartford. 
Hannah m. Mr. Fitch, and Mabel m. Mr. Bolt; some of these families resided 
at Norwalk. 

4. SHERMAN, BOARDMAN. 

6. JERUSHA, b. May 4, 1731, m. Rev. Dan'l Farrand, of Canaan, Ct., Oct. 20, 
1755, and had four sons and five daughters, Nancy, Pamelia, Daniel, Philo, Es- 
ther, Lucia, David Sherman, Urania, and Nath'l. Philo and Nath'l, d. young, 
Daniel graduated at Y. C, in 1781, and became a distinguished lawyer and a 
judge of the Sup'r Court, in Vermont. He m. a daughter of Col. Porter of Hav- 
erhill, N. Hampshire, and had nine daughters. Daughter Pamelia, m. Hon. 
Stephen Jacob, of Windsor, Vt., a judge of the Sup'r Court of that state. Lucia 
m. Dr. Kinsman, of Vt., but died soon after. The other daughters of Hon. Dan- 
iel, never married. 

DAVID SHERMAN, son of Jcrusha, m. a daughter of Judge 
Bacon, of Stockbridge, Mass., and is probably now living in western 
N. Y.; all the other children of Jerusha Ferrand are deceased. 

SHERMAN, Esq., the 4th child, and only son of the Rev. Dan- 
iel Boardman, of N. M., was b. Aug. 2, 1728, O. S., (13th, N. S.) 
He m. on the 4th of Dec, 1755, N. S., ^arah Bostwick, eldest daugh- 
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270 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. t 

ter of Nath'l Bostwick, Esq., of N. Milford, she was b, Sept. 8, ■ 

and had issue, viz., 1. Daniel, b. March 4, 1757; 2. David, b. Oct. 

3, 1758, and d. Nov. 11, 1766; 3. Hon. Elijah, b. March 7, 1760; 

4. Esther, b. Jan, 29, 1762 ; 5. Hon. Homer, b. Oct. 10, 1764, d. 
1851 ; 6. Orinda, b. July 22, 1767 ; and 7. Hon. David Sherman 
Boardman, b. Dec. 8, 1768 : Orinda d. Sept. 13, 1777; he d. July 
19, 1814, aged over 85 years; when he was 68 years old, he had 
held for 47 years some office during that period, either civil or mil- 
tary, from either the state or town, and was 21 sessions a member of 
the Gen'l Assembly, and was one of the best men of his generation. 

BOARDNAN, Maj. DANIEL, son of Sherman, m. on the 4th of 
Nov., 1797, Miss Hetty More, of N. York, by whom he had three 
sons and three daughters, three of which are now living. Major 
Boardman died Nov. 3, 1833 — he graduated at Yale College, 1781. 
He was a member of the Gen'l Assembly of Conn., May, 1790, and 
Oct., '1792, before he removed to N. Y. — he was an extensive mer- 
chant in the city of N. Y., where he died a gentleman of large estate. 

BOARDMAN, Hon. ELIJAH, resided in N. Milford; he married 
Mary Anna Whiting, daughter of Dr. Wm. Whiting of Great Bar- 
ringtoh, Mass., Sept. 25, 1792, by whom he had six children, three 
sons and three daughters — one son, Hon. Wm. W., and two daugh- 
ters still survive. He was elected six times a member of the lower 
house of the Gen'l Assembly of Ct., twice in 1803, twice in 1804, in 
May, 1805, and May, 1816. In May, 1817, and May, 1818, he was 
elected an assistant in the upper house. In May, 1819, when the 
new Constitution went into operation, he was chosen to the Senate of 
the State, and continued there until elected in May, 1821, to the Sen- 
ate of the U. States. He occupied his seat in the Senate during the 
two sessions of the 17th Congress, having been elected for six years; 
he died, while holding the office, at the town of Boardman, in Ohio, 
upon the 18th day of August, 1823. 

ESTHER, the 4th child of Sherman, m. Jonathan Burrall, Esq., 
of Canaan, on the 5th day of Feb., 1792. Mr. Burrall d. in Feb., 
1805. She m. for her 2d husband May, 1810, Matthew Marvin, Esq., 
of Wilton, Conn. He d. in June, 1842 ; by her first marriage, she 
had one son, who d. in infancy. She lived to an advanced age and 
d. after 1850. 

BOARDMAN, Hon. HOMER, 4th son and 5th child of said Sher- 
man Boardman, and Sarah his wife, m. Amarillys Warner, only 
daughter of Capt. Elizer Warner, of N. Milford, and had three sons 
and four daughters. One daughter d. in infancy ; Orinda m. Dr. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 271 

Vanderburg, of N. Y. ; three of his daughters are yet living, and liis 
eldest son Rev. Charles Boardman. One son d. aged 16, and the 
youngest. Dr. Daniel H., d. at the age of 31 years. Hon. Homer 
represented N. Milford in the Gcn'l Assembly, in Oct., 1805, May 
and Oct., 1818, and was a member of the State Senate in 1829 and 
30 — Elector of President and Vice President, in 1824 — he was also 
assessor for Litchfield County under the law of the U. Stales, laying 
a direct tax during the war of 1812, with G. Britain, and was for 
many years a .Tustice of the Peace — he d. in 1851. 

BOARDMAN, Hon. DAVID SHERMAN, the 5th son, and 
youngest of the family, was graduated at Y. College, Sept., 1793 j 
admitted to the bar in Litchfield County, in March, 1795. He m. 
Charlotte Taylor, of N. Milford, an only sister of Dr. Nath'l VV. 
Taylor, of N. Haven, May 18, 1806 ; had seven children, only two 
of whom are living — he has been a member of the Gen'l Assembly 
nine sessions, the last in 1829, and the first in 1812 — Justice of the 
Peace 32 years, from 1803, to 1835 — Judge of Probate, from 1805 
to 1821 — and chief judge of the C. Court, (then styled) five years, 
from 1831, to '36 — he was a finished scholar, and well read lawyer — 
he is yet living in advanced life, and was present at the annual com- 
mencement of Yale College, in July, 1852. 

* BOARDMAN, TIMOTHY, of VVethersfield, 9th child of Dan- 



^Joshua and Timothy Boardmm, brothers, sons of Daniel, were active men. Josiiua re- 
moved to Springfield, and Timothy settled at Wethersfield. They were large landholders in 
Maine, the west side of Broad Hay, and Gen. Kn(i.\'s land thirty miles square, lay east of the 
Bay, opposite their lands. His title was from Waldo, who brought with him several German 
families from Germany, and located them on Boardman's lands, and left Ihem, saying to them) 
that one Boardman was the owner, and that the heirs of the owner had given up all expecta- 
tion of holding it. They held by no title e.fccpt Waldo's putting in possession. Boardman's 
title was first purchased of the Indians by John Brown, twenty-five miles from Pamaquid, and 
eight miles wide. Another deed to Natli'l Stillman and Timothy Boardman, from Wm. Huxly 
and .M indwell, his wife (before marriage, Mindwell Pcar.se,) of all the lands owned by them 
from their great-grandfather, John Brown, and tlieir grandfatlier, Ricliard Pcarse, at New Har- 
bor, Miscongus, and Damascotle, &.C., in the province of Maine, by warrantee Deed, Dated, Dec. 
12, 1732, for the consideration of X400. Also all the lands of Nath'l Hamblin, and Mary. 
(Pearse,) his wife, to Nathaniel Stillman and Gersham Nott, of all their lands from their great 
grandfather John Brown, and grandfather Uichard Pearse, at the places aforesaid, and all their 
Other land east of the (bounty of York. Also a deed from Eleasan Slockwell, and Sarah his 
Wife, (Pearse,) for X400, to Timothy and Joshua Boardman of the lands aforesaid, deed dated 
Oct 17, 1732, which they owned from their great-grandfather Brown, and grandfather Richard 
Pearse, and many other deeds to said Boardman ; one for eight miles square. Wm. Frazier 
son-in-law of Timothy Boardman, had three-quarters part of one eighth of a tract of land 
thirty by twenty-eight miles in breadth. The remainder was the property of said Boardmans, 
the deeds of which are now on record at York, Maine. This valuable tract of Country, was 
finally lost by the two actual and rightful owners, by suffering Waldo's and other trespassera, 
to hold it by possession ; which lands are now worth several millions of dollars. 



272 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

iel, b. July 20th 1700, m. Hannah Crane, daughter of Israel Crane, 
Dec. 21, 1721. Issue: 

1. Mary Ann, b. 1722, m. Alexander Frazier, of Wethersfield, 1749. (Child- 
ren of Frazier, Alexander, Charles, and William.) 

2. Charles, b. 1725, Sept. 4, m. Abigail Stillman, Aug. 7, 1753. 

3. Timothy, b. Dec. 27, 1727, m. Jemima Johnson, of Middletown, Nov. 14, 
1751. Settled at Middletown. 

4. Daniel, b. 1729, m. Sarah Foot, 1753, oif Wethersfield; settled in Pittsfield. 

5. John, b. 1730, m. and settled in Jericho, Mass., 1760. 

6. Hannah, b. 1732, m. Jonathan Dickinson, Wethersfield, 1754. 

7. Betsey, b. 1740, m. Jonathan Brigden, Middletown, 1704. 

8. Seth, b. April 21, 1742. 

9. Olive, b. Nov. 3, 1745, supposed m. Judd. 

The father died Dec. 27, 1753, at Wethersfield, aged 53. His 
widow died Feb. 20, 1780, at her son Daniel's, in Pittsfield, now 
called Dalton, aged about 80. 

BOARDMAN, CHARLES, 2d child of Timothy, b. Sept. 4, 
1725, in Wethersfield, rn. Abigail Stillman, Aug. 7, 1753, issue : 

1. William b. Feb. 3, 1756. Died at Sea, Sept. 1775. Lost. 

2. Rhoda, b. July 29, 1757; m. Joseph Stillman, of Wethersfield. 

3. Abigail, b. March 20, 1759, m. John May of Wethersfield. 

4. Charles b. Feb. 4, 1761, d. at Sea Oct., 17S0. Lost. 

5. George, b. Nov. 22, 1762, m. Miss Hanmer, and settled in Schenectady; 
now living in Hamilton, New York, 1851. 

6. Hannah, b. July 24, 1765, m. Jesse Churchill, of Hubbardston, Vt.; d. Dec. 
10, 1804. 

7. Sarah, b. April 13, 1768, m. Josiah Francis, of Pittsfield, Mass. 

8. John, b. Nov. 17, 1770, m. Abigail Goodrich, of Wethersfield; settled in 
Albany. She d. April, 1S43. 

9. Mary, b. Oct., 31, 1772, m. Norman Smith, of Hartford, Nov. 23, 1795; 
settled in Hartford; d. Aug. 3, 1820. 

Charles Boardman the father, d. at Wethersfield, Aug. 12, 1793, 
aged 68. Mrs. Abigail Boardman, his widow, died at Hartford, 
Aug. 3, 1818, aged 85 years. 

BOARDMAN, Capt. GEORGE, fifth child of Charles, b. Nov. 
22, 1762, m. Miss Mary Hanmer, of Wethersfield, settled in Sche- 
nectady, New York, and had issue : 

1. Clarissa, m. John Vedder, of Skenectady, New York. 

2. Mary H. m. Rev. Mr. Hotchkiss, New York. 

3. Francis M., m. Doct. Douglass, Milwaukie. 

4. Eliza M., m. Rev. Mr. Eaton, Hamilton, New York. 

5. William, m. at Albany. 

Mary had one son, born after his father's death. The father Capt. 
Geo., is now residing with the Rev. Mr. Eaton in Hamilton, N. Y., 
aged 88. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 273 

BOARDMAN, JOHN, eighth child of Charles, born Nov. 17, 
1770, married Abigail Goodrich ; settled in Albany, issue : 

1. Charles, d. at Elmira July 22, 1847, aged 53 years. 

2. John, Jr., d. at Albany March 14, 1834, aged 25 years. 

3. George S., b. 179G, now living at Cazenovia, New York. Clergyman. 

4. Wm. G., b. ISOO, now living at Albany, New York. 

5. Mary Ann, b. 1805, now living at Albany with her father. 

6. James S. b. 1S12, now living at New York City. 

Mrs Abigail Boardnian the mother died at Albany, April, 1843. 

BOARDMAN, TIMOTHY, third child of Timothy, Sen., born 
Dec. 27, 1727, m. Jemima Johnson, Nov. 14, 1751 ; settled in Mid- 
dletown ; issue : 

1. Timothy, b, Jan. 20, 1754; d. 1838, at Middlebury, Vt. 

2. Oliver, b. April IS, 1756; d. two days old. 

3. Oliver, 2d, b. June 5, 1757; d. three months and three days old. 

4. Oliver, 3d, b. Aug. 2, 1758; d. July 2S, 1826, at Hartford. 

5. Elisha, b. June 11, 1760; d. Dec. 28, 1838, at New Haven. 

6. Mary, b. April 29, 1762; d. May 25, 1790, at Middletown. 

7. Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1764; d. Oct. 28, 1S2S, at Hartford. 

8. Joseph, b. Oct. 13, 1707; d. Sept. 26, 1846, at Middletown. 

9. Sarah, b. April 30, 1770 ; d, July 2, 1847, at New York. 
10. William, b. June 27, 1773, living in Middletown, aged 79. 

Mr. Timothy Boardman the father above died of small pox, May, 
5, 1792, aged 64 years. Mrs. Boardman his widow died Dec. 30, 
1799. 

BOARDMAN, TIMOTHY, first child of Timothy 3d, b. Jan. 20, 
1754, m. Sept. 28, 1783, Mary Ward of Middletown; settled in 
West Rutland, Vt. Died April 5, 1838, aged 84, issue : 

1. Hannah, b. and d. about 10 years old. 

2. Timothy m. Sarah Tupper ; settled in Middlebury, Vt. (His children, 
Darias, Sarah, Ann, Timothy T., Hannah, Levi P., Lovisa, Norman.) 

3. Mary, m. Robert Barney of Rutland. (Children, Robert, Joseph, Chloc.) 

4. Samuel W., m. Ann Gilbert; settled in Castletown, Vt. (Had children, 
George Nye, Charles, Samuel, and Gilbert.) 

5. Elijah, m. Mary Foot; settled in Rutland, Vt. (Had children, William, 
Samuel, Henry, Horace.) 

6. Charles G., married Submit Watkins, Rutland, and had children, Ellen, 
Carlos, Josephine, Jcraldine, Francis, Henry. 

7. Betsey, m. Martin Foot; settled in Middlebury, Vt., and had issue, Ma- 
'i'tta, Almira, Eliza, Jcrusha, Martha J., Betsey, Henry Martin. 

BOARDMAN, OLIVER, fourth child of Timothy 2d, b. Aug. 
2, 1758, m. Sarah Danforth, May 1, 1781 — settled in Litchfield — 
moved to Hartford, Aug., l'/95j issue: 

1. Sally, b. Feb. 21, 17S2, m. Simeon Stedman, Nov. 24, 1808 ; lives at Wis- 
consin, and has children. 



274 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

2. Tho's Danforth, b. Jan. 21, 17S4, m. Elizabeth B. Lewis, May 2S, 1S12; 
resides in Hartford. 

3. Oliver, b. Aug. 26, 17S.5, d. single, Feb. 31, ISll, at New Haven. 

4. Sherman, b. July 10, 17S7, m. Henrietta Richards, of N. London, May 
29, 1817. 

5. Mary FrothingUam, b. March 28, 1790, d. young. May 11, 1822, at Hart- 
ford. 

G. Daniel, b. Feb. 1, 1792, d, Sept. 23, 1799, at Hartford. 

7. Martha Danforth, b. Dec. 19, 1793; above born at Litchfield. 

8. Jerusha, b. Ajiril 16, 1796, b. in Hartford, lives in New York. 

9. Timothy, b. April 20, 179S, d. Feb. 24, 1S25, at New York. 

10. Fanny, b. April 20, 1800, m. Job Chandler, of New York, April 6, 1831 ; 
lives in New York; has three children. 

11. Daniel Elisha, b. Sept. 5, 1S02, d. Aug. 26, 1803. 

Sally, Tho's D., Oliver, Mary Frothingham, Daniel and Martha 
D. were born in Litchfield, Conn. Sherman, was born at Rocky 
Hill, in Wethersfield. Jerusha, Timothy, Fanny, and Daniel Eli- 
sha, were born in Hartford. 

BOARDMAN, ELISHA, fifth child of Timothy, born June 11, 
1760, m. Mary Wright, May 29, 1783. He was many years Post 
Master of Wethersfield ; removed and died at N. Haven; children : 

1. Horace Wright, b. June 13, 1784, d. Feb. 16, 1792. 

2. Laura, b. Oct. 31, 1787; resides in New Haven, single. 

3. Mary "Wright, b. Jan. 26, 1794, d. Aug. 10, 1S13. 

4. Eliza, b. Aug. 13, 1797, m. Dr. John H. Kain Aug., 1819. Mrs. Kain d. 
Jan. 2, 1846. Dr. Kain d. March, 4, 1849, leaving a daughter, Mary L., wife 
of Professor John Brocklesby, of Hartford, and a son Wm. Claiborne. Settled 
in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

5. Emmeline Francis, b. June 12, 1799, m. C. J. Boardman, Rutland, Vt. 

Mr. Elisha Boardman the father, d. Dec. 28, 1838, aged 78 y'rs. 
Mrs. Mary Boardman his wife, d. Jan. 31, 1817. 

BOARDMAN, MARY, sixth child of Timothy 2d, b. April 29, 
1762, m. Ebenezer Frothingham, Jan. 16, 1790, of Middletown. 
She d. May 25, 1790. He was killed in Oct., 1790, while in the 
wilderness with Gen, Harmar, in Ohio. He removed to IMarietta, 
Ohio, after he married. 

BOARDMAN, ELIZABETH, b. April 17, 1764, d. in Hartford. 
Oct. 28, 1828, 7th child of Timothy, aged 64 years, single. 

BOARDMAN, JOSEPH, of Middletown, 8th child of Timothy, 
b. Oct. 13, 1769, m. Anna Meigs Sept. 26, 1798 ; issue : 

1. Giles M., b. Aug. 5, 1799, m. Eineline J. Newton, Nov 9. 1830. Had no 
issue. 

2. Joseph Dixwell, b. Feb. 1, 1802, d. June 1836. 

3. Timothy, b. June 2, 1804, d. June 17, ISOl. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 275 

4. Sarah Ann, b. Sept. 10, ISOO, m. Rev. Edward R. Tyler, July 10, 1530. 
She lives in New Haven. 

5. Abigail Dobson, b. April 11, ISOS, d. Nov. 16, 1S2G, single. 

C. Elizabeth Goodwin, b. May 1, ISIO, m. Geo. W. Whittlesey, June 25, 
1S40. Lives in New Milford. 

7. Henry Elisha, b. Dec. 26, 1S13. Lives in Middletown. 
Mr. Joseph Boardman the father, d. Sept. 26, 1846, aged 77. Mrs, 
Anna Boardman, his wife, d. Dec. 12, 1826, aged 47. 

BOARDMAN, SARAtI, 9th child of Timothy, b. April 30, 1770, 
m. Rev. Jo.'seph Washborn, Aug. 18, 1795. Settled in Farmington ; 

children, Maria Sally, b m. Sam'l Tinker; 2d, m. Rev. Ho- 

ratio Brinsmade, of Newark, New Jersey. Joseph, b. d. 

young. Horace Boardman, b. m. Miss. Munger — lives in 

New York. Eliza, b. d. at Norfolk, Virginia, unmarried. 

Rev. J. Washborn d. at sea, Dec. 25, 1805. His widow afterwards 
m. Elijah Porter. She d. July 2, 1847, in N. Y., aged 77 years. 

BOARDMAN, WILLIAM, 10th child of Timothy, b. June 27, 
1773, m. Mary Orsborn, Sept. 14, 1799; issue: 

1. Win. Augustine, b. June 15, ISOO ; m. Eloisa Stannard, in jMay, 1S24 ; d. at 
Apalachicola, March 4, 1S37. 

2. Horace E., b. Jan. 1, 1504 — unmarried. 

3. Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1505 ; ra. Sam'l W. Grissvold, Sept. 19, 1830 ; she lives 
in Middletown. 

4. Caroline, b. Dec. 9, ISOG, d. Sept. 23, 1S15. 

5. Timothy, b. Nov. 24, 1505 ; ni. June, 1533, to Jidia Stratton. Lives in 
Berlin. 

6. Charles, b. Jan. 25, 1512. Lives in Middletown, single. 

BOARDMAN, DANIEL, son of Timothy, b. 1729; m. Sarah 
Foot, of Wethersfield, 1753 ; settled in Pittsfield, (now Dalton, 
Mass.) Second wife, name unknown. Third wife Miss Scott ; 
children, viz., 

1. Anna, m. Mr. Wing, of Hinsdale, Mass. 

2. Olive, m. Jlr. Donaghue. Settled at Crown Point, New York. 

3. Daniel, m. Miss Olds, of Dalton, JNIass. 

4. Israel, no account of him. 

5. Charles, m. Betsey Chamberlain, of Dalton ; d. in 1512. 
'. Polly, m. Nathan Hibbard, of Pompcy, New York. 

7. Sarah, m. Aaron Cooley, of Pittsfield, ^lass. 

Daniel Boardman, the father, d. at Dajton, March 24, 1812, aged 
S3. Mrs Boardman his widow, d. Ajiril 25, 1827, aged 8G. 

BOARDMAN, DANIEL, 3d child of Daniel, lived in Dalton, 
Mass., m. Miss Olds, of Dalton — had six sons and seven daughters. 
He d. April 25, 1834, aged 65. 

Mrs. Boardman, d. Sept. 11, 1846, aged 68. 



276 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BOARDMAN, Rev. WILLIAM J., eldest child of the above 
Daniel, married Miss Hawks of Goshen, Mass. ; settled in North 
Haven, Conn., over the church formerly Doct. Trumbull's — after- 
wards over the Congregational Church in Northford, where he d. 
Oct. 1, 1849, aged about 55. 

BOARDMAN, JOHN, 5th child of Timothy 1st, b. in Wethers- 
field, 1730 — settled in Jericho, now Hancock, Mass. — then removed 
to Stephentown, New York, after which he lived with his son John 
in Rensellerville, New York, where he d. April 26, 1817, aged 87. 
He had three sons named Timothy, John and Silas — a daughter who 
m. Ichabod Buck — settled in the State of Pensylvania, and had a 
family of ten children, viz., 

1. Timothy, son of Jolin, settled in Westeiioo, Albany County, New York. 
Had one son John, and eight daughters, who all m. and left children, but one. 
Timothy the father, d. Oct. 21, 1823, aged 62 years. 

2. John, son of last Timothy, settled in Rensellersville, New York — had three 
sons, viz., John, William D,, and Calvin E., and six daughters, five of whom 
are still living. John the father, d. Oct. 24, 1848, aged 82 years and 7 months. 
John his son lives in Rensellerville — has two sons and no daughters. Wm. D. 
lives in Coxsackie, New York — has two sons and two daughters. Calvin E., 
lives in Cairo, Green County, New York — had an only son. The mother of the 
above is yet living, over 70 years old. 

3. Silas, son of John, settled in Westerloo, Albany County, New York — had 
three sons, viz., John, Silas and Electus, and six daughters, all living in and 
about Rochester. 

Silas, the father, d. Aug. 7, 1823, aged 56. His widow d. and 
was buried, June 10, 1851. 

BOARDMAN, SETH, son of Timothy, Sen, b. 1742, m. Miss 
Fosdick, of Wethersfield; d. Feb. 25, 1831, aged 89 years, child- 
ren J Seth, Simeon and Mary Ann. Seth lived in Attica, in 1809, 
and in Canandaigua, in 1811. Mary Ann m. in Canandaigua. 
Another daughter m. C. V. Boughton, of East Bloomfield, N. York ; 
and another, Mr. McKinsey, of the same place. One son went to 
Sandusky. 

BOARDMAN, JOSHUA, of Mass., 10th child of Daniel, Sen., 
b. Nov. 18, 1702, in Wethersfield ; d. in Sandisfield, Mass, April 
28, 1772, aged 70 years. Supposed to be the father of Mrs. Han- 
nah Higby, who d. July 2, 1800, aged 72 years; also Rev. Ben- 
jamin Boardman, b. 1732, and Elizur Boardman, b. 1737, at Sandis- 
field, d. June 6, 1790, aged 53 years, who had three children, viz., 
Edward, b. Dec. 8, 1778; Jeduthan, b. 1781, d. Aug. 13, 1829, 
48th year of his age. Dennis went to Canada. 



OEXEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 277 

Edward had a son Lyman, b. April 17, 1803, living in Saudis- 
field, who had five children. 

* BOARDMAN, Rev. BENJAMIN, son of Joshua, gave his es- 
tate in Hartford, to his nephew, Jeduthan, who afterwards was known 
by the name of Benjamin J. Boardman. Jeduthan d. suddenly, 
Aug. 13, 1829, in the 4Sth year of his age. 

" Rev. Benjamin, son of Joshua, b. 1732, at Sandisfield, Mass. 
Graduated at Yale College, 1758.— Tutor in Yale College, 1760.— 
Settled in Middle Haddam, Conn., Jan. 5, 1762— dismissed, 1783. — 
Installed over the South Congregational Church, Hartford, May 5, 
1784 — was Chaplain in the American army, at Roxbury, Mass., in' 
the war of the Revolution. He was called the great gun of the 
gospel at Flartford. 



• Rev. Benjamin Borman, of Hartford, will dated Dec. 14, 1801. He died Feb. 8, 1802, aged 
71. He gave his wife .Vnna the use of all his estate, real and personal, during her natural life 
and widowhood. After her decease, he gave the remainder to his nephew, Benjamin J. Boara- 
man, who lived with him, and to his heirs forever. His two servants, Sterling and Tom, he 
manumitted and made free, after the decease of himself and his wife. He ordered his Ex'rs to 
pay Sterling for his fidelity in his service $33, and to Tom §5.00. He appointed Tho's Y. Sey- 
mour, Esq., and Benjamin J. Boardman, his ex'rs. By a Codicil to his will, dated Jan. 9, 1802, 
he gave his wife §500 dollars in cash forever. He also provided that his servant. Sterling, who 
was aged and infirm, should remain in his dwelling-house during his life, ;is a reward for his 
fidelity. Inventory, dated March 12, 1802, being §3,130. 

• Rev. B, Boardman had no children. When Benjamin his nephew was a boy ten or twelve 
years of age, Jlr. Boardman gave him ten dollars in money. About two years after he en- 
quired of the boy what he had done with the money he gave him. He replied, he had pur- 
chased sheep, and the sheep were then worth §2,5. He replied to the boy, you will do to have 
property, and I will give you all mine if you will call your name Benjamin, and come and live 
with me. The result is in his will. 

• The following was copied from his monument in the Center Church Yard, Hartford, viz., 

Sacred to the memory 
of the Rev. Benjamin Boardman, 
formerly, Pastor of the church in 
Middle Haddam, and the late Pastor 
of the South Church in this town. 
He died, February 8th, A. I). 1802, 
in the 71st year of his age. 

The grave of 

Anna, 

Relick of 

Rev. Benjamin Boardman, 

and formerly Relick of 

Rev. Stephen Ho^raer, 

of East Haddam, 

who died, Dec. 9, 1809, 

aged 92. 

24 



iJ78 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BORDMAN, Cornet JOSEPH, b. 1695, son of Samuel, Jr., 
and grandson of Samuel, Sen., of Wethersfield, d. Jan. 19, 1771, 
aged 76 years; his wife Mary d. April 30, 1769, aged 76 years. 
They had children, viz., 

1. Mary, b. March 3, 1720, who m. Hezekiah Wells. 

2. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1730, who m. John Robbins. 

3. Eunice, b. Nov. 11, 1733, who m. Hosca Harris. 

4. Hannah, b. April 20, 173G, who m. David Goodrich; has descendants in 
Stockbridge, Mass. 

5. Levi, b. May 6, 1739, who m. Esther Boardman. 

He d. March 22, 1782, aged 43 years. Esther his widow after- 
wards m. William Warner, Nov. 11, 1784, and d. Sept. 1, 1797, 
aged 54 years. 

6. Rhoda,b. April-^O, 1742, who m. Francis Hanmer. 

7. Samuel, b. Dec. 4, 1744, who m. Naomi Butler. 

8. Abigail, b. May 7, 174S, who m. Joseph Butler, and has descendants in 
Pittsfield, Mass. 

BOARDMAN, LEVI, son of Joseph, m. Esther Bordman, April 
23, 1761, had children, viz., Joseph, b. March 5, 1763, and d. Oct. 
4, 1775; Levi, b. Jan. 30, 1765, m. Elizabeth Warner, and d. May 
20, 1S08, aged 43 years; Elizabeth his widow, b. Nov. 22, 1773, 
and lives in Sheffield, Mass., with her son. Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 
1766, and d. Feb. 7, 1768; Simeon, b. Nov. 9, 1770, and d. July 
25, 1775 ; Joseph Simeon, b. May 3, 1780 — he d. by shipwreck, hav- 
ing been driven ashore on Long Island, during a severe storm when 
all on board were lost, during the night of Nov. 13, 1827. 

BORDMAN, SAMUEL, (son of Joseph,) m. Naomi Butler, and 

had issue, Samuel, d. at sea, aged 18 years; Anna, b. June m. 

Joseph Talcott, and resides in Madison, New York, and has child- 
ren ; Butler, d. at sea, aged 25; Abigail, b. Oct. 1, 1785, m. Rich- 
ard Demiug, and has children ; Julia, b. July 31, 1787, now unmar- 
ried ; Eunice, b. May, 1790, m. Chauncey Deming, and lived at 
Wethersfield, had children, and d. 1844; Sally, b. June, 1792, m. 
David Warren, had children, resides in E. Hartford. 

BOARDMAN, JOSEPH SIMEON, son of Levi, m. Lucinda 
Canfield, of Salisbury, Conn., and had children, viz., 

1. William, b. Feb. 25, 1S05, m. Mary Francis, reside in Wethersfield and 
have children. 

2. Hannah, b. April 2, 1S07, m. Mason Holmes, and afterwards John A- 
Clarke, bpth of Chester, Conn.,' and have children. 

3. Joseph Canfield, b. May 4, 1S13, is a Physician, and resides at Trenton, 
New Jersey. 

4. Lucinda Maria, b. Jan. 3, 1S20, m. John Daniels, of Chester, and now of 
Brooklyn, New York, and have children, Lucinda, d. March, 1850, pn-ed G4 years. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 279 

BOARDMAN, LEVI, son of Levi, m. Eliz'th Warner 1790, had 
children, viz., 

1. Henry, b. Jan. 2, 1791, d. Nov. 26, 1S22. 

2. William, b. Aug. 15, 1792, lives in Shefrield, Mass. } Both 

3. Levi, b. July 2S, 1795, livos in SheOield, Muss. ) have children. 

Since 1740, or about that time, the name of Boardman came into 
the town of Preston, Conn., (tradition says from Wales.) He ap- 
pears to have m. and hud a son whose wife was Mary, by whom he 
had four children, viz., John, Jonas, Elijah, and Mary, and the fath- 
er died and left Mary his widow. Benj'n Coit, who m. Abigail Bill- 
ings in 1753, she having d. Jan. 27, 17G0, Mr. Coit m. this widow, 
Mary Boardman, for his second wife May 28, 1700, and had four 
sons and three daughters by the 2d marriage. John Boardman above 
b. at Preston, removed from Preston, Conn., to Troy, N. Y., when 
that flourishing city was in its infancy, 1793, and became one of its 
founders ; he d. there in June 4, 1813 ; he m. Clarinda Starbuck, a 
native of Nantucket, in 1800, and had children, viz., Wm. Coit 
Boardman, (Troy, N. Y.) m. Rosina L. Cox, of Washington, D. 
C. ; Caroline Francis, d. early ; Christopher Columbus, (now dead,) 
m. Clara Francis Guillod of London. He removed from Troy to N. 
York City, and d. in 1838, and left Clara Frances an only child, 
who yet survives. Henry Augustus, a clergyman in the city of Phil- 
adelphia, pastor of the lOlh Congregational Cliurch ; he m. Eliza 
Beach Jones, of Charleston,' S. C, and has five children now living; 
Mary Ann, resides in Troy, New York ; Clarinda the mother d. 
March 2, 1846, in her old age. 

BOARDMAN, JONAS, a brother of John and Elijah, I have no 
account of, only that he ni. and had children, and moved to Nor- 
wich, Vt. Jonas deceased many years since, and left a large family. 

BOARDMAN, ELIJAH, was b. at Preston, Sept. 25, 1753 ; m. 
first Miss Coit, and had children, viz., 

1. Fanny, who m. Mr. Abel, and had several children. 

2. Mary, who m. Mr. Page. His wife d. and he m. for his 2d wife Sabrina 
Crocker, of Andover, Sept. 29, 17SS, and had issue; 3. Elijah Henry, b. July 
12, 17S9; 4. John, b. March 12, 1791 ; 5. Eliza Crocker, b. Aug. 22, 17.92, at 
Bennington, Vt. ; 6. Wm. Coit, b. Oct. 22, 1794, d. Feb. 7, 1S17 ; 7. Clarinda, 
b. and d. young; Elijah removed either from Preston, or Andover, Conn., to 
Bennington, Vermont, and from thence to Whitesborough, New York. 

BOARDMAN, ELIZA, C, b. 1793, daughter of Elijah, m. Mr. L. 
Clerc, A. M., a French gentleman who returned vvith Mr. T. H. Gal- 
laudet from France, and with him became one of the founders and 
teachers of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Hartford, Ct., where he 
has spent his life in that most useful employment, learning the dumb to 



280 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

talk, and the deaf to hear; being a mute himself, and his intelligent 
and amiable wife also. They have children, viz., 

1. Elizabeth, m. George W. Beers, sou of lion. S. P. Beers, of Litchfield; 
had two children. 

2. Helen, d. young. 

3. Francis, ni. Jerusha S. Perry, Clergyman at St. Louis, Mo. 

4. Charles, unmarried. 

5. John, died young. 

G. Sarah, ni. Hon. Henry C. Deming, Counselor at Law, Hartford ; has two 
children. 

BOARDMAN, WILLIAM C, a brother of Rev. Henry Augustus 
Boardman, of Philadelphia, now lives in Troy, New York. He m. 
Miss Rosina Lausdale Cox, of Meridian Hill, in the District of Co- 
lumbia, and has a son Henry Lausdale. 

BOARDMAN, JOHN, son of Col. Elijah, of Whitesborough, re- 
moved to Huntsville, Ala., and d. in Miss., about 1844, aged 44 
years. 

BOARDMAN, ELIJAH H., son of Col. Elijah, also removed to 
Huntsville, and d. in Miss., 7 years since. About 1845, he m. 
Lucretia Miller, of Utica, N. Y., and had a daughter Caroline, who 
now lives with her mother in New York. 

BOARDMAN, MARY, daughter of Col. Elijah, m. Rev. Mr. 
Pomeroy, of Northington, Mass., and d. without issue. 

BOARDMAN, JOHN, brother of Col. Elijah, removed first 

from Preston, Conn., to Lansingburgh, N. Y., about 1789 or '90, 
and from thence to Troy, in 1793, and was of the firm of Boardman 
and Hillhouse, and Boardman and Morgan, and became one of the 
leading and influential citizens, and one of the largest and most for- 
tunate and successful merchants in Troy. It will be noticed tha* 
the first of lliis name at Preston, d. there as early as 1760, and that 
Mary his widow, m. Benjamin Coit for her 2d husband, and Mr. 
Coit's 2d wife, May 28, 1760, so that her four children by her first 
marriage, viz., Jonas, John, Elijah and Mary, were all b. before 

1760, and her first son Henry Coit, by her 2d marriage was born in 

1761. The Preston family have proved a fortunate and respectable 
family. There appear to have been in Conn., four distinct families. 
Mr. Samuel Borman, of Wethersfield, who was the first; William 
Boreman, of Guilford ; Capt. Israel Boardman, of Stamford ; and the 
one who came to Preston, who wrote his name Bordman. I find no 
record evidence that these four first families were relatives. I give 
this imperfect sketch of this branch o^ the Conn't Boardmans, for 
want of time to explain farther. One family of descendants of this 
stock, now reside in the town of Griswold. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 281 

BOWEN, JOSIAH, of Wethersfield, m. Susannah, daughter of 
Win. Clark, Nov. 9, 1691. He was lost at sea in a storm, in the 
autumn of 1703. 

BOWEN, THOMAS, was made free at Hartford, May, 1658. 
Thomas Borne, of Middletown, d. 1711. 

BOURN, HENRY, of Barnstable, Mass., 1640. 

BOON or BOEN, DANIEL, d. at Wethersfield, 1693. He ap- 
pears to have been interested in the vessel " Sea Flower," of South- 
old, L. I., ^139, 65. 8d. ; also an interest in the " Sloop Adventure," 
and gave his estate to Terza Hubbard, of Southold, L. I. It is sup- 
posed these are all of the same name, but differ in the spelling upon 
records. 

BOARN, JOHN, of Middletown, m. Hannah Bacon, Oct. 1677 ; 
children, Ann, b. Feb. 3, 1680 ; John, b. Jan. 1, 1681-2, d. 1704 ; 
Tho's, b. Jan. 23, 1685 ; Joseph, b. Feb. 17, 1687 ; Frances, daugh- 
ter, b. Feb. 16, 1692 ; Nathan, b. Feb. 1, 1689. 

Sarah Bowin, of Wethersfield, m. Zachariah Bunce, or Bunge, 
June 13, 1753, and had a daughter Sarah, b. March 8, 1755; Win, 
b. 1757, James in 1760 ; Richard, 1766, and Simeon, 1768. 

Joseph, son of John Boarn, m. Eliz'th, daughter of John and Eliz- 
abeth Martin, Dec. 2, 1710, and had issue, John, b. Sept. 16, 1711 ; 
Eliz'th, b. April 7, 1713 ; Joseph, the father, d. March 3, 1713-14. 

John Boarn the first, was first at Wethersfield, but is found at Mid- 
dletown a few years after its first settlement. 

BOURNE, NEHEMIAH, freeman in Mass, 1641. 

BOWEN, GRIFFIN, freeman Mass., 1639. 

Bowen has six coats of arms. 

BOURN, EBENEZER, of Marshfield, Mass., son of Thomas, d. 
there, Sept. 20, 1723. Several of this name have lived and d. at 
Marshfield. 

BOWEN, HENRY, Roxbury, Mass., free 1689. 

Bowen has been a good name in Rhode Island. 

BOWEN, HENRY and JOHN, of Roxbury, Mass., were origi 
nal signers for settling the town of Woodstock, Ct., in 1683. 

Henry Bowen, Jonathan Smithers, John Frissel, Mathew Davis, 
Nathaniel Gary, Tho's Bacon, John Marcy, Peter Aspenwall, Ben- 
jamin Griggs, Geo. Griggs, John Lord and Ebenezer Morriss, were 
the thirteen first settlers of Woodstock, from Roxbury, Mass., in 
April, 1686. John and Henry Bowen both signed the agreement to 
move and settle Woodstock, in 1683. Henry Bowen d. at Wood- 
stock, in the 90th year of his age, March 13, 1723-4. Bourn Geo, 
24* 



282 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

of Windham, 1740; his wife Elizabeth d. there, Feb. 0, 1742, and 
"his son Benjamin d., Jan. 14, 1742. 

Farmer mentions Garrett Bourne, Boston, about 1640, and had a 
son John b. there, 1643. Henry Scituate, 1637, removed to Barnsta- 
ble ; John, Salem, 1637 ; Nehemiah, Boston, freeman 1641 ; mem- 
ber of the ar. co., 1638 — a shipwright ; Richard, of Lynn, 1637. 
He notices Bowen Griffith, Boston, freeman 1639. Bowinge Thom- 
as, Marblehead, 1648 — perhaps three distinct families and names. 

BOCKER, WILLIAM, at Hartford, 1640. 

BODGE, EDWARD, letters of Administration granted on his 
Estate to Geo. Smith, and W. Adams, Aug., 1784, Hartford. Wm. 
Bodge, of Portsmouth, b. 1787. 

BODINGTON, WALTER, (Budington,) of Groton, Ct., d. there 
in 1689. There was also his nephew Walter, Jr., administrator of 
his estate. This name now is, and for many years has been in 
New Haven County, and is now called Budington. 

Capt. Samuel Buddington, of Stratford, Ct., at a late period. Rev. 
William I. Budington, Charlestown, Mass. 

BOLGWAY, FRANCHWAY, a French boy, in whom Edward 
Turner had an interest, which interest the Gen'l Court allowed Tur- 
ner in 1667, to transfer for twelve years to any person in the Conn. 
Colony, if approved by two assistants. 

BOWLES, JOHN, is the first of the name found in this country; 
the exact time he came is not found ; he with his wife Dorothy, were 
admitted to the church in Roxbury, in 1640, probably soon after they 
went to Roxbury. He had nmch to do with the free school at Rox- 
bury, and one of its founders. The family refer back in England, 
to the 14th century, to find their ancestors, to Swincshead and Hough, 
in Lincolnshire, and to Oldfield Bowles, of North Aston, who m. 
Gertrude, daughter of Sir Richard Bamfylde, in 1768, for his 1st 
wife, and a daughter of Sir Ab'nn Elton, Bart, of Cleardon Court 
Somerset, for his 2d wife, &c. This may be so, and John Bowles, 
of Roxbury, a descendant of the same family. He proved one of 
the best early settlers in Mass., as have many of his descendants 
since. He appears to have had no children by his wife Dorothy, 
she d. in 1649, and he soon after m. Eliz'th Heath, and had issue, 
Elizabeth, b. June 2, 1651 ; Isaac, b. 1652; John, b. June, 1653; 
and Mary, 1655 ; his 2d wife d. in 1605. John Bowles of the 5th 
generation, from John, Sen., of Roxbury, son of Joshua and Mary, 
removed to Hartford, Conn., where he was a baker ; he d. and left a 
family at Hartford. » 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 283 

BOWLES, SAMUEL, son of Joshua, and brotlier of John, who 
was the great-grandson of John and Dorothy Bowles, the first of the 
name at Roxbury, Mass., was b. Aug. 4, 1762 ; Samuel learned his 
trade of Pewterer, in Boston, where he m. Sarah Harris. About 
1785, he removed to Providence, R. L, and about 1790, removed 
with his wife and two children, to Hartford, Conn., and continued his 
trade for a kw years, and then kept a store in Burr Street, where 
he resided ; he died on the east side of Butr Street, March 31, 1813. 
Samuel and Sarah's children, were Samuel, b. 1786, d. young; 
Ralph H., b. 1787, d. at Hartford, July 2, 1828 ; 2d Samuel, b. 
1788, d. young; John, b. June, 1789, moved to Mass. ; Sarah IL, 
b. March 27, 1792, d. at 18 years; 3d Samuel, b. 1793, also d. an 
infant ; Josiah H., b. 1796 ; 4th Samuel, b. June 8, 1797, and Adclia, 
b. Dec. 13, 1800, where she now resides; Samuel, the 8lh son, and 
4th Samuel of Samuel, was a gentleman of talents, and for several 
years edited a political paper at Hartford, but a few years since he 
removed his family to Springfield, Mass., where he again became 
an editor of his own political newspaper successfully, and died at 
Springfield, in 1851, highly respected by his acquaintance. John 
Bowles, the son of Joshua, b. at Boston or Roxbury, in 1759, settled 
at Hartford before his brother Samuel, and died at H^artford, Sept. 
24, 1808. He left children ; his daughter Diedama, m. 1st Bollcs, 2d 
Philemon Canfield, Esq., and resides in Hartford, also Joseph A. 
Bowles, of Newark, N. J., and others. Rev. Ralph Bowles, nephew 
of Samuel deceased, of Spring'd, is yet of Hartford. The Bowleses 
of Hartford, are descendants of John Bowles, Sen., of Roxbury, Mass., 
in all cases where the name is spelt with w, and where the name is 
spelled Bolles, are descended from Thomas, of New London. 

BOWLES, RICHARD, (or Vowles, or Fowles, Richard,) was 
made free of the corporation and sworn to the office of constable, for 
and within the plantation of Greenwich, for the year, or until a new 
one should be chosen, by order of the Gen'l Court of Conn., Oct. 9, 
1662, and at a session of the Gen'l Court, (Oct.) 8, 1063, he was 
appointed constable for the town of Hastings, and Commissioner Bud 
ordered to give him his oath. Oct. 12, 1665, he is found a deputy 
to the Gen'l Court, also in May, 16C9 ; he was an important and ofii- 
cient man in the Colony. This name has been decyphered from the 
original record, Bowles, Vowles, and Fowles, the last was probably 
his name, as the last name is yet found in the vicinity of Rye, and 
neither Bowles, or Vowles, have been found there since. 

BOLLES, THOMAS, came to New London, and was there as 



284 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

early as 1671. The precise time he came to N. L. is not known; 
one of his brothers d. at Boston without issue. Tho's settled at N. 
L., at the solicitation of Mr. Winthrop, who was then Gov. of Conn., 
(after 1656.) He offered ten young apple trees to each man who 
would settle there, Mr. Bolles had his ten trees, and set them near 
what is now the north-east part of the city ; some of the trees were 
in bearing within the manhood of a grandson of Tho's Bolles, Sen., 
who lived to be over 90 years of age. Tho's purchased a place 
called Bolles Hill, where he died May 26, 1727, aged 84 years j he 
m. Miss Wheeler, of Stonington, July 1, 1669, and had issue, Joseph, 
Mary and John. He then dwelt about one mile north of the village 
of N. L., in a log house adjoining a large rock, which rock yet re- 
mains to mark to his posterity, the fatal spot of their ancestor's dwell- 
ing-house, and where his wife and two of his children were mur- 
dered. His son John, was born in August, or Sept., 1676, and when 
nine months old was the only one of the three children who survived ; 
the murder of his mother, brother and sister had taken place, and 
John then an infant was found weltering in his mother's blood. Mr. 
Tho's Bolles left his family to go to N. L. ; during his short absence 
a boy by the name of Stoddard, about 16 years old, whose father 
lived about one mile north of Bolles' house, at a place yet called 
Stoddard's Neck, on the Thames, came to the house of Mr. Bolles, 
and requested the loan of some article, which Mrs. Bolles refused 
him, and she expostulated with him for his dishonesty, in pilfering 
small articles ; he became enraged and went to the wood-pile, pro- 
cured the ax and returned to the house where she was sitting with 
her infant (John) in her lap, combing her hair. Stoddard gave her 
a fatal blow upon her head with the edge of the ax ; he then killed 
the two older children, Joseph and Mary, who were playing upon 
the rock near the house, and spared only the infant. Mr. Bolles 
soon returned and found his family in this horrid condition. He 
was first examined and acquitted. An Indian was then arrested 
taken to Hartford, and tried once and again, but finally acquitted. 
More than a year after, Stoddard was left at home by his parents to 
take charge of his little brother, while his father and mother went 
to an Indian po«ow, at Groton, to sell cakes; Stoddard to rid him- 
self of the care of his brother, killed the child, (or supposed he had,) 
and immediately set off for the town to tell the magistrates to give 
the alarm, that the Indians had killed his brother : on the way he met 
two men; one returned with him to the house, and the other to the 
town to give the alarm. It resulted in charging Stoddard with the • 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 285 

murder of his brotlier, wliicli he confessed. He was then charged 
Mith the murder of Mrs. Bolles and her children, which he also con- 
fessed, for which he was- tried and executed at Hartford. The afflic- 
tion was so severe, that Mr. Bolles never rn. a 2d time. He was a 
gentleman of respectability, and a Justice of Peace, he d. May 26, 
1727, reputed to be aged 84 years. His son John was put with his 
aunt Bennet to nurse, afterwards of Norwich. July 3, 1699, John 
Bolles, the only living son of Tho's, m. Sarah Edgcomb, and had 
eight sons and two daughters, viz., Joseph, John, Tho's, Samuel, 
Ebcnczer, Patience, Ziphorah, Isaiah, Enoch and Joshua. Sarah 
his wife, d., and he m. for his 2d wife Eliz'th Wood, and had issue, 
Mary, Christiana, Eliz'th and Samuel. John Bolles the father, d. 
Jan. 7, 1767, aged about 90 years; his wife d. March 1, 1777. 

ENOCH, son of John and Sarah Bolles, m. Hannah I^Ioore, in 
1738, and had issue, Enoch, Jr., Jonathan, d. young ; David, 2d Jon- 
nthan, Asa, Jesse, Deacon John, Isaiah, settled at Newark, N. J. ; 
Nathan and Richard. Their mother d. March 17, 1765, aged 47, 
and Enoch m. for his 2d wife, Lucy Wheeler, and by her had Han- 
nah, Lucy, Naomi and Susannah. Enoch the father, d. Dec. 3, 
1800, aged 85 years, and Lucy his 2d wife, d. March 21, 1812, aged 
73. 

BOLLES, ISAIAH, son of Enoch, b. May 26, 1754, m. Eliz'th 
Tillotson, July 1, 1776, and had issue, Ralph, b. March 7, 1777 ; 
Ephraim, b. Jan. 14, 1780; Dan, b. April 1, 1782, d. aged 2 years. 
He removed to Hebron. Betsey, b. there, or at N. L., Oct. 22, 1784 ; 
Nathan, b. Feb. 17, 1786; Aaron, b. May 25, 1788, d. in 1808, on 
the Island of Martinique ; Fanny, b. Feb. 26, 1790 ; Nancy, b. June 
30, 1793; John, b. June 30, 1795, d. an infant; Wm., b. March 17, 
1797. Isaiah, d. April 4, 1847, aged 92 years, 10 m. and 9 days. 
Eliz'th, wife of Isaiah, d. May 11, 1843, aged 88 years. 

BOLLES, EPHRAIM, m., and had Mary Francis, b. Aug. 25, 
1811, d. 1849; Isaiah and his wife moved to Newark, N. J., April 
or Sept., 1830. 

BOLLES, JOSHUA, son Ojf John and Sarah, of N. L., m. Joanna 
Williams, and had ten sons and five daughters, viz., Samuel, Sarah, 
(d. young,) Ezra, Joshua, Jr., William, Alpheus, Elijah, Elisha, 2d 
Sarah, Mercy, Hezckiah and Jeremiah, Patience, Zippora, Ebenezer. 

BOLLES, EBENEZER, son of Joshua, b. at Bolles Hill, N. L., 
July 13, 1704 ; he m. Abigail Penfield, of N. Haven, Dec. 20, 1789. 
He removed to Litchfield, in 1783, and d. there Aug. 28, 1826. He 
had_ seven sons and one daughter, viz., Samuel Penfield d. young ; 



286 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Eben W., 2cl Samuel P., Joshua, d. young ; George, Henry, Mar- 
garet C. and William, five of whom emigrated to the state of Indiana. 
Samuel P., remains at Litchfield and was Town Clerk there from 
1836 to 1840. 

BOLLES, JOHN, NATHAN and RICHARD, sons of Enoch, 
and grandsons of John and Sarah Bolles, of N. L., removed to Hart- 
ford ; their brother Isaiah settled at Newark, N. Jersey; Jesse set- 
tied at Woodstock ; David settled at Ashford ; 2d Jonathan settled in 
Stonington, and was the father of Benj'n, and two sisters, who now 
reside in Hartford ; another son of Jonathan, Job S. Bolles, settled 
and d. in Georgia. 

BOLLES, Deacon JOHN, son of Enoch, m. Lydia Taber, of N. 
L., and settled and d. in Hartford. His children were John, d. 
young; Jeremiah, d. single; Edward, (a man of large estate, now 
of Hartford ;) Lydia, m. Rev. Lucius Bolles, of Ashford, a cousin; 
Lucy, m. Lemuel Swift, of Hartford, both died; Doctor Geo. Bolles 
graduated at Yale College, and settled in Vermont, where he now 
lives unmarried. 

BOLLES, NATHAN, settled in Hartford as a merchant, and m. 
at Hartford, and remained about fifteen years ; he then removed to 
Agawam, W. Springfield, where he d. ; he had issue, Peter, Na- 
than and two daughters. 

RICHARD, son of Enoch, settled a few years at Hartford, and m. 
Miss Spencer, at Hartford, and soon after removed to Hudson, New 
York, where he had a shoe store for many years, and where he had 
a son and two daughters, perhaps others, and died there. 

DAVID, son of Enoch, settled in Ashford, m. Miss More, of New 
London, and had issue, David, Jr., Matthew, Augustus, Lucius and 
Matilda; David, Jr., was a Judge of the C. Court ; Matthew resided 
in Aslifbrd ; Matthew was the father of James G. Bolles, Esq., of 
Hart'd ; John Augustus, late Secretary of State in Mass., and others. 

JOHN AUGUSTUS, Esq., son of Matthew, graduated at Brown 
University, in 1829, settled as a lawyer at Boston, and was after- 
wards appointed Secretary of State, in Mass. 

BOLLES, SAMUEL, of N. L., purchased of Sam'l Jennings, 
Sen., of Fairfield, for the sum of £50, land situated in New Fair- 
field, 1728-9 ; said Bolles also purchased of David Chittenton, of N. 
Fairfield, for the sum of £40, lands situated in New Fairfield, a 
part of the J. Hough farm, dated May 7, 1731 ; said Bolles also pur- 
chased of Benj'n Hough, of New Fairfield, another tract of land sit- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 287 

uated in said N. F., a part of the original purchase of his father Jon- 
athan Hough, dated 1732. 

BOLLES, EBENEZER, a trader at N. L., d. 1762, lie left one 
child (a daughter,) about 17 years old, and an estate of £5000, L. 
M. He by accident was poisoned, but being a Rogerene, and the 
rules of that sect forbidding the use of medicine in sickness, he re- 
fused to take medicine or have a physician, until a short time before 
he expired, when those of tiie sect forbid it, lest he should deny the 
faith. {Ct. Gazette.) 

BOULES, JOSEPH, of Welles, 1G53. 

BOVVELIS, JOHN, freeman Mass., 1640. 

BOWLES, RICHARD, was taxed at Cochecho, N. H., (Dover,) 
in 1666 and '7. 

BOULES, JOSEPH, came from England, in the Speedwell of 
London, Robert Lock, master, bound for N. England, 1656, regis- 
tered at Gravesend. 

Bowles has twelve coats of arms in England. 

Bolle alias BoUes, (originally of Bolle Hall, and subsequently of 
Hough, Co. Lincoln : from this family derived the Bolles of Scamp- 
ton, extinct Baronets, and the Bolles of Thorpe Hall, whose co-heirs 
were Elizabeth Bolle, wife of Rev. Thomas Bosvile, Rector of Uf- 
ford, and Sarah, m. to Henry Eyre, of Bramly Hall.) " Az. out of 
three cups or. as many boars' heads couped ar. Crest — A demi boar 
wounded in the breast with a broken spear." There is also a differ- 
ent coat of arms. (Worthin co. Suffolk; granted in 1528.) {John 
Burkes Heraldry.) 

Bowles or Boles, one coat of arms. There is also one for Booles, 
Bolles or Bowles. (Suffolk and Staffordshire.) 

Joim and Nathan Bolles, of Hartford,, purchased of Thomas San- 
ford, land in Hartford for £123, lawful money, both of Hartford, 
Sept. 11, 1782. 

Tiie Bolles's of Hartford, Ashfurd and N. Fairfield, Avere from 
New London, descendants of Tho's Bolles, of N. London. No per- 
son of the name died at Hartford previous to 1700. Farmer says 
"John Bowles, Roxbury, (Mass.,) freeman 1640; member of the ar. 
CO., 1645. The name appears to be Bowelis in the Col. Records 
(of Mass.) John, perhaps son of John, graduated at H. C, 1671 — 
Representative, 1689 Speaker of the H. Rep., 1690, and d. 1691.'* 

Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph, of Welles, m. Maj. Charles 
Frost of Kittery, and was the mother of Hon. John Frost, of New 
Castle, N. Hampshire, who d. 1732-3, aged 51. 



288 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Tho's Bowles, (so spelt) of N. London, was complained of to the 
C. Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, by Matthew Griswold, and 
Lieut. Wm. Waller, for attempts by violence to drive them off their 
lands, resistance of authority, «S;c. Tho's Stafford, Geo. Chappell, 
Sam'l Tubbs, and many others of N. L., were in the same com- 
plaint. The descendants of John of Roxbury, spell the name Boiolcs, 
and the descendants of Thomas, of N. L., uniformly spell the name 

Bolles. 

BOLES, RICHARD, was taxed at Cochecho, in 1658. 

BOULES, JOSEPH, freeman of Wells, July 4, 1653. 

Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph, of Wells, m. Maj. Charles Frost, 
when he was 44 years old. {N. E. G. Reg.) 

BOLMAN, MOSES, of Middletown, d. about 1744, his relict Si- 
lence Bolman, appointed guardian for her son Moses Bolman, Oct. 
2, 1744. 

BOLTWOOD, Sergt. ROBERT, was early in Conn., as early 
as Sept. 1048 ; he was a plaintiff in Court at Hartford. He was 
also plaintilfin Court in Oct., 1648 — was made freeman at Hartford, 
May 20, 1658. Fie removed from Conn, to Hadley, Mass., and was 
one of the engagers to settle Hadley, April 18, 1659 — Took the free- 
man's oath in Mass., March 26, 1601, and the oath of allegiance 
1678. His wife's name was Mary, (maiden name not found.) He 
d. at Hadley, April 6, 1684. His relict Mary, quaintly styled on 
Hadley record " y^ beloved wife of Robert Boltwood," d. at Had- 
ley, May 14, 1687. Their children were Sergt. Samuel, b. 

ni. Sarah Lewis, of Farmington, daughter of W'm; d. Feb. 29, 

1704, being slain by the Indians at Deerfield ; Sarah, b. m. 

Isaac Warner, of Fladley, May 31, 1666 — also m. Deacon John 

Loomis, of Windsor, Dec. 30, 1696; Lydia, b. m. John 

Warner, of Springfield, April 2, 1674 ; d. Jan. 26, 1683 ; Martha, 

b. m. Daniel Warner, of Hatfield, son of Andrew, April 1, 

1674; d. Sept. -22, 1710 ; Mary, b. m. James Beebe, of Had- 

ley, Mass., Oct. 24, 1667 ; d. Aug. 19, 1676. 

BOLTWOOD, Sergt. SAMUEL, only son of Sergt. Robert, m. 
Sarah Lewis of Farmington, daughter of Capt. W'm Lewis, and 
Mary his wife ; daughter Sarah, b. at Hadley, Oct. 1, 1672. Sergt. 
Samuel was slain by the Indians at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704. His 
wife Sarah survived him, and d. at Hadley, Aug. 10, 1722, aged 
70 years, as her monument shews in the old burial ground in that 
place ; they had ten children b. at Hadley between 1672 and 1696. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 289 

Sergt. Robert was the ancestor of Mr. L. M. Boltwood, of Am- 
herst, Mass. Lydia Boltwood m. John Warner, April 2, 1674. 

Dec. 7, 1648, the Court at Hartford adjudged Jarvis Mudge to pay- 
to James Nortliam and Robert Boltwood, for his part of the damage 
they paid to Tantom Heage, if he had eight head of cattle trespas- 
sers, 37*. Gd., in good, dry, well conditioned Indian corn. (Col. Rec. 
p. 183.) 

BOUGHTWHORD, ROBERT, (probably intended for Bolt- 
wood,) was made a freeman at Hartford, in May, 1658. In 1659, 
he signed the contract to remove to Hadley, Mass., to form a settle- 
ment there, which he performed. 

BOLTWOOD, ROBERT, was one of the list of freemen " at the 
New Towne at 'Norwotuck,' March 26, 1661," and qualified as a 
freeman. 

In 1668, the Gen'l Court granted Mr. Willys, 100 acres of land 
adjoining the pond he purchased of Robert Boltwood, about six miles 
from Tho's Edward's in the way to New London, (probably in 
Glastenbury.) 

BOLT, FRANCIS, and his son Philip were of Milford, Dec. 28, 
1646, when the home lots there were equally laid out. He was a 
free planter there in 1639. He d. in 1649. 

BOLT, JOHN, (probably from Milford,) to Norwalk, m. Eliz'th 
Clemmonsj daughter of Wm., of Stamford, Nov. 20, 1694 ; issue, 
Richard, b. April 30, 1696 ; Charles, Sarah, Abigail, John, Jr. ; 
William and Benjamin, b. Sept. 26, 1718. 

Bolt or Boult has one coat of arms. Bolter has two coats of arms. 

One of the Bolt family settled at Southbury, Conn., probably from 
Milford. 

BOND, Mr. ROBERT, of Southampton, Long Island, was a 
Magistrate in the Gen'l Court of Conn., with Mr. Thomas Baker, 
Ogden, Capt. Tappin, &:c., from Long Island, May 19, 1659. Mr. 
Bond, Capt. Tapping, Mr. Ogdcn and Thomas Baker, were magis- 
trates, (senators,) in the upper House of the Gen'l Court of Conn.. 
May, 1660. Robert Bond, Baker and Mr. Rainer, were magistrates 
from L. Island, May 1661, &c. 

Mr. Bond was appointed a Commissioner on Long Island, by the 
Gen'l Court of Conn., May, 1663, with " magistratical power on the 
Island." Mr. Bond and Mr. Mulford, of E. Hampton, L. I., were 
put "To ye election. May 12, 1664," but Topping and Mr. John 
Howell were elected magistrates, and Capt. John Younge. Mr. 
Mulford and Bond were appointed magistrates for E. Hampton, L. 

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290 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

I., and Mr. John Howell authorized to administer the oath to them, 
by the Gen'l Court of Conn., May session, 1664. These facts ful- 
ly prove the exalted standing held by Mr. Robert Bond in the early 
settlement of Long Island, whjle under the government of Conn. 
The same name is afterwards found with Ogden, in New Jersey. 
Mr. Robert Bond and Mr. Moore of Southampton, L. I., were ap- 
pointed, Oct. 25, 1644, by the Gen'l Court of Conn., to demand of 
each family of Southampton, the amount they would give for the 
maintenance of scholars at Cambridge College. He was several 
years a magistrate under Conn, on L. Island, and as such attended 
the Gen'l Court at Hartford, particularly in May 1659, '60, '61, &c. 
Mr. Bond of Southampton, and Mr. Wm. Mulford, of E. Hampton, 
L. I., were appointed Magistrates by Conn., in May, 1664. He was 
also made a freeman by Connecticut. 

BOND, JOHN, and his wife Rachel, from Hebron, Conn., were 
admitted into the church at Hampton, Feb. 15, 1736; and Nathan- 
iel Bond was admitted into the same church, Sept. 5, 1742. Rachel, 
wife of John Bond, d. at Windham, Nov. 27, 1758, aged 68. John 
Bond removed to Canterbury from Hampton. 

BOND, BAILEY, of Wethersfield, d. 1757. Elizabeth his wid- 
ow administratrix. Inventory, £140, 1^. 

BOND, STEPHEN, from Conn, settled at Newark, N. J. He 
signed at Branford the regulations got up and entered into for the 
government of Newark, in 1666 or '7, by a company from Branford. 
Mr. Bond, Ward and Tho's Johnson in 1675, were appointed to hold 
a monthly court for the trial of small matters at Newark, N. J., and 
were " chosen by papers," (votes.) Robert Bond was of a Commit- 
tee to settle the line between Newark and Elizabethtown, N. J., in 
1668. John Brown, Jr., was sealer of weights and measures at 
Newark, in 1686-7, and the half bushel of Benjamin Baldwin, or 
Seth Davis, was ordered to be the standard for measures. He was 
appointed to make the rate for Newark, in 1675-6. (Cong.) NA- 
THANIEL BOND of Watertown, Mass., 1690, made free—also 
GRIMSTONE BOND, free 1690. BOND, Lieut. WILLIAM, 
made free in Mass., March, 1689-90. BOND, NICHOLAS, free : 
in Mass., 1652. BOND, WILLIAM, of Mass., free 1682. Eight 
of the name of Bond have graduated at Cambridge, and one at 
Yale College ; one at Trinity, 

BOND, NATHANIEL, late of Watertown, 1707, purchased 200 ' 
acres of land in Canterbury, of Ob Johnson, and Samuel Adams. 
He m. Elizabeth Backus, in 1714, and had issue, b. in Canterbury, 
viz., Nath'l, b. 1716; Elizabeth, b. 1717; Stephen, b. 1719; Jo. ■ 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUIUTAVS. 291 

nas, b. 1720 ; Rebecka, b. 1720 ; Bethucl, 1728 ; Jonas, Bethuel, 
and perhaps some of the others had families. They were formerly- 
numerous in Canterbury — Few of them are left in the town. Jonas 
was Deacon in Westnnnster. {Learned.) 

Bond or Bonde. Sa. a fesse or. There are nine coats of arms 
for Bond, and three for Bonde. 

BONNY or BORNEY, PERES, was from Pembroke, Mass. He 
was the son of John Bonny and Elizabetii his wife ; born in Pem- 
broke, March 10, 1709. Peres m. Ruth Snow, April 20, 1739, and 
resided at Goshen, Conn., and had children ; Joel, b. Aug. 14, 1740 ; 
Perez, b. July 13, 1742; Titus, b. June 1, 1744 5 Celia, b. April 
16, 1746 ; James and Jarvis, twins, b. Feb. 14, 1747 ; Asa, b. Sept. 
6, 1751. 

BOOGE, JOHN, a Welchman, was the first and only one of the 
name in the Colony. He settled at E. Haddam, at an early period, 
before 1700. He had sons John, William, Richard, Daniel, Ste- 
phen, and Rev. Ebenezer. 

BOOGE, JOHN, Jr., had sons Amos, Samuel. WILLIAM, son 
of John had sons, W'm, Jr., Jonathan, Timothy, Ephraim and Rich- 
ard. DANIEL, son of John, Sen., had sons, Eliezer, Eliashib, 
Daniel, Jeremiah, John, Richard, Joshua and Ichabod, ( Field. ) 
WILLIAM BOOGE, of Willington, had his son Timothy bap'd at 
Colchester, May 19, 1734. Jeremiah Booge, of Colchester, had a 
daughter Tabetha baptized May 19, 1765. 

BOOGE, Rev. EBENEZER, of Farmington, son of John of E. 
Haddam, graduated at Yale College, 1748, and settled as Pastor of 
the church at Northington, (Avon,) Nov. 27, 1751 ; he m. Damaris, 
and had children, Aaron Judson, b. May 6, 1752 ; Rebecca Wake- 
ly, b. Dic. 29, 1753; Samuel Cook, b. Aug. 7, 1755; m. Triphena 
Thompson ; Oliver C-, b. April 13, 1757 ; Jeffrey Amherst, b. Aug. 
21, 1759; Damaris Corintha, b. Aug. 26, 1761; m. Samuel Bish- 
op; Publius Virgilius, b. March 30, 1764: Rev. Ebenezer d. Feb. 
2, 1767; his widow m. John Northaway. His daughter Damaris 
left no issue, 

BOOGE, Rev. AARON J., son of Rev. Ebenezer, graduated at Y"- 
I College, in 1774, and settled as a minister at Granby, Nov. 27, 1776, 
where he preached until Dec, 1785; he was then dismissed, but 
continued to supply the pulpit at Granby, nearly four years after 
; his dismissal. He afterwards was installed at Winchester, where he 
i preached but a few years. He died at New Lebanon, N. Y., in Ju- 
ly, 1826, aged 74 years. Rebecca W., daughter of Rev. Ebenezer, 



292 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

m. Rev. Daniel Foster, of Windsor, and d. Nov. 16, 1775, aged 22. 
Damaris C. m. Samuel Bishop, who d. July 16, aged 57, and left 
her his relict. She afterwards m. ''Preserved Marshall, of Avon. 
She died in 1831, aged 70. Rev. Publius Virgil Booge, son of Rev. 
Ebenezer, graduated at Y. College in 1787 ; he died in 1836, in the 
State of New York, aged 73 years. (Nothing is known of his 
family.) 

Bogue has one coat of arms. Bouge has one. 

BEON or BOON, G., on oath testified that " hee heard it expressed, 
by those that heard it expressed, by those that spake in behalf of 
Fairfield at a Gen'l Court, that they did not desire the land above 
the Necke," May 1657. 

BOOSY, BOOSEY, Mr. JAMES, was an early and a leading 
settler at Wethersfield, as early as 1639, when he was clerk of the 
train band. He was a gentleman of large estate ; the inventory of 
his estate presented in Court, Aug. 4, 1649, was £983, 8s. He was 
a Deputy to the Gen'l Court of Conn., in April and Sept., 1639 — 
April, 1640_June, 1640— vij% 1640— April, 1641— April, 1642- 
1643 — Feb., 1643 — April, 1644; also two sessions in '44 ; four ses- 
sions in '45 ; three sessions in '46 ; one in '47 ; two in 48 ; and in 
May in 1649. He was also a juror in Court at Hartford, Dec, 1641, 
and afterwards. Mr. Boosey with Hon. Edward Hopkins, Hon. 
John Haynes, Gen. John Mason and John Steel, were appointed a 
committee on the part of Conn., in the articles of agreement with 
Hon. Geo. Fenwick '' of Sea Brooke Forte," Dec. 5, 1644 — for the 
purchase of the Fort and appurtenances enumerated in said article ; 
also all the land upon Conn. River, (of his,) and of such lands as 
were then undisposed of, should be given out by a committee of five 
persons, of which Mr. Fenwick was to be uniformly one. ( See 
printed Col. Rec. Vol. 1. p. 26, '7, '8, &c.) In Sept. 1645, he was 
appointed by the Gen'l Court, to bring into Court a just account of 
all particulars of the charges of the (then late wars, and for the 
support of Uncas. The office of juror was a high and responsible 
one, which he often filled in Court. He, with the Governor, Dept. 
Governor, Capt. Mason, &c., were appointed by the Gen'l Court in 
Oct., 1644, a Committee to consult with Mr. Fenwick, concerning 
the fortifications at the River's mouth, &c. These facts fully show 
the respectable standing of Mr. Boosy in the Colony. His wife's 
name was Alice ; at his decease he had a family of daughters. 
One supposed m. Foot, 1649, Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1635, m. Sam'I 
Steel of Farmington ; Hannah, b. 1641, m. John Pratt; Sarah, b. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 293 

Nov. 12, 1643, m. Natli'I Stanly ; his only son, James, b., 1645, 
d. young. Mr. Boosy therefore left no sons to perpetuate his name 
in this country, tho' his blood yet flows in the veins of the Pratts, 
Steels, and Stanleys. Mr. Boosy probably d. in 1649, and his wid- 
ow Alice Boosy, m. James Wakely for her 2d husband. The Col- 
ony record, Feb. 23, 1652, says, " This Courte Judges the Dcputyes 
actyon in marring James Wakely and the Widdo Boosy, to be le- 
gall." This proved a most unfortunate union for them both, and 
Mr. Wakely made ample provision for her future support, left her, 
and removed himself to Rhode Island, where he probably died. Mr. 
Boosy at an early period, 1641, had six lots of land recorded at 
Wethersfield. {B. 1. p. 142.) 

BORDAIN, JOHN, of Lyme, received a deed of land in Lyme, 
of Christopher Huntington of Norwich, in 1675. He was in Conn, 
in 1664. 
Ambrose Boden, freeman, sworn at Spurwink, 1658. 
Joan Bowden embarked in the Paul, of London, for Virginia, 
Leonard Bctts, Master, &,c., July 6, 1635. 

John Borden, aged 28, and wife Joan, aged 23, Matthew, aged 5, 
Elizabeth Borden, 5 years old, embarked for New England in the 
Elizabeth and Ann, May 12th. 

BORDWELL, Rev. JOEL, graduated at Y. College, in 1756. 
Ordained at Kent, Oct. 8, 1758, where he died in 1812, and left a 
family. .,n,f /^/'^-■ ''^^'^^--Y 

BOOTH, SIMON, of Enfield, was born iiyWales, he m. Rebec- 
ca—: from Scotland — he came to Enfield, in 1680 — one of 

the first settlers — d. there ; his wife Rebecca also d. at Enfield, Dec. 
25, 1688, aged about 48. His son Zachariah, b. about 1660, m. 
Mary Warriner, July 15, 1691 ; she d. April 12, 1092, aged about 
22 ; and he m. for his 2d wife Mary Harmon, May 26, 1696 ; he d. at 
Enfield, May 28, 1741 ; had two sons. Wm., son of Simon Booth, 
was b. about 1062; he m. Hannah Barrows, daughter of John Bur- 
roughs, Aug. 30, 1693, and d. 1753, aged 89. Eliz'th, daughter of 
Simon, Sen., b. about 1668, m. Jonathan Pease, Oct. 11, 1693; she 
d. Jan., 1722, at Enfield. Mary, another daughter of Simon, b. 
about 1670, m. Israel Meacham Dec. 10, 1700; his wife d., and he 
m. 2d widow Eliz'th Elmore, of Northampton, Sept. 8, 1693, and 
had issue by her viz., Sarah, m. Dan'l Ferry ; Phebe, lived in Hart- 
ford, Dec. 12, 1721. Caleb, son of Wm. Booth, b. 1695, m. Mary 
Gleason, 1728, and settled in East Windsor, and had a numerous 
family. One of his sons, Levi, d. in Enfield, in 1815, aged 76 years, 
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294 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

without issue. Joshua, 2d son, b. 1G97, settled first in Enfield, and 
had two sons, Oliver, b, 1725, and Wm., b. 1731. Zachariah, m- 
Mary VVarrincr July 15, 1691. John, son of Zachariah, was b. 1697; 
m. Lydia Chandler, daughter of Henry, 1727; d. 1778, and left two 
sons, John, b. 1728, rn. Hannah Phelps, 1751, d. in Enfield, and 
left issue; Daniel, b. 1744, removed to Ohio, in 1811, where he d. 
and left children. Joseph, 2d son of Z. Booth, b. 1710, m. Sarah 
Chandler, daughter of Henry, 1736, d. in Enfield ; he had six sons, 
viz., Joseph, b. 1736, m. Mary Hale, 1762, d. in Enfield, and left 
children; Isaac, b. 1739, m. Deborah Hurlburt, 1764; Samuel, b. 
1740; Zachariah, b. 1742, settled and d. in Enfield, and left issue ; 
Henry, b. 1745, and David, b. 1747. No evidence is found that 
Simon, of Enfield, and Richard Booth, of Stratford, were relatives. 

BOOTH, RICHARD, was b. in 1607, as he testified in Court, in 
1687, that he was then 80 years old, and he was 81 years old when 
he d. He came to Stratford where he settled about 1640. — Supposed 
m. Havvley, and had children, Eliz'th, b. Sept. 10, 1641, m. John 
Miner, of Stratford, by Mr. Welles; Anna, b. Feb. 14, 1643; 
Ephr'm, b. Aug. 1, 1648; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 19, 1651; John, b. 
Nov. 5, 1653 ; Joseph, b. Feb. or March 8, 1656 ; Bethia, b. Aug., 
1658 ; Joanna, b. March 20, 1661. 

BOOTH, JOSEPH, son of Richard Booth, d. 1703, and left issue, 
Hannah, James, Joseph, Robert, Daniel, David, Nathan. 

BOOTH, JAMES, son of Joseph Booth, d. 1765, and left issue, 
James, John, Josiah, Abel, Elizabeth, Abigail, Martha and Sarah. 

BOOTH, JAMES, Jr., son of James Booth, d. 1809, and left is- 
sue, Hezekiah, Silas, James, Abel, Sarah, Abigail, Ann, Eliz'th, 
Charity and Amy. 

BOOTH, SILAS, son of James Booth, Jr., d. 1818, and left issue, 
Isaac P., Eliza, Mariah, Nancy, Susan and Silas C. Booth; the last 
is now a merchant at Bridgeport, Conn. 

BOOTH, DAVID, son^ of Joseph, Sen., settled at Unity. His 
wife Ann, was of the Communion at Unity, in 1731, and David her 
husband was at the Communion there March 19, 1732. Sarah the 
widow of Mr. Eph'm Booth, deceased, was admitted to the church 
in Unity, in 1740. Those of the name in Trumbull, are generally 
descendants of David Booth. Isaac P., son of Silas Booth, now re- 
sides in Stratford, where his father had lived. 

BOOTH, DAVID, and Ann his wife, of Unity, (N. Stratford,) 
descendants of Richard, of Stratford, had issue b. at Unity, viz., Ann, 
b. March, 1731 ; David, Jr., b. Oct. 10, 1733 ; Peter, b. May 25, 
1736 ; Reuben, b. June 22, 1739. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 295 

Ephraim Booth, and Sarah his wife, were at Unity in 1731. Zach- 
ariah Booth, and wife Eliz'th, liad a son b. at Unity, in June, 1749. 
The Booths formerly of Farmington, Roxbury, Southbury, Trum- 
bull, Bridgeport, &c., are descendants of Richard, of Stratford. Da- 
vid, Jr., (son of David, and Ann his wife,) m. Prudence, and had a 
daughter Joanna, b. May 6, 1754, and others at Unity. Eph'm 
Booth, Sen., ni. Mary Osborn, at New Haven June 9, 1G75. 

BOOTH, EPHRAIM, and Sarah his wife, had a daughter Char- 
ity, b. at Unity, June 21, 1731 ; Rachel, b. May 19, 1741 ; Ann, b. 
March 17, 1750; (Sarah, b. March 24, 1754, by his wife Phebe,) 
perhaps others. Sarah the widow of Mr. Ephraim Booth deceased, 
was admitted to the church in Unity, in 1740 ; she was probably the 
mother of the above Eph'm, and he a grandson of Richard. 

BOOTH, EPHRAIM, Sen., of Stratford, propounded for a free- 
man Oct., 1671. 

BOOTH, ANDREW, and Sarah, of Unity, had Joseph, b. July 
21, 1738; Eunice, b. April 12, 1740 ; Phebe, b. July 21, 1742, (bap- 
tized by Rev. R. Minor, at Unity ;) Sarah, b. Sept. 17, 1749 ; Me- 
hitabel, b. July 15, 1752. 

BOOTH, EPHRAIM, and Ann, wife of David Booth, were of the 
first church in Unity, (N. Stratford,) Nov. 18, 1730. Eph'm, son 
of Eph'm Booth, admitted Aug. 26, 1733. Sarah Booth, widow of 
Mr. Eph'm Booth tiien deceased, was admitted to said church in 
1740. Sarah, wife of Andrew Booth, admitted at Unity, Juno 19, 
1743. 

BOOTH, THOMAS, from New Haven to Milford, had a lot of 
one acre granted him in Milford, (by the Gcn'l Court held at Milford 
Sept. 25, 1654,) to build upon. Milford gave him five acres in 1659. 

Farmer mentions Robert Booth, Exeter, 1645, representative of 
Saco, 1659, b. a 1604. 

BOOTH has twenty-one coats of arms. One of them viz., Ar. 
three boar's heads erect and erased sa, langued gu. Crest — A lion 
pass. ar. Motto — Quod ero spero. Bothe has three, and Boothby 
has one coat of arms. 

BOOTH, JOHN, of Shelter Island. 

"We whose names are hereunderncath subscribed, Doe freely testify and de- 
clare, that Y"Kee formerly Sachem yt Munhunsick Aqu(juatunameck now called 
Shelter Island, did on the three and twentieth of March, 1G52, give full pos- 
session unto Capt. Nathaniel Sylvester, and Ensign John Booth, of ye aforesaid 
Island, yt Aququatunamcck with all that was belonging to the same, and he 
the said YoKee delivered unto the aforesaid Cajitain Nathaniel Sylvester and 
Ensign John Booth * * According to the usual custom of England, after which 



296 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

delivery and full possession given, and the said Yo'kee * * * formerly leaving 
the said Island yt Aququatunameck, did freely and willingly depart the afore- 
said Island, leaving the aforesaid Captain Nathaniel Silvester, and Ensign John 
Booth in full possession of the same. Unto which we witness our hands the 
date as above being ye 23d of March, 1652. 

John Herbert, 
Robert Seely, 
Daniel Lane, 
Giles Sylvester." 
Record in Southold, Town Records, the 2Sth Jan'y? 1C61, by me. 

Wm. Wells, Recorder. 

I certify the above to be a true copy from the record, with the ex- 
ception of two or three words which were mutilated. This certifi- 
cate is subscribed by the son of Thomas Booth, of the town of 
Hamptonburgh, (formerly Wallkill,) County of Orange, and State of 
New York, who was the son of Benjamin Booth of the same place, 
who was the son of Charles of the same place, (formerly of Southold, 
L. I.,) who was the son of Charles of the last place, and who was 
the son of Ensign John Booth, of Shelter Island (L. Island,) who left 
four sons, viz., John, Wm,, Thomas and Charles. Dated Goshen, 
Or, Co. N. York, June 1, 1849, Jno, B. Booth, 

BOOTH, SIMEON, of Hartford, d, Feb, 28, 1702-3 ; children, 
Wm,, Zachariah, Phebe, Bridgett Allyn, Elizabeth Pease, Mary 
Spencer and Sarah, by his last wife. He gave Zachariah's son Rob- 
ert, his loom ; probably a weaver. Estate, <£-57, 4s. Od. 

BOOTH, ROBERT, of Farmington — Ann his widow — distribu- 
tion, 1752 — children, Nathan, Robert, Elisha, Hannah Mather, wife 
of Joshua Mather ; Ann, wife of Joseph Mather. This was a wealthy 
family, 

BOOTH, WILLIAM, of Colchester, daughter Anna, baptized 
May 31, 1761; Versalle, baptized Sept, 25, 1762; Wm., 1769. 
Ruth Booth of Colchester, had a daughter Lucretia Frink, baptized 
May 12, 1765; Ambrose, 1771. 

BOOTH, EBENEZER, and Daniel Beardsley of Stratford, pro- 
pounded for freemen May, 1675. Geo. Booth of Lynn, Mass., daugh- 
ter Eliz'th, b. March 15, 1674. Jonathan Pease, of Enfield, m. 
Eliz'th Booth, in 1693. Ab'm Pease m. Jemima Booth, 1719. Rob- 
ert Booth of Saco, freeman 1653. Lyman Booth of Maiden, free 
1680, Mr, Edmund Booth of Stratford, was a subscriber for Prince's 
Chronology (six,) 

BOOTH, Serg, DANIEL, was taken prisoner at Quebec, Dec. 
31, 1775, and enlisted in the King's service, George Booth's daugh- 
ter Eliz'th, b, at Lynn, March 15, 1674. Jemima, Eliz'th and Sa- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 297 

rah Booth, early m. into the Pease family. Robert Booth, of Saco, 
sworn a freeman in Mass., 1653. Lyman Booth, freeman at Mai- 
den, 1680. Booth was an early New England name from the west 
of England. 

BOSTWICK, ARTHUR, (Bostock, Bostick,) was from Cheshire 
in England, and settled at Stratford, Conn., with his wife ai>d sons 
John and Zachariah, as early as 1650, where the name is spelled 
Bostock, Bostick, izc, on the record. In 1659, his wife petitioned 
the Gen'l Court regarding her husband's lands ; said Arthur agreed 
that the Court should appoint Mr. Blackman, Goodman Beardsley, 
Mr. Fairchild and Joseph Judson, of Stratford, to be a committee to 
settle the question, and in May, 1660, the Gen'l Court confirmed 
'•ye act of the Committee at Stratford, about Arthur Bostock's es- 
tate." Mr. Bostock had a large landed estate in Stratford. Soon 
after 1600, Artlmr gave most of his estate by contract to his son John, 
in which John stipulated to support his father, and " find him a horse 
when he wished to ride forth," &:c. His son John of Stratford, was 
nominated for a freeman, Oct., 1668. Arthur and John were both 
in the list of freemen at Stratford, in 1669. 

ZECHARIAH, probably the 2d son of Arthur, was not made a 
freeman, though land is found conveyed to him about 1078. From 
the different deeds I am inclined to believe that Arthur, Sen., had 
sons John, Zechariah and Arthur, yet have no positive evidence to 
prove it so, except in the case of the first, John. 

JOHN, son of Arthur, Sen., removed to New Milford, in 1707, 
the 2d settler in the town. He had seven sons b. at Stratford, viz., 
2d John, b. 1686 ; Robert, Ebenezer, Joseph, Nath'l, b. 1699, Lem- 
uel, b. 1704, and Daniel. 

BOSTWICK, Maj. JOHN, son of John, Sen., b. 1686, resided at 
New Milford ; he m. Mercy Bushnell, of Danbury, daughter of Fran- 
cis, Jan. 3, 1712, and had issue, Bushnell, b. Nov. 16, 1712, d. Jan. 
31, 1793; 3d John, b. March 24, 1715, d. Dec. 17, 1806; Benajah, 
b. Feb. 8, 1718, d. Oct. 23, 1776 ; David, b. Jan. 8, 1721, d. Nov. 
12, 1763; Samuel, b. Aug. 3, 1723, d. Sept. 23, 1789. 

BOSTWICK, BUSHNELL, son of John, m. Mariam Skeelcs, of 
Woodbury, Jan. 26, 1737, lived (on Second Hill,) in New Milford, 
and was an important man in the town and Colony. He was Justice 
of the Quorum in Litchfield County from 1762, to 1776 — he was 
thirty sessions a member of the Gen'l Assembly from N. Milford ; 
the ditTorent members of the family had represented the town of N. 
Milford in the Gen'l Assembly of the Colony and State seventy -six 



298 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

sessions before A. D. 1800, except Col. Elisha, was last elected in 
1815. Tlie children of Bushnell and Mariam, were Jonathan, b. 
March 27, 1738, d. March 16, 1812; Shadrack, b. Sept. 25, 1742, 
d. June 30, 1825; Mabel, b. Sept. 4, 1744, d. April 29, 1818 ; Is- 
rael, b. Aug. 7, 1749, d. July 11, 182G, and Mercy, b. Aug. 7, 1749, 
(twins,) d. 1820. 

EIIASTUS, the 5th child of the first Jonathan Bostwick, m. Sally 
T., daughter of Rev. Whitman Welch, of Williannstown, Mass., Feb. 
10, 1793, and settled in Hinesburgh, Vt., where he was the first 
Post Master, Justice of Peace, Representative two years in the Gen'l 
Assembly, and Town Clerk and Treasurer forty years. 

SHADRACH, the 2d child of Bushnell Bostwick, never married. 

MABEL, the 3d child of Bushnell, m. Dr. Jonathan Downs, of N. 
Mil ford, and had an only child who lived to marry. 

MERCY, the 4th child of Bushnell, m. Elizur Bostwick, and had 
children. 

ISRAEL, the 5th child of Bushnell Bostwick, m. Eliz'th Mallory 

of Bethlem, July 12, 1767, and had issue, Eliz'th, b. d. 1812; 

Lois, b. 1770, d. March 22, 1846; Caleb Noble, b. April 28, 1772, 
d. July 29, 1849 ; Alanson, b. Feb. 17, 1774 ; Jared, b. 1778 ; Polly, 
1779. 

BOSTWICK, JOHN, the 2d son of the 2d John, lived in the north 
part of N. Milford. He was many years a deacon in the church. 
He m. Jemima Canfield, of N. Milford; issue, Jesse, Edward, Mat- 
thew, Gilbert, John and Nathan. 

BOSTWICK, BENAJAH, the 3d son of the 2d John, m. Hannah 
Fiske, Feb. ?, 1742; issue, David and John. 

BOSTWICK, Rev. DAVID, the 4th son of 2d John, b. 1720, m. 
Mary Hinman, of Southbury, July 30, 1739, and had issue, Andrew, 
David, Wm., James, Mercy, Polly, Hannah, Amelia, Lucretia, and 
Nancy. Rev. David Bostwick was a minister of the old Wall street 
Presbyterian Church in the city of N. York. He was first settled 
at Jamaica, L. I., and transferred to the Wall Street Church in N. 
Y., 1756. He d. in charge of the latter church Nov. 12, 1763; he 
was a man of piety, and exalted reputation in his profession. 

BOSTWICK, SAMUEL, 5th child of 2d John, m. Anna Fiske, 
March 28, 1748; issue. Col. Elisha, b. Dec. 17, 1748, d. Dec. 11, 
1834; Jared, b. Aug. 9, 1751, d. April 3, 1778 ; Samuel, b. Jan. 
19, 1775, d. April 3, 1799. Col. Elisha, son of Sam'l, resided in 
New Milford, where he was universally respected. He was Lieut. 
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at Boston — he was afterward a Col. of militia — he was Town Clerk 
of N. M., over fifty years — he was fifteen sessions a member of the 
(Jen'l Asembly of Conn., and a Justice of Peace most of his life — he 
ni. Betty Ferris, May 14, 1786, and had three children, Jared, b. 
May 24, 1787, now living; Betsey Ann, b. July 11, 1792, (m. Hon. 
VVni. M. Burrall for his 2d wife, she has since deceased without is- 
sue ;) Samuel Jl., d. aged two years. 

BOSTVVICK, ROBERT, the 2d son of tiio 1st John, m. Rachel 
Holmes, of Bedford, N. Y. (See Genealogy of Bostwicks, by Eras- 
tus Bosiwick.) 

BOSTVVICK, EBENEZER, the 3d son of the 1st John, m. Re- 
becca Bunnell, of Stratford, resided in Brookfield ; children, Eben- 
ezer, Robert, Gersham, Edmund, b. Sept. 15, 1732, d. Feb. 20, 
1826, and Isaac. 

BOSTWICK, JOSEPH, the 4th son of the 1st John, resided in 
the north part of New Milford, a farmer ; he m. Rebecca Wheeler, 
of Stratford, July 23, 1724, and had issue, Parnell, b. May 16, 1726 ; 
Joseph, b. Aug. 19, 1728; Mercy, b. June 12, 1731 ; Abel, b. Jan. 
15, 1734 ; Ichabod, b. Sept. 1, 1737, and Rebecca, b. Sept. 1, 1741. 
Joseph the father, d. Sept. 27, 1756. 

BOSTVVICK, NATHANIEL, the 5th son of John, Sen., was b. at 
Stratford, 1G99, but resided at New Milford ; he m. Esther, daughter 
of Sam'l Hitchcock, of N. Milford, Oct. 7, 1727, and had issue, Ar- 
tliur, b. June 28, 1729, d. Jan. 10, 1802; Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1730, 
d. Oct. 17, 1818; Lois, b. March 16, 1732, d. Oct. 24, 1757; Reu- 
ben, b. Sept. 2, 1734; Zadock, b. Feb. 18, 1736; Abigail, b. July 
20, 1737, d. Aug. 9, 1758; Elijah, b. June 8," 1740 ; Gideon, b. 
Sept. 21, 1742, d. June, 1793 ; Eunice, b. Aug. 21, 1744, d. June, 
1836; Tamer, b. May 31, 1746 ; Ichabod, b. Dec. 13, 1747, d. Oct., 
1776. His wife d. Dec, 1747, and Natli'l m. Jeruslia Baldwin for 
his 2d wife, and had a daughter Jehannaii. Nalh'l the father d. Ju- 
ly 13, 1756. 

BOSTVVICK, LEMUEL, the 6th son of John, Sen., b. 1704, and 
grandson of Arthur, Sen., m. Anna Jackson, of Stratford, Sept. 5, 
1729 ; she was b. in 170S, and d. at Ilinesburgii, Vt., June 20, 1800, 
aged 92. Lemuel lived in N. Milford, north of tiie Great Falls. 
Issue, Isaac, b. Sept. 30, 1730, d. April 21, 1818; Eunice and An- 
ner. Lemuel the father d. 1791. 

BOSTVVICK, DANIEL, the 7th son of the 1st John, was the first 
wiiite male cl)ild b. in N. Milford. He long kept an Inn, in the vil- 
lage of N. Milford. He m. Hannah Hitchcock, daughter of Samuel, 



300 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

Dec. 14, 173G. He d. Dec. 23, 1782, aged 74. Issue, Daniel, Amos, 
Esther and Annis, 

BOSTWICK, ZECHARIAH, of Stratford, supposed the son of 
Arthur, Sen., and brother of John, Sen., is found by deeds, settled at 
Stratford ; he had six children, Benjamin, Abraham, and four others. 
This Benjamin removed to N. Mil ford, as did his brother Abraham. 
Benjamin, who is early found at Stratford, was probably the above 
Benj'n, son of Zechariah, and grandson of Arthur. Cyrus, the 6th 
child of the 1st Jonathan, m. and removed to Monkton, Vt., and after- 
ward to Vergennes, Vt. Elizur, the 7th child of Jonathan, Sen., 
m. at N. Milford ; removed first into the state of N. Y., and after- 
ward to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wm., 8th child of Jonathan, Sen., 
was a physician ; he settled first in Torrington, and thence removed 
to Burlington^ Vt., where he was drowned while crossing the lake j 
he m. Philomela, daughter of Dr. James Potter, of Sherman, Ct. 
Lyman, son of Nathan, m. in Conn., and removed to Essex, Chitten- 
den County, Vt., and d. in Starksborough, Vt. Charles, 4th child 
of Benj'n, graduated at Y. C, in 1798, located at Bridgport, where 
he was Judge of the City Court, Mayor of the city, a lawyer by pro- 
fession ; he m. Catherine Peet, and had seven children. Ebenezer, 
son of Edmond, with his father and brothers removed from N. Mil- 
ford, to Hinesburgh. Vt., in 1788, thence to Elizabethtown, N. Y., 
and thence to Rootstown, in Ohio, in 1803, where he d. Andrew, 
son of Ebenezer, has issue, Oliver and Charles in N. York. Ger- 
shom, 5th child of Edmond, removed from N. Milford, to Hines- 
burgh, Vt., when the town was new ; his son Dr. Chas. B., removed 
to Vt., in 1788, and afterwards to Ohio. Ezbon, 8th child of Ed- 
mand, also removed first to Vt., and thence to Ohio. Dr. Homer, 
4th son of Heman, of Ohio, was b. in Edenburgh, Ohio, Oct. 25, 
1806, has been noted in the City of N. Y., as a physician and sur- 
geon. Andrew, son of Joseph, and brother of Joseph E., removed 
to Montgomery, N. Y. Arthur, the 1st child of Nath'l, the 5th son 
of the 1st John, removed from N. Milford, to Manchester, Vt., in ■ 
1792, and thence to Jericho, Vt. Nath'l, 2d son of Arthur, the first 
child of Nath'l, removed to Jericho, Vt., 1788. The New Haven 
Bostwicks, are of this family from New Milford. It will be noticed 
by the few cases extracted above, that many of the Bostwicks of 
New Milford, removed to Vermont, N. York and Ohio, and few of 
the orio-inal Puritan families of Stratford and New Milford, have suc- 
ceeded better than that of Arthur Bostwicks. (Most of these facts 
are extracts from a genealogy collected by Erastus Bostwick, and 



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Stratford record.) Bostock has three coats of arms. Five of the 
name have graduated at Y. College, and two by the name of Bostick, 
at Harvard College. 

BOSTOCK, LAUGHTON, shipped for Virginia, in 1635, ''ini. 
barqued in y* merch't Bonaventure, James Riecrofte, mr. bound thith- 
er;" took the oath of allegiance. 

BOSSVVELL, JAMES, was not at Wethersfield as early as some 

others. He owned land there, he purchased of Richard H 

Oct. 2, 1654 ; also one lot cast of Great River of 130 acres — One 
lot he purchased of Samuel Smith — One other lot east of great riv- 
er — He also had other lands in Wethersfield — He died there in 
1660 — Estate £62, 7s. He was made a freeman in Ct., in 1658. 

BUSWELL, (or Boswell,) ROBERT, of Canterbury, husband- 
man, in 1703, bought 100 acres of land in Canterbury, of Samuel 
Adams and Obadiah Johnson, of Canterbury, and Peter Leavens of 
Killingly, except a half acre for a burial ground, now a little north 
of Canterbury green ; and the old domain is now occupied by Mr. 
Ensvvorth, whose wife is a lineal descendant of Robert Boswell, 
through his son Thomas, who m. Prudence. This Thomas was a 
principal man, and deacon among the Separatists. There was also 
a son Moses, who m. Mehitable Baker and had a family. Hannah, 
wife of Robert Buswell, d. at Canterbury, Nov. 6, 1717, and he m. 
for his 2d wife Mary, widow of Josiah Cleveland, Jan. 22, 1721-2. 
{Canterbury Record and Learned.) 

BOSWELL, SAMUEL, embarked in the Primrose, Capt. Doug- 
lass master, for Virginia, July 27, 1635. 

Boswell an English Embassador beinir in the Netherlands with 
Rev. Hugh Peters, complained to his Government against Peters, 
for speeches made in Netherlands. 

Isaac Buswell of Salisbury, Mass., freeman 1690. 

The Boswells of Norwich and Hartford, are supposed to be de- 
scendants of the same family. 

BOSWORTH, DAVID, m. Mary Strong, June 27, 1743, pr. Ja- 
cob Eliot Pastor of Goshen, in Lebanon. 

Jabis Bosworth m. Sarah Bradford. 

BOTTOM ; this name was not as early as some others at Plain- 
field. Joshua Bottom of Plainfield, was a Lieut in the war of the 
Revolution ; appointed in 1777. 

BOWE, (BOW,) ALEXANDER, removed early to Middletown, 
where he d. Nov. 6, 1678, and his will was presented by his relict; 
the will was imperfect, as some of his children were born after the 
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302 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

date of it, and his wife then enceinte. The court gave his widow her 
thirds, by a contract made before marriage, dated, Oct. 30, 1673; 
the remainder to the children, born and unborn. Ensign William 
Cheeny and Sergt, William Ward overseers. His widow died in 
1684, and left three young children and several older ones : one was 
placed with Mr. Collins — one with with Ensign Cheeny — and the 
youngest with Tho's Ward, and were ordered by the Court to be 
bound out until 18 years of age. 

Alexander had children by his two wives, viz., Samuel, b. Jan. 
28, 1659; m. Mary Turner, May 9, 1683; Sarah, b. June, 1662, d. 
1665; Mary b. Jan. 18, 1663-4: His wife d. and he m. Rebecca 

H Nov. 26, 1673, and had Anne, b. Sept. 10, 1674 ; Ma- 

ry b. Dec. 5, 1676 ; m. Tho's Stow, Jr., Feb. 28, 1700--1 ; Rebec- 
ca, b. April 19, 1679: Alexander Bow d. Nov. 6, 1678, before the 
birth of Rebecca. 

BOW, SAMUEL, son of Alexander, m. Mary Turner in 1683, 
and had children, Sarah, b. March 27, 1683-4; Samuel, Jr., b. 
June 15, 1685; m. Abigail Rowley, of Windsor, April 14, 1710; 
Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1687-8 ; Alexander, b. Oct. 25, 1692 ; d. Jan. 29, 
1692-3; Edward, b. Oct. 25, 1692, m. Anne Pryer April 4, 1717; 
Sarah, b. Oct. 1695; 2d Alexander, b. Jan. 2. 1701; Thankful, 
b. Oct. 23, 1698; Jerusha, b. March 31, 1705-6: Samuel Bow, 
the father, d. June 15, 1741 ; his widow Mary, d. April 25, 1747. 

BOW, EDWARD, son of Samuel, m. Anna Pryer, 1717, and 
had Martha, b. Aug 23, 1717 ; Edward, Jr., b. April 11, 1720; Ma- 
ry, b. Dec". 11, 1723 ; Daniel, b. Feb. 8, 1725-0 ; Edward the fa- 
ther, d. Sept. 17, 1725. 

BOW, SAMUEL, Jr., m. Abigail Rowley, of Windsor, 1710; 
children, Annah, b. April 30, 1712: his wife d. Oct. 7, 1713 ; and 
he m. Hannah West for his 2d wife, Oct. 7, 1714 ; daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Hannah West; children, Amos, b. Aug. 18, 1715; 
Phebe, b. Aug. 25, 1717 ; Samuel, b. July 25, 1719 ; Eleazer, b. 
April 1, 1721 ; Elisha, b. April 1, 1729 ; d. Jan. 25, 1756. Han- 
nah, wife of Sam'l Bow Jr., d. Jan. 5, 1756. Mr. Samuel Bow, Jr., 
d. Dec. 21, 1775. (Stearns and Records.) 

Jo Bowes, Jo Bowton, &c., embarked for Virginia in the Assur- 
ance de London, Isaac Bromwell and George Peauise Master, 1635. 

Bows has two coats of arms. 

BOWERS, MORGAN, and Wm. Hyde, both testified before 
Gen'l John Mason in May, 1673, that they remembered Obid the In- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 303 

dian ; that he was four years a servant to Mr. Fenwick at Saybrook ; 
and that Mr. Fenwick engaged to give him a parcel of land not less 
than four acres ; and that Obid's father possessed the land before his 
time was out. Obid's rock, so called in Saybrook, received its name 
from Obid's offering a deer on this rock to the great spirit. The 
Dept. Governor in May, 1666, was requested to give the freeman's 
oath to Morgan Bowers, "of Norridge." 

BOWERS, MORGAN, Norwich, 1660. He is said by Miss Caulk- 
ins, to have been illiterate and thriftless, and was the first case of 
penury in Norwich ; and in 1700 was one of the few surviving pro- 
prietors of Norwich. 

BOWERS, RUTH, m. John Frisbie, of Branford, Dec. 2, 1674. 

BOWERS, JOHN, of Branford was proposed for a freeman, 1669. 

BOWER, AZEL, and Susannah his wife, of East Windsor, deed- 
ed land to Moses Mills, of New Hartford, situated in West Hartford, 
April 9, 1777. 

BOWERS, Rev. JOHN, from Cambridge, Mass., (if found atOuil- 
ford, Ct., owning a house and lot there ;) from thence he went to N. 
Haven, and was afterwards ordained at Derby, before 1680 ; he had 
occasionally preached at Guilford after the removal of Mr. Higgin- 
son — He was the first settled minister at Derby, where he remained 
a few years. Rev. Joseph Moss succeeded him, and was ordained 
there about 1706. Mr. Bowers left Derby and went to Rye, about 
1689. A John Bowers was a land holder at Greenwich, in 1672. 

BOWERS, Rev. BENJAMIN, b. at Roxbury, Mass., graduated 
at Harvard College in 1733, and settled in the ministry at Middle 
Haddam, Conn., Sept 14, or 24, 1740, and d. May, 1761, aged 45. 
His descendants a).*e now in that part of Conn. 

BOWERS, Rev. NATHANIEL, succeeded Mr. Wakeman, 
about 1716, previous to Rev. Mr. Whittlesey at Newark, N. Jersey. 
In Aug., 1716, it was voted by the town of Newark, to choose a 
committee, " to see out some way to procure a minister for the Town, 
to supply the place of Mr. Nath'l Bowers, deceased." {Cong.) 

Bowrc has one coat of arms. Bower has ten. Bowers has three 
coats of arms. ' 

BOWERS, EBENEZER, aged 19 years, of Windsor, 1726, 

chose Mathew Grant for his guardian. The name is yet at Wind'r. 

BOWMAN, NATHANIEL, ( Inn-holder at Wethersficld in 

1706-7.) He died unmarried without issue, in 1707, and gave his 

small estate to Samuel Buck, of Wethersfield. 

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304 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

a single man and lived in the fiimily of Samuel Buck. John Bow- 
man was taxed in the Plymouth Colony as early as 1633. Solomon 
Bowman was a Lieut, in Capt. Lock's Company, Col. Gardner's 
Regiment of Cambridge, in July 1775. Nath'l Bowman, freeman 
in Mass., 1630. Wm. Boman, an Indian of Naticke, in Mass., 
1656. Francis Bowman took the oath of fidelity in Mass., 1652. 
Only one of this name ever resided in Wethersfield. 

BOWTON, BOUTON, BOUGHTON, JOHN, appears in the list 
of early settlers at Norvvalk, in Conn., as early as 1655, where he 
is found in the Table "of Estates of lands and accommodations;" 
he probably came from Mass. to Conn. Rev. Mr. Hall states in his 
Genealogical Register of Norwalk, that Mr. Bowton was a French 
Protestant, and that the name is yet in France and Germany ; it is 
also in England. The name of Boughton has eleven coats of arms. 
Bovvden has five, and Bowton has one, in Burk's Heraldry, and some 
of them are quite ancient. He was at Norwalk several years pre- 
vious to the Edict of Nantz, and the time of the general escape of 
the Huguenots to this country to avoid the persecution of the French 
Government. Mr. Bowton proved a highly respectable settler, and 
represented Norwalk in the Gen'l Court of Conn., Oct., 1671 — Oct., 
1673 — May, 1674 — May, 1675. John Bowden and Mark Sension, 
Oct., 1676. John Boughton, May and Oct. 1677, &c. 

BOWTON, JOHN, had his certificate and was examined by the 
minister of Gravesend, in England, of his " conformitie in o' Reli- 
gion," and took his oath of allegiance to be transported to Virginia 
in the ship Assurance, in 1635. 

BOWTON, JO, embarked for Virginia in the Alice, Richard 
Orchard master, July, 1635. One of these men was probably the 
John Bowton found at Norwalk, Conn, in 1655. 

Mr. BOWTON, probably was twice married. His daughter 
Bridgett, m. Daniel Kellogg, of Norwalk, in 1665, who must have 
been born before her father came to Norwalk. John Bowton mar- 
ried Abigail Marvin, daughter of Mathew, Sen., (for his 2d wife,) 
January 1, 1656, and had issue, John, b. Sept. 30, 1659; Mathew, 
b. Dec. 24, 1661 ; Rachel, b. Dec. 6, 1664; Abigail, b 1670; Ma- 
ry, b. May 26, 1671. 

BOWTON, Deacon JOHN, son of John, married and had two 
sons, Jakin and Joseph. 

BOWTON, JAKIN, grandson of John, Sen., m. • 

and had by his first .wife, viz., Joseph and Sarah ; and by his 2d 
wife, Esaias and Moses, and several daughters. 



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BOWTON, JOSEPH, son of Jakin, m. Susannah, daughter of 
Joshua Raymond, Aug. 25, 1748, and had sons William, Josiiua, 
Joseph, Jr., Seth, Ira and Aaron; and daughters Rebecca, Betty, 
Nancy, Susannah and Deborah. Joseph was an officer against the 
French Provinces, in 175S-9. 

BOVVTON, WILLIAM, son of Joseph, m. Sarah Benedict, in 
17G9, and had issue ; Isaac, d. in infancy ; 2d Isaac, Wni., Jr., Bet- 
ty, Esther, Sally, Clara, Seth, Joseph, Susannah, John, Mary, Ann 
and Nathaniel. 

Joseph, son of Joseph, was killed at Red Hook, N. Y., during the 
war of the Revolution. Seth was killed by falling from a tree. 
Joshua went into the army as drummer ; was taken prisoner and 
placed on board a ship of war, and so continued until peace was de- 
clared, and afterwards became a Sea Captain. (See HalVs Record 
of Norwalk.) This family have been connected by marriage with 
several of the best early families in Connecticut. 

BOYD, JOHN, of Kenilworth, m. Judith Bartlet, March 28, 1G76, 
and the name is yet found in that part of Conn. Francis Boyed de- 
ceased of W'oodbury, was b. in Killingworth, and d. quite aged at 
Woodbury, several years since. This name has been an old and 
respectable family at Winsted. Dorothy Boyd, of Killingworth, 
m. Richard Carr, Feb. 10, 1684. Peter Boyd of Hartford, d. 1780. 
The name is found in Rhode Island and Maine. The name of Boyd 
has ten coats of arms, and Boyde has one. 

BOYES, SAMUEL, of Saybrook, m. Lidia Bemond, daughter of 
Wm. Bcament, Feb. 3, 1667, and had issue; Joseph b. in Barba- 
does, and d. at Saybrook, March 22, 1682-3 ; Michael, b. May 26, 
1683; d. same year: Samuel the father, d. Oct. 4, 1683, aged 48 
years. Mr. Samuel Boyes was an Inn-keeper at Saybrook, in 1682. 
BOYSON, THOMAS, had one lot of land, in Watertown, Mass., 
at an early period. 

Boyce or Boyse has one coat of arms. Boyes has six. Bovs has 
twenty-two coats, and Boyze two — and Bois has three coats of arms. 
BOYSE, MATHEW, freeman in Mass, in 1639. Joseph Boyse 
free in Mass., 1642. 

BOYKEN, NATHANIEL, of N. Haven, presented for a freeman 
in May, 1669. 
BRACKET, Mr. JOHN, of Wallingford, Deputy, Oct., 1671— 

Deputy, May, 1672 — Commissioner for Wallingford, May, 1672 

Deputy, Oct., 1673— Deputy, Oct., 1674— Deputy, May, 1675. 
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306 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

William Bracket was sent by John Mason, Esq., of N. H., to New 
Hampshire, as a laborer. 

Though the name is written Bracket, it may have been John 
Brocket, who was in the New Haven Colony, and yet has several 
descendants in Conn. 

Rich'd Bracket, free, Mass., May, 1636. Peter Bracket had a son 
John, b. at Boston, 1641 ; Joseph, b. 1642. Richard Bracket had a 
daughter Mary, b. in Boston, 1641. Anthony Bracket, Mass., 1694. 
Peter, free, 1643. 

John, of Boston, free 1666. John, of Billerica, free 1670. James, 
free, of Boston or Charlestown, Mass., 1673. James, free, of Bev- 
erly, 1675. Peter, of Billerica, free, 1680. Eliz'th Brackett m. 
Samuel Bass, 1772 ; her mother was Ann Rawson. 

BRACY, JOHN, m. Mary, daughter of Jonathan Webster, Feb. 
22, 170.5-6 ; he died at Wethersfield, Jan, 19, 1709, an aged man. 

BRACY, HENRY, and his wife Ann Collier, m. Jan. 30, 1706, 
of Hartford ; had issue born in Hartford, viz., Ann, b, Dec. 28, 1707 ; 
Phebe, b. Jan. 6, 1707-8, d. Feb., 1708; 2d Phebe, b. Dec. 23, 
1710; Henry, Jr., b. March 15, 1713. 

BRACY, STEPHEN, m. Hannah Lane, or Law, March 30, 1701 ; 
issue, Nath'l, b. Oct. 30, 1711; Sarah, July 1, 1713; Samuel, b. 
Sept. 4, 1716; Abigail, b. June 19, 1718; Benj'n, b. Feb. 5, 1719, 
and Ruth, b. Sept. 19, 1722. 

Thomus Bracy was taxed at Hadley, Mass., in 1682. Bracy has 
four coats of arms, and Brasy one. 

It was voted at Hartford, in 1683, that Stephen Bracy, Ensign 
Stanly, Mr. Cyprian Nichols, Joseph Bull and David Ensign, should 
have all the land in rear of their lots, in the way to Rocky Hill, 
down to the river, &c. The name of Brace and Bracy, are often 
found on the same deed. Eliz'th Bracy gave a deed to her son 
Henry, and Elisshabe Bliss her daughter, of land in Hartford, in 
1810, and signed her name Elizabeth Brace, perhaps the same name. 

BRACKET, JOHN, was appointed by the Gen'l Court of Conn., 
to lay out to John Stone the land granted Stone, Oct. 12, 1071. 

BRACKET, BENJAMIN, presented for nomination for freeman 
from Now Haven, 1669. (Perhaps Brocket.) 

BRATFIELD, LESLEY, in Wethersfield, in 1641, was a plaint- 
iff in Court at Hartford, against Thomas Coleman, in 1643. By the 
will of Edward Vier, of Wethersfield, he gave Lysly " Bradfield" 
three pounds,'' July 19, 1645. Bradfield belonged to Totokette, as 
noted in Vier's inventory, as debtor to the estate £i. Bradfield drew 



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lands in Branford, in 1646, also Robert Abbot, also Bratfield, dec, 
in 1646. Samuel Bradfield had liberty of the town of Branford to 
take up two acres of land at Stoney Creek, in Branford, also six 
acres of land laid out, which had been granted to Capt. Topping, 
1686. Eliz'th Bradfield died at Branford July 26, 1655, and her 
daughter d. the same year. Samuel Bradfield, Wm. Bartholomew, 
and John Butler, of Branford, were surveyors of highways in 1684. 
Wm. Bartholomew the first of the name in the N. Haven Colon v, 
was allowed by Branford twelve acres of land, for the time and 
money he had expended to procure a minister for the town in 1683. 
Bradfield was in the fence division, with Robert Abbott, &c., in 
Branford, in 1645. This name is spelt Bratfield and Bradfield, prob- 
ably the same name. 

BRACE, STEPHEN, came from London in England, and settled 
in Hartford, about 1660 ; he was by trade a hatter, the exact time 
he came to Hartford is not known ; Porter locates him on lot 13, in 
Charter street, 1673; he lived near Little river in Hartford, where 
he d. in 1692, and left a widow and children, viz., Eliz'th, Phebe, 
Ann, Stephen, John and Henry. By his will he directed his son 
Henry to be put to a trade — he was of good standing and estate — he 
owned land at Rocky Ilill, Great meadow and other places, includ- 
ing his Padaquanck lands — his eetate was j£400. 

BRACE, JOHN, son of Stephen, Sen., was b. at Hartford, in 1677 ; 



•Hon. Jonathan Brace was b. at Harwinton, Ct., Nov. 12, 1754 — graduated at Y. C, 1779^ 
read law willi Chief Justice O. Ellsworth, then of Hartford — admitted to the Bar in Bennington, 
Vt., Nov., 1779 — first opened his otfice for practice in Pawlet, Vt., and remained there about 
three years, and in 1 782, in April, removed to Manchester ; while hera, he extended liis practice 
jnto the counties of Rutland and Bennington, and had the appointuient of State's Attorney, for 
Bennington County. lie was also appointed one of the Council of Censors, to revise the con- 
stitution of Vt. In January, 1786, he returned to his native State, and opened his office at 
Glastenbury, where he remained eight years; in 1794, he removed to Hartford, where in 1807, 
he was appointed Attorney for the State in the county of Hartford. In 1809, he received the 
appointment of Judge of Probate, and of the County Court, and resigned the office of States 
Attorney, and relinquished the practice of law. He resigned the office of County Court Judge 
in 1821, and in 1824, declined the appointment of Probate Judge. Sept., 1815, he was elected 
Mayor of the City of Hartford, and ex officio Judge of the ciiy court, which office he was con- 
tinued in until he became disqualified by law in 1824, to hold it longer. He was elected a mem- 
ber of Congress from Conn., in 1798, which he held until 1801. Mr. Brace was among the 
first lawyers in Vermont, and was 2d of the profession in Rutland County, and there before the 
county was incorporated ; he was clerk of the first court of the county after its organization* 
and acted as attorney against Hon. N. Cliipman, in the eleven cases which composed the firit 
docket of the county. C. L. JV. 



308 GENEALOGY OF THE . PURITANS. 

lie m. — and settled at Hartford, and had three sons b. at Hart- 
ford, viz., Jonathan, b. 1708 ; Elisha and Joseph. 

BRACE, JONATHAN, son of John, and grandson of Stephen, 
Sen., removed to and became one of the original settlers and propri- 
etors of the town of Harvvinton, as early as 1740 ; he m. * Miss Ma- 
ry Messenger, of Hartford, and had ten children, five sons and five 
daughters, one of each sex died young, the other's had families ; he 
died when nearly 80 years of age ; his sons Elizer, Jonathan, Jr., 
b. Nov. 12, 1754, James and Nathaniel, survived their father. 

BRACE, Hon. JONATHAN, son of Jonathan, was b. at Har- 
winton, Nov. 12, 1754. On the 15th day of April, 1778, he m. 
Mn',. Ann Kimberly, of Glastenbury, the widow of Thomas Kimber- 
ly, Esq., (who was blown up in a powder mill ;) she had two chil- 
dren by her first husband, viz., Anson and Electa Kimberly. An- 
son settled in Georgia, where he m. and died ; he left issue, and a large 
estate. His sister Electa is now living in Hartford, a maiden lady. 
Hon. Jonathan's children were Hon. Tho's Kimberly Brace, b. Oct. 
16, 1779, and Fanny, b. Sept. 23, 1781. His daughter Fanny, m. 
Professor Frederick Hall, first of Middlebury College, Vt., and after- 
wards at Trinity College, in Hartford ; both d. without issue. Hon. 
Jonathan, of Hartford, d. Oct. 26, 1837, aged 83 years. 

BRACE, Hon. THOMAS K., graduated at Y. College, in 1801 ; 
read law at Litchfield with Judges Reeve and Gould, and was admit- 
ted to the Bar, and soon after entered largely into commercial busi- 
ness at Hai'tford for a few years, and now and for many years, has 
been the trustworthy President of the ^tna Insurance Company at 
Hartford ; otherwise he has retired upon an ample fortune. He has 
represented the town of Hartford, in both branches of the Legislature, 
and has been nominated by his party as a candidate for Congress, 
which he declined. He was Mayor of the city of Hartford, until 
he declined holding the office longer. He m. for his first wife Lucy 
M. Lee, of Westfield, Mass., daughter of John Lee, Esq. ; his chil- 
dren were Francis Ann, m. James Bunce, of Hartford; she d. and 
left three children; Mary d. aged about twelve years; .Rev. Jona- 
than Brace of Milford, now pastor there. Lucy Eliz'th, m. Henry 
Pratt, merchant, N. York ; his family reside at his residence at Hart- 



* After Jonathan Brace, the father of Judge Brace, was engaged to be married to Miss Mes- 
senger, of Hartford, lie passed over the bridge between Hartford and West Hartford, to make 
her a visit, and while he was crossing the bridge, she was drowning in the river under it, hav- 
ing upset in a boat, and he soon after married her sister Mary Messenger, who became the moth- 
er of his children. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 309 

ford. Clarissa m. Walter Smith of N. York ; she died and left three 
children. Wm. H. was lost at sea unmarried. Thomas K., Jr., a 
partner of his brother-in-law, Pratt, in the city of N. Y., unmarried. 
Mrs. Brace the mother, died, and he m. for his 2d wife, Mrs. Emily 
Burnham, (of Longmeadow, Mass., maiden name Burt,) by whom 
he has no children. 

BRACE, PHEBE, m. John Piatt, of Milford, June 27, 1675. 

BRACE, MARY, m. John Smith, a tailor at Milford, June 1, 1099. 

BRACE, ELISHA, son of John ; wife Jerusha, of Hartford, ad- 
ministratrix of his estate in 1752. Inventory, £631, 8*. lOd. His 
children were John, aged 19, chose Deacon Merrill for guardian in 
1762 ; Jared, aged 15, chose Jon'n Brace, of Ilarwinton, for guard- 
ian, in 1762; Elisha, chose'said Jonathan Brace, of Harwinlon, for 
guardian, in 1762. (Perhaps Johanna and Judith.) 

BRACE, STEPHEN, Jr., (felt-maker in Hartford,) son of Ste- 
phen. Sen., from London, (a brother of John,) will proved in Court, 
1755, widow Sarah — large estate — children, John ; Daniel, ho gave 
land in Tolland ; Ruth, Benjamin, William, Nath'l, land in Tolland ; 
Samuel, Elizabeth Holida, Sarah Burlison, Abigail Knickerbocker. 
Ruth m. Edwards ; will dated Feb. 26, 1755 ; he was aged at his 
decease. In 1710, Stephen Brace or Bracy, felt-maker, purchased 
land of Nath'l Willet, wheelwright in Hartford. 

BRACE, HENRY, son of Stephen, m. Ann, and had children. 
His widow Ann and son Henry, were Administrators on his estate 
in 1751. Inventory, j£978, bs. 3d. He had several children, 
one of whom was Henry, Jr. He gave his son Henry all his car- 
penter's tools — half his house — half his right in the barn — all his 
right in the grist-mill, by his paying his debts, funeral charges, and 
supporting his father during life, «Ssc. 

* BRACE, Capt. HENRY: will exhibited by his son Henry, as 
Executor, in 1788, and inventory over c£460, exhibited in Court. 
Will dated Dec. 28, 1781— Inventory dated Oct. 9, 1787. The 
children named in his will are Henry, Abel, Joseph, Riel, Moses, 
Elizabeth Gadwell, Rhoda Woodruff, Ann Brayman and Mary Wad- 

• The name of Bracy and Brace are found upon the Probate and Town records at Hartford 
in one or more cases where the name Dracy is used in the body of the deed and signed by tliR 
name of Brace, which renders it more diflicult to give tlie hne of Henry Brace. (See ISracy.) 

The direct hne from Stephen lot to Rev. Joab Brace is, 1 Stephen, 2 Henry, 3 Henry, 4 Ze- 
nv. ^ Joab, C Joab. (Henry Brace owned the Covenant in Church, May 4, 17i9; Noadiah, 
April 30, 1732; Zenas, Sept. 25, 1748: hia wife June 22, 1760; Joseph, Nov. 14, 17C2, and 
EJizabeth liis wife also. ( fV. U. Church Rec.) 



310 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

worth. He also had a son Zenas, then deceased and others. He 
was a Carpenter by trade, and Farmer. 

BRACE, ABEL, son of Henry, baptized 1740 ; m. Miss Wood, 
ruff, and removed to Hartland, where he and Maj'r Uriel Holmes 
were the oft repeated representatives of the town, to the Gen'l As- 
sembly of Conn. He was a Captain of a Company in the war of 
the Revolution. In his old age he removed with most of his fam- 
ily of fifteen children to Litchfield, N. Y., since called Winfield, 
where he d., aged 92. His son James settled, at Litchfield, Conn., 
and m. Susan Pierce and had children : he d. there April, 1834, 
aged 65 years. He was the father of John P. Brace, Esq., the for- 
mer teacher and principal of the celebrated female school at Hart- 
ford, and is now the Editor of the Conn. Courant, at Hartford. The 
last is the father of Charles L. Brace the noted traveler in Europe, 
who was imprisoned by the Austrians at Gross Wardein, in Hun- 
gary, upon the suspicion of his being a spy against their government. 

BRACE, ZENAS, son of Henry, a farmer in West Hartford, m. 
1st, Deliverance Goodwin, and had one daughter : His wife d. ; and 
he m. for his 2d wife, Mary Skinner, and had six sons and two 
daughters, viz., 

1. Zenas, b. 1760, Sept. 25. 

2. Mary, b. July 1, 1762; m. Butler: d. aged 67. 

3. Stephen, b. 1764, July 13; d. aged 78. 

4. Ammi, b. 1767, April 4th ; m. Sedgwick : d. aged 70. 

5. Joab, b. April 3, 1769, died. 

6. Solomon, b. Jan. 5, 1772: d. aged 76. 

7. Asahel, b. Oct. 24, 1774; yet living in Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y. 

8. Rev. Joab, of Newington, b. 17S1. All these children except one, m. and 
had families, and most of them have d. in West Hartford. 

Rev. joab, son of Zenas Brace, graduated at Yale College in 
1804 — settled in the ministry at Newington, and now preaches there; 
he m. Lucy, daughter of Seth Collins, of West Hartford, Jan. 21, 
1805, and had children; Mary S., b. May 6, 1806; m. Rev. John 
Todd of Pittsfield, Mass., and has nine children; Martha, b. Nov. 
2, 1808; m. Rev. Samuel N. Shepard of Madison, Conn., and has 
five children ; Seth C, b. Aug. 3, 1811 — graduated at Yale College 
1832 — Preacher and Instructor at Pittsfield, Mass. ; Rev. Joab, Jr., 
b. June 16, 1814 — graduated at Yale College, 1837 — Minister of 
Lanesborough, Mass., d. Sept. 22, 1845: his wife was Elizabeth J. 
Watson, of Pittsfield; Sam'l, b. Feb. 24, 1817— Graduated at Yale 
College, 1841 : he m. Sarah R. North, of New Britain, teacher at 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN8. 311 

Pittsfield. (One child.) Jolin Whitman Brace, b. July 9, 1824 j 
d. Jan. 2, 1846. 

This has proved one of the useful and talented families in Conn. 

Coats of arms for Brace. Brace, (Worcestershire,) one. Brace 
(borne by Vice Admiral, Sir Edward Brace, K. C. B,) one. Brace 
(borne by Francis Brace, Esq., Capt. R. N. &c.) Brace (the en- 
signs of the other descendants of the late Francis Brace, father of 
Sir Edward Brace.) One other for the name of Brace. (Six for 
Bracy.) Eight of tiiis name have graduated at Yale College ; one 
at Williams College. 

BRAWLEY, PETER, owned land adjoining John Stodder's lot 
land he purchased of Jacob Waterhouse. Inventory £59, Is. Od!., 
taken June 19, 1062. 

♦BRADFORD, Gov. WILLIAM, and his wife Dorothy, were 
passengers on board that noted vessel the May Flower, on her first 
adventurous voyage to Plymouth in N. England in 1620 and landed 
her_ passengers at Plymouth Rock, Dec. 11, 1620 — O. S. Mr. 
Bradford's wife Dorothy, fell over board, and was drowned on the 
7th of Dec. 1620, while the vessel was in the liarbour at Cape Cod 
and her husband gone to tlie shore in a boat to prepare a reception 
for the crew — her maiden name was May. 

Mr. Bradford m. for his 2d wife Alice Southworth, widow of Con. 
slant Southworth, (maiden name Carpenter,) she d. Mar. 20, 1070, 
aged about 80. Gov. Bradford d. May 9, 1057, aged 69 years. He 
was born at Austcrfield, England in 1588. {W. S. R. (kc.) 

In 1633, Mr, Bradford united with Gov. Winslow in conferring 
with Gov. Winthrop about building a trading-house on the Conn. 
River, at Windsor to deal with the Indians, carry on commerce, and 



• Governors of the Plymouth Colony, from the first settlement until the union of the Colony 
with Mass. in 1002. 

John Carver from Nov. 11, !GCO, four months 24 days. 

Will. Rrailford from 1621 to 1G32, also 35-37-39 to 1G43 ; 1C45 to '5G ; thirty-one years. 
Edward Winslow, 1033, 1036, 1644. 
Thomas Prince, 1634, 1638, 1657 to 1072. 
Josiah Winslow from 1073 to 1080. 
^Thomas Hinkley, 1681 to 1002. This closed the Plymouth Colony. The two Colonies when 
^tjnited should have taken the name of the oldest Colony, even though it vvas much the smallest, it 
was founded upon the Rock of Plymouth, the first known in Now England — and there com* 
menced the first sulferings of the Puritans, and the first civil government of N, E. 
^^Lieut. Govrs. Thomas Hinkley 1080, James Cudvvorth 1681. Major Wm. Bradford, 1682 to 
' '86, and from 1089 to 1001. Tha first Secretary of the Colony, watt Nathaniel Souther or 
iBowthcr in 1030. The 2d Nathaniel Morton from 1045 to 1085 ; 3d Nathan'l Thomas 1080 ; 
4th Samuel Sprague, continued until the union in 1692, except the period interrupted by Sir 
tdmand Andros. (See Jiusscll's Guide to Vlymoulh, p. 171.) 



3l2 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

to prevent the Dutch from taking possession of the River and the 
lands adjoining. Gov. Winthrop declined. Mr. Bradford was 
Govr. of the Plymouth Colony in 1635, and wrote to the men who 
left Dorchester, a reprimand for settling at Wi. Conn., as it injured 
the Plymouth Colony, after they had purchased land, built a house 
and taken possession there, lie m. for his 2d wife Alice South- 
worth, his will offered in Court held at Plymouth, June 3d, 1657. 
(See his will. His. Gen. Reg. No. xx. p. 385, Vol. V.) His chil- 
dren, John, William and Joseph are only mentioned in said will as 
his children ; and his 2d wife Allice. His 3d child Mercy b. about 
1626 or '7, m. Benj. Vermayes of Boston, Dec. 21, 1648. 

BRADFORD, JOHN, son of Gov. W. Bradford of Plymouth, 
by Dorothy his first wife, was b. in England, but is not in the list of 
passengers of the May Flower in 1620, so that he was probably left 
by his parents in his native country or Holland. John is not found 
in any of the arrivals of the first settlement. He is found at Dux- 
burv, where Farmer says he represented the Town at the Gen. 
Court at Plymouth, as he afterwards did Marshfield. He is found 
at Norwich as Mr. John Bradford, as early as 1660 as a first settler. 
He m. Martha daughter of Thos. Bourne, and lived at Norwich 
about 18 years, and d. 1678 ; his widow m. Thomas Tracy in 1679. 
John left no issue, found. His nephew Thomas Bradford son of 
Maj. VVm. Bradford of Plymouth, was of Norwich as early as 1678 
and shared in the estate of his uncle John Bradford deceased, and 
had most of his land by heirship and deeds, and remained an in- 
habitant of Norwich until 1691, when he sold his property, and 
probably removed into the bounds of Canterbury, and d. in 1708. 
(See Calkins and Record at N. and Canterbury, also Learned.) 
These are the early descendants, sons and grandsons, of Gov. Wm. 
Bradford, who first came to Conn., and the following are a small 
part of the numerous descendants, of this highly respectable ances- 
tor, of the Conn, branch of the family of Gov. Bradford. 

Gov. Bradford's son Maj. Wm. by his 2d wife Allice was b. at 
Plymouth Mass. ; he m. Allice Richards, and had two other wives - 
by whom he had 15 children. His son Thomas had land at Nor- 
wich from his father and removed there and m. Anna Fitch daughter i 
of Rev. James, of Norwich, and had one son recorded at Norwich, 
viz. Joshua b. Nov. 22, 1682, and a daughter Ann who m. Timothy . 
Dimmick. 

In 1720-1, Bradford, James, " cordwinder" purchases 300 acres 
of land of Edw. Raynsford, and 18 acres of Henry Adams in Can- | 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 313 

terbury. "James Bradford and his wife" owned the covenant in 
1713, and had a son baptized at Canterbury tiie same day. 

The children of James and Edith recorded at Canterbury were 
Thomas, b. 1712, m. 1733 Eunice Adams. John, b. 1715 ; Jerusha, 
b. 1716, m. Jonath. Pellet; Wm. b. 1718; Sarah, b. 1720, m. Jo- 
seph Adams. The 1st wife of James d. and he m. for his 2d ^ ife 
Susannah, daughter of Sam'l Adams, Dec. 7, 1724, and had issue 
Anna, baptized 1726, m. Eben'r Cleveland ; Mary, baptized 1729, 
m. Joseph Woodward ; James, baptized 1733. 

James Bradford of C. d. Mar. 20, 1762, and in the settlement of 
James's estate, mention is made of widow Leah, and of all the chil- 
dren except John and James. 

BRADFORD, Wm. son of Lieut. James of Canterbury, m. for 
his 1st wife Zeruiah Lothrop, 1739, 2d Mary Cleveland, 1743, and 
3d Martha Warren, and 4th a widow Stedman, and had 20 children, 
tliree oi^ whom were ministers. By his first wife he had Zeruiah, b. 
1740 ; by his 2d wife, he had Mary, b. 1744 ; Wm. b. 1745 ; Ebe- 
nezer, b. 1740; David, b. 174S; John, b. 1750; Joshua, b. 1751 ; 
Abugail, b. 1753; James, b. 1755; Olive, b. 1750; Josiah, b. 
1757; a daughter, b. 1759; Lydia, b. 1700; Buelah, b. 1703; 
Moses, b. 1705; and by his 3d wife he. had Joseph, b. 1707 ; Ben- 
jamin, b. 1708 ; Keeziah and Zeruiah, b. 1770 ; Samuel Warren, 
b. 1772, (making 20 children, if the record is verity.) 

BRADFORD, Wm. son of Lieut. James of Canterbury, m. Ann 
Spaulding of Windham, and had no children, he d. at Canterbury 
about 1810. 

BRADFORD, JOHN, son of James, m. and had children and 
died in Canterbury : he was a farmer. 

JOSHUA, son of James Bradford, d. at Gilmanton, N. H. and 
left children. Olive, daughter of Lieut. James Bradford m. Mr. 
Barstow of Canterbury, where she lived and died and left children. 

JOSIAII, son of Lieut. James, m. (probably) Miss Merrick, and 
had children born at Canterbury and also died there. 

BUELAIJ, daughter of James, m. Mr. Iloman and removed to 
the Slate of N. York. 

BRADFORD, Rev. EBENEZER, son of James, graduated at 
Princeton College, N. J., in 1773 had his license to preach Aug. 
1774, and was ordained by the Presbytery of N. Y., July 13, 1775. 
He preached 5 years at Danbury, Conn., and was an eye witness to 
the burning of Danbury by the British in 1777. On the 4th day 
of August, 1782, he was settled at Rowley, Mass. He m. Miss Eliz- 
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abeth Green, daughter of Rev. .Jacob Green of Hanover, a sister of 
the late learned and venerable Dr. Ashbel Green of Philadelphia, 
Penn. They had nine children, seven sons and two daughters. His 
son Ebenezer graduated at Dartmouth College ; he read law in 
Philadelphia, and settled at Easton in Penn., in his profession, where 
he was a Judge of a Court, and a member of the Gen'l Assembly. 
He died in Lancaster Co., about 1835. WILLIAM, son of Ebene- 
zer, b. June 8, ITTQ, at Danbury, Ct., was a Physician in Culpepper 
Co., Virginia, and in Kentucky, where he died about 1830. JOHN 
MELANCTHON, D. D., a sonofEbenez'r Bradford, b. at Danbury, 
May 15, 1781 ; was graduated at Brown University, R. I. ; studied 
theology with Dr. Green in Philadelphia, and was settled at Albany, 
N. Y. ; he married Mary Lusk of Albany, where he died about 1827. 
He was an eloquent pulpit orator. He left several children, of 
whom Alexander W. Bradford, Esq. of N. Y. City, and John M. 
Esq. of Geneva, are two of them. JACOB P., b. Jan. 18, 1783, at 
Rowley, Mass., m. Miss Hobson of Rowley, and had several children, 
with whom he removed from Canterbury, Conn., to Ohio, where he is 
yet living a farmer. 

ELIZABETH G., daughter of Ebenezer Bradford, b. at Rowley, 
Mass., Dec. 22, 1784 ; m. the Rev. Nath'l Todd, now living in Penn., 
and has 3 children. 

JAMES, Rev., son of Rev. Ebenezer Bradford, b. at Rowley, 
Mass., Sept. 11, 1786, was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811, 
and was settled pastor of the Congregational Church at Sheffield 
Mass. in 1813, where he yet continues, though dismissed in 1852. 
He m. Miss Margaret Flint of Reading, Mass., Nov. 15, 1813 ; and 
has 7 children, 4 sons and 3 daughters, viz. 1, Ann Priscilla, b. 
Mar. 17, 1815, m. Geo. Hamlin ofN. York; 2, James, Esq. (a Law- 
yer at Sheffield,) b July 2, 1817 ; 3, Daniel Flint, b. Mar. 4, 1819; 
4. Mary Eliz'th, b. Nov. 4, 1821, m. Mr. N. Briggs, N. Y. ; 5. 
Ashbel Green, b. Oct. 9, 1824 ; 6. Putnam Flint, b. May 25, 1827; 
and 7 Caroline Hallum, b. Nov. 6, 1830 ; all born at Sheffield, Mass. 
Rev. Ebenezer Bradford died at Rowley, Jan. 3, 1801, aged 55 
years. His wife also died at Rowley, July 14, 1825, aged 67 years. ■ 
MOSES, son of Rev. Ebenezer, b. October 11, 1788, at Rowley,' 
graduated at Princeton College, m. and settled at Wilmington in 
the State of Delaware, and had three sons, two of whom are Law- 
yers at Wilmington, Delaware. 

HENRY, son of Rev. Ebenezer, b. at Rowley, July 1, 1790 ; 



GENEALOGY OF TUK PUniTANS. 315 

Studied medicine at Hanover, N. H., and practiced in Penn., where 
he died about 1818, and left a wife and one child, 

MARY CLEVELAND, h. Mar. 25, 1792, at Rowley, daughter 
of Rev. Ebenezer, m. John Richards of Rowley, and died there 
without issue. 

BRADFORD, MOSES, son of William Bradford a farmer of 
Canterbury, and grandson of James Bradford, was b. 1765. Moses 
resided after he became about 12 years old with an elder brother at 
Danbury, who had graduated in N. Jersey, and became an able 
preacher, and prepared his brother Moses for College, and he after- 
wards in 1785, graduated at Dartmouth College, and studied divinity 
with his brother at Rowley, Mass., and settled at Francestown in 
1791), and in 1827 was dismissed, and removed to Sullivan in 1S33, 
and in 1837 removed to Montague, where he died Jan. 14, 1938. 
Rev. Moses m. Dorothy Bradstreet of Rowley, Ms.; she died 1792; 
by her he had 2 children, one of them died in infancy. For his 2d 
wife, he m. Sarah Eaton of Francestown ; by her he had ten ciiildren. 
His son Samuel Cleveland graduated at Dartmouth College in 1818 ; 
he settled in Columbia, N. H., and afterwards at Montague, Ms. : his 
son Moses Bradsireet graduated at Amherst 1825, first settled at 
Montague, Ms., and afterwards at Grafion Vt. Ebenezer G., another 
son of Rev. Moses, graduated at Amherst 1827 ; he first settled at 
Colebrook, N. H., and afterwards at Wardsborough, Vt. David, 
another son, became a Physician and settled at Montague, Ms. 
Elizabeth Bradford, daughter of Samuel of Duxbury, b. Dec. 15th, 
m. William Whiting of Hartford, Ct. Mercy 7th child of Wm. 
Bradford, m. Samuel Steel of Hartford. Melatiah, 7th child of Wm. 
m. John Steel of Norwich. Joseph, only child by the 2d marriage 
of Wm. his 11th child (supposed) settled at Norwich. There were 
others of the descendants of Gov. Bradford in Conn., Dr. Jeremiah* 
<kc. 

In the extracts of H. G. Somerby from the register books of Aus- 
terfield in Yorkshire, from 1561 to 1031, pub. in the N. E. His. 
and Gen. Reg. is found with somewhat a difierent orthography, viz.> 
Robert, son of William Bradfourth (probably born) 25 June, 
1561 ; Eliz'th daughter of William Bradfourth, 16 July, 1570 ; Mar. 
garet daughter of Thomas Bradfourth, 9 March, 1577; Margaret 
daughter of Wm. Bradfourth, 8 March, 1585 ; William son of Rob- 
ert Bradfourth, 22 Sept. 1587 ; Alice, daughter of Wm., 30 of 
Oct. 1587 ; Wm., son Wm., 19 March, 1589 ; Robert, son of Rob- 
ert Bradfourth, 14 May, 1591, &cc. 



316 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Tlionias Bradford, Ricliard Anderson, Martin and Edw'd Atkin- 
son, Bridget Crompe, tfec, embarked for Virginia in the Merclianl's 
Hope, Hugh Weston, Master, 1635. 

George Bradford had a family b. in Woodstock, Ct. ; his son George 
b. there 1757, who went to Providence, R. I. 

Bradford, Alexander, of Dorchester, (a brotlier of John Bradford,) 
and his wife Sarah as early as 1644. He d. without issue about 
1645. His brother Jolin left children, Robert free, 1642, and Moses 
1669, supposed not to have been of Gov. Bradford's family. 

Coats of arms of Bradford's. 

Bradford, (Earl of Bradford) see Bridgeman coat of arms Brad- 
ford (Cheshire and Devonshire) Sa. a cross engr. ar. Bradford 
(Yorkshire,) one. Bradford (as borne by Gen. Sir Thomas Bradford 
G. C. B.) one — Bradford, (Yorkshire,) one — Bradford (Wiltshire,) 
one. And six others most of them differ. Brandford, (London late 
of Barbadoes) one. 

So many of the different branches of the family of Gov. Bradford 
has been before published it would be useless to republish them. 
And the history of the life of Gov. Wm. Bradford is as familiar to 
antiquarians, as household words, and would be only a recapitula- 
tion of his adventurous and useful life, as one of the early and prin- 
cipal founders of the religious freedom of this country. 

Nineteen of this name have graduated at Harvard College, four 
at Yale College, four at Brown U. and one at Williams. 

BRADLEY, PETER, died 1662. Estate £59, 1*. Od. (Hen. 
Rcc.) Francis Bradley was made a freeman from Fairfield, in Oct., 
1664. George Bradley, of Tolland, before 1749; children, Henry, 
Josiah and Jonah. Jonah died before 1749, but left no children. 
This name was found early in the New Haven Colony. Four of 
tlie name have graduated at Harvard, and sixteen at Yale College. 
Wlicther Peter and Francis Bradley were of the New Haven fam- 
ily, I leave for those of the name to determine. 

BRADLEY, WH^LIAM, an early settler at N. Haven; Deputy 
1676 ; son Ab'm, b. Oct. 24, 1654, m. Hannah Thompson, Dec. 25, 
1673; Mary, b. April 30, 1653; Benj'n, b. 2d, 8th 1657; Esther, 
b. Sept. 19, 1659; Sarah, b. June 21, 1665; Joshua had a son 
Joshua Bradley, b. at N. Haven, Dec. 31, 1665; Joseph Bradley 



Note. — Maj'r Wm. Bradford's 3d Fon Thomas, and 5th son Joseph went to Norwich, and 
afterwards to N. Lond'n, as the Norwich record shows that Tho's held all the land of his 
uncle John, by inheritance and deeds, (see deeds noted June 10, 1C90.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 317 

had a daughter b. at N. H., April 25, 16G9, and d. May 10. Wid- 
ow Bradley d. 1692. Mrs. Hannah Bradley d. at N. H., wife of 
Mr. Ab'm, Oct. 26, 1718. Eliz'th wife of Serg. Benj'n Bradley, 
d. Nov. 3, 1718. Daniel Bradley d. Nov. 2, 1723. This has been 
a N. II. name from the early settlement. 

BRADLEY, SAMUEL, of Branford, propounded for a freeman, 
May, 1672. Steven and Nathan of Guilford, chosen commisioners 
for Guilford, 1669, and Francis Bradley for Fairfield. Joseph of 
N. Haven nominated for freeman May, 1668. Wm. and Joseph in 
the list of freemen at N. Haven, in 1669. 

Coats of arms — Bradley (Bethom, Co. Lancaster,) one. Bradley 
(London, originally of Bradley, Co. Lancaster,) one. Bradley, 
(Warwickshire,) one. Bradley, (Worcestershire,) one. Bradley, 
or Bradeley, one. Bradley, (Worcestershire,) one. Bradley, (gore. 
Court, Co. Kent, now represented by Francis Dyne Bradley, Esq.,) 
Sac. Ten others for this name. 

BRADSTREET, SIMON, was b. at Horblin, Lincolnshire, En- 
gland, in March, 1603 ; his father was a non-conforming minister, 
and d. when his son was only fourteen years old, and his son Simon 
was placed in the care of Hon. Tho's Dudley for eight years, one 
year of which he spent at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He left 
Cambridge, and resided in the family of fltfts^arl of Lincoln, as his 
steward, and afterward with the Countess of Warwick.^ Mr. Win- 
ihrop, himself, Mr. Dudley and others agreed to emigrate and form 
a settlement in Mass. ^Ir. Bradslreet having been appointed an as- 
sistant, he with his family and others, went on board the Arabella, 
the 29th of March, 1630 ; anchored June 12, near Narimkeak, now 
Salem, came on shore and returned to the vessel at night ; the ves- 
sel came into the inner harbor on the 14th of June, when he went 
on shore again. He attended the first Court, Aug. 23, at Charles- 
town. In the spring of 1631, Mr. Bradstreet and others, began to 
build at Newtown, now Cambridge, and one of the first company that 
settled there in 1632, where he remained some years. In 1639, the 
Court granted him 500 acres of land in Salem, next convenient to 
Gov. Endicolt's farm — lie was a short time at Ipswicii — He was also 
a first settler at Andover — About 1644, he built the first mill on the 
Cochichewick — He was the first secretary of the Colony, and held 
the office several years ; Commissioner in the United Colonies, in 
1643, where he served several years. In 1653, he and his colleague, 
opposed making war against the Dutch in N. Y., and on the Indi- 
ans. Deputy Gov'r from 1672 to 1679, and was then elected Gov'r 

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318 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

and held the office of Gov'r until his nephew, Mr. Joseph Dudley, 
was appointed Gov'r in lt)96. Andros demanded their Charter dur- 
ing the administration of Gov. Bradstreet. In 1689, Gov. Bradstreet 
was again at the head of the government, and continued there until 
May, 1692, when he had become 89 years old, and was superseded 
by Sir Wm. Phips, as Gov'r under tlie new Charter, and Mr. Brad- 
street appointed first assistant. He m. in England, Miss Ann Dud- 
ley, daughter of Thomas, when slie was only 16 years of age. She 
became the most distinguished of the early matrons in this country, 
by her literature, in 1642, by her poem dedicated to her father, and 
others. The children of Gov. Bradstreet and Ann Dudley, were 

1. Samuel, who had two daughters in Boston, 1663, 16G5. 

2. Simon, settled in the ministry, at New London, Conn. 

3. Dudley, of Andover. 

4. John, b. in Andover, July 31, 1G52, settled in Salem. 

5. Ann, m. Mr. Wiggin, of Exeter. 

6. Dorothy, m. Kev. Seaborn Cotton, Hampton, June 25, 1654. ' 

7. Hannah, m. Mr. Andrew Wiggin, Exeter, June 14, 1659. 

8. Mary, m. Nath'l Wade, Nov. 11, 1672. 

The mother d. in Andover, Sept. 16, 1672, aged 60; Gov. Brad- 
street m. for his 2d wife, a sister of Sir Geo. Downing, who was in 
the first class that graduated at Harvard College, in 1660, and was 
ambassador of Cromwell, and Charles II., to Holland. (See N. E. 
His. Gen. Register, Vol. 1, pp. 75, 76 and 77, also Allot' s History 
of Andover.) 

BRADSTREET, Rev. SIMON, was settled at N. London, Ct., 
Oct. 5, 1670, and died 1683. Rev. Richard Blinman and Gershom 
Bulkley had preached at N. London, before 1670. But Dr. Trum- 
bull says "there seems to have been no church formed in N. Lon- 
don, until the ordination of Mr. Bradstreet. Mr. S. Bradstreet and 
Mr. John Baldwin, of N. L., were presented for freemen, Oct., 1669." 
He returned to Mass. 

BRADSTREET, SIMON, Esq., of Boston, in 1676, had 974 
votes for the office of Magistrate. 

BRADSTREET, Mr. SAMUEL, of Mass., 1656. 

BRADSTREET, DOROTHY, m. Mr. Seaborn Cotton, at Ando- 
-r, Mars., June 14, 1654, m. by Mr. Bradstreet. Flannah Brad- 

^et of Andover, m. Mr. And'w Wiggin, June 3, 1659. Humfry 
-Istreet made free in Mass., May 6, 1635. Lyman Bradstreet 
1. lan in Mass., 1636. 

i A.DSTREET, DUDLEY, of Boston, freeman 1674. 

Thi has been an old and highly respectable name in Mass. and 
Conn. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 319 

The name Bradstreet (Ireland) has one coat of arms. 

BllADSTREET, SIMON, was at Emmanuel College, entered 
1617, also at llie same 1620 and '24. Mather appears to suppose 
Simon Bradstreet did not continue at the University to receive its 
honors, and Farmer finds him one year at Emmanuel College. 

BRAINERD, BRAINARD, DANIEL, was one of the twenty- 
eight purchasers of Haddam, in 1662. He was born at Braintree, 
Essex County, in England, and was brought to Hartford by the 
Wyllys family when a child, where he continued until he was of 
the age of 21 years: his name was probably Brainwood. After he 
removed to Haddam he became a Deacon, and a Justice of the 
Peace. He was m. and had sons, Daniel, Jr., who was a Deacon 
at East Haddam; Deacon James ; Joshua, of East Haddam; W'm, 
of Haddam Neck, Caleb, Elijah and Hon. Hezekiah, the Assistant, 
and daughter Hannah, who m. Tho's Gates: all survived their fa- 
ther. (" Our honoured mother Hannah.") 

DANIEL, Jr., son of Daniel, Sen., had sons Daniel, Dr. Noadiah, 
Stephen and Bezaliel. DANIEL had a son Daniel. NOADIAH 
had two sons, Noadiah and Jared. BAZALIEL had sons, Daniel, 
Bezaliel, and Enoch. Deacon JAMES had sons, James, Gideon, 
Abijah, Daniel, Zechariah, Jeptiiah, Othniel and Heber. 

HEZEKIAH was the fiilher of Col. Hezekiah — of Rev. Nehe- 
miah — of David and John, tiie noted Missionaries, and Israel. 
Daughters, Dorothy Smith, Jerusha Spencer, Martha Brainard, and 
Elizabeth. He left a large estate for his family, distributed to his 
children in 1729. This has been a family of Ministers and Dea- 
cons, in olden and later times. 

BRAINARD, Rev. CHILI AB, son of W'm, graduated at Yale 
College in 1731, and was settled at Eastbury, in the 2d society of 
Glastenbury, in Jan. 1736, and d. June 1, 1739. Rev. NEHE- 
MIAH BRAINARD, graduated at Yale College, 1732, and succeed, 
ed Rev. Chiliab Brainard in the 2d society of Glastenbury, where 
he was settled in Jan. 1740, and d. Nov. 9, 1742. 

The Deacons in this family were Daniel, Hon. Hezekiah. Ezra 
in 1771 : Deacon Daniel, Esq., d. 1715, aged 74 — Tho's in 1795, of 
Middle Haddam — James d. 1742, aged 73 — Elijah elected Deacon 
in 1759; d. 1764, aged 58 — Col. Hezekiah chosen Deacon, 1764; 
d. Dec. 14, 1774, aged 67 — Nehemiah, Esq., (deacon,) d. 1807, 
aged 66 — Deacon Eliakim in 1815, aged 83 — Daniel elected Dea- 
con, 1725 ; d. 1743, aged 77 — Deacon Noadiah, chosen 1743; d. 
1746, aged 50 : most of them Deacons at Haddam and E. Haddam. 



320 GENEALOGY OF THE fURITANS. 

Col. Hezckiah, Daniel and Gen'l John Brainard, of Haddam, were 
noted as military officers. Hon. Hezekiah, son of the first Daniel 
Brainard, was an important public officer — Justice of the Peace — 
Justice of the Quorum for Hartford County, in 1722 — Clerk of the 
Gen'l Assembly in 1721 — Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
three sessions ; and in 1723 was elected a member of the Governor's 
Council, (Senate of Conn.,) which he held until his death, May 24, 
1727, aged only 45 years. His son Rev. David was celebrated as 
a missionary among the Indians, and preached to them at Schodac, 
N. Y., in 1743. This tribe soon after removed to Stockbridge, Mass., 
and Mr. Brainard visited the Indians at the Forks of the Delaware, 
for which purpose he was ordained at Newark, N. J., in June, 1744 ; 
he preached to them near Freehold, N. Jersey. His health failed 
him, and he returned to N. England, and d. at Northampton, Mass., 
Oct. 10, 1747, aged about 30 years. Hon. Hezekiah, (Col. Heze- 
kiah,) Daniel, Gen'l John, Jabez, Nehemiah, Hezekiah who d. in 
1805, aged 62, Ezra, Col. Daniel, and Gen'l John Brainard, have 
held the office of Commissioner, or Justice of the Peace. Dr. Hez- 
ekiah was a Justice of the Quorum, in 1797. Hon. Jeremiah G. 
Brainard, so many years one of the Judges of the Superior Court of 
Conn., was of the family of Daniel, of Haddam. His son John G. 
C. Brainard, the celebrated Poet, was b. at N. London, Oct. 21, 
1796 ; a brother of Wm. F. Brainard, Esq., of N. L. This family 
have been noted for their talents, wit and piety. Brainwood has one 
coat of arms. 

BRAKER, JOHN, m. Sarah Greenell, April 29, 1717; issue, 
born at Saybrook, John, b. July 21, 1718 j Samuel, b. May 28, 1720 ; 
Mary and Sarah, b, March 22, 1723 ; Sarah d. March 28, 1723 ; 
2d Sarah, b. 1726 j Edward, b. March 22, 1729, died ; Patience, 
b. May 10, 1732. 

BRAMFIELD, WILLIAM, of Wethersfield, in 1645. 

BRANKER, BRANGER, Mk. JOHN, was at Windsor about 
1640, and was freed from watching and warding in Windsor, Nov., 
1643 ; and from watching, training and warding in Sept., 1649, at 
Hartford. He was made free in Mass., in 1632. He was a gentle- 
man of a good estate and reputation. Abigail Branker, his wife, 
witnessed the will of John Porter, of Windsor, April 20, 1648. He 
d. May 29, 1662. Inventory of his estate was £502, lOs; all of 
which he gave his widow Abigail with her wearing apparel, riding 
apparel for horse, &c. Rev. John Warham made a jointure of 
marriage with Mrs. Abigail Brankeri dated Sept. 12, 1662, (the 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 321 

wiJow of Mr, John Blanker deceased,) which was recorded April 
8, 1004. John Branker— Inventory dated June 17, 1602. 

BRATFIELD, LISLEY or LESLY, of Wcthersfield, plaintifrin 
Court at Hartford, April 6, 1043. In July 1045, Ed: Vier of Weth- 
crsfiold by his will, dated July 19, 104.'3, gave " Lysly Bradfield 
three pownds." 

Bradfield has four coats of arms and Bratdeld has one. 

This name was early at Branford from Wethersficld. 

BRATTLE, THOMAS, owned land in Wcthersfield, in 1668, 
wliich bounded on James Boosy land, (then deceased.) 

BRATTLE, WILLIAM, m. Mary Wright, of Wcthersfield, 
Sept. 21, 1743, and had Sarah, b. 1744; William, b. 1745; Eliza- 
beth, b. Jan., 1747; I\Iary, b. July 25, 1748; John, b. Aug., 1750; 
James, b. 1751 ; Martha, b. Feb. 22, 1753; and Ann, b. Aug. 15, 
1755. 

This has been an important and valuable name in Mass., from an 
early period of the settlement. Thomas Brattle, b. at Boston, 
1657 — graduated at Harvard in 1670 — became one of the founders 
of Brattle Street Church in Boston. He died May 18, 1713. His 
brother William, graduated at Harvard College, in 1680. He be- 
came a tutor and fellow of the Institution afterwards, and a fellow 
of the Royal Society. He was a gentleman of great literary ac- 
quirements; he gave a handsome legacy to Harvard College in his 
will. His son W'm was more celebrated than his father. He was 
a statesman, divine, physician, and versed in military tactics as 
Maj'r General. 

Brattle has one coat of arms, viz., or. a boar pass. gu. 

BRAY, THOMAS, wife Mary of Gloucester, Mass., had issue, 
Tho's, Jr., b. 1059; Hannah, b. 1062; Esther, b. 1664; perhaps 
others. 

This name came into Conn, at a late period ; it is now found in 
Litclifield County, and other parts of the State. 

BRAY or BRAYE, ( Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Glouces- 
tershire, Surrey, &;c., &c., descended from William DeBray, a wit- 
ness in 10S8, to the Charter of Battle Abbey, &;c.,) one. Bray, 
(Northumberland, on Lincoln's Inn, 1787,) one. Bray, (Oxford- 
shire,) one ; and fourteen others. Braye has four coats of arms. 
. BREAD, Breed, ALLEN, this name has been many years at 
Norwicli, Conn., though not one of the first settlers. Gershom Bread 
is mentioned by Miss Caulkins, as contractor to build the first bridge 
over the cove at Norwich, in 1767: also John N. Breed, Esq., a 



322 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

lawyer of note, at a later period, elected Mayor of Norwich City, 
April 18, 1796 ; Miss Caulkins says descended from Allen Breed 
who emigrated from England, 1630. Gershom Bread first of the 
name at Norwich, as early as 17.^0, a merchant, had three sons, viz., 
Hon. John McLarran, Shubael and Simeon, all deceased. .John M. 
d. in .Tune, 1798. Allen Bread of Lynn, came there from England, 
in 1630; he was one of the first purchasers of Southampton, L. I., 
of the Indians; deed dated Dec. 13, 1640. He is not in Thomp- 
son's list of settlers at Southampton, during the first twelve months. 
If he ever removed to Southampton, L. I., he probably returned to 
Lynn; he d. (says Dr. Allen,) March 17, 1692, aged 91 years. 
Edmand Farrington, another purchaser of Southampton, returned to 
Lynn, and d. in 1680, aged 88 years. Capt. Daniel How, another 
purchaser and settler, sold his possessions there in 164-5, to Hon. 
John Cosmore, and removed to East Hampton, L. L, a first settler ; 
he was a freeman at Lynn, Mass., in 1634 — Deputy to Gen'l Court 
in Mass., 1636 — Lieut, in 1638. (Thompson says he removed to 
New Haven in 1638, from thence to Southampton, L. L) ALLEN 
BREAD is noted by Farmer, as born in 1601, a grantee mentioned 
in the Indian deed of South Hampton, L. I., in 1640; d. at Lynn, 
Mass., March 17, 1691 ; his children, Allen, Timothy, Joseph and 
John. John of Lynn, 1640, d. 1678. (Lewis.) This has uniform- 
ly been a respectable name in Conn. Five of this name had gradu- 
ated at Y. College, in 1844. 

BREAD, ALLEN, 3d '"^ of Lynn, free May 7, 1684. John 
Bread of Lynn, Mass., fi^ee ; also Timothy and Joseph Bread, 1691. 
{His. Beg.) " Bread or Beade, Allen, Sen., m. Elizabeth Knight, 
Mar. 28, 1656. Allen, Jr's., children, Joseph, b. Feb. 12, 1658 ; Al- 
len, b. Aug. 30, 1660, when his wife was Mary ; John, b. Jan. 18, 
1663 ; Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1665 ; Elizabeth, b. Nov., 1667 ; Samuel, 
b. Sept. 25, 1669; his wife Mary, d. Nov. 30, 1671." All n 3d, 
m. Eliz'th Ballard, May 22, 1684 ; 3. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 24, 1685. 
John Bread, Sen., d. June 28, 1678. John, m. Sarah Hathorne, 
Dec. 28, 1663 ; children, Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1667 ; William, Eph'm, 
Ebenezer, b. April 15, 1676; his wife Sarah, d. Nov. 22, 1676; he 
m. Sarah Hart, March 4, 1078. (See N. E. His. Beg. Vol. 5, p. 
94 ; also Lynn Bee.) 

BREWER, Widow JOANNA, of Roxbury, Mass., d. 1088, aged 
87 years ; said to have come to N. England about 1633, with a 
family, and to have been tiie wife of a brother of Daniel Brewer first 
of Ro.xbury. "Ann, widow Brewer's daughter d. 1658." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 323 

BREWER, Capt. JOHN, of Cambridge, Mass., (probably son of 
Joanna.) Wife Ann, had son Joiin, b. in Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1642, 
and a daughter Hannah, b. Jan'y 18, 1044. Married 2d wife 
MARY WHITMORE of Lynn, Oct. 23, 1G47, and had children, 
Mary, b. 1648; William, b. 1653; Sarah, b. 1058, married 
Samuel Graves, of Lynn, March 12, 167b, and had 3 children, 
Crispus, Hannah and Samuel. John, Jr., settled in Sudbury, m. 
Elizabeth Rice, and had 9 children, John, b. 1669 ; Elizabeth, Han- 
nah, James, 1675; Sarah, 1078; Mary, 1680; Abigail, 1682; 
Martha, 1685, and Jonathan, 1689. From Jolm Brewer, Jr., de- 
scendcd the numerous and respectable families of Sudbury, Framing- 
ham, Hopkinton, Tyringham, &c. 

BREWER, THOMAS, of Ipswich, 1642, perhaps Bro. of Dan'l 1st. 

BREWER, THOMAS, aged 14 years, living at Lynn, Mass., in 
1672 ; a Thomas Brewer of Lynn, m. Elizabeth Graves, Dec. 4, 
1652, and had six children, Mary, Rebecca, Mary 2d, Crispus, 
Thomas and John. 

BREWER, OBADIAH, settled at Lynn, and made freeman 1642, 
(supposed son of widow Joanna,) or Bro. of Dan'l 1st. 

BREWER, CRISPUS, of Lynn, "by vote of the town in 1682 
had leave to sit in tiie pulpit on Sundays" (perhaps a son of widow 
Joanna.) Crispus Brewer, son of Crispus, had daughter Rebecca, 
b. Oct. 28, 1667 ; Mary, daughter of Crispus, ni. John Richards of 
Lynn, Nov. 18, 1674, and had 4 children, Mary, John, Edward and 
Crispus. 

BREWER, CHRISTOPHER, of Lynn, had a daughter Abigail, 
b. 4th Wee, 1664. 

HANNAH BREWER, of Lynn, m. Samuel Ingals of Lynn, 
Feb. 2, 1682, and had Hannah and Abigail. 

RICHARD, of Lynn, d. Oct. 8, 1665. 

* DANIEL, of Roxbury, Mass., the emigrant ancestor of the 
generations settling in Boston, Roxbury and Springfield, was b. in 

• Brewer, Daniel, of Roxbury, Mass., (Farmer says.) free 1634, d. Jan. 9, 1689, aged 84 ; his son 
Nath'l b. 1635, d. Feb. 26, 1693. Daniel, minister of W. Springfield, ordained May, 16, 1094, 
d. 1733, aged 66, grandson of Daniel of Roxbury ; his wife Catherine Chauncey of Northamp- 
ton, 8he d. May 15, 1754, aged 78, had 8 cliildren. John Brewer of Cambridge 1C44, daugh- 
ter Hannah by Ann his wife b. 1044. Thomas Brewer free 1652, (see Farmer,) Daniel of 
Roxbury was probably born in Kngland. Daniel Brewer is put down in the list of persons and 
estates at Roxbury with nine persons in his family. Christopher Brewer of Lynn, had daugh- 
ter Abigail b. at Lynn, Dec. 4, 1604. Daniel Brewer's son Nath'l b. at Roxbury, Ms., 1035, 
and hts daughter Sarah, b. there 1638. Daniel Brewer, free in Mass. 1634. Tho's Brewer of 
Roxbury, free 1652. Nath'l free in Mass. of Roxbury, 1673-4. Jno. Brewer of Sudbury free, 
1678. John and Ann Brewer had a son John, b. at Cambridge 1642. Tho's Brewer and his 
fonuly at Salem, 1754. Crispui of Lynn, 1684. 



324 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

England 1605, May 14, came to New England. 1633 ; freeman 
1634, d. Jan'y 9, 16S9, aged 84 ; was 29 when constituted a citizen 
of N. E., (in 1639 had 9 persons in his family.) 

DANIEL, the eldest son, settled in Roxbury, b, in England, 1624, 
d. 1717, aged 81 years. Married Hannah Morill, Nov. 5, 1652 and 
had Hannah, 1659, d. young, Hannah 2d, July 1665, (m. Michael 
Roath or Roothof Rox. 1686, who had daughter Martha.) Rev. Dan- 
iel, b. Feb. 1668, graduated at Harvard College 1687, settled at Spring, 
field, 1694, m. Catherine Chauucey of Northampton Aug. 23, 1699, 
and had 8 children ; KATHERINE, b. 1700, m. William Pyncheon 
and had 5 children ; 2d, DANIEL, b. 1702, died young ; 3d, ABI- 
GAIL, b. 1705, m. Tho's Merrick, and had 3 children ; 4th, EU- 
NICE, b. 1707, ra. Rev. Rob't Breck, and had 2 children; 5th, 
DANIEL 2d, b. 1709. graduated at Harvard College 1727, and died un- 

married 1733; 6th, Dea. NATHANIEL, b. 1711, m. Eunice 

and had a large family who settled in Springfield ; 7th, ISAAC, b. 
1713, m. Mary Bliss and settled in Wilbraham, and had 6 children. 
8th, CHARLES, b. 1716, m. Eunice Bliss, settled in Springfield, and 
had 3 children. From Rev. Daniel Brewer descended the numerous 
families in Hampden Co. Mass. 

BREWER, THOMAS, son of Daniel first of Rox., freeman 1652. 
BREWER, GEORGE, son of Daniel first, of Rox., d. 1656 at 
Rox. 

BREWER, NATHANIEL, son of Daniel first, b. in Rox., 1635, 

d. Feb. 26, 1693 ; m. Elizabeth , and had daughter Elizabeth, 

b. 1661, Joanna (or Susannah) 1662 ; wife Elizabeth, d. 1662, 
m. Elizabeth Rand 1603, (2d wife,) and had NATHANIEL, Jr., 
1665. NATHANIEL, Jr., son of Nath'l of Rox., m. Margaret Weld, 
of Rox., 1692, and had Margaret, b. 1093 ; Nathaniel, 1694 ; Doro- 
thy, 1697, (who m. John Williams of Rox.) Mrs. Margaret Brewer, 
d. 1704 ; Nath'l Brewer, Sen., m. Elizabeth Sunderland, 1705, who 
d. 1749. He d. 1733, aged 63 years. 

BREWER, 3d NATHANIEL, m. Elizabeth Mayo of Rox., 
1717, and had 11 children, 1st, MARGARET, b. 1719, m. Joseph 
Winchester, Rox. ; 2d, ELIZABETH, b. 1720, m. Dan'l Weld 
Rox. ; 3d, JOSEPH, m. Rebecca Weld of Rox., and had 3 children 
Dorathy, Nath'l and Stephen; 4th, DORATHY, 1724, m. Henry 

Winchester, Rox. ; 5th, Nathaniel, b. 1726, m. Margaret , 

and had Samuel and Mary ; 6th, STEPHEN, b. 1728, m. Susanna 

, 1757, and had 4 children, William, 1758, Stephen, 1759, 

Susanna, 1762, and Edward, 1764 ; 7th, SARAH, b. 1730, m. John 



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325 



GoJdard, Rox. 1753 ; 8th, John, b, 1731, m. Susanna, and had five 
children, Gen'lJolin, 1763, (of Passamaquoddy, Maine,) Joanna, 1765, 
(wife of Sam'l Goddard, Rox. ;) Thomas, 1766, (settled in Maine 
and had 7 children;} Rebecca, 176S, and Stephen 1771, (settled in 
Northampton;) 9th, MARY, b. 1734, m. Joseph Smith of Rox.; 
10th, REBECCA, b. 1742, m. Rob't Champtney of Rox., 1767, and 
mil, Dolly b. 1744, ni. George Woods of Rox. Most of the Brew- 
ers of Boston are descendants of Samuel, son of Nath'l 3d. 

SARA{I, daughter of Daniel Brewer, first, was b. in Rox. March 
16, 1638, \n. Johr. Mays of Rox., Nov. 19, 1656. Daniel Brewer 
first, had two other children, as he had 9 in his family, 1639, includ- 
ing himself and wife. Possibly Crispus and Christopher of Lynn 
or Hannah, Mrs. Ingalls may have been his children. 

Brewer, Daniel, freeman in Mass. 1634 ; Obediah, free, Mass. 
1642 ; Tho's of Roxbury, free, 1652 ; Nath'l of Roxbury, Mass. 
free, 1673-4 ; Chrispus, of Lynn, free. May 1684. Seven of this 
name had graduated at Y. College before 1851, and nine at Harvard 
College. 

BREWER, THOMAS, of Glastenbury, Conn., came from Mass., 
(probably the Tho.;.as aged 14, living in Lynn, 1672,) m. Sarah 

of Glastenbury, July 13, 1682, and had 10 children; 1st, 

Mary, b. July 28, 1684; 2d, Thomas, b. Feb. 17, 1086-7; 3d, 
Hezekiah, b. Feb. 23, 1690; 4th, Sarah, b. Dec. 9, 1692; 5th, 
Josejih, b. March 20, 1694-5; 6th, Benjamin, b. Aug. 13, 1697; 
7th, Daniel, b. March 2-5, 1699; 8th, Lydia, b. July 27, 1701; 
9th, " Aome" or Naonia, b. Sept. 28, 1703, and lOth, Alexander, b. 
Oct. 5ih, 1700. 

BREWER, THO'S, Jr. (eldest son of Thomas) of Glastenbury, 
m. Sarah Goodale, daughter of Richard, May 4th, 1710, and had a 
family, two only recorded, Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1712, and John, b. 
Oct. 11th, 17.37. 

BREWER, DANIEL, of Middlctown, Ct., (son of Thomas Sen.) 

m. Elenor Goodwin, (or (joodricli,) of Middletown, Jan'y 19, 1719; 

purchased 1 acre of land (near the Plains and adjoining the River at 

Churchell's Landing,) of Joanna Wilcox, 1727, paid JGIO. They 

' had 9 children, 1st, HEZEKIAH, b. Sept. 26, 1725; 2d, ELE- 

• NOR, b. Jan'y 2, 1727; 3d, EDWARD, b. Aug. 24, 1728; 4th, 

i RICHARD, b. Feb. 21, 1730; 5th, DANIEL, Jr., b. May 3, 

I 1731, m. Ruth Strickland, of Glastenbury, Jan'y 9, 1752, and had 

' two children, Richard, 1753; William, 1756. 6th, DAVID, b. 

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32G GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Feb. 15, 1736 ; 7th,SETn, b. May 21, 1738: 8th, Remembrance, 
b. March 2d, 1741 ; 9lli, JOANNA, b. June 29, 1743. 

BREWER, JOSEPH, (3d son of Thomas, Sen'r,) m. Dinah 
Smith, May 29, 1727, and settled in Glastenbury. Tliey had 6 
children, 1st, DORATHY, b. March 15, 1727-8; 2d, RUTH, b. 
May 30, 1730 ; 3d, COMFORT, Nov. 14, 1732 ; 4th, JOSEPH, b. 
Ap'l 24, 1735 ; 5th, ISRAEL, b. Sept. 18, 1737, and 6th, ELLIM, 
b. Feb. 2, 1739-40. 

BREWER, ALEXANDER, Olh and youngest son of Thomas 

Sen., resided in Glastenbury, m. Thankful , and had 9 

children, 1st, Tliomas ; 2d, Hezekiah ; 3d, Joseph ; 4th, Benjamin ; 
5th, Daniel ; 6th, Mary, who m. Mr. Dix ; 7th, Sarah Goodale ; 
8th, Lydia Loveland ; 9th, Amy Porter. Alexander Brewer, died 
1750, and left widow Thankful. Son Joseph, Administrator, Estate 
£109, 85. 6d. 

BREWER, DANIEL, son of Daniel Brewer, Junior, of Mid- 
dletown, by Anna Vanzant ; before he m. Ruth Strickland, this Dan- 
iel had a son DANIEL, wlio m. MARY RISLEY, and removed 
and settled in East Hartford, had 10 children, 1st, Capt. SAM- 
UEL, long a prominent man of E. Hartford, b. Feb. 18, 1776, d. 
Ap'l 8, 1847, m. Prudence Damon Oct. 4, 1797, and had 11 cliil- 
dren, Samuel, 1798; Selden, 18—; Mary, 1803; Philura, 1806 ; 
Samuel, 1808; Selden 2d, 1811; Hamilton, 1813; Adeline, A. 
1816 ; Mary, 1818 ; Electa, P., 1821 ; Aleaty A., 1823. 2d, REU- 
BEN; 3d, ALLEN; 4th, DANIEL; 5th, GEORGE of E. H. ; 
6th, ANNA, who m. Smith of E. Hartford ; 7t!i, ABIGAIL, the 
wife of James Hills, E. H. ; 8ih, BETSEY, the wife of Russell 
Taylor of Glastenbury ; 9th, LUCY, the wife of Matthias Treat, E. 
H., and 10th, EMILY, the wife of A. Vibbert of E. Hartford. 

There is another family of Brewers living at East Hartford, who 
tradition says, descended from a DANIEL who cam.e from Glasten- 
bury, whose son DANIEL, m. a Miss Slate, of Oxford society, now ' 
Manchester, about 1800. who had DAVID, CHAUNCEY, JOSEPH, 
JULIUS, and perhaps otiiers who are living and have families in E. 
Hartford, Hartford and Glastenbury. 

BREWER, Capt. CHARLES, of Middletown, (grandson of, 
Charles, of Springfield, the son of Rev. Daniel,) b. March 24, 1778, 
at Springfield, a Jeweller and Merchant, m. Hannah Fairbanks of i 
Middletown and removed to Middletown, Oct. 13, 1800. They had i 
9 children, 1st, CHARLES, b. 1799, Mereh't N. Y., d. unmarried,! 
1837 ; 2d, GEORGE, b. 1803, m. Mary Harris 1829 ; 3d, EDWIN, 



GENEALOGY OF THE rURITAVS. 327 

b. 1805, m. Elizabeth Warner, 18:30, and had two children, Emma and 
Edwin; 4th, Henry, b. 1807, m. Eliza Bridgham, 1841, and iiad two 
children, Charles and Mary Jane ; 5th, MARIA, b. 1809, m. Hon. 
Edwin Stearns of Middletown, the present Treasurer of Conn., in 
18-28, and had five children, William E., Charles E., William S., 
George F. -and Mary J. ; Gth, FREUERICK, b. 1811, m. Clarissa 
M. Mather, 1845, have had 4 children, Frederick, Clara M., B>cd'k 
B., and Mary M. ; 7th, WILLIAM, b. 1814, d. 1821 ; 8th, Samuel, 
b. 1810, d. same year: 9th, Samuel, 2d, b. 1820, m. 1st, Lucy Dan- 
forth, 1846, and had a son William, 2d wife, Susan T. Baldwin of 
N. H., 1851, and had a daughter Maria S., b. June, 1852, &c. 
Number of Coats of Arms. 
Brewer or Bruer, (Devonshire) one Coat of Arms. Brewer or 
Bruer, (Kent,) one. Brewer, (London and Somsersetshire Her.' 
off. London) one. Brewer, (Bermondsey and Norfolk,) one, and one 
other. Brewers, Company (of London and Exeter,) one. Brew- 
ers, 1. Brune, 2. Bruers, 2. Records, His. Gen. and Slearns. 

BREWSTER, Elder WILLIAM, was b. in England, in 1559 
or '60, and d. April 16, 1644, at Duxburyf' He was one of the 101 ^ ^*^ ?A' 
signers of the contract forming themselves into a civil body politic, A*."|C # ^fc* 
at Cape Cod, Nov. 11, 1620: all passengers in the May Flower. ,1^ Vi//V/ 

Gov. Bradford stated upon the church record of Plymouth, " that ^-^ 
Elder Brewster was the chief of those that were taken at Boston in 
Lincolnshire, and suffered the greatest loss ; and one of the seven 
who was kept loncest in prison, and after bound over to the assizes." 
{Gui. Ply. note, p. 14.) To say that Elder Brewster was one of the 
oldest and principal Puritan passengers in the May Flower, and 
landed on Plymouth Rock, Dec. 21, 1620, is giving no historical in- 
formation, for he was as far, and as familiarly known, as the vessel 
in which he came, or the event of which he was a principal actor. 
He had been fortunately educated and graduated at Cambridge, in 
England, when young — was married and had a family of children ; 
and his character established before he left England. The May 
Flower was chartered by the merchant adventurers of London, to 
' transport a part of the Leydcn church to this country ; and she sailed 
from Southampton for the eventful voyage on the 5th day of Aug., 
1620, and anchored at Cape Cod, Nov. 11, 1620, after a voyage of 
ninety-eight days. They left Cape Cod and anchored on the 16th 
' of Dec, in Plymouth Harbor; and became with Carver, Bradford, 
: Winslow, Alden, AUerton and others of the May Flower, the found- 
' ers of the religious and civil Gov't in this country, and especially in 



328 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

New England ; and the first founders of the first real Republic on 
earth. His wife was a passenger with the Elder ; also his son Love, 
son Wrestling, Lucretia wife of Jonathan, and William, son of Jon- 
athan. 

Patience and Fear, daughters of Elder W'm, were left at Ley- 
den by their parents, and did not arrive in this country 'until 1624, 
when they came in the ship Ann. (Jonathan his eldest son came in 
the Fortune, in 162L) Children of Elder W'm were: 

1. Jonathan, m. Lucretia before he came to Plyinonth, and had a sou W'm, 
b. in England, and had Mary, Jonathan aad Benjamin, born in this Country. 
'Jonathan was for a time at Duxbury, and removed to New London about 1G4S, 

and was a townsman at New London in 1G49. 

2. Love, m. Sarah, daughter of Hon. W'm Collier, of that Colony. 

3. Wrestling. 

4. Patience, m. Gov. Thomas Prince, Aug. 5, 1621, and d. 1031. 

5. Fear, m. Isaac Allerton as soon as 1627, and d. 1633. 

In 1627 his wife was deceased, and Elder William had other 
children, viz., 6 Lucretia, 7 Mary and 8 William ; being eight child- 
ren by both wives. (See Thatcher^ s His. Ply-, p. 268.) Elder 
William d. April 16, 1644, aged 83. 

BREWSTER, JONATHAN, son of Elder William : his son 
William, b. in England, d. in the Indian war, in 1645. His daugh- 
ter Mary m. John Turner, of Scituate, Nov. 12, 1645. His son 
Jonathan, b. about 1627. Benjamin, his youngest son, m. Anna 
Dart, at New London, in 1659, and had issue ; Anna b. Sept. 1662; 
Jonathan, b. 1664; Daniel, b. 1667 ; William, b. 1669 ; Benjamin; 
b. 1673. Perhaps others. 

BREWSTER, LOVE, son of Elder W'm, m. Sarah Collier, May 
15, 1634, and d. in 1650 ; he had children: 

1. Sarah, m. Benjamin Bartlett, 1656. 

2. Nathaniel, d. 1676. 

3. W'm, m. Lydia Partridge, and d. Nov. 3. 1723 : She d. Feb. 2, 1742. 

4. Wrestling, m. Mary, and had a family, and d. 169G. {Guide to Plymouth, 
p. 241. 

BREWSTER, JONATHAN, son of Elder W'm, is found in 
Court, in Conn., in 1648, with Elias Parkman his partner, and was 
made a freeman in Conn., in May, 1650. He probably came to 
Conn., between 1648 and '49; first to New London. He had been 
an efficient and active man at Duxbury for some years before he 
went to New London. i 

Mrs. Whiting of Hartford, plaintiff against Jonathan Brewster in 
1648. The latter was called in court, or Elias Parkman his part- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 329 

ner. Neither appeared and forfeited their recognizance. (Elias 
Parkman of Windsor, in 1G3G.) He set up a trading-house at Mo- 
hegan, which the Gen'l Court considered disorderly, but suffered 
him to go on in May, 1G50. Mr. Jonathan Brewster made free, 
1650 — was deputy to tlie Gen'l Court in Conn, Sept., 1G50 — May, 
1656. Mr". Brewster was Deputy, May, 1655, (but absent.) Dep- 
uty, Aug., 1657, and Oct. 1, 1657 — and chosen an assistant for 
Pequett in May, 1657 — Deputy, May, 1657 and '8. — He was ap- 
pointed by the Gen'l Court May, 1659, with Esq. Winthrop, Maior 
Mason and Mr. Allyn, to hold a court at Pequett, "to settle affayrs 
of y' place," and Mr. Winthrop to designate the time. The Gov'r, 
Mr. Willys, M.-. Allyn, Mr. Treat and Mr. Brewster, were ordered 
to assist each other in holding Court at New London, the 1st day of 
June, 1659. Mr. Benjamin Brewster was Deputy to the Gen'l Court 
at Hartford, May, 1668. (As the Christian name is not always re- 
corded, perhaps Benjamin might have been the Deputy in some in- 
stances before 1668.) 

Mr. Benjamin Brewster liad 200 acres of land granted to him by 
the Gen'l Court, by Poccoianock Brook. Perhaps at Wisquades. 
" The sayd land joynes to Norwich bownds;" laid out 1669 grant- 
ed 1668. Mr. Benjamin confirmed Lieut, of the New London troops, 
1673. Mr. Benjamin Brewster in the list of freemen at Norwich, 
1669. Elder Sam'l Fuller remembered Mr. W'm Brewster in his 
will dated July 30, 1633, by giving him "my best hat and band w''' 
1 never wore." The inventory on the estate of Thomas Evans, de- 
ceased, made by Mr. John Howland and Jona. Brewster, Feb. 18, 
1634. The Inventory of the estate of W'm I\emp of Duxbury, 
Sept. 23, 1641, was made by Jona. Brewster and others. Jona. and 
Love, sons of Elder Brewster, took letters of administration on the 
estate of Elder Brewster, (Duxbury,) their futher, June 5, 1644. 
Jonathan Brewster is found in the list of those at " Duxborrow," able 
to bear arms from sixteen years old to sixty years old. In 16jl3 also 
W'm and Love. 

BREWSTER, Mr. BENJAMIN, son of Jonathan, and grand- 
son of Elder William Brewster, came to New London with his fa- 
ther. He m. Anna Dart of New London, in' 1659, and is found 
soon after at Norwich, (where Miss Caulkins says,) the birth of his 
daughter Annie is recorded, Sept. 1662, and notes his sons Jonathan, 
b. 1604; Daniel, b. 1667; William, b. 1669; and Benjamin, b. 
1673. In 1693, he was a Commissioner at Norwich. In the list of 
freemen there, Oct. 9, 1669, where he proved one of the leaders of 
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330 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

the town, and enjoyed many of its ofFices and honors, as have hia 
numerous generations after him. 

BREWSTER, NATHANIEL, D. D., a grandson of Elder Wm, 
settled at Brookhaven, L. Island, where he d. in 1690 : His sons 
were John, Timothy and Daniel. 

BREWSTER, SEABURY, a son of Wrestling, was liorn in the 
Plymouth Colony, Oct. 21, 1754; supposed at Kingston, (P.) He 
went to Norwich from Mass., soon after the war of the Revolution, 
and m. Sally Bradford of Montville, in 178.5, and settled at Norwich, 
and had by her a son W'm, (who settled in Ohio.) After the death 
of his wife Sally, he m. for his 2d wife Lucy Leffingwell, and had 
two sons; and his 2d wife died in 1797, and he m. for his 3d wife 
Fanny Starr, of Norwich, in 1798; she died in 1833. By the last 
marriage he had three children, viz.. Dr. on-Sir Christopher S., of 
Paris in France, who report says was honored with the title of 
Knighthood by Emperor Nicholas of Russia, also dentist for Louis 
Philippe, late King of France ; 2d, Lucy L., who died young; and 
3d, Seabury Brewster, of the City of New York. 

The Brewster family of New Haven are also descendants of El- 
der William, of Plymouth and Duxbury. 

BREWSTER, JONATHAN, and his wife Mary were of Wind- 
ham, where his son Elijah was born, March 12, 1731 ; Jonathan, 
Jr., b. May 1, 1737: Jonathan the father d. Nov. 24, 1753. 

BREWSTER, JAMES, of Windham, m. Faith Ripley, March 
15, 1737; issue, Lydia, b. March 18, 1740; Faith, b. May 30, 
1742; d. 1715; Olive, b. June 18, 1744; 2d Faith, b. Nov. 18, 
1746; James, b. Jan. 8, 1749; Mary, b. 1751; David, b. Dec. 21, 
1753 ; Capt. James d. Oct. 2, 17.55, aged 40. 

BREWSTER, JONAFI, of Windham, m. Joanna Waldo, Jan. j 
25, 1744; issue, Jonathan, b. Aug. 25, 1744; Nathan, b. Jan. 31, ' 
1746; Ezekiel, b. July 19, 1747 ; Ann, b. 1749; and 2d Jonah, b. 
1750: Jonah the fatlier d. June 3, 1750. ; 

BREWSTER, WILLIAM and Estlier, of Windham, had issue, | 
Benjamin, b. Feb. 6, 1753 ; Hannah, b. 1754 ; Esther, b, 17.56 ; } 
Elizabeth, b. 1759; Cyntha, b. July 25,1762; William, b. Jan. | 
21, 1765; Cyrus, b. Aug. 5, 1769; Bowcn, b. April 19, 1773. j 

BREWSTER, Dr. JOHN, was the first physician who settled at j 
Hampton, Conn. He was peculiarly skilliul in healing wounds ; he I 
educated his sons W'm and Augustus. His son John was a portrait i 
painter. Royal was a physician and settled in the state of Maine, j 
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1760, and had issue, Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1762; W'm, b. June 17, 
1764 ; John, b. May 30, 1766, (deaf and dumb ; ) Augustus, b. May 
30, 1768 ; Royal, b. July 13, 1770 : Mary, wife of Dr. John, d. June 
4, 1783, and he m. Ruth Avery of Brooklyn, June 4, 1789, and had 
cliildren, Wm Augustus, b. Dec. 10, 1791, (an Apothecary at Kil- 
lingly;) Sophia, b. April 9, 1795 j d. April 24, 1800; Betsey A., 
b. Sept. 11, 1798; m. Joseph Prentis, Esq.; she d. Oct. 17, 1833: 
Dr. John d. Aug. 18, 1823, aged 84. His wife Mary d. May 18, 
1823, aged 69. 

Coats of arms. Brewster (Northamptonshire) one. Brewster 
(Withfield Co., Essex) one. Brewester (Suffolk) one. 

One by this name had graduated at Harvard College in 1850, sev- 
en at Yale before 1851, and five at Williams College. 

BREWEN, BRUEN, OBADIAH, Esq., was one of the early and 
most active and useful settlers at Pequet, (N. London ;) as early as 
1653, he was the town Recorder. In April 11, 1660, he was ap- 
pointed Commissioner until the Court of Election, in lAIay, then next, 
also James Rogers, Lt. Smith, John Smith, as Commissioners, who 
with the aid of Maior (Major) Mason to hold a Court of an inferior 
nature at Pequett, to try the business respecting Waterhouse, &c. 
In May, 1660, Mr. Bruen, J. Rogers and John Smith, were appoint- 
ed Commissioners, and Mr. John Tinker, assistant, for N. London. 
In May, 1662, Mr. O. Bruin was empowered by the Gen'l Court to 
administer oaths and grant warrants at N. L., as occasions should 
require. To prove his exalted standing in the Conn. Colony, I need 
only to mention the fact, that Obadiah Bruen was one of the impor- 
tant men in the Colony, who petitioned King Charles II., for the 
Charter of Ct., and one of the grantees to that instrument. In May, 
1663, the Gen'l Court appointed him with Mr. Chapman and John 
Smith, of N. London, a committee to hear and determine the differ- 
ences, between the Indians at Niantick, and the English, for burn, 
ing fences, or any other complaints against the Niantick Indians. 
An assistant in 1662. In 1664, he with Mr. Palmes and Ensign 
Avery, were Commissioners for N. London, invested with the pow- 
er of Magistrates in N. L. Commissioner with John Smith in 1603, 
and he was ordered by the Gen'l Court to give the freeman's oath to 
S. Rogers, Miles More, Rice, &c., the same Court. Mr. Brewen the 
Mayor, [Mason,] and Hon. John Allyn, Oct., 1663, were appointed 
by the Gen'l Court to hold a Court at N. London, and the Judges to 
fi.K on the time for holding it. James Avery was appointed a Com- 
missioner to join Mr. Bruen at N. L., Oct., 1663. He was a Com- 



332 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

missioner for N. L., May, 1665, In July, 1665, Mr. Bruen and 
others were ordered to hold a Court at N. L., on the 2d Wednesday 
of Nov., 1665. He was directed in March, 1662-3, to adniinistcF 
the oath to such persons as should be elected Constables for the yeaF. 
He was Commissioner for N. London in 1666. Mr. Bruen was 
chosen a representative from N. L., to the Gen'I Court, in Oet.^ 
1665, but was absent; also in Oct., 1666. Notwithstandinf^ the fore- 
going and many other honors, which had been conferred upon Mr, 
Bruen by Conn., he became dissatisfied with his location, and with 
many others of the Colony from N. L., Branford, N. Haven, MiU 
ford &c., entered into a written contract, to remove from the Conn, 
Colony to Newark, New Jersey. Whitehead, in his History of N. 
Jersey, says " Newark, (N. J.,) was first settled in 1666, and on the 
11th day of July, 1667, Obadiah Bruen, Michael Tompkins, Samu- 
el Ketchell, John Browne and Rober!. Denison, from N. London, pur- 
chased of the Indians a tract of land in N. Jersey, bounded with the 
Bay eastward, and the Great River Pesayak northward, the Great 
Creek or river in the meadow, to the head of the cove, then bearing 
a west line for the south bounds, &c. ; on the west line back into the 
country to the foot of the great mountain." Mr. Bruen probably 
about this time removed with his family to the new settlement, (at 
first called Milford,) afterwards named " Newark," in N. J. Who 
or when Hon. Obadiah Bruen married,! cannot say, and know of 
but two of his children, John and Hannah. 

Tlie Milford record says that John Baldwin, Sen., of Milfo^'d, m. 
]\Iarie, daughter of John Bruen of Pequet, (N. L.;) also says that 
John, son of John Baldwin, Sen., m. Hannah Bruen, daughter of 
Obadiah, Oct. 30, 1663, of N. London. As there was no John 
Bruen of N. London, except John the young son of Obadiah, it is 
probable that Marie Bruen, who m. John Baldwin, Sen., was a sister 
of Obadiah. John, son of Obadiah, went with his father to Newark, 
and he, John, m. Esther Smith and settled in Newark. Esther wid- 
ow of John Bruen, planter, "received a grant of land from the 
Lords Proprietors" of New Jersey, in 1696. Cong. 

As Mr. Bruen w-as in authority in Conn., Mathew Camfield one 
of the Gen'I Court, and Robert Treat, afterwards Gov. of Conn., it 
has often been a matter of conjecture why these men should have 
left New England for the banks of the Passaic, without a govern- 
ment, except the contract signed at Branford, yet such was the fact, 
and united with the first company of Mr. Treat, &c. Conger says 
♦'Bruen, Kitchell, Tompkins and Co., having purchased of Wekapro- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 333 

kikan, Wamesane, Mamistoiinc, and Co., for themselves and asso- 
ciates, we find Mr. Bruen, when Ab. Pierson, Jr., was called 'to be 
helpful to his father,' with Sam'l Kitchell, appointed to assist the 
Deacons in making the rate for their maintenance. On Jan. 1, 
1669-70, ' John Bruen had granted to him upon his father's motion, 
the five acres of upland next Mr. Bruen's lot, that was formerly laid 
out as a part of Mr. Leet's lot, and the other was promised to him. 
He is to take it up with his father Bruen's next division of upland.' 
John Bruen married Hannah, a daughter of Deacon Richard Lau- 
rence, (born at Branford in 1657,) and the name of her brother, 
Eleazer, was borne by three generations of the Bruens. Eleazcr, 
who early in this century manufactured cut nail, on the home-lot of 
his English ancestor, opposite the N. J. R. R. depot, and demonstra- 
ted the truth of the ancient saying, that talent belonged to the Bru- 
ens, is remembered by many. 

BRUEN, ELEAZER, Joseph and John, were grandsons of Oba- 
diah. One of the daughters of John, by a familiar process became 
a Durand, another a Hayes, two of them Balls, and another a 
Headly. 

John Baldwin's, Sen's second wife was Ruth, daughter of Henry 
Botsford, of Milford, and was the mother of Samuel, Daniel, Joseph, 
Timothy, EInathan, Nathaniel, Jonathan and Ruth, the second wife 
of Eleazer Bruen. This Ruth died about 1717, and in her will, 
names Eleazer, her husband's son by his first wife, and her own 
sons Timothy and Obadiah, who seem to have been twins, as Obadi- 
ah died in 1774, at 64, and Timothy in 1778, aged 68. Obadiah, 
married Dorcas, a daughter of Daniel Brown, a son of John Brown, 
Sen., who is also named in the deed from the Indians. She died in 
1741, aged 31. On the N, corner of Hill and Broad, on tlie orig- 
inal home-lot of John Browne, her descendants still retain their in- 
heritance, and drink from the old well." 

* Mr. Obadiah Bruen continued his usefulness at Newark, until 
his death, where he yet has several descendants now living. 



• In " Clark's Marrow of Ecclesiastical History," (^London, 1G50,) (says Conger,) we li-ive to- 
gether with notices of Constantine, Justinian, Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth, a biography 
of John Bruen, Epq., the representative of the family in the ICth century, who, says one, was 
"one of the few individuals whose private virtues alone, in the rank of a country gentleman, 
have obtained a place in the annals of biography. His tenets were those of the Calvinistic 
Puritans, but his goodness of heart would have reflected honor on any rank and any religion. 

He was born in 15G0. His earlier years were passed in private education, after which he 
was sent to O.xford. Having married in 1580, he returned to his father's seat at Bruen Staple- 



334 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Bruen (Stapleford, Co. Chester,) has one coat, of arms. Bruin 
or Bruen has one. Bruin two. Brewin two. 

ford, and entered into all the amusements to which his youth and fortune prompted hiin. Thia 
career of pleasure, which, nntwilhstanding the animadversions of bis biographer, appears to 
have been a very moderate one, terminated willi the life of his father in 1587, who '• together 
wi'h his lands, left him charged with the portions of twelve children." To relieve himself 
*rom these incumbrances, the park of Bruen Stapleford, "'well furnished with deer," was im- 
mediately dis-parked ; the hawks, and hounds, and every unnecessary expense were cut off. and 
the whole mind of the new proprietor turned to the forming within Ins family a pattern of re- 
ligious economy, which was certainly eccentric, but appears to have originated solely in the un- 
affected piety of its master. The benevolence and piety of Mr. Bruen had rendered him such 
an object of respect in the country, that many of the most distinguished families weie. among 
the con.-tant inmates of his hou>-e, and begged that their children might be brought up under 
his directions. He cl is^ed his career of active goodness by a death, in every respect conform- 
able to it, in 1025." Tiie particulars of his marriages, conne.\ions, and pedigree, may be found 
in •» Oriiierod'.s Cheshire." No 6607, Harl. MSS., is entitled, "A godly profitable collection of 
divers sentences out of Holy Scripture, and variety of matter out of several divine authors.'' 
By John Bruen, "commonly called liis cards, being 52 in number." 

For the edification of his descendants we quote from "Clark's Marrow" as follows; While 
at Oxford '• being famdiar with one John Breerwood, his Countriman, This Breerwood observ- 
ing in him some Popish practices and opinions, set upon him by Scripture arguments to con- 
vince and reform liini, whereupon this young Gentleman (through God's mercy,) wasso virought 
upon, that as himself wrote it down in his Book ; 1 was, sailh he, then inflamed with zeal 
against the prophane beast of Rome, and all Popery, both persons and things, with all their 
Monuments, Rites and Ceremonies, &c. After a winle his father sent for him home, that he 
might di.spose of him in marriage, and provided for him the daughter of one Mr. Hardware, (a 
worthy and wise Gentleman,) to whom be was married with consent of Parents, and in the 
fear of God. and lived very comfortably with tier for 17 years, seeing his sons and daughters 
as Olive plant? round about his Table. Then, being in the prime of his youth, he spent too 
much time in hunting, hawking, and such carnal delights." 

"Anno, 1590. Having provided for his Pari.-h a worthy preacher, the people, thouijh they 
admired his gifts, yet they would not so much as Ihank him for his pains, wh'ch was a great 
discouragement to the Minister. Hereupon, Master Bruen withdrew his Preacher into his own 
Chapel, to make the people more to prize the Word by the want of it. Then resorted many 
to him, some to the Cliapel to feed their souls, and many into the Hall to feed their bellies, to 
his no small cost, and yet great comfort, because Heligion increased thereby. But after a v\hile. 
at the importunity of Christian friends he restored him to the publike Congregation, maintain- 
ing him and other Preachers after him, till by the death of the Incumbent, God established a 
faithful I'astoi- amongst them. And whereas the people at Tarvin had a bad custom of keeping 
Wakes upon the Sabbath Day, at which time there was much profaneness practised, to the dis- 
honor of God, by banqueting, drinking, dancing, &c. This godly Gentleman, studying to rem- 
edy this great evil, against that time, every year, provided three of the best affected Ministers 
in the Country, who spent most part of three days in preaching and praying in the Church, so 
that the Pipers, Fidlers, Bearwaids, Players and Gamesters, had no time left them for their van- 
ities, but went away with great fretting. And for the preventing of these mischiefs, and to 
exercise the heads and hearts of his Family, and of such as came occasionally to his house, he 
bought two goodly fair Bibles, and set them upon two Desks, one in his Hall, the other in his 
Parlour," and '•Being on a time at the Sheriff's Table, there was a health begun to the Prince, 
and there were great Lords present, but when it came to Master Bruen, he said. You may drinic 
his Health, and I will pray for his health, but drink for mine own health, and so wish you may 
do for yours, and so he passed it over, not yielding to any of the solemn Cerimonies in that act." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 335 

BRIDGES, EDMOND, of Ipswich as early as 1048. 

BRIDGES, EDMOND, of Colchester, Ct., d. 1759, aged 71. 
Widow Bridges, d. 1769, aged 81, at Colchester. Farmer, men- 
tions Robert Bridges of Lynn, freeman 1641. Representative 1644, 
Speaker of the House in 1646. Assistant from 1047 to '50, when 
he died. Few of the name are now in Conn. 



His biographer states tliat the fleeces of his flocli were consumed in clothing the poor of his 
parish, wlio were all maintained at his expense, to which purpose all tlie protits of his two mills 
were appropriate<l. His house was a common inn. " Many that passed betwixt Ireland and 
England, and came to Chester would take up his house for their lodging place, that they might 
rejoice their hearts in seeing his face, hearing his voice, and conferring and advising with him. 
His ordinary table was bountiful, and for the furtherance of it, he had a great flight of pigeons, 
a warren of conies, delicate fish ponds, beside other ordinary provision about his house: his 
cellar was open and free to all within the bounds of moderation, and in the dear years he made 
provision for nmltitudes out of his own and other parishes, almost every day in the week, and 
would sometimes serve them himself to see their necessities." It is recorded, that on a com- 
plaint made against this excellent man, from some injury done by the water course to his mills, 
the judge in open court, begged the proceeding might be stayed, adding, " I cannot but think 
you wrong Mr. Bruen. I will undertake for him, make him but sensible of any wrong that he 
hath done, and he shall willing acknowledge it, and make double amends for it." 

Bruin, Hon. Obadiah, of Pcquet, (New London,) 2d son of John Bruen, of Bruen Stapleford. 
(Canirer) says in the Newark D. Advertiser, (speaking of the Oirdle of Verity, Robert Pasfield 
was one of the old servants of John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford. To assist him in reciting to 
his master, the long sermons in which he so peculiarly delighted, this Robert, a man utterly un 
learned, for the help of his memory invented and framed a girdle of leather long and large, 
which went twice about him ; this he divided into several parts, allotting every book of the 
Bible in order to one of these divisions ; then for the chapters he aflixed points or thongs of 
leather to the several divisions, and n)ade knots by fives or tens to distinguish the chapters of that 
book, and by other points divided the cliapters into their particular contents or verses as occa- 
Bion required. This he used instead of pen and ink in hearing sermons ; and coming home 
he was able by it to repeat the sermon, quote the texts, &c., which girdle master Bruen kept 
after his death hung it up in his study, and would merrily call it the girdle of verity." 

"Unfortunately," says Orunode's Clieshire, " Mr. Bruen's well meant zeal was not confined to 
his own walls. For finding in the church of Tarvin and his own ancient chapel, many supersti- 
tious images in the windows, which by their painted coats darkened the light of the church, and 
obscured the brightness of the gospel, he caused ail those painted puppets to be pulled down, 
and at his own cost glazed the windows again. Such was the ill fated prejudice of zeal against 
a species of decoration wliich peculiarly displayed the taste and munificence of our ancestors, 
and v.'hich by its glorious mixture of splendor and obscurity, Ihiew a still and solemn air over 
their religious fabrics, which particularly adapted the mind to the feelings of devotion." In 
the following extracts, Mr. B. speaks himself. "Anno IGOI. My servant going with his Cart 
laden, fell down, and the wheels being iron bound, went over his leg, yet hurt him not at all : 
L.1U3 Deo, Praised he God. Anno 1G02. My son John going into the field, took up a Sith to 
sec how he could mow ; the Sith entred into his stocking to the shin bone, shaving the hairc, 
and came out at the back side of his leg, and touched no flesh nor skin: Laus Deo, Praised be 
God. Anno 1003. One that dwelt in my Farm in Wimble Staflbrd, seeing two godly persons 
going in the way, said to one with him, I will dance, and swagger, and swear, to anger yonder 
two Puritans, and so he did to their great grief: But presently the revenging hand of God was 
upon him. so that immediately he fell sick, was carried home in a Cart, and witliin three dayes 
died most fearfully : All glory to God." 



336 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

BRIDGES, Rev., an Episcopal minister located in N. York and 
New Jersey, after the death of Rev. Mr. Muirson in 1707, occasion- 
ally preached in Fairfield County. 

Edmond Bridges, aged 23, embarked in the James, Jno. May, 
Master, for N. England. 

Wolston Brockway, deeded land in Lyme to " his father Wm. 
Bridges," who appears to have been the father of Mrs. Brockway 
the wife of Wolston. 

BRIDGE (Bosbury, Co. Hereford and Essex) has 1 coat of arms. 
Bridge, (Lancashire,) one. Bridge, (Scotland,) one. Bridge, (Dor- 
setshire,) as borne by John Gawler Bridge, Esq., one. Bridges has 
10. Brige has one. Bridge, (Bosbury to Hereford,) one. 

BRIDGEHAM, ELNATHAN, of Mansfield, and Peter Buell of 
Coventry, Plffs. in Court at Hartf. 1722. 

BRIDGEMAN, JAMES, was a land holder at Hartford, 1640, 
and soon after located at Springfield, Mass., and had children born 
there, viz., John, b. 7th day of 5th mo. 1645, m. Sarah Sheldon, 
Jan. 1, 1670 ; James, b. 14th day 11th mon. 1647 ; Martha, b. 20th, 
day of 9th mon. 1649, m. Sam'l Dickinson, June 4, 1668 ; Mary, 
b. 5th day of ye 5th mon. 1652, m. Sam'l Bartlett, Ap'l 27, 1672, 
perhaps otliers. James and Sarah Bridgeman lost a daughter 
Patience by death, 1656. (James Sen., d. Jan. 14, 1655 or '6 ;) 
James his son, d. 1605. John Bridgeman took the oath of allegiance 
at Northampton, 1678. 

BRIDGEMAN, ISAAC, m. Dorothy, daughter of Serg. John 
Curtis of Wethersf'd, Conn., Ap'l 11, 1706, and had Lydia b. there 
Feb. 9, 1707 ; Gideon, b. Octo. 2, 1708 ; Dorothy, b. Octo. 10, 
1710, all born in Wethersfield. The name has disappeared at 
Wethersfield. 

James Bridgeman, m. Elizab'th Allis of Hadley, July 13, 1704. 

Thomas Bridgman, who has done those particularly interested in 
" Copp's Hill Burial Ground," Boston, the special favor of collect- 
ing and publishing the Ejntaphs, from the old and moss-grown monu- 



That Obadiah Bruen, the second son, of John of Bruen Stapleford, was the ancestor of all of 
the name in this country, may be doubted. The ancient records of Milford testify, that John i 
Baldwin , Senior, married Marie, daughter of John Bruen of Pequot, (New London,) and that i 
John, son of John Baldwin, Senior, was married Oct. 30, 1663, by Mr. Robert Treat, to Han- , 
nah Brewen, daughter of Ob. Brewen of New London. Obadiah, son of John Baldwin, Sen'r, (. 
was born Oct. 29, 16G0. The ambiguity of the record admits the conjecture that Marie and i|' 
Obadiah were brother and sister, thus removing the difficulty — both children of the noted Pur* | 
itan, and residing at New London. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 337 

mcnts of their departed ancestors, with so much credit to himself, is 
a descendant of the above James, Sen'r. 

Bridgman (Shropshire) has 1 coat of arms. Bridgeman, (Nor 
folk,) one. Bridgeman, (Earl of Bradford,) one, and 4 others.* 

BRIGDEN, Rev. ZECIIARIAH, Stonington, 1661, (though he is 
not mentioned by Dr. Trumbull in his list of ministers.) 

BRIGDEN, TflO'S, of VVethf 'd, m. Grace, and had Wm. b. 
Aug. 3, 1740, d. 1750; Michael, b. Nov. 10, 1743; Sarah, b. 
Aug. 9, 1747 ; Timothy, b. Mar. 7, 1749. 

BRIGDEN, MICHAEL, son of Tho's, m. Catherin Perrin,daugh. 
ter of Dr. Perrin, and had issue, Michael, b. Nov. 2, 1774 ; Heze- 
kiah, b. Oct. 24, 1777 ; Harriet, b. Jan. 2S, 1780 ; Catherine, b. 
Nov. 25, 1784 ; Wm., b. Jan. 24, 1788. 

BRIGDEN has one coat of arms. 

BRIGGS or BIGGS, WILLIAM, of Middletown, d. in 1081. 
His children were, William, 15 years old, Mary 14, Thomas 9, 
Elizabeth 8, Sarah 6, and John 4. (See Biggs.) 

BRIGGS, JOHN or BRIDGS, and his wife Mary of Boston, Jan'y 
9, 1674, sold land in Lyme to Leonard Asten of Lyme, and acknowl- 
edged it before Gov'r Leverett in Boston, 1674. 

BRIGGS, WM., of Lyme, deeded land to his son John in Lyme, 
in 1680. 

Briggs or Bridge Wm., deeded land to John Robbins, 1673. 

BRIGGS, JOHN, had a lot in 1673, and an ear mark at Lyme. 
Wm. Briggs, son of John, had a wife Mary, b. July 30, 1672 ; Fet- 
ter Briggs, b. Feb. 5, 1680. 

BRIGGS, CLEMENT, of Plymouth, 1623; Weymouth, 1633, 
sons Tho's, Jona., David, Clement, b. from 1632 to 1642 ; John of 
Lynn, (Far.) 

BRIGGS, JOHN, administration granted to his widow Kathern on 
his estate, June 1, 1641, at the Probate Office in Plymouth. Inven- 
tory taken by Edw'd Dillingham and Tho's Tupper, £55, 25. Chil- 
dren, Sam'l and Sarah. {N. E. G. Reg'r, No. 14, p. 173.) 

Briggs, Clement, (Brigges,) came to this country inl621 ; John 
Briggs came to this country in the ship Blessing, John linslpr innster. 

BRIGGS, REMEMBER, and Mary of Weymouth, had a son 
Samuel, b. 1636 ; Mary, b. 1689 ; Joseph, b. 1693. 

Briggs, Boston and Weymouth, early. 

Briggs has 10 coats of arms; Brigges has 2. 

* See Doolittle'a Hiis. of Belchertown. 

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338 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BRINSMAID, BRINSMEAD,BRINSMADE, BRINSMEADE, 
JOHN, came early to Stratford, Ct., from Mass., yet he was not a 
pioneer at Stratford. He had sons John, Daniel and Paul, perhaps 
other children, John, b. in Mass. He was a Deacon at Stratford. 
John Brinsmead was freeman at Dorclicster, M iss., 1633 ; Charles- 
town, 1640, his son John, b. 1040, [Farm.) At the ordination of 
Rcv'd Israel Chaunccy at Stratford in 16G5, Deacon Jolm Rrins- 
made of Stratford, " imposed hands" at the ordination of Rev'd Is- 
rael Cliauncey at Stratford in 10C5. He being called upon rather 
suddenly, to *' impose hands," the Elder neglected to remove his 
mitten from his hand, in consequence of which, it has ever since 
been called the " leather mitten ordination." Rev'd Daniel, gradua. 
ted at Yale College, in 1745, grandson of Elder John of Stratford; 
he settled in the ministry at Judea, (now Washington, Ct.,) in 1748; 
he d. there 1793, and became the father of Hon. Daniel N. Brins- 
made, who graduated at Y. College 1772, and was many years one 
of the Judges of the County Court, in Litchfield County, and often 
represented Washington at the Gon'l Assembly. He was tv.ice m. 
had but one child, viz., G^^n'l Daniel B. Brinsmade, who is now liv- 
ing at Washington, about 70 years old, a highly respectable citizen, 
and has often represented the town at the General Assembly of 
Conn. 

BRINSMADE, DANIEL, was a member of the first church 
formed at Unity, (Trumbull,) Nov'r 18th, 1730, and Hannah his 
wife from the church at N. Haven was admitted at Unity, June 4th, 
1732, and Daniel aged about 15 years admitted Jan. 6, 1734; Mary, 
daughter of Daniel and Hannah, was admitted June 1st, 1735, un- 
der 21 years old ; Hannah, daugiiter of Lieut. Daniel, admitted 
July 26, 1741, {Cli. Eec. of Unity.) 

BRINSMADE, ABRAHAI\I, and his wife Mary Wheeler, m. 
1747-8, of North Stratford, (Trumbull,) had children born there, 
viz., Abigail, b. Nov. 13, 1748; Hannah, b. July 22, 1750; Dan- ; 
iel, b. Sept'r 22, 1752, perhaps others. Seven of this name had : 
graduated at Y. College b^fure 1:340. ,, 

This name is yet found in Fairfield and Litchfuld Counties. i 

BRINSMADE, JOHN, Sen. Ir^euian at Siratfbrd, 1669; Abi- i! 
gall, daughter of John and Abigail, m D..vid Gipson of Milford, , 
Aug. 20, 1724, and had a daughter Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 1726 ; Da- !; 
vid, b. Feb. 26, 1728-9, and others, removed to Judea, \ 

BRINSMADE, JOHN, had children b. in Milford, viz., John,' 
Octo. 4, 1705; Abigail, b. Mar. 7, 1706-7; Eliz'th, b. Mar. 12, ' 



GENEALOGY OF THE I'URITAN'S. 339 

1709-10; Mary, b. July 20, 1711; Ann, daughter of John and 
Abigail, b. Feb. 24, 1722-3. Abraham was Deacon in Norlli Strat- 
ford 1705. 

John, probably the elder, was Comiii'r for Stratford, May, 1009 ; 
Dcp. Octo., 1671 and May, 1072, Octo'r, 1072. 

BRINSMEADP., JOHN, and Mary his wife of Charlcstown, 
Mass., daughter Mary, b. 1040 ; son Jnhn, b. 2=^, (1st) 1043. 

BIIINSMEADE, JOHN, freeman in Mass., May 2, 1038. Wm. 
Brinsmcade, of Roxbury, Mass.,d. 1048, left children, Wm., Alex- 
ander, Ebbet and Mary. (See his will. Ills. Gen. Ilcg. No. II. p. 
260.) 

BRINSMEAD, Mr. Wm., of Woburn, freeman 1671. 

John, son of Elder John, was born before his father settled at 
Stratford. 

The early Church record at Stratford is very deficient, and noth- 
ing of the first is found. The early town records up to 1050, were 
destroyed by fire, with the house in wliicli they had been kept, so 
that the direct evidence from the record, as to who the first settlers 
were, renders it difficult in all cases, to collect them ; after the fire 
some matters were recorded again, as grants of land, some births, 
&c., but none or few dates to the grants. By the births and deeds, 
a tolerably accurate account, witiiout much tradition, even be- 
fore lO-^l, may be obtained : some by the deficiency of dates may 
not have been at Stratford as early as others named, and some may 
have located there and left the town before 1050, for shifting from 
place to place was very common in those unsettled days — yet chil- 
dren born at Stratford before 1051, are not found on any record be- 
fore that time. 

BRISCO, NATHAN'L, was of Wallingford in 1690, and Na- 
thaniel was a free planter at Milford, and d. there in 1083, perhaps 
father of the first named. Briscoe, was at Boston and Watcrtown, 
Mass. ; the name was later in the Conn. Colony. 

BRISTOL, HENRY, this was strictly a N. Haven Colony name^ 
and an early settler there ; daughter Rebecca, b. at N. Haven, Feb. 
4, 1649, (after this spelt Bristow ;) Sam'l, b. Dec. 3, 1051 ; Mary, 
b. Nov. 17, 1653 ; Lidia, b. Jan. 3d, 1057 ; John, b. Sep. 4, 1059 ; 
Mary, b. Sept., 1001 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 10, 1003 ; Abigail, b. ApU 
19, 1060; Sarah, b. 1007. 

BRITTAL, CLAUDIUS, and wife Alcthca of Windham, had a 
son Claudius, b. Sep. 15, 1771. 

BROADSTREET, JOHN, of Windham, by Rebecca his wife 



340 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

had issue, Andrew, b, 1722; Mary, 1723-4; Susannah, 1724-5; 
Mercy, 1726-7. 

Bradstrect (Ireland) has one coat of arms. 

BROCKET, JOHN, was early at New Haven. (One of his 
daughters m. W'm Pennington, supposed the ancestor of Gov. Pen- 
nington of New Jersey, where W'm settled.) Son Samuel, b. at 
New Haven, Jan. 14, 1650; Jabez, b. Feb. 24, 1654; John, son of 
John Brocket, d. Nov. 29, 1676: Benj'n Brocket d. May 22, 1679; 
Benj'n, son of John Brocket d. June 28, 1700 ; John, son of John, 
d. Nov. 17, 1709 : a New Haven Colony name. 

BRACKET, BENJAMIN, of New Haven presented for freeman, 
May, 1669. (Perhaps Brockett.) 

BRODWELL, EDWARD, was in the large division and appor- 
tionment of fence in Branford, in 1646, and in a land division in 
1648. 

*BROCKWAY, WOLSTON, was a respectable and early set- 
tler at Lyme. He deeded lands in Lyme to John Robins in 1679, 
signed by himself and his wife Hannah. He deeded a piece of land 
in Lyme to his father' William Bridges ; the deed entered for record, 
1680. In 1682 he sold land to Mr. Christopher Christophers, of 
New London. His wife was the daughter of W'm Bridges; he 
was probably m. before he settled at Lyme. His children n corded 
at Lyme were Hannah, b. Sept. 24, 1664; W'm, b. July 25, 1666; 
Wolston, Jr., b. Feb. 1667; Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1669; Briget b. Jan. 
9, 1671 ; Richard, b. Sept. 30, 1673; Elizabeth, b. May 24, 1676; 
Sarah, b. Sept. 23, 1679; Debrah, b. May 1, 1682 ; goodwife Brock- 
way d. Feb. 6, 1687. 

BROCK WAY, WOLSTON, Jr., m. Margaret, Dec. 4, 1688, and 
had issue, Wolston, b. Oct. 26, 16S9; Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1691-2; 
Jonathan, b. May 10, 1694; Debrah, b. 1696; Edward, b. March 
8, 1698-9; Margaret, b. April 17, 1701; Ephraim, b. April 4, 
1703. 



•Woolston Brockway on tlie 12th day of March. 1671-2, was one of the Saybronk and 
Lyme men, against whom .lolm Prentice of New London, complained for" riotous practices" 
and assaults on New London people, tc. The Saybrook people had also complained to the 
County Court in Hartford, March 12, 1071-2, against the people of New London, for notorious 
practices, assaults, fee. The controversy between the towns, was, a strip of land lying be- 
tween Bride Brook, and Niantic River, including Black Point in Lyme. Both towns claimed 
the lands by previous grants; and both had reserved a portion of meadow at Black I'oint. for 
the use of the ministry. (See the njjrny. printed Rec., apprvdiz. p. .i58.) The Court fined the 
Town of New London jEO, and Lyme X5. (C, C. Rec. vol. 3, p. 122.) The fines afterwards 
remitted by tlie Court. [Printed Rec., p. 229 ) 



GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 341 

BIIOCKVVAY, EBENEZER, m. Sarah Buckingham, Feb. 11, 
1734-5; issue, born at Saybrook, Ebenczer, b. Jan. 16, 1735-6; 
Lebbeus, b. Dec. 29, 1738 ; Elijah, b. Nov. 29, 1744. 

BROCKVVAY, WILLIAM, son of Wolston, Sen., m. Elizabeth, 
March, 8, 1692-3, and had five children, (erased from the record 
by time.) The first b. 1693, and the last b. Oct. 29, 1704. His 
will dated 1728. His son WILLIA.M, Jr., m. Prudence Pratt, Oct. 
3, 1716, and had Hannah, b. Nov. 30, 1718; VV'm, b. Fob. 22, 
1728; perhaps others. W'm, 3d, had his ear mark in Lyme, in 
1738. The direct line to Col. Brockway of Lyme, late senator 
from Lyme, is, 1st, Wolston, Sen., 2d, W'm, 3d, John, 4lh, Ehcn'r, 
who was the grandAither of Senator Brockway. Rev. Diodate 
Brockway who graduated at Yale College in 1797, was the son of 
Rev. Thomas Brockway from Lyme, who graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, 1768, and settled in the ministry at Columbia; he m. Eunice 
Lalhrop of Norwich, Dec. 8, 1772. His son Rev. Diodate was b. 
Dec. 29, 1776 ; he was settled in the ministry at Ellington, where 
he preached about thirty five years ; he d. July 5, 1807, aged 62 
years ; had issue, Hon. John H., and others. 

BROCKWAY, GIDEON, had an ear mark at Lyme for his cat- 
tie, Oct. 7, 1733. 

BROCKWAY, WOLSTON, 3d, removed from Lyme to Bran- 
ford; and about 1752 removed to Sharon, where he died in 1813, 
aged 90, and left a son Asa, then living. {Sedgw.) W'm Brock, 
way by his will dated 1728, gave two of his sons, Richard and John, 
land at the ferry, part of the plains. Island, &c. John in 1756, 
purchased the other half of the Island. Three of this family had 
graduated at Yale College in 1820, viz., Rev. Thomas, Rev. Dio- 
date and Hon. John H., grandfather, father and son. 

BRONSON, BROWNSON, BRUNSOxN, JOHN ; this name is 
more generally spelled upon the Hartford records, BRUNSON. 
John and Richard Brunson were both at Hartf'd, at an early period 
of the settlement, yet neither of them were in the land division of 
1639, but are found in that list of settlers at Hartford, who were 
allowed by the " courtesie" of the town, the privilege of wood, wa- 
ter, and keeping cows and swine on the common, &c., as was W^m. 
Cornwell, Nicholas Disbroe, Hos-ia Goodwin, (Ozias,) Geo. Hub- 
bard and many others, who were not original proprietors, perhaps 
they had been in Hartford before 1639, for we find Samuel White- 
head had owned a lot and removed to N. Haven as soon as 1639. 
Ab'm Pratt, John Friend and others of Hartford, had sold their land 
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342 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

before 1640, and removed from the town, as did John Gibbs of 
Wethersf'd, and became a first settler at N. Haven in 1638. As 
John Bronson was in ihe bloody Pequot battle, 1637, he probably came to 
Hartford with Mr. Hooker's company in 1636, and was a member 
of his church. In 1640, John Brunson resided in the north part of 
the village of Haitf 'd on a lot bounded N. VV. by Richard Church, 
N. E. by the neck road, S. E. by Wm. Hayden or Heaton and west- 
erly by Nicholas Disbroe and Daniel Garrad, (Porter puts him No. 
53.) I am inclined to believe John's father Richard was with him at 
Hartf 'd, at that time an aged man, and owned no land there. 

After the purchase of Tunxis by Wm. Goodwin, &c., John Brun- 
son removed to Tunxis about 1641, and represented the town, 
(Farn)ington,) at the Gen'l Court in May, Sept'r, Octo. and Dec'r, 
1651, also in Octo. 1655, 1656, &c. In the first division of land in 
Farmington, of the 84 proprietors, was John, Sen. and Jun'r, Rich- 
ard, Jacob, Ab'm and Isaac Brunson. Some of John's children were 
born at Hartford. The Bronsons of Conn., are most of them, if not 
all, descendants of John and Richard Bronson of Farmington. 

JOHN BRONSON was one of the 7 pillarp, at the organization of 
the church at Farmington. He died there Nov'r28, 1680. John a 
member of the original church there. His wife not found. His 
children were, Jacob, bapt'd 1641-2, and d. 1708, m. Mary. John, 
Jr., bapt'd 1643-4, d. 1696, ni. Sarah Ventries, she d. 1712, remov. 
ed to Waterbury ; Isaac, b. Dec. 7, 1645, wife Mary Root, perhaps 
Ellis; Mary, m. Ellis ; Abraham, baptized at Hartford, Nov. 28, 
1647, removed to Lyme and m. Hannah Griswold, daughter 
of Matthew, Sen'r, he d. 1747 ; Dorcas, m. Stephen Hopkins of 
Hartford ; Sarah, m. Ebenezer Kilbourn of Wethersfield ; Jacob, 
son of John Brunson, Sen'r, m. Mary , and had issue, Sam- 
uel, Jacob, Roger, Isaac, Elizabeth and Rebecca ; Samuel, (m. Ly- 
dia Warner,) had 2 children, born before he removed toN. Milford,Ly- ■ 
dia,b. 1703, and Rebecca. Samuel and Roger were early settlers at I 
New Milford in 1710 ; Jacob, Jun'r, remained at Farmington, (Ken- 
sington Society ;) Isaac, b. 1686, went to Lyme and thence to North 
Carolina; Eliz'th, m. Wm. Norris or Harris, and Rebecca, m. Eli- , 
phlet Dickerson ; perhaps Affrances, b. 1688 ; John Bronson, Jun'r, 
son of John, Sen'r, m. Sarah Ventris, and became one of the early - 
settlers of Waterbury, where he died in 1696, his wife d. Jan. 6, 
1711-12. Issue— 

1. JOHN, b. 1G70, d. June 15, 1716, removed to Southington, and had chil- ' 
dren, David, b. Aug't 9, 1704, d. Octo. 30, 1771, m. Susannah Judd ; Jonathan, 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 343 

b. Miiy 14, 170G, m. Abigail Clark, May 17, 17;i2; Joseph, b. June 8, 1708, m. 
Esther Rust, JVlarcli 15, 1711 ; Rachel, b. July G, 1710, in. Mr. Ferry; Mary, 
b. Jan. 30, 1712, m. Peck ; James, b. Nov. I'J, 1713, m. Hannah Peck, Ap'l 
20, 1737, d. March 2S, 1775 ; Ruth, b. Feb. 1, 17I5-1G, in. Barnard. 

2. Sarah, b. 1672. 

3. Dorothy, b. 1G75, m. Stephen Kclsey of Wcthersfiold. 

4. Ebenczer, b. 1G77, in. Mary , removed to Woodbury in 1726, and 

d. 172y, he had children, Eliz'th, Sarah, Bethiah,. Samuel, John, Ebenczer, 
Mary, Esther. - ' 

5. William, b. 1GS2, lived in Farmington, ni. Esther Barnes in 1707, and d. 
1760 ; issue, James, Moses, Martha, Esther, Amos, Anna and John, b. May 2, 
1723. 

6. Moses, b. 16S6, m. Jane Wait of Stratford, Nov. 6, 1712, and d. Aug't 12, 
1754, he had 13 chiUlren, Eunice, Sarah, Nathan, Elnathan, Comfort, Charity, 
Esther, Jerusha, Jemima, William, Moses, and Naoini. 

7. Grace, b. 16S9, m. Jacob Barnes, in 1711. 

ISAAC, son of John Sen'r, baptized by Mr. Hooker, 1G4.'3, m. Mary- 
daughter of John Root of Farmington, about 1G69, and d. about 
1719 ; he went to Waterbury vvith tlie first company of settlers and 
was one of the 7 male members, at the organization of the church 
there, 1st Serg't of the train-band, and three sessions a member of 
the Legislature ; his last wife d. about the time her husband d. ; they 
had issue — 

1. Isaac, b. 1670, m. Mary Morgan, daughter of Rich'dof N. London, June 3, 
1701, d. June 13, 1751, aged 81 ; his wife d. Sep. 23, 1749; Isaac, ni. Sarah 
Lewis, widow of Deacon Joseph, for his 2d wife. May 14, 1750, and had chil- 
dren by 1st wife, Jerusha, Isaac, Anne, Josiah, Mary, Nathan, James, Pa- 
tience and 2d James. 

2. JOHN, b. 1673, sonof Lsaac, m. Mary Hickox, Nov. y, 1697, and m. Hannah 
Richards, widow ol' Tho's, daughter of Stephen Upson, June 1727, lor his 2d 
wife ; had 6 children by first wife, and 3 by his 2d wife ; he d. 1751 ; issue, Mary, 
John, Hannah, Jemima, Joseph, Benjamin — by 2d wife, Tamar, Ezra, Phebe. 

3. SAMUEL, b. about 1676, son of Isaac, was a cooper; m. Ruth Smith, and 
d. Jan. 1724-5; they had children, Elijah lived in Southbury, 1790 ; Marcy, m. 
John Judd, Elijah, m. Abigail Winchel, 1739. 

4. Mary, b. (;cto. 15, 16S0, daughter of Isaac, m. Tho's Hickox, (Deacon,) 
Mar. 27, 1700, by whom she had 9 children; after the death of Deacon Hickox, 
she m. Deacon Samuel Bull of Woodbury, and d. a widow in Waterbury, July 
4, 17.36. 

5. Joseph, b. 16S2, son of Isaac, d. May 10, 1707. 

6. THOMAS, b. Jan. 16, 16S6, in. Eliz'th Ujjson, daughter of Stephen, of 
Waterbury, Dec'r 21, 1709, chosen Deacon 1752, and d. May 26, 1777, and his 
wife d. March 30, 177S; their children were Tho's, b. Jan. 5, 1711, ni. Susan- 
nah Southmayd, and Anna Hopkins, and d. in June, 1759, having Inul 9 chil- 
dren, (he was the grandfather of the late Judge B. Bronson of Waterbury.) 

7. EBENEZER.b. Dec'r, 1688, m. Mary, daughter of Dr. Hall of Wallingford, 
Nov. 1, 1716, and d. Ap'l 11, 1768, issue; Hannah, Andrew, Mary, Samuel, 



344 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Ebenezer, Thankful, Ebencz'r, m. 2d wife Susannah Langton of Fannington, 
daughter of Joseph, July 1, 173G, and had a son Ebenezer by 2d marriage. 

8. Sarah, b. Nov. 13, IGOl, m. Stephen Upson, son of Stephen, Feb. 26, 
1713; she d. 1748, having had 10 children. 

9. Marcy, b. Sep. 28, 1(394, daughter of Isaac, m. Richard Rronson of Wood- 
bury, (the g't g't grandmother of*R. R. H.,) her husband d. Aug't 21, 1769, 
aged SO years; they had an only child Marcy. 

ABRAHAM, the 4th son of John Sen'r, m. Hannah Griswold 
of Lyme, Sep. 2, 1674, daughter of Matthew, to which place he 
removed ; his daughters Mary, m. Ellis, Dorcus, m. Hopkins, Sa- 
rah, m. John Kil bourn. (See Lyme Records.) Ab'm signed the 
articles for settling VVaterbury, but failed to go ; he represented 
Lyme at the Gen'l Court. 

Although I have much more of this family, it is too numerous to 
afford to publish it in this work, where only a bird's-eye view is taken 
of each family. This family has produced its share of important 
men in the country. There are few if any of the name in Conn., 
who are not descendants of either Richard or John, of Farmiiigton 
in 1643. Hon. Alvin Bronson, of Oswego, N. York, Dr. Isaac, de- 
ceased formerly of Greenfield Hill, in Fairfield ; Hon. Green C. 
Bronson was b. at Simsbury, Conn. His father removed to the 
State of N. Y. more than 40 years since, when his son was quite 
young ; Hon. Green C. became a lawyer of distinction in Onida 
County, and had the appointment of Attorney Gen'l in that state, the 
duties of which he discharged with satisfaction to the State. He 
afterwards became an associate Judge and finally chief justice of the 
Supreme Court of his adopted State. There have also been several 
Divines and Physicians of this family ; as a family, it has been 
noted for good judgment and great common sense. Many of the de- 
scendants are found at Hartford, Farmington, Windsor, Waterbury, 
Woodbury, Berlin, N. Haven and other towns in Conn., in the city 
of N. Y., and in different parts of the Slate of New York, the de- 
scendants are numerous. 

MOSES BRONSOM removed from Berlin, Conn., to Hillsdale in 
Columbia County, N. Y., about 1755, with his sons Abel and Eph'm, 
and a daughter Susan, and left a son Silas and two daughters at 
Berlin ; one of the daughters m. Gladding of Berlin, the other m. 
Timothy Humiston of Waterbury, Ct. ; after the death of the wife 
of Moses, lie returned to Conn., and continued with his son-in-law T. 
Humiston at Waterbury. Mr. Gladding had a son John, and per- 
haps others; Humiston had a son Zenas, perhaps others; Abel, son 
of Moses d. at Hillsdale ; Eph'm, son of Moses was about 10 years 



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old when his father removed to Hillsdale ; Eph'm m. Bethia Virgil, 
of Hillsdale ; Eph'm removed to Kinderhook, afterwards returned 
to Hinsd lie, and then removed to Delhi, Del. Co. ; they had 14 child'n 
born in the 3 last towns, after which they removed to Groton, N. Y., 
where Eph'm died. Ilis first child d. an infant; Irene the "id child 
m. Tho's Swift of Hillsdale, he removed to Cooperstown where she 
d. and left issue; Parmcla, 3d daughter of Eph'm, d. in Kinder- 
hook aged 11 ; Ira V. 4th child of Eph'm, b. Octo. 18, 1778, went 
to Simsbury, Con., when young, where he read medicine with Dr. 
[Everest. In 1804, he remeved to Washington, Ct., and settled there 
as a Physician, and is now living aged 75 years. Dr. Ira V., m. 
Sarah Ann Moseley of s'd Washington, and had issue ; Elenor, 5th 
child of Eph'm, m. Barber Carpenter of Delhi, and removed to 
Groton, N. Y. — after the death of her father, they removed to Potter 
Co., Penn., and took her mother with them, who in 1847, wns living 
aged 91 years. Sophia, 6th child of Eph'm, m. and lived at one 
time at Scmphronius. N. Y., and had a large family ; Dorcas, 7th 
child of Eph'm, m. ; Aurelia, 8th child d. at Hinsdale, aged 5 years ; 
Artimesia, 9th child, m. Parker ; Almy, 10th child, m. Dexter Barnes, 
and removed to Potter County, Penn. ; Jacob, 11th child, m. and d. 
about 50 years old, at Cayuga ; Amanda, 12th child, m. Mr. Mal- 
lery, he d. and she m. a 2d husband, and removed to Erie County, 
Penn. ; Calista, 13th child, m. Joseph Harris for her 2d husband 
and lived for a time in the town of Elba, Genesee Co., N. Y. ; Ed- 
win, 14th child, graduated at Union College, Schenectady, studied 
divinity, and about one year since, was preaching at Rome in Brad- 
ford, Co., Penn., hem. and has children I\Iary and Edwin. There was 
a Mary Brungon at Hartford, afterwards the wife of Nicholas Disbroe, 
who was punished by the Court in Hartford, 1G39, for improper con- 
duct ; no evidence appears to prove she was a relative of John or 
Richard. 

BRONSON, RICHARD, an original settler at Farmington, joined 
the church there 1654, and his wife joined in 1653 ; probably a broth- 
er of John Brunson, another original settler at Hartford and Farm- 
ington. Richard's wife was Eliz'th. He d. an old man in 1694, 
and his will proved 1687 ; only two sons are named in his will, 
Sarn'l and John. Had he not a son Richard who d. at Southbury, 
and his relict Marcy d. there June 8, 1786, aged 92? Eliz'th, rel- 
ict of Rich'd, had been several times married, before she married 
Rich'd. She had sons Sarn'l and Roger Orvis, son David Carpen- 
ter, &c. Estate appraised 1685, £405, 8«. His widow d. 1694; 



346 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

they had children, viz., Abigail, b. 1643, m. Samuel Orvis ; John, 
b. 1645, m. Hannah Scott; Cornelius, b. 1048; Hannah, b. 1G50, 

m. David Carpenter; Elizabeth, b. 165'2, m. Hill ; Eede, b. 

1655; Mary, b. 1658, m. Sam'l Scott and 2d Hinman ; SAMUEL, 

b. d. in 1741-2, the 8th child of Richard, m. Sarah Gibbs, 

of Windsor, in 1637, who d. 1740; he lived in Kensington, where 
he owned a mill ; his father was the original mill owner in Farming- 
ton. SAMUEL'S and SARAH'S children were— 

1. Eliz'tl), b. IGSS, d. 17G7, m. Tho's Gridley, Aug. 3, in 1710. 

2. SAMUEL, b. I()y2, d. 1752, m. Abigail Ventris, who d. 1779, aged 84; 
he had a family in Kensington. 

3. Sarah, b. 1095, m. Daniel Thomson in Sept. 21, 1727. 

4. BENJAMIN, b. 1697, m. Martha Barnes, Dec. 15, 1725, and had bix 
chil(hen b. in Kensington, and removed to Kent in 1742. 

5. HEZEKfAH, b. lG99,d. 1752, m. Mary Deming,of Wethf'd, in 1723-4, 
who d. 172G, and he tn. for his 2d wife, Abiah Bahlwin, of Duiham, in 1727; 
he owned the mills in Kensington ; had a numerous family. 

G. TIMOTHY, b. Sept. 19, 1701, d. 17S1, ra. Dorcas Hopkins, of Hartford, 
1724, who d. 1747, and he m. Deborah Talmage, of New Haven, for his 2d 
wife; i)osterity numerous in Kensington; his 2d M'ife d , and he m. Susannah 
for his 3d wife. 

7. DANIEL, b. 1703, m. Mary Teete, of Stratford, In Nov. 9, 1727; had 
five children and removed to Danbury in 1748. 

8. NATHANIEL, b. Sept, 1, 1705, d. 1713. 

9. MICHAEL, b. 1707, m. Eliz'th Squire, of Woodbury, in 1735, and had 
six children b. in Kensington. > 

10. Anna, b. Nov. 2S, 1709. 

11. AARON, b. Nov. 10, 1712, d. 1774, m. Abigail Parker, Oct. 2G, 1737; 
also lived in Kensington, and had four sons and one daughter. 

;' JOHN the eldest son of Rich'd, Sen., is called on ihe record John, 
Jr., in distinction of his uncle John; wife Hannah, m. Oct., 1664. 
This John removed to Welhersfield and had children. 

1. John, b. Au^. 25, 1GG5, m. Kachel Buck, in 1G97, who d. in 170S, and in 
1709, he m. widow Mary Chatterton, of N. Haven; this family supposed re- 
moved to S. Carolina. 

2. Mary, b. Sept, 15, 1G6S. 

3. Isaac, m. Thardcful, from whom he was divorced, and he then m. ]Mar- 
garet. 

4. Joseph. 

The above JOHN, son of John, removed from Wcthcr.<field with 
his family to South Carolina, (where the name is yet found ;) his 

children were John, b. 1698 ; Mary, b. m. Ford ; Sarah, b. 

1708, m. McGregor; Rachel, b. 1710, probably d. young; the oth- 
ers all lived in South Carolina. 

ISAAC, son of John, removed from Welhersfield to S. Carolina; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 347 

his oldest son Joseph, settled at Suffield, in Conn. ; his other sons, 
Goo., Isaac, James, Wm. and David, in South Carolina. 

BRONSON, JOSEPH, also removed from Wethersfield to S. 
Carolina, with all his children, viz., John, Joseph, Ebenezer, Thom- 
as, Hannah, ni. VVrixham, and Rebeckah, who m. Bradwell. 

BRONSON, Capt. RICHARD, (whose son he was, or where from, 
is not certain ;) he early settled at Woodbury, (Southbury Society,) 
and married JMarcy Bronson of Waterbury, daughter of Isaac; he 
d. at Woodbury, and his relict d. there June 8, 1786, aged 92 years. 
He was a man of great wealth, and had an only child Marcy, whom 
he left with his large estate. The daughter m. 'J'homas Bennct of 
Newtown, who settled and died at Southbury, in his old age. Tho's 
and Marcy had no sons, but two daughters Rhoda and Ann. Rhoda 
ni. Rev. Noah Benedict of Woodbury, and became the mother of 

Hon. Noah Benedict deceased, an eminent lawyer at Woodbury 

of Gen. Tho's B. Benedict, so favorably known in the war of 1912, 
and a daughter Rulh, who m. Hon. Nath'l Smith, who had been a 
Member of Congress, Judge of the Superior Court of Conn., one of 
the most able Jurists the state has produced. He left an only son 
Nath. B. Judge Smith, (Nath'l, Son.,) d. at Woodbury, as did his 
wife, since 1310. Ann, the other daughter of Tho's Bennet, m. 
Lieut. Wm. French of Southbury, and had children — 

1. Marcy, ni. Oliver Barrit, and both d. at Williamstown, Mass. 

2. Avis, ni. Joel Pierce of Southbury, and has children. Yet living. 

3. Sylvania, m. Gen. E. Hinman of Southbury. 

4. Hannah, m. Asahcl Eacon of Woodbury. 

5. Ann, d. young. 

6. Brouson, m. INIary Ann Barrit ; he is now living at Poughkcepsie, aged 86. 

7. Bennct, ni. two wives, and had issue by the first. 

6. Benjamin, d. when a member of Williams College. 

9. Col. Win., m. first, Touilinson; she d. and he m. Miss Woodhousc, from- 
Wethersfield, for 2d wife ; has no Issue ; be is living in Ohio, aged about 80 years. 

Moses Bronson, son of John of Waterbury, was absent many years 
unheard from by his friends, and supposed deceased. In 1712, the 
Court ordered his brother Wm., to take all needful care of the es- 
tate of Mos3s. In 1673, John Bronson, Sen. and Jr., Jacob, Isaac, 
Ricliard and Abraham, were listed in Farmington. 

BROOKER, JOHN and Surah, had a son John b. at Saybrook, 
July 21, 1718. 

BROOKER, I\Ir. JOHN, of Killingworth, d. Oct. 8, 1742. 
Abraham Br^oker d. April 14, 1739. 

B.IO JKER, GEORGE, Ilenrio Baylie, W'm Baldin and others 



348 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

transported to Virginia ; " imbarqued in y' Mercliants Hope, Hugh 
Weston master, per examinacon by the minister of Gravesend," 
&c., (in 1635.) 

BROOKS, JOHN, of Windsor, was the first of the name at Wind- 
sor — removed to East Windsjr ; he m. Susannah Hanmer, May 25, 
1652; children, John b. March 16, 1660, died ; Samuel, b. Sept. 6, 
1662; Elizabeth, b. June 27, 1664; Mary, b. March 21, 1665; Jo- 
anna, b. Feb. 2, 1668 ; Marcy, b. Nov. 25, 1670 ; Lydia, b. Aug. 
7, 1673 ; Susannah, b. Sept. 22, 1675 : Susannah his wife, d. Nov. 
7, 1676. (Rec. Windsor.) Inventory of his estate offered in Court 
in 1682, being £199, 8s. 9d. ; he left five children then living. 

WILLIAM BROOKS, of Milford in 1646, purchased land there 
of Tho's Bagley. Bridget his wife, d. June 23, 1666. 

BROOKS, Deacon THOMAS, an original proprietor of Haddanti 
in 1662 ; made free May, 1658 — had but one son, Thomas, who was 
a Deacon. This only son Thomas, d. 1781, aged 82 ; also he had a 
son Thomas who was a Deacon ; also Abraham, Jabez and Joseph ; 
the last a Justice of Peace. 

Deacon THOMAS, Jr., had sons Charles, Thomas and David. 
Tho's 1st of Haddam, d. Oct. 18, 1668. His widow made oath to the 
inventory of his estate, April 1st, 1670, £109, 9s. His daughters 
were Sarah, b. 1662, in Dec. ; Marah, b. June 1666 ; Alice, b. 
Dec. 1668. 

JOHN BROOKS of Stratford, had a son Benj'n born there, Oct. 
17, 1685. 

WILLIAM BROOKS had allotted to him in Suffield fifty acres of 
land, and Ebenezer Brooks forty acres in 1680 ; also fifty acres in 
1684. 

BROOKS, JOHN, of Now Haven, had issue recorded there, viz., 
Abigail, b. March 10, 1649; Mary b. Sept. 5, 1654 ; Elizabeth, b. 
7° 29, 1656; Sarah, b. April 9, 1661; Hannah, b. Feb. 9, 1663; 
Ruth, b. Feb. 7, 1665 ; daughter Ruth, b. Dec. 1668. 

BENJAMIN BROOKS of Colchester, had a son John baptized 
there, March 2, 1762. 

LEMUEL BROOKS, of Norwalk, m. Hannah Raymond, Sept. 
19, 1764, and had ten children. 

BROOKS, Rev. THOMAS, settled 2d society of Danbury, Sept. 
28, 1758. 

Twenty-one have graduated at Harvard College before 1848, and 
seven at Yale College of this name. 

SARAH BROOKS of Milford, who was born in Eng'd, d. at Mil- 
ford, June 5th, 1709, in her 88th year ; perhaps wid., of W'm Brooks. 



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who had land at Milford in 1646 ; he d. there in 1684. William 
Brooke had a settlement at Milford in 1639, but was not a free plan- 
ter there in 1639 to elect officers. He had three acres there before 
1646. 

BROOKS, CHARLES, b. and d. in Durham ; he m. Mahetibel, 
daughter of Joseph Norton of Durham. The relict of Charles d. 
a widow at Goshen, Jan. 1, 1767, aged 36, and left children at Gosh- 
en. Joseph m. Amanda Collins. Asa m. Betsy, daughter of Sam- 
uel Francis. Phebc m. Augustus Hills. The mother and child- 
ren moved to Goshen with her father Norton. 

Joseph Brooks, son of Charles, b. at Durham about 1753 ; m. 
Amanda, daughter of Cyprian Collins. Their children were Har- 
vey, b. Oct. 26, 1779, m. Polly Taylor; Leman, b. 1781, d. at 
East Bloomficld, New York, 1839; Birdseye, b. Jan. 3, 1783, m. 
Huldah Boughton of East Bloomfield j John, b. Aug. 31, 1784; 
Nancy, b. Aug. 4, 1786, m. Heman Parmalee, of Litchfield ; Hi- 
ram, b. Nov. 4, 1788, m. Harriet Taylor, of Bloomfield ; Collins, 
b. Feb. 8, 1791, died unmarried in Penn. ; Philo, b. April 15, 1793, 
died on the Mississippi River; Ira, b. Feb. 21, 1795, died in State of 
New York, 1839, single; Homisr, b. Sept. 11, 1799, died single in 
Texas, Jan. 30, 1836; Tobias, b. Aug. 23, 1802; d. young at 
Sharon. 

John and Henry Brooks from Cheshire, England, settled at Wal- 
lingford in the New Haven Colony about the time New Cheshire 
(now Cheshire) began to settle, and have left a numerous posterity 
of the name. 

BROOKE, THOMAS, freeman in Mass., Dec. 1636. Henry 
Brooke free in Mass., 1638-9. 

BROOKES, HENRY, of Concord, Mass. ; had a son Joseph, b. 
in 1641. 

BROOKES, JOHN, free in Mass, 1051. Joshua of Concord, 
Mass., 1652. Caleb Brooke, 1654. 

Brooks, Hepzeba, wife of Jabez, Jabez Brooks, Sarah, wife of 
Nathan, Benjamin and Nathan, were all buried at Woburn before 
1752. 

BROOKS, ISAAC, of Woburn, freeman 1672. Gershom Brooks 
of Concord, freeman 1672. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Susan- 
na Brooks, of Woburn, died 1753, aged 3. 

BROOKE, WILLIA, took the oath of allegiance at Springfield. 
1678. 

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350 GENEALOGY OF TJIE PURITANS. 

Brook has two, Brooke has forty-three coats of arms; and Brookes 
or Brooks (Scothitid) has one. 

BROOKE, WILLIAM, an early settler at Milford, but not a free 
planter there in 1G39 ; he d. 1084. 

William Brooke aged 20, and Gilbert Brooke aged 14 years, em- 
barked for New England in the Blessing, Jo Lecester, Master. 

Walter Brooks, George Brookes and Wni. Brookes, received their 
certificate to embark for Virginia, in the America, June 23, 1635. 

Richard Brooke, a carpenter aged 31 years, embarked April 27, 
in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper master, for New England. 

Richard Brooke aged 24, Tho's Brooke aged 19 or 20, embarked in 
the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne master, from England for New 
England. 

William Brook or Brooks of Springfield, and' Mary his wife had 
children recorded there : viz., W^illiam, b. the 18th of the 6th mon., 
16.55; John, b. the 10th of the 12th mon. 1656 ; Sarah, b. the 4th 
of the 3d mon. 1658; Mary, b. the 21st of the 10th mon. 1659; Pa- 
tience, b. June 5, 1661 ; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 21, 1662; Abigail, b. 
Jan. 25, 1665 ; Joseph, b. Oct. 17, 1667 ; Mercy, b. Aug. 25, 1669; 
Benjamin, b. July 25, 1671 ; Deliverance, (a son,) and Tliankful, 
b. Feb. 28, 1672; Jonatlian, b. Oct. 13, 1674, and others. 

Robert Brian, Jo. Browne, Margerie Baker, Hundgate Baker, 
Jo. Buker, Richard Barnes, Jo. Butler, Richard Bruster, Jo. Billings, 
Lawrence Barker, Jo. Bowes, Elizabeth Bateman, Rodger Burley, 
Tho's Burd, Henry Butler, Jo. Budd, Rich'd Ball, James and his 
wife Alice Brookes, &c., embarked in the Assurance de Lo., Isaac 
Bromwell and Geo. Pewsie Masters, for Virginia. 

Brooks, James, and Alice his wife embarked for Virginia in the 
Assurance . one aged 28, the other 18 years. Walter Brooks, 
George Brookes, William Brookes, em.barked for Virginia in the 
America, William Barker master, June 23, 1635. 

Robert Brooke, an English lord, who defended the Puritans — a 
commander of the parliament army, was killed in battle, 1643. 

BROOKES, ROBERT, was from Cape Cod, and removed and set- 
tled at Pequet in the early settlement of the town, where he had a 
grant of land and forfeited it. 

HENRY, of Nahantick, about 1700. 

Thomas Brooke, aged 20, Richard Brooke, 24, embarked for N. 
England in the Susan and Ellin, Edw'd Payne, Master, about 1635. 

Richard Brooke, 24 years old ; Richard Brooke, carpenter, aged 
31, came to N. England in the Elizabeth, Wm. Stagg, master. 



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Tho's Brooks, 20, and Ricliard, 24, c>mbarkc(l in the Elizabeth and 
Ann. Wm. Brooke, 20, Gilbert Brooke, 14, embarked in the 
Blessing. 

Seven persons by the name of Brooks, have graduated at Yalo 
College ; one Brooke and two Brooks at Brown University, and 
twenty-OMO at Harvard College. 

BIIOTIIERTON, MARTIN, and Betty Bartlitt, m. Oct. 2, 1746, 
by Jacob Eliot, in Goshen, Lebanon. Also, in Goshen in Lebanon, 
Abner Hills and Mary Comstock, m. April 10, 1760, by Jacob El- 
iot, Pastor. 

BROUGHTON, JOHN and HANNAH, of Windham, had Mary, 
b. June 19, 1G97, d. 1707; Esther, b. Feb. 10, 1700; Mehitabel, 
b. March 8, 1703; Abigail, b. April l.'j, 1705 ; Thos., b. Aug. 8, 
1707. John, the father, d. Jan. 5, 1731, aged 77. 

BROUGHTON, SAMUEL, of Windham, m. Martha Lilly, May 
2, 1711. Issue, Samuel, Jr., b. Dec. 15, 1711 ; Martha, b. June 15, 
1715; John, b. June 16, 1717; Atkinson, b. Aug. 24, 1719; Sa- 
rah, b. Jan. 27, 1722 ; Margaret, b. Oct. 6, 1724 ; Wm., b. March 
20, 1727; Zeruiah, b. July 5, 1729. Martha, the mother, d. Oct. 
24, 1750. 

BROUGHTON, JOHN, of Windham, m. Tabitha Kingslcy, May 
10, 1709, and had issue, Mary, b. June 12, 1710; Tabitha, b. Jan. 
9, 1712; Amos, b. May 23, 1718; Elizabeth, b. March 9, 1720; 
Phebe, b. March 15, 1722. 

BROUGHTON, THOMAS, son of John, m. Adrie Crane, Nov. 
15, 1738, and had issue, Eunice, b. 1739 ; Lydia, b. 1742 ; Johan- 
nah, b. 1741, d. 1741 ; Keziah, b. July 20, 1744 ; Delight, b. 1747 ; 
Prudence, b. 1749 ; Jemima, b. 1751 ; Allice, b. Jan. 27, 1753. 

BROWTON, JOHN, was an original settler at Windsor ; he pur- 
chased of Simon Mills, of Windsor, his dwelling-house, out-house 
and orchard, with his house-lot and swamp adjoining at the west 
end ; also five and three-fourths acres ; also ten acres in the woods ; 
also four acres by Mill Brook, and twenty acres by the same brook. 
He sold his five acre lot to Samuel Marshall — no dates, but it was 
early, as is known by the bounds of the lots — perhaps removed to 
Windham 

BROUGHTON, EDWARD, of Farmington, a merchant, purchas- 
ed land of William Corbet, Dec. 7, 1729. 

Farmer mentions Thomas Broughton, at Wattrtown, Mass., in 
1043, and Boston, 1652, where his sons Nathaniel and Thomas were 
born; d. Nov. 12, 1700, aged 87; Thomas, d. at Boston, Dec. 4, 



352 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1702. Hubbard notices John, of Northampton, in 1653, and George, 
of Salmon-falls river, in 1675. 

Thomas Broughton embarked in the America, certificate from 
Gravesend, June 23, 1635, Wm. Barker, master, for Virginia. 

BRAY, ASA, of Farmington, aged 17, son of John Bray, of Bran- 
ford, dec'sed, chose Jonathan Woodruff, of Farmington, for his guard- 
ian, at Hartford, April, 1757. 

Sept. 4, 1753, Thomas Bray, a minor son (at Farmington) of 
Thomas Bray, dec'd, of Branford, chose Lieut. David Woodruff, for 
his guardian. Two of this name have graduated at Yale College. 

BROWN, PETER, of Windsor, (by tradition) was a son of Peter 
Brown, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, in 1620. The 
latter had no family in 1620 ; in the division of lands at Salem in 
1623, he had one acre of land assigned him, and had neither wife 
or children ; but in 1627, in the division of cattle, his name with 
that of Martha and Mary Brown, was named, each one share in the 
lot. He died in 1633, and his inventory, presented Oct. 4, 1633. 
The order of the court in the settlement of his estate, speaks of his 
having had " divers children by divers wives." Martha was prob- 
ably his first wife at Salem, though he might have been married in 
England. His wife Mary administered upon the estate. He settled 
£15 on two of his daughters, Mary and Priscilla, and Mary was 
placed in the care of John Dene and Priscilla in the care of William 
Gibson. The remainder of the estate was given to his widow, for 
the support of her young family. In 1644, Mary and Priscilla, one 
aged 17 years, were placed by the court with their uncle John 
Brown, of Duxbury. John Brown m. Phebe Harding, March 26, 
1633; he d. and his will was proved in 1682. His daughter Re- 
member had m. Josiah Wormell, and had grandchildren John, Phebe 
and Lydia. If Peter Brown, of Wi., was a son of Peter, who came 
to Salem in the Mayflower, he must have been a small child, and 
his name not mentioned, as none of his younger children were men- 
tioned by name in the settlement of his estate. {Facts from W. R. 
Russell, Reg. Deeds, and Old Col. Rec.) Peter, of Salem, d. 1633 ; 
Peter, of Wi., was b. 1632 ; his monument at Wi., says he d. 1692, 
aged 60. The record of deeds at Wi., notes him as the owner of 
tracts of land at Wi., from 1658 to 1664. Peter, of Wi., m. Mary 
Gillet, of Wi., July 15, 1658, and died 1692 ; had children, Mary, b. 
May 2, 1659 ; Hanna, b. Sept. 29, 1660 ; Abigail, b. Aug. 8, 1662 ; 
Hepzibah, b. Nov. 19, 1664; Peter, Jr., b. March 12, 1664; John, 
b. Jan. 8, 1668 ; Jonathan, b. March 30, 1670 ; Cornelius, b. July 



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80, 1672 ; Hester, b. May 22, 1673 ; Esabell, b. June 9, 1676 ; 
Debora, b. Feb. 12, 1678; Sara, b. Aug. 20, 168f. {Wi. Rec.) 
He had two other tlaiightcrs who were married. Estate, £108. 

JOHN, second son of Peter of Wi., m. Elizabeth Loomis, 1092, 
and had three sons and ciglit daugliters ; four of the daughters were 
older than any of his sons. The sons of John were John, b. March 
20, 1700, Isaac and Daniel. The mother died 1723. JOHN, the 
son of John Brown, b. March, 1700, m Mary Egleston, March 24, 
1725, and had two sons, John and Ezra, and seven daugliters ; Mary, 
the eldest of these children, lived single, and died nearly 100 years 
old ; her sister m. David Filly, and d. without issue in 1775, aged 
about 45 years; the other daughters died in childhood. 

John Brown, son of John, Jr., was b. Nov. 4, 1728 ; in 1758 he 
m. Hannah Owen, daughter of Elijah and Hannah. (Her grand- 
father, Isaac Owen, was one of the first settlers of Turkey Hills; 
his widow d. 1763, aged over 90 years.) John and Hannah Brown's 
children were Hannah, b. Dec. 24, 1758 ; Azubah, b. May 7, 1760 ; 
Esther, b. March 4, 1762; Margery, b. Jan. 25, 1764; Lucinda, 
b. Nov. 18, 1765 ; John, b. Aug. 31, 1767 ; Frederick, b. Aug. 16, 
1769 ; Owen, b. Feb. 16, 1771 ; Thede, b. Jan. 5, 1773 ; Roxy, b. 
May 29, 1775 ; Abiel, b. Nov. 18, 1776. John, the father, d. Sept. 
3, 1776, aged 48; his wife Hannah died May 18, 1831, aged 91 
years. The descendants of Peter, through his ron John only, are 
followed here. 

BROWN, ELIZER, was in the list of freemen in New Haven, 
in October, 1669. • 

BROWN, JOHN, of Killingworth, before 1700, had a son John. 
John, the father, died April 29, 1708. 

BROWN, RICHARD, had at an early period, twelve lots of land 
at Watertown, Mass., and Ab'm Brown eleven lots. 

BROWN, JAMES, of Norwalk, had lands there in 1687, and was 
settled there as early as 1684. 

BROWN, SAMUEL and MARY, of Colchester, had Eunice, b. 
April 17, 1743, at Colchester. 

BROWN, SAMUEL, of Colchester, m. Priscilla Kent, of SufField, 
1714-15. 

BROWN, NATH'L, of Middletown, made free 1654. Peter 
Brown, of Wi., made free 1658. Francis Brown, in 1660, lost prop- 
erty burned by the Indians at Farmington, for which he was remu- 
nerated by the Indians. He was appointed constable at Stamford in 
1663. ELLEN BROWN, of Middletown, was about to be married 
30* 



354 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

to Jasper demons, while he had a wife in England ; the court or- 
dered them separated until his marriage with his wife was nullified ; 
and the townsmen of Middletown directed to put the order in execu- 
tion, 1660. Richard Brown, of Southold, L. I., was made free at 
Hartford in 1662. 

BROWN, PETER and JONATHAN, both early settlers at 
Windsor. 

John Brown, of Middletown — children, Nathaniel, Lydia, Mary, 
Dorothy Hurlbut; Mary m. Jonathan Cole, Jr., of Stratford. 

BROWN, BENONI, m. Eliza, and had Wm., b. Dec. 24, 1716; 
Sarah, b. May 23, 1718 ; Benoni, b. Feb. 27, 1719-20. These 
children were born at Hartford. 

BROWN, SARAH, of Middletown, relict of Nathaniel Bacon, 
deceased. 

BROWN, NATHANIEL, of Middletown, d. 1712. Estate, £437, 
7*. Id. 

BROWN, ELLEN, of Middletown, d. 1713. Estate £424, 2s. 8d., 
settled by Mary, probably her sister. NATH'L, of Springfield, had 
a son Nath'l, b. the 15th of second month, 1649. 

Peter Brown's will dated Aug. 17, 1689. Estate, £408, 1.5s. 6d. 
Inventory oifered 1691. (Of Windsor.) 

BROWN, JOHN, of Milford ; son John b. July 12, 1655, and 
others. 

BROWN, NATH'L, and ELENOR his wife, were early settlers 
at Middletown. Children — Hannah, b. April 15, 1651 ; Nathan'l, b. 
July 15, 1654 ; Tho's, b. the last of October, 1655; John, b. April 
15, 1657 ; Benony, b. March 15, 1659. Elenor, the mother, d. 
Sept. 28, 1703, and Mr. Nath'l, the father, d. 1659. 

BROWN, JOHN, (son of Nath'l Sen. and Elenor, m. Anna Por- 
ter, April 1, 1685 — children, Thomas, b. March 3, 1686 ; Hannah, 
b.Oct. 28, 1688_d. 1717; John, Jr., b. Dec. 2, 1690; Mary, b. 
Nov. 8, 1693— d. Jan., 1717; Abigail, b. Feb. 5, 1701. John 
Brown, of Middletown, d. 1744-5. Estate, £900. 

BROWN, NATHAN'L, (son of Nathan'l, Sen., and El nor,) m. 
Martha Hughes, July 2, 1677, and had children — Mary, b. March 
2,1678; Martha, b. Feb. 3, 1680— d. 1698; Elenor, b. June 30, 
1681— d. 1713 ; Nath'l, b. Sept. 18, 1683. Nath'l, the father, d. 
May 9, 1712, and Martha, his widow, d. 1729. 

BROWN, NATH'L, (son of Nath'l, Jun., and Martha,) m. Sarah 
Bacon, June 17, 1708, and had an only child, Sarah, b. March 14, 
1710. {Stearns.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 355 

BROWN, Rev. AARON, graduated at Yale Col., 1749, and was 
ordained over the 1st cliurch at Killingly in 1754. 

BROWN, PETER, a planter in New Haven colony in 1G43. 

BROWNE, THOMAS, of Concord, had a son Boaz, b. in 1G41. 

BROWNE, JOHN and JAMES. Mr. John Browne, John Bar- 
ratt, of Taunton, were enrolled in 1643, as able to bear arms. 

BROWN, SAM'L, of Colchester, m. Priscilla Kent, 1714-15. 

Peter Brown, of New Haven, with a family of three in 1043, was 
allowed to bake and sell at N. Haven, in 1G39. 

BROWN, JOHN, of Milford, one of the first settlers of Newark 
from Conn., with Mr. Burwell, Joseph Riggs and John Baldwin, in 
1670-1, was appointed to lay half the fioore of the meeting house at 
Newark, N. J. John Browne, Jan., was one of the committee to 
seat the meeting-house at Newark " according to office, age, estate, 
infirmity, and descent or parentage.'^ John, the elder, signed a 
treaty with the Indians. John Brown, Jun., was chosen recorder in 
court, at Newark, in 1672. John Brown succeeded Robert Treat 
as recorder at Newark, and held the office until Capt. John Curtis 
was elected recorder at N. in 1692. In an early list of sixty-six 
persons and their estates at Newark, are found John Brown and 
John, Jr., John Bostick, (perhaps from Stratford, Ct.,) John Baldwin, 
Sen. and Jun., Edw. Ball, Zachariah Burwell, (from Milford,) and 
Eph'm Burwell, (from Milford,) John Brooks, Obadiah Bruen, 
Aaron Blatchley, Stephen Bond, Benjamin Baldwin, &c. 

BROWN has 21 coats of arms, and BROWNE 131 coatsof arms. 

BROWN, WM'S wife, d. at Colchester 1760, aged 80 years. 

George Brown d. at Colchester, 1761, aged 64. 

Hannah Brown d. at Colchester, 1703, aged 69. 

Mary Brown, widow, d. at Colchester in 1770, aged 64 or 69. 

Wm. Brown's wife d. at Colchester in 1774, aged 80 years. 

BROWNE, JO, a baker, and Wm. Brascy, Linen draper, in 
Cheapside, London, had servants, James Walker, 15, and Sarra 
Walker, 17, came in the Elizabeth from London to New England, 
1635. 

BROWNE, THOMAS, of Malford, weaver. Gyles Butler, Wm. 
Andrewes, of Hampsworth, a carpenter, James Browne, of Hamp- 
ton, about 17 years old, Thomas Browne, servant of Thos. Antram, 
weaver, late of New Sarum, shipped as passengers at the town of 
Hampton, (Southampton,) in the James, of London, Wm. Cooper, 
master, for N. England, about April 6, 1635. 

BROWN, HENRY, was one of the first settlers of Hampton, Ct., 



356 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in the early part of the year 1723, from Salem, Mass., and located 
about one-half mile from the centre of the town ; he purchased 150 
acres of wild wood land. He m. Sarah, daughter of Geo. Martin, 
May 5, 1762, and had children, 

Sarah, b. Aug. 23, 1764; Mary, b. Jan. 29, 17G8; Abigail, b. 
-1769; Henry, b. April 26, 1772, now lives in Randolph, Vt. 

John, b. June 14, 1774— m. Polly Walcot, July 11, 1806, and 
lives on the old farm ; has issue, Wni., born Nov. 9, 1806; post- 
master at Hampton, &c. 

Grace, b. July 15, 1776. 

Thomas, b. Oct. 24, 1778. 

Anna, b. Dec. 1, 1780. 

Henry, the father, d. Oct. 23, 1806, aged 79 ; his widow d. March 
7, 1820, aged 80 years. 

BROWN, Capt. JOHN, Daniel and Joseph Brown, and Samuel 
Brown, of Rehoboth, in Bristol county, in Mass., quit-claimed to 
their brother Stephen Brown, of Windham, Ct., yeoman, all their 
right in a thousand acre tract of land in Windham, which had be- 
longed to their father, Capt. John Brown, deceased, of Swanzey, Ms. 
1115.— {Windham Rec.) 

BROWN, STEPHEN, of Windham, m. Mary Kisley, June, 1729, 
and had no issue by the first wife ; she d. April, 1730 ; he m. Abigail, 
for second wife, and had a daughter Abigail, b. Nov. 2, 1731, and 
his wife Abigail d. the same month and year. He m. Mary Jacobs 
for his third wife, Nov., 1734, and had issue, Stephen, Jun., b. Aug. 
27, 1735 ; Mary, b. April 18, 1738 ; John, b. June 18, 1742. Tho's 
Brown and wife Eliz'th, were at Windham, probably before 1740, 
as his d'r Abigail was b. there Feb. 7, 1740, and d. there the 13th 
of Feb., 1740 ; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 20, 1741. His wife Eliz'th d. Dec. 
12, 1742, and he m. for his second wife, Sarah Bishop, Oct. 20, 1748, 
and had issue, Daniel, Susannah, 2d Abigail and Samuel, b. Oct. 
20, 17.57. The father d. Jan. 10, 1773. 

BROWN, EDWARD, of Windham, m. Jerusha Ripley, Sept. 19, 
1744, and had a son Hubbard, b. Dec. 11, 1745 ; this son was lost 
atseainl779. The father d. July 28, 1791, and the mother d. 
Oct. 8, 1792, aged 88 years. 

BROWNE, PETER. It was voted " Jan. 8, 1658, that Peter 
Browne that keeps the mill (at Wi.) should take but single towle, or 
the sixteenth part of all grayne for his gryding, only of Indian corn. 
It was voted" " he should take towle, and half from this time, untill 
the 25th of March nixtinsuing, but no longer." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 357 

BROWN, FRANCIS, was a sworn constable at Stanford in Court, 
Oct., 16G3; deputy to Gen. Court, under the charter of Conn., 
May, 16G5; also May, 1667 and Oct. 1668 ; he was a man of high 
reputation in Stamford, and in the list of freemen at Stamford, 1660. 

BROWN, HACK A LI AH, of Rye, was propounded to the Gen'l 
Court of Conn, for freeman, May, 1670 ; also, Joseph Ilorton, Geo. 
Snutfene and Jonathan Fowlcs. 

BROWxN, EBENEZER, lost a daughter by death at N. Haven, 
Dec, 1668 ; his son Eliazcr, b. Jan. 6, 1663 ; Gersham, b. Oct. 9, 
1665 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 16, 1668. JOHN BROWNE, of N. H.; 
daughter Mary, b. May 2, 1664 ; John, b. 1666 ; Hannah, b. Aug. 
7, 1669. Ebenezer Browne d. at N. Haven, Dec, 1668. 

BROWNE, WM., Robert Benton, Jo. Baldwin, &c., embarked in 
the Primrose, for Virginia, Capt. Douglass, master, July 27, 1635. 
Wm. Browne, Ab'm Bentley, &;c., embarked in the Globe, of Lon- 
don, for Virginia, Jeremy Blackman, master, Aug. 7, 1635. 

This name has been numerous in New England, from Peter of the 
Mayflower, to the present time. 

BROWN, EBENEZER, removed from Rehoboth, Mass., to Cov- 
entry. Conn., at an early period, and had children, Ebenezer, Sarah, 
Timothy, and perhaps others. 

• Farmer notices ABRAHAM, of Watertown, Mass , freeman. 1632 — sons Jonathan and Ab'm, 
b. in 1635 and 1639. CH.\D, from Mass. to R. I. in 1636, successor of Rev. Roger Williams in 
1642. James, his grandson, b. in Providence, and minister of the same church — (these were 
the ancestors of the important families of the name in R. I.) Rev. JAMES had four grandsons, 
distinguished patrons of Brown University, viz., Nicholas, d. 1791, aged 62 ; Joseph, LL. D , d. 
1785, John and .Moses. CII.\RLES, of Rowley, before 1652. EDMOND came over in 1637; 
first minister of Sudbury, ordained and freeman, 1640 ; d. 1677. EDMONU, Dorchester, free 
1650. EDWARD, of Salem, d. 1659. EDWARD, of Ipswich, free 1641. FRANCIS, of New 
Haven, 1639 — sons, Eleazer, Samuel, Ebenezer and John. FR.\NCIS, of Newbury, 1665. 
GEORGE, of Newbury, a carpenter, free 1640, d. 1642. GEORGE, of Haverhill, Lieut., Rep- 
resentative in 1672, 1675 and '80. HENRY, b. 1615, proprietor of Salisbury. HUGH, of Sa- 
lem, 1637; perhaps afterward of Boston, where several sons of Hugh were b. before 1653. 
ISAAC, of Newbury, d. 1675. JACOB, proprietor of Billerica, 1659. Afterward GEORGE, of 
Billerica. JAMES, of Boston, son of Joseph, from Southampton, Eng., one of the first settlers 
of Newbury. JAMES, Boston, free 1636; son James b. 1035. JAMES, of Charlestown, free 
1634 ; son John b. 1637. JAMES, 2d James b. 1G47, and Nalh'l, b. 1648. JOHN, of Salem, 
one of the patentees of Mass.. ami one of the first Assistants of the Company, came over in 
1629; returned in 1630, and again came back to Mass. JOHN, of Salem, 1638. JOHN, of 
Watertown, free 1634. JOHN, of Ipswich, 1648 JOHN, of Reading, b. 1634. NICHOLAS, 
of Lynn, 1638. PETER, Plymouth, 1620, (of Mayflower.) RICHARD, came over 1630, of 
Watertown. RICHARD, of Newbury, brother of George, 1635, d. 1661— and many others of 
the name came to New England in the early settlement, too numerous now to be traced. — {See 
Farmer and the Genealogical Register. The name has produced many eminent men in this 
country, and is as numerous as any other name, except Smith, and perhaps Jones and Clark. 



358 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Mr. , JO. BROWNE, aged 27, embarked in the Defence 

de Lond, Edward Boswell, master, for N. England, per certificate 
from Sir Henry Mildmay, and minister of Baddow, in Essex, Eng. 

BROWNE, RICHARD, 19, Eliz'th Biggs, 10, Phillip Biggs, six 
months, &c., embarked for Virginia in the Speedwell, of London, 
Jo. Chappell, master, May 28, 1635 ; examined at Gravesend, &oc. 
MICHELL BROWNE, 35, embarked for Virginia in the Merchant's 
bona venture, James Ricroft, master, in 1635, WM. BROWNE, 
19, embarked in the Primrose, Douglass, master, for Virginia, July 
27, 1635. 

BROWN, WM., 20, Ab'm Benlly, Matthew Bateman, 20, Wm. 
Barloe, 19, Nicholas Bate, 24, Wm. Bate, 35, embarked in the Globe, 
of London, for Virginia, Aug. 7, 1635 — Jeremy Blackman, master. 

BROWNE, JOHN, and John, Jun., who signed the contract in 
1665, at Branford, up to 1667, to settle the town of Milford, after- 
ward called Newark, in the Province of New Jersey, were from 
Milford, Conn., with many others from Stratford, New Haven, Bran, 
ford, Guilford, &c. These two John Browns were men of distinc- 
tion at their new settlement. There were others of this name in 
Connecticut and upon Long Island, not here named. 

Thirty-four by the name of Brown, and two by the name of 
Browne, have graduated at Yale College ; and thirty-nine by the 
name of Brown and seven by the name of Browne, at Harvard Col- 
lege, and fourteen at Brown University. 

BROWNING, HENRY, in 1639, of Hartford, was indebted to 
the estate of John Oldman, £11. Henry Browning was in the N. 
Haven Colony, with a family of eight, in 1643, and an estate of 
£340. 

Farmer mentions Thomas Browning, Salem, freeman, 1637 ; b. 
1587, d. lQ71—{Felt,) and Malach, who d. at Boston, Nov. 27, 
1658. Browning has five coats of arms ; Brownell has two coats 
of arms. 

BROWNINGE, Mr., was a signer to the first fundamental agree- 
ment of the free planters of the N. Haven col'y, stipulating with each 
other, that church-members only should be free burgesses, and they 
only should elect among themselves, magistrates and officei's to have 
the power of transacting all " publique civill afiliyres of this planta- 
tion," &c., with Mathew Camfield, Robert Pigg and many others. 
(See note, p. 76, ante.) Henry Browning, with eight persons in his 
family, at N. Haven, and £340, resided there in 1343. 

BRUMFIELD, (Bramfield,) WM., of Wethersficld, in 1645, was 



GENEAliOGY OF THE PURITANS. 359 

fined 50^. for striking tlie watch and for drunkenness; and John 
Wostall was fined ten sliillings fur entertaining Wm. Brumfield in 
104.'). 

Bromfield has eight coats of arms ; Brumfield has two coats of 
arms ; Brimfield, 1. 

There was a William Blumfield, who was an early settler in 
Hartford, on Bliss Street ; was a freeman in Mass. in 1635. See 
Blumfield. 

BllUNDIGE, JOHN, Dep. for the town of Rye, May, 1677. 

Abner Brundage, (perhaps same name,) grad. at Y. C. 1326. 

BRUNDISEI, JOHN, of VVethersficld ; Nov. 7, 1639, his widow 
was appointed administratrix on his estate. April 2, 1640, Rachel 
Brundish, adm'x, presented an inventory of his estate of j£90, 5s. 4.d., 
and the house and land at j£130. She was allowed for her own use 
£90, 5^. ■id., and the house and land to go to the children, viz., JG30 
to tiie son and £'-lo to each of his four daughters. The widow, by 
another order, had fourteen acres, and her house lot, three acres, 
and upland, &c. One by the name of Brundage, graduated at Y. C. 
in 1S26. 

BRUSH, THOMAS, of Southold,* Long Island, in October, 1662. 
made free by Coim't; also, Thomas Brush, of Huntington, L. I., 
accepted to be made a freeman with others of Huntington, by Conn't, 
and sworn by the Commissioners of that town in May, 1664. f This 
has been an old name in Greenwicli, Conn., of the Long Island fam- 
ily. David Brush, Esq., an Attorney and Counsellor at Law in the 
city of N. York, was of the Greenwich family. This name perhaps, 
the Norman name De Brus or De Brewes. GEORGE, of VVoburn, 
Mass., freeman, 1690. 

BRYAN, BRIAN or BRYANT, Mr. ALEXANDER, was from 
Armah, in Ireland; he was one of the first, important and wealthy 

* Inhabitants of Southold, L. I., accepted by the Gen. Court of Conn, to be made free, &c. 
Mr. Wels, Thomas Terry, Pliilemon Dickerson, Goodm. Furrier, Goodm. Windes, Barnabas Hor- 
ton, Joseph Horton, LL Glouer, (Glover,) Thomas Moor, sen., Goodm. Conchn, Goodm. Cory, 
Goodm. Reeuts, (Reeves,) Goodm. Mapes, John Conclin, Jr., Jo. Paine, Rich'd Browne, Joseph 
Y.)ngB, sen., Joseph Yongs, Jr., Jer. Vayle, Jo. Curwin, Richard Terry, Mr. Elton, Thomas Brush, 
John Bud, and Mr. Tucker.— (Co/. Rec. p. 388.) 

t John Teed, Edward Hornett, Samuel Titus, Thomas Jones, William Williams, Samuel Ketch- 
am, Joseph Whitman, Thomas Bru.^li, Caleb Carwithee, Joseph Bayley, John Rogers, Samuel 
Wood, Thomas VVorkes, Henry Whisson, James Chichester, Henry Ludlow, Thos. Scuddor, 
John Samwayes, Thos. Powell, Jonathan Rogers and Isaac Piatt, accepted to be made free by 
Conn in May, 1664, and sworn by the Commissioners of Huntington, Long Island. — {Col. Bee, 
P- 428.) 



360 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

settlers in Milford, Conn., and a free planter there Nov. 29, 1639. 
He appears to have been a lawyer, from the fact that he was coun- 
sel for Lieut. Gov. Ludlow, where he defended him in an action of 
slander, for charging Goody Staples, of Fairfield, of being a witch. 
He died at Milford in 1679. Alexander and Richard Bryan, in 
1660, purchased nearly all the Neck, in Milford, for £2b. On the 
12th day of Dec, 1661, Alexander purchased of Ihe Indians the last 
twenty acres of land they owned upon the Neck, for six coats, three 
blankets and three pair of breeches, v/hich he sold to Thos. Welch, 
at auction, for the sum of £21, 6s. in cash. Alexander was nomina- 
ted by the Gen. Court of Conn, for an assistant, in 1665. He held 
several lots of land in Fairfield, and in 1654 purchased a house and 
lot of Hon. Nathan Gold, in Fairfield, which had been the house and 
lot of Mr. Newton. 

His son, Mr. ALEXANDEPv, Jr. had a daughter Ann, b. Sept. 
8, 1674; Alexander, b. June 15, 1677; John, b. July 12, 1680; 
second Alexander, b. Nov. 24, 1682; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 17, 1690; 
Augustin, b. April 25, 1694, d. Aug., 1705 or 1701. 

BRYAN, RICHARD, son of Mr. Alexander, Sen., of Milford, a 
merchant, had issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 31, 1654; Sarah, b. April 
24, 1657— m. Mr. Samuel Fitch, Oct. 23, 1678 ; Samuel, b. April 
2d, 1660 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 22, 1663 ; Richard, Jun., b. Oct. 8, 
1666; Frances, dr., b. Feb. 13, 1668; second Abigail, b. Jan. 12, 
1671-2. His wife d., and he m. for his second wife, Mary Wilmot, 
July 15, 1679, and had Joseph, b. July 15, 1682. His daughter 
Hannah, m. Mr. John Herriman, of New Haven, Nov. 20, 1672. 
Richard, Jun., or 3d, m. Mehitabel Clark, Oct. 20, 1720. 

Mr. ALEXANDER, son of Mr. Richard Bryan, of Milford, as 
administrator on his father's estate, deeded to his sister Mary Howell, 
of Southampton, L. L, as a part of her portion, £38, 15s. from the 
estate of said Richard, dec'd, it being land he purchased of Thos. 
Hurlbut, of Woodbury, on Grassy Hill, in 1698. 

BRYAN, Mr. ALEXANDER, Jun., had Ann, b. Sept. 8, 1674; 
Alexander, b. June 15, 1677; John, b. July 12, 1680; second Al- 
exander, b. Nov. 24, 1682; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 17, 1690; Augustin, 
b. April 25, 1694. He d. Aug. 19, 1701. His son Augustin, d. 
1705. 

BRYAN, Mr. SAMUEL, son of Mr. Richard, m. Martha, daugh- 
ter of Mr. John Whiting, of Hartford, Dec. 25, 1683. Mary Bryan, 
daughter of Mr. Richard, m. John Maltbe, Feb. 28, 1666. 

Richard, b. 1666, son of Richard, had a daughter, Francis, b. 



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Sept. 22, 1704 ; Augustin, b. Jan. 28, 1706-7 ; Alexander, b. Oct. 
18, 1709; Hannah, b. Jan. 21, 1711-12; Nathan, b. Dec. 11, 
1714. 

BRYAN, ALEXANDER, in a deed of land he gave to George 
Allen, of Milford, is thus described in said deed, dated 1706: " I, 
Alexander Bryan, of the Manner of Eaton, in the Province of New 
York, eldest son of Alexander Bryan, late of Milford, in the Colony 
of Connecticut, deceased." i'eed is witnessed by William Roberd 
and Hugh Gray — acknowledged before Samuel Eells, Esq., Justice 
of Peace, June 4; 1706. 

BRYANT, EBENEZER, found at Hartford, m. Mehetibel , 

and had children b. at Hartford, viz., Sarah, b. May 11, 1739 
Eliz'h, b. Aug. 26, 1741 ; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 19, 1744; Samuel 
b. April 25, 1747; Timothy, b. Aug. 15, 1750; Jonathan, b. Feb 
6, 1753 ; Daniel D., b. Nov. 24, 1755. This Ebenezer is proba 
bly son of Alexander, Jr., of Milford. Four of this name had grad 
uated at Flarvard Col. in 1848, and five at Yale. 

BRIAN, ROBERT, Jo. Brown, Margerie Baker, Jo. Bowton, 
Hundgatp Baker, Jo. Baker, Richard Barnes, Jo. Buttler, Richard 
Bruster, Jo. Billings, Lawrence Barker, Jo. Bowes, Eliz'h Bateman, 
Rodger Burley, Thos. Burd, Henry Butler, John Budd, Rich'd Ball, 
James Brooks and wife Alice, Eliz'h Baker, and others, were trans- 
ported to Virginia, and embarked July, 1635, in the Alice, Richard 
Orchard, master, after they had taken the oath of allegiance and 
supremacy. 

BRYAN, RICHARD, the merchant, was a man of wealth; he 
owned lands in Milford, Stratford and Fairfield, and loaned money 
in many of the towns in Fairfield County'. Most of the name had 
the title of Mr. attached to their names on the Milford records, and 
were connected by marriage to several of the best families in the 
two Colonies. 

Hon. John Alexander Bryan, of Ohio, late Second Assistant Post- 
master of Washington, D. C, and Charge D'Affaires at South Amer- 
ica, is a descendant of this family. He was born in Mass.; his father 
removed there when young. 

BRYANT, JOHN, (supposed of Plymouth,) d. at Cohannack, 
April 28, 1683 ; gave all his goods and chattels to his son John, ex- 
cept a platter and a bottle he gave R. Paul. (See Will, His. Gen. 
Reg., No. 13, p. 36.) 

BRYANT, ALEX'R, of Redding, freeman 1673. 

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362 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

There was a Robert Brian embarked from England in the Assur- 
ance de Lo.; Isaac Bromwell and Geo. Pewsie, masters, in 1635, to 
be transported to Virginia. 

BRYAN has nineteen coats of arms ; BRYANT, 1. 
BRYAN, RICHARD, was a merchant at Milford, and a gentleman 
of wealth, and purchased large lots of land beyond the bounds of 
Milford; he purchased Eaton's Neck, east of Oyster Bay, in Hun- 
tington, L. I., Nov. 13, 1684, and his sons Alexander, Ebenezer and 
John, removed and settled on L. I., where the name is yet found. 
Alexander Bryan owned a large tract of land in Southington. (See 
Southington Records.) He owned a large estate in England, undis- 
posed of, as did several otiiers of the Milford settlers. Alexander 
was a man of education, and much employed in public business. 

Mr. ALEXANDER, Sem., was well known in both Colonies ; 
nominated for an Assistant May, 1666 ; Commissioner in 1666 ; 
Deputy to Gen. Court May, 1667, and Commissioner ; Assistant in 
1668, and in May and Oct. 1669; also in May, 1670 and '71 ; in 
May, 1672, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c. 

Mr. Alexander, of Milford, was ordered by the Gov. and Gen. 
Court to be read for nomination at the election for an Assistant, Ap'l, 
1665. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Richard Bryant, were in the list of 
freemen at Milford, in 1669. 

Jo. Bryan, 25; Wm. Burch, 19; Thos. Bolton, 18; and others, 
embarked for Virginia in the Merchant bona venture, James Ricroft, 
master, in 1635. (Somerby.) 

One by the name of Bryan, and four of Bryant, have graduated 
at Harvard College ; and eight by the name of Bryant graduated at 
Yale College. 

BUD, BUDD, JOHN, embarked for Virginia from England in the 
ship Alice, Richard Orchard, master, July, 1635. Also, is found 
John Bud, in the list of passengers embarked in the Assurance de 
Lo,, Isaac Bromwell, master ; examined by the minister of the town 
ofGravesend, of their conformelie in o religion, for Virginia, July, 
1635. Tiie name of JOHN BUD is next found in Mass. JOHN 
BUD is next found, one of the first settlers at New Haven, and one 
of the signers of the " foundamental" agreement made there in 1639, 
where he appears to have remained a few years. Lieut. BUD was 
the holder of land at New London in 1651 ; his house-lot was for- 
feited to Amos Richardson for his post-lot. He could not have been 
long at N. London ; his name is also found at Say brook, though he 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 363 

did not reside there. John Budd is next found at Southold, L. I., in 
1662, where he probably went from New Haven. -He with thirty- 
one other inhabitants of Southold, Oct. 4, 16G2, by the desire of Mr. 
Wyllys, of Hartforil, by letter stating to the people of Southold, that 
the people of Long Island were included in the Patent, (Charter,) and 
desired tiiem to send Deputies from the towns on L. I. to attend the 
Gen. Court at Hartford. John Bud and ihirty-one others of South- 
old, signed a letter of the above date, showing they had appointed 
Capt. John Youngs, as Deputy for Southold, to attend the Gen. Court 
in Conn. John Bud, with many others of Southold, were offered to 
be made freemen in Conn., Oct., 1662. 

He is found in 1660-1 and 2, in company with Peter Disbrow, 

Studwell and John Coe, purchasing the town of Rye of the 

Indians, which wa*s conveyed by Bud, &c,, to Richard Lowe and 
Samuel Allen, &c. In Bolton's History of Westchester Co., it is 
said, the town of Hastings was settled in 1660 or 61, by planters from 
Middlcborough, L. I., &c. In May, IGG.'), the Gen. Court of Conn, 
ordered the villages of Rye and Hastings to be united in one planta- 
tion, and be called Rye, which continued a part of Conn, until 1683, 
when the state line was established, including the town of Rye in 
the N. Y. Colony. Lieut. Bud was an important and active man 
wherever he went. In October, 1663, Connecticut appointed him a 
Commissioner for the town of Hastings, with the power of a magis- 
trate. He was Deputy to the General Court in Connecticut, in Oct. 
1664, and the same session the Gen. Court ordered Lieut. Budd to 
continue Commissioner for Hastings and Rye, until the Court should 
otherwise order, &c. In Oct., 1663, the Gen. Court appointed Rich- 
ard Fowles a Constable for Hastings, and ordered Mr. Bud to admin- 
ister the oath of office to him. Mr. Bud was a Deputy to the Gen. 
Court of Conn, in 166,5, in May, 1667, and in Oct., 1668. He ap- 
propriated a place called the Neck, for himself and his children to 
settle upon, which afterward caused much controversy between 
Lieut. Bud and other settlers of Rye. John Bud, of New Haven, 
with Mr. Lambcrton and Wm. Preston, were ordered by the Court 
at New Haven, Dec. 7, 1642, to make satisfaction to John Owen for 
neglecting to make his fence in season, damages eight day's work and 
two pecks of corn, &c. 

There was also a Jonathan Bud at New Haven, with a family of 
six persons, in 1643, and an estate of £4.50. (This was probably 
John Bud.) 



364 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

The name of Budd has three coats of arms ; Budd, (Ireland,) 1 ; 
and Budds, 1. Few, if any, of the name are now found in Conn. 
Joseph H. Budd graduated at Brown Univ., 1844. 

BUCK. There was an Enoch Buck in Court at Hartford in 1648, 
and made free there in 1657 ; he might have been the father or 
brother of Emanuel, Henry and Thomas Buck, who were all at 
Wethersfield about the same time — and not the first settlers. Eman- 
uel's eldest child was b. there in 1650. Thomas m. in 1665, and 
Henry m. in 1660. Ezekiel Buck, son of Emanuel, had a son 
Enoch, b. April 5, 1683. There is no other Enoch Buck found, 
except Enoch, found in Court in 1648, whose death or marriage is 
not found at Wethersfield. The four Bucks might have been broth- 
ers, yet the record gives no proof of it. 

BUCK, ENOCH, was fined lO*. for irregular speeches in Court 
against Rob't Rose, when under oath in March, 1648, and appears 
to have been the first of the name in Wethersfield. WM. BUCK, 
aged 50, ROGER BUCK, 18, embarked in the ship Increase, Rob- 
ert Lea, master, April 15, 1635, for New England. CHRISTIAN 
BUCK, aged 26, embarked in the Blessing, John Lester, master, for 
N. England. EMANUEL BUCK was a freeman, and Constable at 
Wethersfield in 1669, and frequently a Selectman. He was proba- 
bly born in 1623, as he testified in Court in 168 4, he was then 
aged 61 years. The name Buck has thirteen coats of arms. 

Roger and Wm. Buck, with Thos- Kilbourn and his family, Mat- 
thew Marvin and family, embarked in the Increase, Robert Lea, 
master, from England, in 1635. Five by this name have graduated 
at Yale Col., and two at Brown Univ. 

BUCK, EMANUELL, and wife Sarah, of Wethersfield, had chil- 
dren, Ezekiel, b. Jan. 15, 1650 ; John, b. Nov., 1652 ; Jonathan, b. 
April 8, 1655. His "ife d. and he m. Mary, April 17, 1658, and 
had issue, Mary, b. Jan. 1, 1659; David, b. April 13, 1667 — d. 
Sep. 20, 1738; Sarah, b. April 1, 1669; Hannah, b. April 12, 
1671 ; Eliz'h, b. June 4, 1676; Thomas, b. June 10, 167b ; Abi- 
gail, b. Aug. 1, 1682. Flis second wife d. Jan. 12, 1712. 

BUCK, EZEKIEL, son of Emanuell and Sarah, m. Rachel, Mar. 
18, 1675, and had issue, Ezekiel, Jr., b. Jan. 8, 1676 ; Rachel, b. 
July 23, 1678; Jonathan, b. July 23, 1079; Stephen, b. Feb. 2, 
1680 ; Enoch, b. April 5, 1683 ; Sarah, b. April 8, 1685 ; Hannah, 
b. Jan., 1689 ; Abigail, b. Jan., 1691 ; Comfort, b. Dec. 7, 1692; 
Ebenezer, b. Sept. 2, 1697— d. 1712. The father d, March 3. 1713. 
Estate, £317, 145. 9d. 



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BUCK, DAVID, son of Emanuel, by his second wife, m. Eliz'h 
Hubbcrt, of Guilford, daughter of Daniel, Jund 14, 1690. Children, 
Eliz'h, b. Feb. 16, 1691 ; Ann, b. April 25, 1693; Daniel, b. Sept. 
13, 1695 ; David, Jun., b. March 13, 1698 ; Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1700 ; 
Josiah, b. Jan. 16, 1703 ; Joseph, b. Aprils, 1705— d. 171'2 ; John, 
b. July 18, 1707— d. 1726 ; Eunice, b. Dec. 19, 1709; Mabell, b. 
June 5, 1712. His wife d. March 25, 1735. The father d. Sept, 
20, 1728 or '38. Estate over jCOOO. 

BUCK, JONATHAN, son of Emanuel, removed early from 
Wethersfield to NewMilford, and purchased a right of land in Litch- 
field, to which place he removed about 1721. 

BUCK, EZEKIEL, son of Emanuel and Sarah, m. Rachell, Mar. 

18, 1676, and had issue, Ezekiel, b. Jan. 8, 1676-7; Rachell, b. 
July 23, 1673; Jonathan, b. July 23, 1679; Stephen, b. Feb. 2, 
1680; Enoch, b. April 5, 1683; Sarah, b. April 8, 1685 ; Hannah, 
b. Jan., 1689; Abigail, b. Jan., 1691; Comfort, b. Dec. 7, 1692; 
Ebenezer, b. Sept. 2, 1697 — d. 1712. Ezekiel, the father, d.'Mar. 
3, 1713. 

BUCK, EZEKIEL, Jun., son of Ezekiel, Sen,, b. 1676, m. Sarah 
Brunson, daughter of John, of Farmington, Jan. 13, 1698, and iiad 
issue, Ezekiel, h. March 5, 1699; Sarah, b. Feb. 8, 1701, perhaps 
others. He removed (or his son Ezekiel) to Litchfield, 

BUCK, JOSEPH, son of David, a grandson of Emanuel, b. 1703, 
m. Ann Deming, daughter of Charles, of Boston, May 28, 1731. 
Children, Ann, b. Feb. 26, 1732; Mary, b. Oct. 31, 1733 ; Eliz'h, 
b. April 7, 1735; Prudence, b. Dec. 15, 1737 ; Josiah, Jun., b. Ap. 
23, 1742 ; Daniel, b. June 13, 1744 ; Mabel, b. March 22, 1748, 
m. Justus Riley, and d. May 28, 1843, aged 95. Ann, the mother, 
d. March 9, 1772, aged 00. Josiah, the father, d. Feb. 8, 1793, 
aged 90 years. 

BUCK, DANIEL, son of Josiah and Ann, b. 1744, m. Sarah Sal- 
tonstall, b. June 17, 1759, of New London, Dec. 3, 1775, and had 
children, Anna, b. and d. 1776 ; Gurdon, b. Dec. 30, 1777 ; Dan- 
iel, Esq., b. Oct. 27, 1779; Charles, b. Mar. 21, 1782 ; Winthrop, 
Esq., b. Dec. 9, 1784; Ann, b. Oct. 12, 1786, d. 1788; Dudley, b. 
June 25, 1789. This family, by tiieir mother, descended from three 
Governors, viz.. Gov's Saltonstall, Dudley and Winthrop. Daniel 
Buck, the father, d. June 6, ISOS, and Sarah his widow, d. Nov. 

19, 1828. 

BUCK, GURDON, son of Daniel and Sarah, of Wethersfield, m. 
31* 



366 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

Susannah Manwaring, and had issue, David, m. Matilda Hall ; Gur- 
don, m. Henrietta WolfF, of Geneva in Switzerland ; Charles D., 
m. S. Smith ; Daniel W., d.; Sarah, m. J. D. Steel ; Edward, m. Hub- 
bard, of Boston ; Henry, d., and Elizabeth Rebecca «S., m. John 
Auchincloss, of New York. 

Buck, Daniel, Esq., of Hartford, son of Daniel and Sarah Buck, 
has been an extensive and highly honorable and prosperous mer- 
chant at Hartford. He m. first, Julia Mitchell, daughter of Hon. 
Stephen Mix Mitchell, of Wethersfield, Oct. 14, 1805. She d. with- 
out issue, Oct. 7, 1807, and he m. for his second wife, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Ezekiel P. Belden, Esq., of Wethersfield, Jan. 30,1812, 
and had issue, Daniel, b. Feb. 26, 1814; Ezekiel, b. Jan. 31, 1816, 
d. March 21, 1844; Charles, b. Dec. 26, 1817, d. Aug. 28, 1845; 
Julia, b. July 16, 1820 ; John, b. Dec. 16, 1822, d. March 21, 1847 ; 
Susan, b. March 3, 1825. 

BUCK, DANIEL, son of Daniel, Esq., m. Mary E. Imlay, daugh- 
ter of Wm. H. Imlay, June 4, 1639, and has children, Daniel W., 
Wm. Imlay, Frederick C, Charles Ezekiel, Mary E. 

BUCK, CHARLES, son of Daniel, Sen., (a brother of Gurdon,) 
b. 1782, m. Catharine Bradford, N. Y.; has been a broker in New 
fork ; no issue. 

BUCK, WINTHROP, of Wethersfield, son of Daniel and Sarah, 
dec'd. He m. 1st, Eunice Parsons, of Amherst. She soon d., no 
issue ; 2d, m. Eunice Mosely. She was b. Oct, 8, 1793, and m. 
Dec. 28, 1814. Children, Martha Ann, b. Nov. 26, 1815; Win- 
throp, Jun., b. Dec. 16, 1816; Eunice, b. Dec. 31, 1819; Maria, 
b. Jan. 30, 1821 ; Robert, b. March 8, 1823 ; Roswell R., b. Oct. 
21, 1826 ; Catherine, b. Feb. 1, 1833; Henry, b. Dec. 6, 1834. 

BUCK, DUDLEY, b. 1789 ; son of Daniel and Sarah, of Weth- 
ersfield ; m. first, Hetty G., daughter of John Hempsted, Esq., d'cd, 
of Hartford, Sept. 25, 1827, and had issue, George, b. Sept. 16, 
1830 ; Mary, b. Sept. 8, 1832, d. Aug. 3, 1833; Dudley, Jun., b. 
June 5, 1834, d. Nov. 20, 1836. His wife, Hetty G., d. June 12, 
1834. Mr. Buck m. for his second wife, Martha C. Adams, daugh- 
ter of Nathaniel Adams, of Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 12, 1837, and 
had issue, Dudley, Jun., b. March 10, 1839; James, b. Nov. 17, 
1840, d. July 20, 1842. One son by each marriage only living. 
Mr. Buck has been, and now is, a wealthy merchant in Hartford. 

BUCK, HENRY, another settler at Wethersfield, m. Elizabeth 
Kirby, daughter of John, Oct. 31, 1660 or '63, and had issue, b. at 
Wethersfield, viz., Samuel, b. Feb. 2, 1664 ; Martha, b. Oct. 15, 



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1667 ; Elizabeth, b. June 6, 1670 ; Mary, b. March 12, 1673; Sa- 
rah, b. July 25, 167^^ ; Ruth, b. Dec. 4, 1691 ; Mahitabell, b. Jan. 
4, 1684. Mr. H. Buck d. July 7, 1712, aged about 86 years, and 
was born before Wethersfield was settled by white men. 

BUCK, SAMUEL, son of Henry and Elizabeth, m. Sarah, daugh- 
ter of Deacoii Samuel Butler, Jan. 23, 1690. Issue, Isaac, b. Ap'l 
12, 1653; Dorothy, b. July 29, 1695; Pelatiah, b. Sept. 2, 1698; 
Sarah, b. March 25, 1701 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 13, 1703; Samuel, 
Jun., b. July 12, 1705; Manha, b. Oct. 21, 1707. Serg't Samuel, 
the father, d. April 23, 1709, aged 44. 

BUCK, PELATIAH, son of Samuel, b. 1698, m. Lidia, daughter 
of John Stoddart, of Wethersfield, March 25, 1724. Issue, Lidia, b. 
April 22, 1725 ; Pelatiah, Jun., b. July 25, 1726. His wife d. July 
29, 1726, and he m. Jemima Andrus, Jan. 18, 1745. 

BUCK, SAMUEL, Jun., b. 1705, m. Sarah House, of Glastenbury, 
daughter of John, Dec. 28, 1727. Issue, Sarah, b. June 3, 1729; 
John, b. July 11, 1731 ; George, b. Oct. 11, 1733; Titus, b. Jan. 
27, 1736; Samuel, b. June 10, 1738; Daniel, b. April 23, 1742; 
Betty, b. Nov. 30, 1744; Isaac, b. Feb. 20, 1750. His wife Sarah 
d. Oct. 10, 1751, and Mr. Buck married for his second wife, Eliza- 
beth Cloud, and had issue, William, b. Nov. 21, 1752, and d. 1753. 
Serg't Samuel, the father, d. Oct. 17, 1758. 

BUCK, PELATIAH, Jun., m. Hannah Hills, Nov. 9, 1754, and 
had a daughter Lydia, b. Sept. 15, 1755. 

BUCK, JOHN, son of Samuel, Jun., m. Sarah Hurlbut, Feb. 10, 
1757. TITUS, son of Samuel, Jun., b. 1736, m. Caroline Seward, 
Oct. 1, 1760, and had Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1761. Titus, the father, d. 
Aug. 13, 1776, and his widow Caroline d. Oct. 5, 1778. 

BUCK, THOMAS, a settler at Wethersfield, m. Deborah Hewes, 

(supposed of Guilford,) Oct. 10, 1665, and had a son Thomas, who 

m. Sarah Judd, May 12, 1709, and had issue, Sarah, b. Jan. 19, 

■'^ 1740 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 6, 1712 ; Mary, b. Nov. 5, 1715; Ebene- 

zer, b. Nov. 11, 1717; John, b. March 24, 1722, d. 1722. 

I find no family of the first Enoch Buck, and few facts concerning 
him. 

BUCK, JOHN, was an early settler at Stafford, about 1720. WM. 
BUCK, who came from England to Mass. in 1635, aged 50, was by 
trade a *' plowrite." The Bucks of Wethersfield, in early times, 
were respectable farmers. The name was early at Farmington, 
Woodbury and Litchfield, from Wethersfield, and at Cambridge, Ms. 
Samuel, of Woburn, lost a son James, by death, in 1723. Farmer 



368 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

names Isaac, of Scituato, second town clerk tliere ; James, of Hing- 
ham, 1G38 ; Roger, of Cambridge, 1643, and three sons, &c. 

The name of Buck was early at Killingly from Mass., and at Asli- 
ford from Killingly ; in both of which places the name is yet found ; 
not of the Bucks of Wethersfield. 

Book, (Buck,) Emanuell, in the list of freemen at Wethersfield, 
(in 1G69,) was a Constable with Thomas Wright, who signed the 
list. 

Buck, has thirteen coats of arms ; Bucke, three. 

BUECHAMP, ISAAC, late of Boston, (Nov., 1750,) was of Mid- 
dletovvn. Conn. His daughter Eliz'th, about 17 years old, chose her 
father Isaac for guardian, and the Court at Hartford appointed him 
guardian for his daughter, Mary Buchamp, Jan. 20, 1750. (See 
BEAUCHAMP, same name.) 

BUEL, BEWELL, BUELL, WILLIAM, (Welchman,) was an 
early and respectable settler at Windsor. He was probably a joiner 
by trade, as is seen by the following extract of record : 

"March 29, 1652. 
" Accounts made with "William Buell, for work don in the meeting howse,&c., 
the Elders Pew — Deakons Pew — Magistrats Pew and tlieir Wives Pew, for- 
merly paid, and for the fower rowes of seats in the howse when the dores are 
up. We find that his worke comes to £28, 19s. OOd. And for the new worke 
about altering the Magistrats wiles Pew and others in that rang comes to £,4, 
3s. 8d,—the holle sume is £33, 2s. Sd." 

William, Sen'r, of Windsor, d. Nov. 16, 1681. His will, dated 
July 26, 1681. Inventory offered by his wife Mary, dated July 26, 
1681, £147, 2s. Id. Mary, his relict, made oath March 6, Anno, 
1681-2, that she had made a true pre.sentment of his estate. Widow 
Mary Buell d. at Windsor, Sept. 1, 1684. In his will he gave his 
daughter Mary £5 more than he gave any of his daughters. Mr. 
Buell's mother probably came with him to Windsor, as the Windsor 
record says, " Goode Buell d. at Windsor, Dec. 3, 1639." WM. 
and MARTY BUELL'S children, were Samuel, b. Sept. 2, 1641, m. 
Deborah Griswold, Nov. 13, 1662 ; Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1642; Peter, 
b. Aug. 19, 1644; Hannah, b. Jan. or March 8, 1646; Hepzibah, 
b. Dec. 11, 1649; Sarah, b. March 21, 1650; Abigail, b. Feb. 12, 
1655. 

As Goode Buell d. in 1639, and Wm., Sen'r, m. Mary, Nov. 18, 
1640, Goode Buel might have been the first wife of Wm., Sen'r. 

BUELL, SAMUEL, son of Wm., m. Deborah Griswold, of Wi., 
Nov. 13, 1662, and removed to Killingworth in the early settlement 



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of the town. Ills children were Samuel, b. July 20, 16G3, at Wi.; 
Doliorah, b. Oct. 18, 1(505, m. Nath'l Porter, of Windsor ; Hannah, 
b. Sept. G, 1667, d. in infancy ; Mary, b. Nov. 28, 1669, m. Hez'h 
Porter, of VVi.; John, b. Fib. 17, 1671, m. Mary Loomis, of Wind- 
sor, and moved to Lebanon, from whence he removed to Litchfield, 
and became a first settler there ; Hannah, b. May 4, 1674, m. Joseph 
Porter, of Wi.; Wm., b. Oct. 18, 1676 ; David, b. Feb. 15, 1678; 
Josiah, b. March 16, 1680; Mohitnbel, b. Aug. 22, 1682, d. young; 
Peter, b. Dec. 3, 16S4, and Tienj'n, b. 1686, at Killingworth, 
Samuel Buel, Justice of Peace at Killingworth, 1716. 

BUELL, JOHN, son of Samuel Buell, of Wi. and Killingworth, 
removed from Killingworth to Lebanon and Litchfield, m. Mary 
Loomis, Nov., 1695, and had children, Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1696, m. 
at Lebanon ; John, b. Feb. 1, 1698; Isaac, b. March 27, 1701 ; Ab- 
agail, b. March 26, 1702 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 1, 1703 ; Lois, b. March 
12, 1706; Deborah, b. Jan. 24, 1708; Peter, b. May 22, 1710; 
Ebenezer, b. March 16, 1713; Solomon, b. Aug. 30, 1715; Jona- 
than, b. Dec. 13, 1717 ; Eliz'th, b. April 27, 1720 ; Rachel, b. May 
22, 1723. These children were probably most of them born at 
Lebanon.* 

t PETER BUELL, m. Avis Collins, sister of Rev. Samuel Col- 
lins, the first minister of Litchfield, and removed to Litchfield with 
Mr. Collins, Peter's father, about 1720. They had children, Arch- 
elaus, b. April 14, 1737 ; Peter, b. Oct. 12, 1739 ; m. Abigail Sey- 
mour, daughter of Zachery, Dec. 24, 1766; Lucretia, b. April 7, 
1742; Avis, b. Jan. 26, 1744. 

PETER BUELL, m. Abigail, of Litchfield, and had children, 
viz.. Dr. Wm., b. Nov. 24, 1767 ; he was a Physician of eminence, 
and located many years at Shefiield, Mass., and in his advanced life 
removed to Litchfield, where he lately died. He m. Abigail Bacon, 
at Sheffield, May 6, 1796 ; his wife was born Feb. 8, 1775. 

Abigail, b. May, 1770. 

Rachel, b. May 17, 1773; Jonathan, b. May 8, 1776. 

Charles, b. Oct. 1, 1773, and Dr. Samuel, b. Sept. 27, 1782. The last is 
now a physician at Litchfield. 

* Epitaph at Litchfield. 

'•Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary, wife of Dr. John Buel, Evq. She died Nov. 4, 1768. Etat, 
90 having had 13 Children, 101 Grand Children, 274 Great Grand Children and 22 gi gi grand 
children— total, 410. 330 survived." 

t Peier Huell and Benjamin Bartlett were two of the petitioners ofSimsbury, May 7, 1082, to 
ohtain lihcrty of the Gen. Assemhly to settle Mr. Samuel Siowe as a Pastor and Watchman over 
their soules, and also to set themselves in Gospel order, &.C. 



370 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUELL, Dr. WM., son of Peter, m. Abigail Bacon, of Sheffield, 
May 6, 1796. Children, 

Maria, b. Jan. 31, 179G; m. Webster. 

Sarah, b. Dec. 23, 1798. 
William D., b. Oct. 22, 1801, d. 1S02. 
Harriet, b. Dec. 18, 1803 ; uamarried. 
Wm. Peter, b. Oct. 24, 1807. 
Frederick, b. Jan. 4, 1S13, 

PETER BUEL, the second son of Wm. Buel, Sen., of Windsor, 
m. and settled in Simsbury. His sons Ephraim and Samuel, gave 
a bond for Peter, their father, Oct. 1, 1718. Samuel, his fourth son, 
was b. May 10, 1686 — and other children His son Ephraim m. 
widow Marcy Barber, both of Simsbury, Oct. 16, 1713. Peter, the 
father, d. Jan. 8, 1728-9, aged 84 years. His widow d. Aug. 19, 
1734. 

BUEJjL, wm., Sen., was in the first land division in Windsor. 
In his will he gave all his tools to his two sons, Samuel and Peter, 
and gave his daughter, Mary Mills, £5 more than any of his others- 
daughters. He made ,his mark to his will. His son Samuel re- 
moved from Windsor to Killingworth, where his son John remained 
until he arrived to manhood ; he then removed«to Lebanon, where 
some of his children were born, and thence removed to Litchfield 
with his family, about 1720 or 21, and became a pioneer and propri- j 
etor of the new settlement at Bantam, as his father had been at Kil- 
lingworth, and his grandfather at Windsor. Wm., Sen., gave his ' 
son Peter the land given him by Windsor and half his tools, and the 
other half to Samuel. His daughter Sarah d. before her mother. 
The mother in her will notices her daughter Hannah Palmer, daugh- 
ter Hepzibah Welles, and her granddaughters Mary and Sarah Pal- 
mer. Hepziba m. Thomas Wells of Hadley, Mass., in 1672. 

Capt. Jonathan Buell, son of Deacon John, of Litchfield, settled 
in Goshen, where he kept a tavern in 1745. This Deacon John d. 
April 9, 1746, aged 75. 

Deacon John Buell, of Lebanon, purchased two rights of land at . 
Litchfield, and removed there in 1721. He was one of the petition- i 
ers to settle a town west of Farmington, called Bantam ; and the J 
Gen. Assembly gave liberty to 57 to settle Bantam. Patent granted :j 
May 19, 1724. 

Peter Buell, in May, 1688, drew lot No. 2, in the land division in ij 
the North-east corner of Simsbury, (probably at Turkey Hills.) I 

Tho's Barber had No. 4 ; Mr. Edward Thompson, lot No. 19 ; John ' 

i 



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Ilifflev, No. 16 ; Andrew Hillyer, No. 5 ; Joshua Ilolcomb, No. 
13 ; Daniel Adams, No. 22; Joseph Owen, No. 18 ; Wnn. Smith, 
No. 15; Luke Hill, No. 11 ; Nicholas Gozard, No. 8 — (this name 
is now Godard in Granby) — Lieut. Terry, No. 7; Eph'ni Howard, 
No. 14 ; Mr. Nath'l Holcomb, No. 12 ; Humphry Prior, No. 1 ; 
John Drake, No. 21 ; Serg't VVilcoxson, No. 17 ; John Saxton, No. 
23 ; John Williams, No. 3 ; John Case, Jun., No. 20 ; John Petti- 
bone, Sen., No. 9; John Case, Sen., No. 10 ; Arthur Henbury, lot 
No. a, ranging from North to South. Peter Buell was a member of 
the Gen. Assembly in 10S7, 1096, and perhaps other sessions. 205 
allowed him for Deputy in 16S7. 

BUELL, Rev. SAMUEL, was b. at Coventry, Conn., Sept. 1, 
1716 ; graduated at Yale College, 1741 ; was ordained an itinerant 
preacher, 1743, and installed Pastor of the church at E. Hampton, 
L. I-, Sept. 19, 1746. He m. first, Jerusha, daughter of Rev. Joseph 
Meacham, of Coventry, Ct. ; second, Mary Mulford, daughter of 
Elisha, of E. Flampton, L. L; and third, Mary Miller, daughter of 
Jeremiaii. His daughter Jerusha m. David Gardner, and became 
the mother of John Lyon Gardner, of Gardner's Island. Mr. Buell 
lost by death, two wives and eight children, before he died. One 
daughter m. Rev. Aaron Woolworth, of Bridghampton, L. L (See 
Tomp. Hist. L. 1.) 

Seven by the name of Buel and one Bucll, graduated at Yale Col. 
before ld45 ; and four at Brown University before 1840. 

BUCKINGHAM, Rev. THOMAS, was the first of the name in 
the Colony of Conn. He was a son of Thomas Buckingham, (a 
Welchman,) who came first to New Haven, and removed to Milford 
in 1639, and d. in Boston while there on business, in the year 1057. 
His son. Rev. Thomas above, was born in Milford, Nov., 1046. 
, Where he was educated is not found. He was at Wethersfield and 
Hartford, as early as 1664, and continued some time at Hartford, 
where he married Esther Hosmer, a daughter of Thomas, Sept. 20, 
1666. He afterward received a call at Saybrook, where he was 
ordained in 1670, and continued to preach until his death, Ap'l 
1, 1709, aged nearly sixty-three years. He was a fellow of Yale 
College from 1700 until his death, and a strong supporter of the Col- 
lege while at Saybrook, and after it was removed to New Haven. 
He held a high rank with the clergy of his time, and the strict Puri- 
, tans of the Colony, and was one of their leaders in all their principles 
and forms. He was one of the Moderators of that noted Synod which 
formed the celebrated Saybrook Platform in 1708. He succeeded. 



372 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

at Saybrook, Rev. Thomas Fitch, who removed to Norwich in 1660. 
He had children recorded at Saybrook, viz., Hester, b. Jan. 10, 
1668; Thos., b. Sept. 29, 1670; Daniel, b. Oct. 2, 1672; Stephen, 
b. Sept. 4, 1675, minister at Norwalk ; Samuel, b. May 26, 1678, 
d. June 20, 1678 ; 2d Samuel, b. July 24, 1679, d. Jan. 5, 1684; 
Hezekiah, b. June 21, 1682 ; Temperance, b. Jan. 6, 1684 ; Anne, 
b. Aug. 2, 1687. Tho's, Jun., m. Margaret Griswold, Dec. 16, 
1691, and had a son Thomas, b. Jan. 24, 1692-3. 

BUCKINGHAM, THOMAS, of Saybrook, son of Rpv. Thomas, 
m. Margarett Griswold, Dec. 16, 1691. He d. Sept. 12, 1739. 
Issue, Tho's, b. Jan. 24, 1693; Samuel, b. Sept. 26, 1694; Jede- 
diah, b. Oct. 2, 1696 ; Margarett, b. Aug. 14, 1699 ; Mary, b. Feb. 
12, 1702, d. June 5, 1703; Joseph, b. June 20, 1707; 2d Mary, b. 
June 5, 1705; Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1710. Their grandson, the son 
of Jedediah above, by Mary his wife, was b. in Newark, N. Jersey, 
Oct. 14, 1719. 

BUCKINGHAM, DANIEL, son of Rev. Tho's, of Saybrook, m. 
Sarah Lee, May 24, 1693. Issue, Sarah, b. Sept. 21, 1695; Dan- 
iel, b. April 9, 1698; Hester, b. April 16, 1701 ; Stephen, b. Aug. 
4, 1703, was a farmer at Norwalk. (Ame, on» Anne, daughter of 
Daniel, b. Oct. 11, 1725.) 

BUCKINGHAM, HEZEKIAH, son of Rev. Thomas, m. Sarah 
Lay, Dec. 12, 1703. Issue, Gideon, b. 1708 ; Sarah, b. Jan. 4, 
1712; Nathan, b. May 7, 1714; Phebe, b. Nov. 8, 1718; Jede- 
diah, b. April 30, 1725. 

BUCKINGHAM, DANIEL, of Saybrook, son of Daniel, married 
Lydia Lord, March 4, 1726. Issue, Anne, b. Sept. 11, 1728 ; Dan- 
iel, b. June 21, 1730, d. 1731 ; 2d Daniel, b. Dec. 28, 1731 ; Ad- 
onijah, b. Oct. 11, 1733; John, b. Sept. 2, 1735; Lydia, b. April 
27, 1738; Samuel, b. May 4, 1740; Giles, b. Feb. 3, 1742; An- ,: 
drew, b. March 31, 1744; Pegge, b. June 10, 1746, d. July, 174G. | 

BUCKINGHAM, THOMAS, of Saybrook, son of Tho's, Jun., ; 
m. Mary Parker, April 5, 1722. He died in 1760. Issue, Jede- 
diah, b. Jan. 20, 1727 ; Stephen, b. Sept. 20, 1729 ; Mary, b. July tj 
27, 1732. ) 

BUCKINGHAM, GIDEON, son of Hezekiah, of Saybrook, m. i|i 
Jemima Pel. . . , Jan., 1733. Issue, Jemima, b. Jan. 10, 1735 ; i 
Gideon, b. April 19, 1737; Samuel, b. July 28, 1740; Sarah, b. | 
March 16, 1742 ; Jared, b. March 9, 1744 ; Reuben, b. Aug. 29, j 
1745 ; Keturah, b. April 7, 1747. ! 

Buckingham, Joseph, son of Thomas, Jun., of Saybrook, m. 



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Sarah Fuller, Sept. 24, 1741. (His wife Sarah, d. Oct. 19, 1764.) 
Issue, Sarah, b. March 15, 1741-2 ; Esther, b. March 8, 1745 ; Mar- 
garet, b. May 25, 1747 ; Louisa, b. April, 1749 ; Abigail, b. April 
29, 1751; Ann, b. Aug. 4, 1753. (No sons.) 

BUCKINGHAM, THO'S and DANIEL, of Saybrook, as exec's 
of their father's (Rev. Thomas) will, deeded land in Saybrook to 
Joseph Dewey, of Colchester, Sept. 16, 1709. Buckinham, Steven, 
b. Aug. 4, 1703, who was a farmer at Norwalk, was a son of Daniel 
and grandson of Rev. Thomas, of Saybrook. There was also a Rev. 
Stephen Buckingham, who graduated at Harvard College, 1693, and 
settled at Norwalk, Nov. 17, 1697, and resigned his charge of that 
church, Feb. 24, 1727. {Dr. Trumbull.) He was a member of 
the corporation of Yale College, from 1716 to 1732; no children 
found on record. He was probably from Milford to Norwalk. 

Coats of Arms. — Bucham, 1 ; Buckham, 1 ; Buckingham, 5 ; 
Buckinham-Priory, (Co. Norfolk,) 1 ; Bukenham or Bokenham, 
(Norfolk,) 1 ; Bockingham, 3. 

BUCKINGHAM, Rev. THOMAS, son of Elder Daniel, of Mil- 
ford, who was a brother of Rev. Thomas, of Saybrook, (Rev. Tho's,) 
was born in Milford, March 1, 1671 ; he was educated at Harvard 
College, where he graduated in 1690, and became the second of the 
name who came into the Conn. Colony. He became the second pas- 
tor of the second church in Hartford, where he was ordained. Rev. 
Joseph Whiting was ordained over the second church in Hartford, in 
1660, and d. in 1699, and Rev. Thoi'jas, from Milford, succeeded 
him at Hartford, and died in the fortieth year of his ministry, Nov. 
19, 1731, aged 60. After the decease of Rev. Thomas, (his uncle,) 
of Saybrook, he was made a member of the Corporation of Yale Col., 
from 1709 until his death in 1731. Rev. Thomas, of Hartford, m. 
Ann Foster, the only child of Rev. Isaac Foster, of Hartford, Nov, 
29, 1699, by whom he had three children, viz., 

1. Isaac, b. Sept. 25, 1700, d. young. 

2. *Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1703. 

3. Ann, b. April 12, 1706, d. young. 

♦ After the decease of Rev. Thomas, of Hartford, his •widow Ann (Foster) m. Mr. 
Bumham for her second husband, whom she survived, and lived several years a 
widow. 

Joseph Buckingham, Esq., son of Rev. Thomas and Ann, was a gentleman of a re- 
fined education, and held several important offices, at Hartford. He left no children, 
and probably was never married. He died in 1761, and his property was appraised 
June 23, 1761. He had two lots of land of 100 acres each, and an undivided right of 
laud ia Winchester, appraised at £225. The inventory, exclusive of the above, 
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374 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

This has uniformly been a respectable family and name in Hart- 
ford, where to perpetuate the name in the city, after the decease of 

amounted to £1,013, 10s. id., dated June 24, 1761. His verbal will as to his personal 
estate, was proved in Court before Daniel Edwards, Judge, May 8, 1761. Adminis- 
tration on the real estate was granted to Rev. Mr. Daniel Buckingham, of Fairfield, 
May 19, 1761. Rev. Daniel B. then took an appeal from the decision of said Court, 
on the 8th of May, approving of the nuncupative will of said Joseph, to the Superior 
Court at Hartford, to be held on the 1st Tuesday of Sept., then next, on the ground 
of being an lieir to said estate. At a Court of Probate holden at Hartford, June 24, 
1761, Daniel Edwards, Judge, the Court ordered and appointed Messrs. Ozias Goodwin, 
Daniel Skinner, and Richard Edwards, of Hartford, or any two of them, to distribute 
the real estate of said Joseph, deceased, to Rev. Mr. Daniel Buckingham, of Fairfield; 
John and Josiah Buckingham; Jane Treat, wife of Robert Treat, Esq. ; Clemence, wife 
of Joseph Treat ; Alice, wife of Edmond Treat, of Milford, heirs to said estate, equally. 

The widow Ann Burnham, (mother of said Joseph, deceased,) on the 25th day of 
June, 1761, appealed from the judgment of the Court in appointing Rev. Daniel ad- 
ministrator on the real estate; also appealed from the judgment rendered on the 24th 
of June, which was allowed. To the Superior Court to be held Sept., 1761 — adminis- 
tration granted to Ann Burnham, mother of Joseph Buckingham, Esq., deceased, June 
9, 1764. 

Inventory of personal estate dated July, 1764, is £541, 12s. 9(?. The Court granted 
administration to Joseph Church, Esq., on the estate of Josepli Buckingham, deceased, 
1768, probably in consequence of the death of Mrs. Burnliam. 

Anne Burnham died in her old age ; her will dated Aug. 23, 1764. She gave to the 
North or First Church in Hartford, her lai'ge silver tankard, for the use and benefit of 
said church forever. — (Where is it? — sold or not.) She gave her kinsman, Joseph 
Church, of Hartford, a large share of her personal estate; manumitted all her servants 
after her decease, Cato, Paul, Prime, Ziporah and Numiy. She gave Cato a lot in the 
commons, of nine or ten acres, for his life, and the remainder to Pi-ime in fee. She 
gave to Paul, her lot east of the Great River, (at five mile,) of eight or nine acres, and 
to Ziporah and Nunny, she gave £10 each. All her other estate she gave, 1st, to her 
kinswomen, Anne Gooss and Elizabeth Sleet, who Uved near Boston, two shares there- 
of; to her kinswoman Elizabeth Lemon, one share; to the children of her kinswoman, 
Sarah Jackson, deceased, she gave one share — lived in or near Boston; to her kins- 
woman, Abigail Church, of Hartford, one share ; to her kinsman, Joseph Church, one 
share; to Mary Caldwell, one share forever. Joseph Church, Esq., Executor. Her 
wiU proved July 25, 1765. 

Anne Burnham, (the former wife of Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Hartford,) as the 
widow of her second husband — to carry out the intentions of her only son, Joseph 
Buckingham, Esq., of said Hartford, then deceased — on the 7th day of July, 1762, gave : 
by deed to the South Congregational Church or Society in Hartford, the house and 
homestead where she then dwelt in Hartford, containing about four acres and a half, ' 
more or less ; bounded east and north on the highway, west on land of Aaron Bull, and •, 
south on Daniel Sheldon's land. The said Joseph Buckingham, while maldng his last ,' 
will to the above purpose, and before he had fully finished the same, was suddenly ^ 
removed by death, and said estate fell to his motlier Burnham as next of kin to said ; 
Joseph; she desiring that her son's intentions and purposes should be carried put, and ( 
for the consideration of her love and regard, which she had for said church and society, I, 
deeded said property to the South Church or Society, and to then- successors forever, ij 
as a good, sure and absolute estate in fee simple, without condition; signed and ac-fl 
knowledged by her, July 7, A. D. 1762. (See Eartford Town licwrd, Booh 11, p. I 
233;) recorded Sept. 17, 1764. 



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375 



every branch of the family of Rev. Tliomas Buckingham, Hart- 
ford, has named one of its public streets. Buckingham Street. 

Five of this name have graduated at Harvard, nine at Yale Coll., 
and one at Brown University. 

Gideon Buckingham and Lewis Mallett, Jun., of Milford, were 
members to approve and ratify the Constitution of the U. S. in 1788 ; 
both voted for it. 

Bucham has one coat of arms ; Buckingham has five ; Bukenham, 
1; Bukinham, one, Priory, (Co. Norfolk;) Bukenham or Boken- 
ham, (Norfolk,) one; Bockingham, 3. 

BUCKLAND, THOMAS, made free in Mass. in 1635; "way 
warden," 1655 ; was an early and highly respectable settler at 
Windsor; Juror in 1644; Collector in 1649. He died there May 
28, 1662. He was at Windsor as early as 1638 ; wife Temperance 
was his widow. Children, Timothy, b. March 10, 1638; Eliz'lh, 
b. Feb. 21, 1640; Temperance, b. Nov. 27, 1642; Mary, b. Oct. 2, 
1644, d. 1657 ; Nicholas, b. Sept. 21, 1646, m. Abigail Vore ; Sara, 
b. March 24, 1648 ; Tho's, Jun., b. Feb. 9 or 2, 1650, d. early ; 
Hanna, b. Sept. 18, 1654, di.; John, b. Jan. 26, 1660. Inventory 
of his estate, June 21, 1676, presented in court Sept. 11, 1676. Dis- 
tribution made Dec. 6, 1676. His widow, enciente at his decease. 
Timothy was married before the decease of his father, as was Eliz'h. 
(Widow Temperance, "old widow Buckland," d. July 26, 1681. 
Inventory, Aug. 19, 1681 — £99, Ids. 4d.) 

BUCKLAND, TIMOTHY, son of Thomas, of Windsor, m. Abi- 
gail More, March 27, 1662. Children, Timothy, Jun., b. April 20, 
1664, d. in '64; Thomas, b. June 23, 1665; Abigail, b. Nov. 11, 
1667; Mary, b. Nov. 7, 1670; Sara, b. April 10, 1673; Hannah, 
b. June 28, 1676 ; Eliz'th, b. Feb. 26, 1678, and Esther, b. Feb. 
12, 1682, six years old at her father's death. He d. May 31, 1689 ; 
Inventory, £167, 8s. Sd. Timothy, Jun., wife Abigail, and distri- 
bution to his children, May 10, 1725, to Thomas, Hannah Gillet, 
Abigail Hosford, Mary and Elizabeth Buckland, and widow Abigail 
Buckland. 

BUCKLAND, THOMAS, son of Thomas, Sen., d. June 21, 1676 ; 
and his wife enciente at his death. 

BUCKLAND, NICHOLAS, son of Thomas, Sen., m. Martha 
Wakefield, Oct. 21, 1668. Children, John, b. March 13, 1672, d.; 
Hannah, b. Sept. 1, 1674 ; second John, b. Dec. 7, and d. Dec. 20, 
1675 ; Martha, b. March, 1678 ; third John, b. July, 1681 ; Nich. 
olas, b. Jan. 8, 1687; Eliz'th, b. July 19, 1692. Nicholas, the 



376 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

father, d. Aug. 24, 1728, aged 82 years. Nicholas Buckland tend- 
ered himself to obtain baptism for his children, March 16, 1670. 
Nicholas Buckland m. Elizabeth Drake, March 3, 1685-6. His 
widow Martha — daughter Martha m. Samuel Strong ; Elizabeth m. 
Robert Hoskins ; Hannah m. Samuel Mather. 

BUCKLAND, THOMAS, son of Timothy, d. Jan. 30, 1742, aged 
77 ; his widow Abigail d. April 1, 1746, aged 82. 

BUCKLAND, TEMPERANCE, of Windsor, daughter of Tho's, 
Sen. ; her will proved 1681, and brother Nicholas, admin'r. Chil- 
dren, Nicholas and Hannah Willys, wife of Joshua Willys. Estate 
about £100. 

BUCKLAND, WILLIAM, d. May 13, 1691, at Windsor; left a 
widow and died insolvent — no children found. He probably had a 
son William, and perhaps others. A Wm. Buckland was of Hing- 
ham, Mass., 1635. Wm. Beuland, 19, embarked in the America 
for Virginia, Wm. Barker, master, June 23, 1635. 

BUCKLAND, WILLIAM, was the first of the name at E. Hart- 
ford, from Windsor; wife, Eliz'th Hills. His children were, 

William and Charles. 

William, son of William, m. a daughter of John Hills, and had issue. 
William. 
John. 
Jonathan. 

Mehitable Cole. ' 

Prudence m. Timothy Easton, and died aged 98, 1797. 
Elizabeth. 

Anna. The father, Wm., removed to East Hartford as early as 1687. He 
died Dec. 12, 1725, aged 75. 

BUCKLAND, CHARLES, son of Wm., Sen., of E. Hartford; 
wife, Ester. Had an only son Charles, b. 1721. His inventory, 
1731. 

BUCKLAND, MEHITABEL, daughter of Wm., 2d, and Eliz'h, 
m. Jonathan Cole. 

PRUDENCE, her sister, m. Timothy Easton ; she died Oct. 15, 
1797, aged 98 years, the mother of Silas Baston. 

ANNA, another sister, m. James Ferbes or Forbes, Jun., and the 
widow Elizabeth, her mother, m. for her second husband, James 
Ferbes, Sen., the father of the husband of Anna. 

BUCKLAND, WM., of Hartford, held a large quantity of land at 
Five Miles, (east of Conn. River.) His estate distributed to his fam- 
ily in 1760. Left children, William, Peter, Sarah, Spencer, Elishai 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 377 

Eliz'th Easton, Amy Drake, Stephen, David, John, Aaron and Geo. 
Wm. d. about 1758, aged 57. 

BUCKLAND, TIMOTHY and NICHOLAS, were in the list of 
freemen, at Windsor, in 1G09. Wm. Bucland embarked for Vir- 
ginia in 1635, in the America, Wm. Barker, master. Buckland, 
Charles, of Hartford, m. Hannah Shepard, May 22, 1712. Mary 
Buckland d. 1657. Timothy, son of Timothy, d. in 1664. "Old 
widow Buckland d. July 26, 1631." Buckland, Samuel, of N. L., 
1674, m. the widow of Matth. Beckwith, Sen., deceased. Buckland, 
Stephen's wife Mary, d. July 8, 1S25, aged 80. Buckland, Capt. 
Stephen, d. in N. Y. May, 1782, aged 39. 

Buckland has eleven coats of arms ; Buckland, (Langly, Co. 
Bucks,) one; Bucklan, (Devonshire,) one; Buckland or Buckle, 
(Somersetshire, one;) also Buckland, (Somersetshire,) one, and 
seven others.* 

Bucknall or Buckland, Samuel, of N. L. 1674. He m. widow 
of Matthew Beckwith, Sen.; second, m. widow of Philip Bill, Sen. 
{Catil. N. L.) 

Timothy and Nicholas Buckland, were in the list of freemen in 
Windsor, Oct., 1669. 

BUGBEE, JOSEPH, was one of the original Company of Propri- 
etors of New Roxbury, (Woodstock,) and drew a home-lot. No. 30, 
in the first division. He had a fifteen acre home-lot, with fifteen acre 
rights, which was located on the West Hill. He was one of the 
Roxbury Company to Woodstock. 

BUGBEE, JOHN, was also from Roxbury, and one of the same 
original company of proprietors, and drew lot No. 33, in the first di- 
vision of home-lots in Woodstock. He took a home-lot of fifteen 
acres, with fifteen acre rights, situated on West Hill. In 1687, Nov. 
3, the planters, at a full meeting, increased Joseph Bugbee's home- 
lot of fifteen acres, to twenty acres, with twenty acre rights. Jo- 
seph Bugbee was appointed one of a committee of seven important 
men of Woodstock, to lay out roads in the town, March 12, 1688. 
They laid out seventeen highways in the town, and reported them 
March 18, 1688, with assessment of damages to individuals. 

♦ The General Court of Connecticut, Oct. 12, 1671, made grants of land to each of the 
following Pequott soldiers: Thomas Hollybut, Sen., 120 acres; to Nicholas Clark; to 
the heirs of Wm. Hayden, instead of the father; to the heirs of Tho's Auckland ; heirs 
of Tho's Gridley; to Tho's Barnes; John Warner; John Hills; Tho's Standish; Na- 
than Gillett; Mr. James IJogers ; Peter Blachford's heirs; John Johnson, each fifty 
acres, provided they should take it where it would not injure any former grunt to any 
plantation or particular person. (See Cbl. Jiec. 1671.) 

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378 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Thomas and Joseph Bacon, brothers, from Roxbury, also had lot 
No. 1, in the first division of home-lots, in 1686, in partners-hip. 
Thomas remained there. 

Bugbee, Joseph, Sen., and John, were signers with other inhabit- 
ants of Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 7, 1683, to settle Woodstock, (now of 
Conn.) This name was early at Ashford. 

Two by this name graduated at Harvard Coll. in 1838 and 1847 ; 
and one at Yale College. 

BULAR, RICHARD, of Hartford, was a juror in June, 1643, at 
Hartford, and juror seven sessions after ; and fifteen sessions a mem- 
ber of the General Court before 1666. 

This name was early at Saybrook. 

BULKELEY, ROBERTUS, of Bulkeley, in Chester County, 
England. Robertus Dus De Bulkeley, had issue, a son, WM. 
BULKELEY, who had issue, Robert Bulkeley. The last ROB- 
ERT had two sons, born in England, viz., WM., who continued in 
England ; he m. a sister of Sir John Davenport. They had issue, 
Wm. Robert had the manor of Cylan. ROGER had tiie manor of 
Norbury, and called himself Norbury, after his house. RICHARD 
had the manor of Prcsland, and called himself Presland. THO'S, 
the fifth son of Wm., had the manor of Alsmait, and all had issue. 
HELEN, a daughter of Robert, second son of Wm., m. Sir Edward 
Wert, Knight. THOMAS, third son of Roger, hud Jenken D. Nor- 
bury, Treasurer of England. HELEN, daughter of Thomas, the 
fifth son of Wm., m. Sir Tiiomas Harden, Knight. She had a son 

WOODSTOCK. 

" Whereas the General Court of the Mass. Col., upon the Petition of the Town of 
Roxbury, for a ti-act of land, to make a village of, granted 7 miles square, or the con- 
tents of it, the 7th of Nov. 1683. The Town of Koxbury made a proposition to their 
several inhabitants, that if there would appear thirty or thirty-five families, to go in 
season to save the Court's gi-ant, they should have one-half the grant upon a square 
where they shall choose, pr the contents of it, and to assist them with £100, money: 
20 pounds annually, as doth appear by the Town of Eoxbury Book of Records. Upon 
which proposition we, whose names are underwritten, and the encouragement there- 
unto, did take up and set to our names, Wm. Lyon, Sen., Benjamin Sabin, Henry 
Bowen, Jonathan Davis, John Frissel, Joseph Frissel, Thomas Bacon, Jun'., John Marcy, 
KVhaLiel Sanger, Ebenezer Morris, Nathaniel Gay or Gary, John Chandler, Sen., Na- 
thaniel Wilson, John Maye, Sen., Wm. Lyon, Jun., Benj'n Griggs, (dis. 1724.) Peter 
Aspinwall, George Griggs, Jonathan Peake, Jun., Jonathan Smeathers, James Corbin, 
Samuel Craft, John Leavins, John Butcher, Samuel Scarborough, John Hubbard, 
John Ruggles, Sen , Joseph Bugbee, Sen., John Bowen, Arthur Humphrey, Samuel 
Peacock, Thomas Lyon, Samuel May, Nathaniel Johnson, John Bugbe, Joseph Peake, 
James Barnet, Edward Moms, Sen., and John Chandler, Jun." 

Samuel Dexter was from Woodstock. He was born May 4, 172G, and died at Men- 
don, Mass., in his 85th year, June 10, 1810. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 379 

John Harden, Knight, who had a daughter m. Sir John Stanley, of 
Elford. Helen, also, had a daughter, m. Sir Robert Lee, Knight. 
Wm's descendants were connected with many of the most eminent 
families in England. 

BULKRLEY, PETER, son of Robert, (and a brother of William, 
who m. the sister of Sir John Davenport,! m. Brydd, of Haughton, 
and had a son JOHN, who m. Claudine, daughter of John Cottley, 
and had issue, (died 1450.) HUGH BULKELEY, whom. Hellen, 
daughter of Thomas Wilbraham, of Woodlay, had one son and 
three daughters, viz., Humphrey Bulkeley, Margery, d. Avithout 
issue, Margaret and Ellinor. HUMPHREY, m. Cyle, daughter of 
John Mutton, and had issue, two sons and two daughters, viz., Hum- 
phrey, Jun., died without issue ; Hellen, m. Edward Whyntonage ; 
Margery m. Smynton, and WILLIAM, the only son that survived, 
ni. Beatrice, daughter and heir of Wm., of Bulausaule, and had 
issue, THOMAS BULKELEY", who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Ron- 
dell Grosvenour, of Bell Report, and had issue, Rowland and Ed- 
ward Bulkeley. ROWLAND m., and had issue, Wm., of Bun- 
lingsdale ; this Wm. had a son Richard, of Woodhill. 

BULKELY, EDWARD, son of Thomas, and brother of Rowland, 
was a Doctor of Divinity of Odel ; m. Alarc Irlby, of the Irlby's of 
Lincolnshire, and had issue, three sons; Nathaniel, who was a mer- 
chant, and died without issue ; Rev. Peter, and David Bulkley died 
a fellow of college. 

This Rev. PETER BULKELEY, B. D., second son of Edward, 
was the first minister at Odel, in Bedfordshire, and the first of this 
important family in England, who came to New England in 1G35, 
He was educated in England, where he was ordained, and came to 
Concord, Mass., where he preached as early as 1635-6. He left 
children by Jane, daughter of Tho's Allen, of Goldington, nine sons 
and two daughters. He also m. Grace, daughter of Sir Richard 
Chitwood, in England, and had by Grace Chitwood, his second wife, 
John, Gershom and Peter, and a daughter. Com. 

BULKELEY, THOMAS, settled at Fairfield. Thomas, of Con- 
cord, had a daughter Sarah, b. there in 1640. The Bulkleys of 
Fairfield, in Fairfield County, Conn., arc descendants of Thomas 
Bulkley, above ; an important family. 

EDWARD, son of Rev. Peter, of Concord, succeeded his father 
in the ministry at Concord, Mass. He commenced his education in 
England, and finished at Harvard College, Mass., before they con- 
ferred degrees. He settled at Concord, Mass., in 1657, and died 



380 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

about 1696. Edward had a son, Peter C, at Concord, in 1640. 
Com. 

BULKELEY, JOHN, son of Rev. Peter, by Grace, graduated at 
Harvard College in 1642, and returned to England, and settled in 
the ministry at Fordham, in Essex County, Eng., and was rejected 
as a non-conformist, in 1662 ; after which he practiced physic in 
London, where he died in 1689. 

BULKELEY, PETER, son of Rev. Peter, of Concord, was a 
magistrate in Mass. in 1677; went as agent to England for the Col- 
opy of Mass., in 1676. He was Speaker of the House of Delegates 
in 1676, and held other important posts in that Colony; made free 
at Concord, 1670. He had issue, Dorothy, b. 1640 ; Peter, b. 1643. 

* Rev. GERSHOM, son of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, by Grace, his 
second wife, graduated at Harvard College, in Mass., in 1655. He 



* Dr. Gershom Bulkeley^fter his dismission at Wethersfield, removed east of Con- 
necticut River, into Glastenbury, for the purpose of practicing medicine, where he 
remained during his life; at which place his will is dated in 1712, and the codicil dated 
there Nov. 24, 1713, a few days before his death; his wDl presented and proved in 
court at Hartford, Dec, 1713. He noticed in his will his son Charles' daughter Han- 
nah Goodrich, then married ; also his daughters-in-law, Hannah Avery and Rachell 
Wolcott, and gave each of them " a golden ducat, or 10s. piece, if he left a couple. He 
gave his son Edward's wife Dorothy, a "gold guinea," if he left one. He gave to his 
brother Peter's children, (viz., Gershom, Peter, Grace, Margaret and Dorothy,) each 
10 shillings. His son Edwai'd he gave the clock in his house, his seal ring, great gilt 
spoon, the least of the two silver porringers, law books, &c. His son, Eev. Jolui, of 
Colchester, he gave most of his books, silver watch, manuscripts written by his grand- 
father, and father, &c. He notices his grandson, Richard Treat, son of Thomas, and 
his daughter, Dorothy Treat. Also notices his granddaughter, Catherine Treat, daugh- 
ter of his daughter Catherine Treat, by giving her his lesser silver tankard, silver 
salt-cellar, a small silver dram cup; and gave his daughter Dorothy liberty to redeem 
any or all of them, at a fair valuation, and to have them at the age of eighteen, or on 
her marriage day. His negro maid Hannah he gave to Dorothy. AU his children 
noticed in his will, who were living at his death, were John, Edward and Dorothy. 
He appointed in his will, Thomas Treat, his son-in-law, sole executor of his will, but 
he died before Dr. Gershom, and in a short codicil to his will, made at Glastenbury, 
he appointed his daughter Dorothy Treat, widow of Thomas, sole executrix of his 
will. 

Tills Dr. Gershom Bulkeley, was the Bulkly spoken of by Dr. Trumbull, in his 
History of Connecticut, who united with Gov. Dudley, Lord Cornbury, Hallam, 
Palmes and others, in their opposition to the chartered rights of Conn., and charged 
this colony of mal-administration, of piracy, and by direct impeachment of the Colony 
by charges of high misdemeanors. Cornbury and Dudley were powerful men ; the 
first a relative of Queen Anne, and connected M-ith many noble families in England, 
who could influence the throne. While Gov. Dudley was a shi-ewd and iutrigumg 
manager, and had managers at Court — not only so, but Connecticut had her influen- 
tial opposers in the Colony, viz., Nicholas Hallam, M.ijor Palmes, and others who 
grossly misrepresented factsessentially injuring the interest and prosperity of the Col- 
ony. Dudley and Cornbury drew up articles of complaint against the Colony, anjj 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 381 

preached for a time at New London ; (though Dr. Trumbull says, 
"there seems to have been no church formed in New London, un- 
till the ordination of Mr. Bradstreet, and that neither Mr. Blynman 
or Mr. Bulkley were installed or ordained there.") 

Mr. Bulkley left New London in 1666, and was either ordained 
or installed at VVethersfield the same year, where he preached about 
eleven years, when he was dismissed at his own request, (for ill 
health.) He then relinquished the ministry for a more active life. 
He had prepared himself for the practice of surgery and medicine, 
(as most of the clergy did at that day.) He commenced the practice 
of physic in Glastenbury and Wethersfield, and soon acquired a high 
reputation in his new profession. He was appointed surgeon, and 
Rev. James Fitch, chaplain, in the standing army in 1676. He d., 
aged 77 years and 11 months, Dec. 2, 1713. His wife Sarah, died 
June 3, 1699. His monument speaks of him as possessed of" rare 
abilities, extraordinary industry, excellent in learning, master of 
many languages, exquisite in his skill in divinity, physic and law," 
&c. Kev. Gershom m. Sarah, daughter of Charles Chauncey, Pres- 
ident of Harvard College, Mass., and had issue, daughters, Cathe- 
rine Treat, d. before her father, and left a daughter Catherine ; Dor- 
othy Treat, wife of Thomas Treat ; Charles, first son, (died at New 
London, line extinct;) second, Peter, (lost at sea ;) Edward, third 
son, lived at Wethersfield,) and Rev. John, fourth son of Gershom. 
The last graduated at Harvard College in 1699, and settled in the 
ministry at Colchester, Dec, 20, 1703. (Dr. Trumbull says) " Dec, 
1703, and died June, 1731." Peter Bulkley, a son of Rev. Ger- 
shom, of Wethersfield, was a mariner, and lost at sea about 1701, 
aged 37. He had married Rachel Talcott, March 21, 1700, but left 

Dr. Trumbull says, (Vol. 1, p. 411,) that "Dudley employed one Bulkley to write 
against the government." Bulkley drew up a large folio volume, a copy of which has 
been procured in England, and is now in manuscript, elegantly bound, in the Histor- 
ical room in Hartford. Its title page is as follows: " Will and Doom, or the Miseries 
of Connecticut by and under an Usurped and Arbitrary Power, being a Narrative of 
the first creation and exercise, but especially of the late Changes and Administration 
of Government in their Magesties Colony of Connecticut in New England in America. 
Wherein the manner of the late Revolution made therein May 1089, is discovered, and 
the Warrantableness in som measure discussed, the most material Transactions from 
that time to this Instant Dec. 1692, are truly declared, and thereby the Innocency of 
their Ma"" Good subjects dissenting from those Notions is Cleared." 

By those misrepresentations of Bulkley, supported and confirmed by Cornbury, 
Dudley, Hallam, Palmes, Daniel Clark, Mason, &c., put the Colony in great distress, 
and to immense expense, in thwarting the plans of the opposers of the Colony. (See 
Doct. Trumbull, Vol. 1, pp. 410-11, &c. ; also the fetters of Sir Henry Ashurst, pub- 
lished in Hinman's Antiquities of Connecticut.) 



382 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

no issue. Hi? widow was bound to secure to the heirs of Mr. Cha'a 
Bulkeley, of N. London, then deceased, her share in Peter's estate. 

Rev. and Dr. Gershom died Dec. 2, 1713, being 78 years old, 
wanting one month. 

BULKELEY, EDWARD, son of Rev. Gershom, of Wethers- 
field, ni. Dorothy , and had issue, Charles, b. March 25, 1703 ; 

Eliz'th, b. Jan. 24, 1705 ; Sarah, b. Feb. 8, 1707 ; Rebecca, b. Feb. 
22, 1709; Peter, b. March 19, 1711, d. in infancy; second Peter, 
b. March 11, 1712; Gershom, b. July 29, 1714; Dorothy, b. Sept. 
11, 1716. Mr. Bulkeley d. Aug. 27, 1748. 

GERSHOM, son of Edward Bulkley, of Wethersfield, m. Thank- 
ful Belden, Feb. 17, 1743. Issue, Thankful, b. May 20, 1744 ; 
Jehiel, b. Oct. 23, 1745; Gershom, Jun., b. Dec. 3, 1747 ; Mabel, 
b. May 2, 1750; Ruth, b. May 17, 1752; Wm., b. Sept. 2, 1754. 

PETER, son of Edward, of Wethersfield, m. Abigail Curtis, Ap'l 
2, 1741. Issue, Joseph, b. Jan. 28, 1742; Abigail, b. April 13, 
1743 ; Oliver, b. Dec. 5, 1744 ; Solomon, b. March 21, 1747 ; Dor- 
othy, b. July 17, 1749, d. an infant ; Justus, b. Dec. 24, 1752. His 
wife d. Nov. 27, 1762, and Peter, the father, d. April 4, 1776. 

DOROTHY TREAT, daughter of Rev. Gershom, of Wethers- 
field, was executrix of her father Buckley's will; will dated May 
26, 1712. Catherine Treat, daughter of Rev. Gershom, died before 
her father, and left an only child, Catherine. 

Dorothy Treat was the wife of Thomas Treat. Thomas Treat 
was first executor of Mr. Bulkley's will, but he d. before Mr. Bulk- 
ley ; he therefore appointed his daughter Dorothy, executrix. Dr. 
Gershom had but three children living at his decease, viz., Rev. 
John, of Colchester, Edward and Dorothy. 

BULKLEY, Rev. JOHN, son of Rev. Gershom, Sen., of Wethers- 
field, graduated at Harvard College, in 1699 ; settled in the mmistry 
at Colchester, in 1703 ; married Patience Prentice, of N. London. 
He had five sons and four daughters, viz., John, Gershom, Charles, 
Peter and Oliver, Sarah, Lucy, Patience and Dorothy. Sarah m. 
Jno. Trumbull ; Lucy m. Elaphas Lord ; Patience m. Ichabod 
Lord, and Dorothy, his fourth daughter, died single. GERSHOM, 
second son of Rev. John, had five sons and five daughters; sons 
John, Daniel, Roger, Joshua and David. 

CHARLES, third son of Rev. John Bulkley, m. Ann, daughter 
of Jona. Latimer, of New London. Issue, 1, John, d. at Lyme in 
1832-3; 2, Ann, m. Col. Eliphalet Bulkley, of Colchester ; 3, Pa- 
tience, m. Doct. David II.. Jewett, of Montville, father of two sons 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in the Revolutionary Navy ; one acted as commodore in the service 
in South America. He died a few years since, in Wilkesbarre, 
Pennsylvania. 

Capt, CHARLES, son of Ciiarles, 3d, son of Rev. John, resided 
in N. London, and d. 1848, aged 95. (He had white brandy at his 
decease, taken by him under Capt. Hinman, in the Alfred, during 
the Revolution.) He and several of his sons on board of a privateer 
in the war of 1812 ; several of his sons died, and only his son Leon- 
ard survived the father. Leonard is now deceased. 

ELIZABETH, daughter of Charles, the third son of Rev. John 
Bulkley, died at Lyme, unmarried. 

BULKELEY, PETER, fourth son of Rev. John, of Colchester, 
married, and had children, William, Peter, John Wilkes, Charles, 
Israel, Frederick, Isaac, Lucy and Susan. Charles was a lawyer 
in Vermont. 

OLIVER, fifth son of Rev. John Bulkley, Sen., had children, Jo- 
seph, Chauncey, Noah and Sarah. Noah was a man of wealth in 
E. Haddam ; died in Chicago, Illinois. 

BULKLEY, JOHN, Esq., of Colchester, was the first son of Rev. 
John, the first minister of Colchester, and grandson of Rev. Gershom 
Bulkley, who preached for a time at N. London, and afterward at 
Wethersfield. John graduated at Yale Coll., 1726. He became an 
eminent lawyer ; was for a time Judge of the Superior Court of Conn., 
and died while Judge, in middle life. He m. Mrs. Mary Gardiner, 
(maiden name, Adams,) daughter of Rev. Eliphalet Adams, of N. 
London. She was the relict of Jonathan Gardiner, (by whom she 
had a son John,) m. Oct. 29, 1788. 

. John Bulkley, Esq., died July 21, 1753, aged about 49 years. 
He and Mary had children, viz., 

Lydia, bap. Oct. 28, 1739 ; m. Capt. Robert Latimer, 1761 ; he 
d. at sea. She d. 1782. 

Mary, b. May 23, 1741 ; ni. Geo. B. Ilurlbut, and had no issue. 

Eliphalet, bap. Aug. 10, 1746; m. Anna, a daughter of Major 
Charles, a brotlier of iiis father. 

Lucy, bap. Aug. 27, 1749 ; m. Capt. John Lamb, of Groton, Ct., 
and left an only child, viz., Col. Henry F. Lamb ; he m. a cousin, 
daughter of his uncle, Eliphalet Bulkly ; and others who died 
young. 

BULKLEY. Col. ELIPHALET, son of Hon. John Bulkeley, of 
Colchester, m. Ann, daughter of Charles Bulkley, of New London, 
and had four sons and six daughters, viz., John Charles, Jonathan, 



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Eliphalet Adams, Orlando, Mary, Lydia Ann, Patience, Sarah 
Chauncey, Frances and Julia. After the birth of his children, he 
removed to New London, and afterward he removed his family to 
Wilkesbarre, Penn., where the name is yet found, and where he d. 
over 80 years old. He had been a Captain in the War of the Revo- 
lution. 

BULKLEY, CHARLES, a brother of Col. Eliphalet, removed to 
Williamstown, Mass., where he had a large family. 

MARY, sister of Charles and Eliphalet, m. B. Hurlbut, of New 
London. LUCY, her sister, m. Capt. John Lamb, of Preston. 
LYDIA, her sister, m. Capt. Robert Lattimer, of N. London. 

BULKELEY, JOHN C, of Colchester, Conn., son of Col. Eliph- 
alet and Ann, m. Sarah Taintor, and had three sons, viz., Charles 
Edwin, Jno. Taintor, and Eliphalet Adams. 

JONATHAN, son of Col. Eliphalet, removed to Wilkesbarre ; 
now living, with a family. 

BULKLEY, ELIPHALET A., son of Col. Eliphalet, d. a bach- 
elor ; no issue. 

ORLANDO, son of Col. Eliphalet, d. in Illinois ; no issue. 

MARY, daughter of Col. Eliphalet, m. Worthington, of Penn., and 
LYDIA ANN m. Col. Daniel Watrous, of Colchester. Her sister 
PATIENCE m. Chapman, of Penn.; her sister SARAH m. Mr. 
Bolton. FRANCES m. first, M'Shane, of Philadelphia; second, 
H. F. Lamb; and JULIA, the sixth daughter of Col. Eliphalet, 
m. Mr. Stuben Butler, of Penn. 

CHARLES EDWIN, son of John C. Bulkley, m. first, Mary 
Isham ; second, widow Julia Worthington, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Is- 
sue, Charles Edwin, died, aged 6 years ; Mary, died Sept. 30, 1832, 
aged one year. Charles C, Robert, and George Duncan, reside in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

BULKELEY, JOHN TAINTOR, son of John C, m. Clarissa, 
daughter of Elijah Bulkley, of Colchester. Issue, Sarah, Francis, 
Robert and John T. 

BULKLEY, ELIPHALET ADAMS, son of John C, m. Lydia 
S. Morgan, of Colchester, 1830. Issue, Charles C, Morgan, Wm., 
Mary. He graduated at Yale College in 1824 ; studied law with 
Wm. J. Williams, Esq., of Lebanon ; practiced law several years in 
East Haddam, where he was Judge of Probate, County Judge, State 
Attorney, three sessions a member of the Legislature, and State Sen- 
ator two years. He removed to Hartford, and opened an office as 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 386 

Attorney and Counselor, and is now Judge of the City Court, and 
Recorder of the Police Court in Hartford City. 

BULKLEY, JOHN, made a freeman in Mass., in 1642. 

BULCKLEY, EDM'D or EDWARD, made free in Mass., May, 
1635. 

BUCKLEY, Mr. EDWARD, Joljn Bourne, John Barker, Wm. 
and Gilbert Brookes, were of Marshfield, and males able to bear 
arms, and of the ages from 16 to 60 years, in 1643. 

Number of Coats of Arms. — Buckeley, or Buckley, (Hampshire 
and Ireland,) 1 ; Buckley, 6 ; Buckley or Buckly, 1 ; Bulkeley, 
(Bulkeley, Co. Chester : descended from Robert Bulclegh, Lord of 
Bulclegh, temp. King John : the heiress, Anne Bulkeley, m. Thomas 
Holford of Holford,) 1 ; Bulkeley, (Eaton, Co. Chester, derived from 
Robert, second son of William Bulkeley, of Bulkeley, the Lords 
Bulkeley of Beaumaris, were a younger branch of the Eaton fam- 
ily,) 1. Bulkeley, (Standlowe, Co. Stafford, younger branch of the 
Bulkeleys of Eaion, Co. Chester,) same arms. Bulkeley or Bulkely, 
(Ireland,) 1 ; and four others. 

Five Bulkleys, have graduated at Harvard Col., before 1770, and 
fourteen at Yale, before 1850. 

BULKLEY, PETER, graduated at St. John's College, (A. M.,) 
160S. 

Benj'n Bulkley, aged 11, Daniel Buckley, aged 9, embarked for 
New England in the Susan and Ellyn, Edward Payne, master, in 
1635. Jo. Buckley, 15, embarked in the Susan and Ellyn, for N. 
England. Peter Bulkley, 50, and Grace Bulkly, 33, embarked in 
the Susan and Ellin, E. Payne, master, for N. England, in 1635. 
Humfry Buckly, 18, Lucie Bucklie, 18, and Debora Barrie, 23, and 
others, embarked as passengers for Virginia, in the Globe, of Lon- 
don, Jeremy Blackman, master, Aug. 7, 1635. Thomas Bulkley, 
3"2, passenger in the Plain Joan, to Virginia, in May, 1635. 

BULKELEY, CHARLES, of Wethersfield, had two wives ; first, 
Mary, and had issue by her, Charles, b. 1760; Justus, b. 1762; 
Mary, b.' 1764. His first wife died Jan. 24, 1771, and he m. for his 
second wife, Eunice Welles, Oct. 7, 1773. 

BULKELEY, BENJAMIN, m. Susannah Kirby, Nov. 3, 17.57. 
Children, Thomas, b. 1758; Lucy, b. 1760; George, b. 1762; 
Huldah, b. 1764 ; James, b. 1766 ; Stephen', b. 1768 ; Abigail, b. 
Dec, 1770 ; Martha, b. 1773 ; Hannah, b. June 25, 1775. The 
mother d. May 27, 1776, and Benj'n m. for second wife, Elizabeth 
Brownwell, Feb. 6, 1776. 
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380 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BULKELEY, Capt. EDWARD, of Wethersfield, m. Prudence 
Welles, March 24, 1782. Issue, Rachell, b. 1782 ; Pamela, b. 
1784 ; Oliver P., b. 1787. Maj. Edward d. May 30, 1787. 

BULKLEY, EDWARD, of Wethersfield, m. Dinah Bunce, July 
9, 1795. Issue, Honor Frances, b. Aug. 22, 1795 ; John B., b. 
1797 ; Eliza, b. 1799; Edward, b. Aug. 7, 1801 ; Mary, b. 1803, 
d.; Wealthy, b. 1804. The mother d. Dec. 6, 1804; the father d. 
Feb. 5, 1805. 

BULKELEY, FRANCIS, m. Elizabeth Fosdick, Jan. 5, 1796. 
Issue, Chauncey, b. Jan. 16, 1798 ; James Henry, b. 1799; Clia's, 
b. April 27, 1801 ; perhaps others. 

BULL, Capt. THOMAS, must have been in Connecticut as early 
as 1636, as he was usefully connected with the bloody battle against 
the Pequot Indians, in May, 1637. 

Thomas Bull embarked for New England in the Hopewell, Tho's 
Babb, master, Sept. 11, 1635, with John Kirbie, Daniel Pryer, John 
Prier, and others. 

Capt. Bull was one of the early settlers at Hartford, and became 
familiar witTi the Indian language. In 1639, Capt. Bull informed 
the Court that a gun had been found at Pequannacke, supposed to 
have been John Woods, who had been murdered by the Indians, with 
the initials of his name, (J. W.) marked upon^^it. In 1640, he was 
located south of Little River, in the South-westerly part of the vil- 
lage of Hartford, on a house-lot, bounded N. on the road from G. 
Steele's house to South Meadow ; W. on P. Davis, or Ward's lot ; E. 
on Richard Lyman, and S. on Stephen Post's lot. He was pecul- 
iarly useful to the early settlers, being somewhat acquainted with 
the habits and language of the natives. Juror at Hartford in 1648 
and 9. In May, 1650, a grant of land was made to him and others, 
and in Sept. after, the Gen. " Courte desires Mr. Governor, Mr. Dep- 
uty, and Mr. Webster, to consider of the Grant of land to Thomas 
Bull and others, and to settle something vpponthem." In 1651, the 
record says, "The Courte hath also spoken with Lieftennant Bull, 
about the land at Nihantecutt, laid out to him and others with him, 
who hath promised to confer with Vncas and indcuo"" to give him 
reasonable content," &.c. In March, 1051-2, the Court granted to 
Thomas Bull, and the rest of the five soldiers of Capt. Mason, 200 
acres of upland, which lay northward and adjoining to the remain- 
der of land before laid out to them, which they accepted, for 100 
acres they resigned, near Saybrook, for Indian cultivation. In 1653> 
the Commissioners of the United Colonies ordered to be raised in the 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 387 

four Colonies, 500 men, of which number, Connecticut was to raise 
Go, to fight the Dutch. The Gen. ('ourt of Connecticut ordered the 
6.") men raised by impressment at a day's warning, with provisions, 
&c., with Lieut. Cook, commander, and Lieut. Bull to be their L't, 
and Lieut. Tho's Wheeler, of Fairfield, for Ensign, *!iic. 

In May, 1G02, Tho"s Bull was appointed one of the twelve Grand- 
jurors appointed by the Gen. Court for the Colony. 

At the time it was discovered that Major Andross was about to 
make a hostile invasion of Conn., and demand the military posts for 
the Duke of York, Capt. Thomas Bull, of Hartford, commanded the 
forces at Saybrook. Upon the arrival of Major Andross, with an 
armed force in the Sound, making for the fort, Capt. Bull, having 
had no instructions from the Governor how to act on the occasion, 
proved himself a man of sound discretion, and a soldier. Andross, 
with his armed sloops, drawn up before the fort, hoisted the king's 
flag on board, and demanded the surrender of the fort and town. 
In return. Bull hoisted also the king's flag in the fort. Andross, 
unwilling to fire upon the king's colors, desisted from firing upon the 
troops ; yet he continued his position a part of two days. The Leg- 
islature sent by express, a protest against Major Andross, to Capt. 
Bull, at Saybrook, which amounted to instructions to Capt. Bull how 
to proceed, and to inform Major Andross of the determination of 
the Colony to maintain their own government under the charter, 
with their own officers. Andross wished to be permitted to land and 
have an interview with the ministers and chief officers, and was per- 
mitted to land with his suite only. Capt. Bull met them at the land- 
ing, and informed the Major he had that instant received by express 
instructions to tender him a treaty, and refer the whole controversy 
to Commissioners. Andross refused, and commanded, in his maj- 
esty's name, that the duke's patent and his commission, received 
from his Royal Highness, should be read. Capt. Bull boldly, in his 
majesty's name, told him to forbear reading. (See Bull's Letter.) 
Still the clerk of Andross attempted to read. Bull repeated his com- 
mand, and in such a manner and voice, as satisfiied Andross his safe 
course was to desist. Capt. Bull then informed him of his address 
from the Gen. Assembly to him, and read the protest. Dr. Trum- 
bull says, " Gov. Andross, pleased with his bold and soldier. like 
appearance, said, ' What is your name ?' He replied, 'My name 
is Bull, Sir.' 'Bull!' said the Governor, ' It is a pity that your 
horns are not tipped with silver.' " 

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388 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

he gave up his design, and was waited upon by the militia of the 
town, and guarded to his boat, and he left with his sloops for Long 
Island. (See Dr. Trumhull's Hist. Conn., vol. l,pp. 328-30.) This 
transaction greatly endeared Capt. Bull to the people of the Colony, 
as a discreet and an intrepid officer. 

He was a brave soldier, and served his new and adopted country 
with great bravery in the early Indian wars against the first settlers 
of Connecticut. He died in 1684, and his will was proved at Hart- 
ford the same year. He was born in 1606, aged 78 at his decease. 
Wife Susan. She died in 1680, aged 70. They had children, viz., 

1. Susannah, m. Thomas Bunce, of Hartford. 

2. Abigail, unmarried at her father's decease. 

3. Thomas, Jun., b. 1646; settled at Farmington. 

4. David, b. Feb. 9, 1650-1; settled at Saybrook. 

5. Ruth, m. Boreman, of Cambridge, Mass. 

6. Joseph, settled at Hartford; he was a mariner; he m. Ann, daughter of 
Michael Humphry, of Windsor; he d. 1712. 

7. Jonathan, bap. March 25, 1649; remained at Hartford; he m. Sarah, d'r 
of Rev. John Whiting; he d. 1702, and she m. for her second husband, John 
Hamlin, of Middletown. 

Capt. Bull had a grand-daughter, Susanna Bunce. Joseph was 
sole executor. Estate, £1,248, l\s., including at Saybrook, ^120, 
and his land at Nahantick, £120. 

BULL, Major JONATHAN, son of Lieut. Thomas Bull, Sen., 
of Hartford, was bap. March 25, 1649. He m. Sarah, daughter of 
Rev. John Whiting, March 19, 1684. Estate, £1,505, 13s. 6<i. 
His children, 

1. Susannah, b. Dec. 20, 16S5. 

2. Sarah, b. Aug. 25, 16S7 ; m. Rev. John Hart, May 12, 1719. 

3. Sibbil, b. April 13, 1690 ; d. unmarried. 

4. Ruth, b. April 21, 1692; m. Jonathan Welles, Dec. 15, 1715. 

5. Abigail, b. July 24, 1694 ; d. before her father's estate was distributed, 1714. 

6. Dr. Jonathan, b. July 14, 1696 ; d. 1767. 

7. Moses, b. May 18, 1699; chose his mother Sarah, for guardian, 1714. 

8. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 27, 1701 or 7 ; supposed d. young. 

His widow was Sarah. He was extensively engaged in naviga- 
tion. At the time of his decease, he owned one-half of the sloop 
Two Brothers, and half the sloop Bennetta, in company with Benj. 
Funnell, of N. York. His daughter Susanna, was living in Boston, 
in 1712. His daughter, Sarah Hart, had a son John, who was edu- 
cated a physician and d. single. His son Jonathan, b. 1696, studied 
medicine seven years in Boston, and was licensed to practice by the 
Gen. Court at Hartford. He m. Hannah, and settled at Hartford. 



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Maj. Jonathan died at Hartford, Aug. 17, 1702. Estate, £1,505, 
13*. 6d. 

BULL, Dr. JONATHAN, son of Maj. Jonathan, and grandson 
of Lieut. Thomas Bull, Sen., b. July 14, 1G90, d. 1765, aged 69. He 
was about the first highly educated physician of Hartford. He stud- 
ied surgery and medicine seven years at Boston, and was licensed 
to practice in Conn, by the Legislature of the Colony. He married 
widow Hannah Beach, of Cheshire — (her maiden name Wooster, a 
sister of General Wooster, who was killed by the British near Dan- 
bury, in the war of the Revolution.) They had only two children, 
viz., 

1. Jonathan, Esq., who was many years Judge of the County Court, Justice 
of the Peace, Judge of Probate, and Commissioner of Loans, &c. 

2. Hannah, m. Rev. Mr. Beach, of New Jersey. She died in New Jersey, 
Dec, ISll, aged 65 years. She was an accomplished and highly educated 
lady. It is supposed she left no children. 

BULL, Judge JONATHAN, son of Dr. Jonathan Bull, of Hart- 
ford, m. Delia Seymour, daughter of Jerred Seymour. She was b. 
Nov. 6, 1752, and died July 4, 1830. Judge Bull d. 1783. They 
had children, viz., 

1. Henry, m. Mary Stocking, in Western N. York, and had no issue. 

2. David, d. young. 

3. Twins, d. 

4. Hannah, d. unmarried, aged about 31 years, March 1, 1809. 

5. Delia, m. Thomas Tisdall, Esq. She died, aged 30 years ; left one d'r. 
Tho's Tisdall, d. Aug. 31, ISOS, aged 61 years, 

6. Nancy, d. in March, 1S09, unmarried, aged 2. 

7. David, d. with yellow fever, in Augusta, Ga., in 1S09, unmarried. 

8. Elizabeth, m. James Dodd, Esq., of Hartford, his second wife, Sept. 1, 
1834; had no children. 

9. Rebecca, d. in 1809, with spotted fever, aged about 20 years ; unmarried. 

10. Charles, m. Faryiy Corning. She d. without issue, and be now resides 
in N. York. 

11. Cornelia, m. James Dodd, Esq., for his first wife, in 1S15. She d. May 
10, 1S33, aged 42. Her children are Mary, John, James H., Charles B., Tis- 
dall and Cornelia. 

12. John, d. when an infant. 

Judge Bull was a favorite in Hartford, and held many of the re- 
sponsible offices of the town, county and state. 

BULL, DAVID, of Saybrook, son of Capt. Thomas, m. Hannah 
Chapman, Dec. 27, 1677. Issue, 1, Susanna, b. July 4, 1679; 2, 
Hannah, b. April 30, 1681 ; 3, Abigail, b. March 16, 1682-3, died 
June 11, 1683 — no sons found. 
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390 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BULL, Deacon THOMAS, from Hartford, m. Esther Cowles, 
Aug. 29, 1669 ; she died April 17, 1691. In Jan. 13, 1692, he m. 
Mary Lewis; she died Jan. 10, 1728. Settled at Farmington. He 
died 1708. Children, 

1. John, b. 1670, d, April 19, 1705, m. Esther Royce, 1698. 

2. Tho's, Jun., b. 1672, d. Aug., 16S9. 

3. Esther, b. 1674, d. Aug. IS, 1689, 

4. Samuel, b. 1676; removed to Woodbury, where he was a deacon; one 
family of the name is yet there. 

5. Susanna, b. 1679, m. Timothy Porter, April 22, 1697. 

6. Jonathan, bap. May 14, 1682; settled at West Hartford. 

7. Sarah, bap. Nov. 5, 1684, m. Josiah Hart, 1714 ; she died, 1773. 

8. David, b. June 4, 1687, d. 1762, m. Sarah Ashley, 4th June, 1717, who d. 
at Westfield, Mass., 1747, aged 54. Will dated 1708; estate, £745, 12s. Id. 
David died, 1762. His sons Jonathan and David, Ex'rs. Deacon Thomas, d. 
May 13, 1707 or S. 

BULL, JOHN, son of Deac. Thomas, died in 1705, before his 
father ; he m. Esther Royce, who was his widow. Estate, £237, 
195. 6d. She was one of the original church in West Hartford. 
His children inherited his share of the estate of his father. Deacon 
Thomas Bull. They had children, 

1. Thomas, b. Oct. 22, 1699, ra. Thankful Butler, 1730. 

2. Nehemiah, graduated at Yale Col. 1723, and settled at Westfield, Mass. 

3. John, Jun. and Ebenezer, twins, b. Aug. 17, 1705; Ebenezer died Nov., 
1705; John lived at Woodbury, m. Mercy Buck, 1734. 

Thomas m. Thankful Butler, July 29, 1720 or 30, and for his 
second wife, Martha Hinsdale. Nehemiah m. Eliz'th Partridge, of 
Hatfield, about 1730. John, Jun., was by trade a blacksmith, and 
settled and died at Woodbury. He m. Mercy Buck, Oct. 9. 1734. 

BULL, THOMAS, son of John, b. Oct. 22, 1699, m. T. Butler 
in 1730, and had children, 

1. Esther, b. April 15, 1721. • 

2. Samuel, b. Feb. 26, 1722-3. 

3. Amos, b March 6, 1725. 

4. Thankful, b. Oct., 1729. 

5. Susannah, b. Feb. 20, 1731-2. 

6. Jerusha, b. June 20, 1734. 

DAVID, son of Deacon Thomas, of Farmington, settled at West- 
field, Mass.; he m. Sarah Ashley, July 4, 1717; he d. Jan. 17, 
1762. Issue, 

1. Jonathan, b. June 23, 1718 ; m. Abigail; he died 1793. 

2. Sarah, b. Jan. 5, 1720-1, m. Joel Holcomb. 

3. David, Jun., b. May 31, 1723, m. Lois Porter, 1760; he d. 1762. 



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4. Thomas, b. March 15, 172S-9, d. 1775. 

5. Noah, b. Dec. 2, 172G. 

6. Thankful, m. Elijah Porter, Sept. 22, 1743 ; he d. Sept. 29, 1768, aged 39. 

7. Abigail, m. Ebenezer Lee, June 20, 1750. 

8. Esther, b. Aug. 8, 1733, m. Gilbert. 

9. Mary, b. May 2, 1736, m. \Vm. Lewis, Dec. 7, 1758. 

JONATHAN, son of David Bull, of Westfield, b. 1718, m. Abi- 
gail, and had issue, 

1. Huldah, b. April 26, 1743, m. Dr. Thomas Mather, March 12, 1764. 

2. Martin, b. Dec. 3, 1744, m. Eliz'th Strong, Nov. 9, 1768 ; he d. March 24, 
1825; shed. April 9, 1820, aged 73. 

3. Lucy, b. March 7. 

4. Sarah, b. 1743, m. Rev. Cyprian Strong; she d. Sept., 1785. 

5. Abigail. 

6. Moses Whiting Bull. 

MARTIN, Deacon, son of Jonathan, son of Deacon Tho's Bull, 
of Farmington, m. Eliz'th Strong ; had issue, 

1. Sophia, b. Oct. 24, 1769, m. Rev. Amos Bassett, in ISOl. 

2. Catherine, b. May 23, 1772, d. Sept. 30, 1782. 

3. Amos, b. , m. Lucy Smith, Oct. 5, 1767. 

BULL, Rev. NEHEMIAH, son of John, and grandson of Deacon 
Thomas, graduated at Yale College, 1723. He m. Elizabeth Part- 
ridge, of Hatfield, Mass., in 1728-9. He settled in the ministry at 
Westfield, Mass., and died there about 1740. His wife survived 
him. His children were, 

1. Dr. William. 

2. John Partridge. 

3. Justin. 

4. Nchemiah. 

He directed in his will, that his son Wm. should be educated in 
the Latin and Greek languages, and should be a Doctor, and that 
his other children should be well educated. His widow, Elizabeth, 
and his brother-in-law, Mr. Oliver Partridge, Executors. The cod- 
icil to his will is dated 1740. At his decease, he owned four tracts 
of land in New Hartford, Conn., appraised in 1740-1, at £163, 10s. 
in money. His son, Dr. Wm. Bull, m. Jane, daughter of Col. John 
Ashley, of Sheffield, and had a son, Wm. Jun., who was also a doc- 
tor ; he m. Mary Callender, and had three sons j they all lived and 
it is supposed died at Sheffield, Mass. 

BULL, Capt. JOSEPH, son of Capt. Thomas, d. March 22, 
1711-12; m. first, Sarah, with her first child, in 1672; second, 
Hannah, who was his widow. She and their son Caleb, adm'rs. Es- 
tate, £890, 4*. 8d.; distribution, 1713. Children, Sarah, b. 1672, 



392 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

d. young ; Joseph, b. 1675, was a mariner at Marblehead in 1717, 
d. aged 63 ; Esther, his wife, d. 1783; Daniel, b. 1677 ; .Mary, m. 
James Olmsted; Caleb, b. 1679, m. Eliz'th Bunce, 1714, resided 
in Hartford. His widow m. Collier. Joseph Bull had land of his 
father Thomas, in 1677. 

BULL, DANIEL, son of Joseph, m. Mary Mygatt, and d. by a 
fall from a horse, aged about 43 years. His children were, 

1. Daniel, b. 1709, d. Nov. 8, 1776. 

2. Aaron, b. 1711. 

3. Caleb. 

4. Mary, ni. Jonathan Seymour, of Hartford. 

5. Keziah, m. Zebulon Seymour, of Hartford. 
G. Isaac, in. Eunice Gillett. 

7. Amos. 

8. Susannah. 

BULL, ISAAC, son of Daniel and Mary Bull, m. Eunice Gillette; 
she d. aged 90, in 1808 ; he d. aged 74. Children, 

1. Eunice, m. William Stanton, of Litchfield. 

2. Isaac, b. at Windsor, Oct. 28, 1740 ; he m. Mary Gorham, of New Haven; 
she was b. Feb. 2S, 1756. 

3. Ursula, m. Wm. Bull, of Saybrook ; m. 2d, Judge Painter, of Vermont. 

4. Susan, m. Hon. Uriah Tracy, first of Norwich, and afterward at Litch- 
field, an eminent lawyer and wit ; he died at Washington, D. C, when a mem- 
ber of the Senate of the U. S. She died January 8, 1843 ; he died July 19, 
1807, aged 53. 

5. Roger. 

6. Caleb. 

7. George. 

8. Asa. 

9. Aaron. 

BULL, ISAAC, son of Isaac and Eunice, b. 1740, m. Mary Gor- 
ham, of N. Haven, b. Feb. 28, 1756, Nov. 12, 1770. He settled 
first at Wallingford, as a school teacher and druggist, where he re- 
mained a few years, and removed to Hartford in 1790, and was a large 
druggist in Hartford about thirty years. He d. at Flartford, Nov. 9, 
1824, aged 84. His wife d. Dec. 9, 1825, aged JO. They had children, 

1. William S., b. July 22, 1772, d. Aug. 2, 1775. 

2. Isaac D., b. July 1, 1774. 

3. Susannah, b. Oct. 15, 1776, d. Sept. 21, 1777. 

4. Wm. S., 2d, b. April 22, 1779, d. Jan. 3, 1779. 

5. Mary, m. James R. Woodbridge, Esq., of Hartford, Nov. 12, 1807, and 
had children, 1. Mary, who m. Rev. S. C. Nichols; 2. Dr. W'm; 3. Joseph 
Stewart. 

6. Horace, b. March 5, 1784, d. July 14, 1807, single. 

7. Lorenzo, b. July 16, 1786. 

8. Marcus, b. Oct. 5, 1787. 



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9. Ursula, b. April IS, 1790, m. Solomon Smith, Esq., April 22, 1S12 ; had 
five children ; she removed to Illinois, yet living. 

10. Lucius Bull, b. March 31, 1797, d. young. 

BULL, ISAAC D., Dr., son of Dr. Isaac, of Wallingford and 
Hartford, was many years the principal druggist in Hartford. He 
ni. Mary Watson, daugliter of I'^^benezer, Oct. 18, 1798, and had 
children, viz., 

1. Ebenezer W. Bull, m. Sophia T. Buckland, and had two sons; after his 
death, she m. George Bcacli, Esq., of Hartford — no issue. 

2. Mary Ann, m. John Olmsted, Esq.; had six children, three of whom 
survive. 

3. James, m. Mary B. Cooley, daughter of Dr. Cooley, of E. Hartford. 

4. Elizabeth C.,m. Rev. B. F. Northrup, of Manchester ; has nochildren. 

5. Albert H., m. Sarah Goodhue, of Brattleborongh, Vt., no issue. 

6. Martha, m. Rev. Asa Turner, of Iowa. 

BULL, LORENZO, son of Dr. Isaac, m. 1st, Eliz'h, daughter of 
George Goodwin, Esq., Dec. 11, 1816, and had four children, viz., 

I. Lorenzo, Jr.; 2. George, d. young ; 3. Henry ; 4. Elizabeth, d. 
young. Lorenzo m. for second wife, Ann Hosmer, daughter of 
James, March 18, 1828, and had no issue. 

BULL, M.^RCUS, son of Dr. Isaac, m. first, Elizabeth Colt, d'r 
of Hon. Elisha, of Hartford, Nov. 26, 1810 ; she d. without issue, 
Sept. 21, 1812, and he m. second, Mary S. Root, of Sheffield, Mass., 
daughter of Wm., Aug. 22, 1814, and had three sons and three 
daughters, who lived. He removed to Philadelphia, and remained 
several years, and then turned planter in Virginia ; but afterward 
removed to New York, where he d. and left a widow and children. 

BULL, JAMES, son of Dr. Isaac D., m. Mary, daughter of Dr. 
Cooley, of Manchester ; removed to Illinois, and had children, three 
living. 

BULL, MARTHA, daughter of Dr. Isaac D. Bull, m. Rev. Asa 
Turner, of Iowa, and has 11 children. 

BULL, Dr. EBENEZER W., son of Dr. Isaac D., was many 
years a noted druggist in Hartford, as his father and grandfather had 
been before him. He m. Sophia T. Buckland, of Manchester, Ct., 
and left two sons. He died, and his relict m. George Beach, Esq., 
of Hartford, for her second husband ; no issue by this connexion. 

BULL, CALEB, son of Capt. Joseph, m. Eliz'th Bunce, 1714 : 
had sons, Caleb, Aaron and Daniel ; perhaps others. 

BULL, CALEB, son of Caleb, Sen., m. Martha Cadwell, April 

II, 1745; she was born July 15, 1724, and died of palsy, April 22, 
1786, aged about 62. Caleb, her husband, died suddenly, on a visit 



394 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

at Mrs. Larncd's, in Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 31, 1789, aged 71, and 
Was placed in the family vault at Hartford. Children, 

1. Caleb, b. January 10, 174G, d. Feb. 12, 1797. 

2. Samuel, b. Sept. 3, 1747, d. June 28, 1818. 

3. William, b. Aug. 22, 1748, d. Oct. 13, 1799. 

4. James, b. Oct. 13, 1751, d. Sept. 3, 1820. 

5. Frederick, b. March 11, 1753, d. Feb. 20, 1797. , 
C. Esther, b. Oct. G, 1754, d. Nov. 30, 1786. 

7. Ruth, b. Feb. 20, 1757, d. 1823. 

8. Hezekiah, b. May 24, 175S, d. 1811. 

9. George, b. March 30, 1761, d. Feb. 23, 1812. 

10. Michael, b. March 4, 1763, d. 1831. 

11. Thomas, b. June 5, 1765, d. March 4, 1830. 

12. Hepzebah, b. Sept. 23, 1768, m. Charles Fanning, of Preston, 1814, d. 
March 31, 1843. 

The estate was settled by the children. He had been a prosper, 
ous merchant, and his three daughters had each j£200. His estate 
was £3,426, Os. Id. He d. Feb. 12, 1797, aged 51 years. Will 
dated 1784. His nine sons all lived to manhood, and nine finer ap- 
pearing brothers \v;ere never found in Connecticut. His widow's 
dower set out in 1798 ; her sons James and Thomas agreed to the 
distribution. 

BULL, CALEB, son of Capt. Caleb, m. first, Rebecca Butler, of 
Harwinton, in 1763 ; she d. Sept. 26, 1775, aged 27, and he m. for 
his second wife, Abigail Morrison, widow of Normand Morrison, (who 
d. at sea) 1779. His children were, 1. Wm. W. Bull, (called Beau 
Bill,) 2. Mary Otis Bull, m. John King, of Westfield. His broth- 
ers, Thomas and James, were executors ; will dated 1797. Widow 
Abigail's dower set out to her in 1798. Estate, £12,380. He d. 
Feb. 12, 1797, aged 51 years. 

BULL, SAMUEL, son of Caleb, Jun., was b. Sept. 3, 1747; he 
m. Lydia Gleason, daughter of Capt. Joseph, of Middletown, March 
10, 1771 ; they had a son b. Jan. 10, 1772, and d. next day; and 
on the 24th of Jan., 1772, his wife Lydia d., aged 21 years. Sam- 
uel, m. for his second wife, Rebecca Cotton ; she d. Nov. 1, 1810. 
Samuel Bull himself, d. at Middletown, in a fit, June 28, 1818, aged 
71 years. 

BULL, WM., son of Caleb, Jun., was b. Aug. 22, 1748 ; he m. 
Mary, daughter of Rev. Wm. Hart, of Saybrook, Feb. 26, 1770. 
Mary, his wife, d. at Saybrook, Oct. 14, 1791, and he m. for his 
second wife, Ursula Bull, daughter of Isaac Bull, of Litchfield. Mr. 
Wm. Bull d. at Litchfield, Oct. 13, 1799, aged 51. Left no issue, 
and gave his property to his poorest relative ; and Russell Bull 



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proved himself entitled to the estate. Russell's widow is still 
livincj. 

BULL, JAMES, son of Caleb, Jun., was b. Sept. 29, 1750, and 
d. July 8, 1751, aged nine months, with whooping cough; James, 
2d, by the name of James, son of Caleb, Jun., b. Oct. 13, 1751 ; he 
m. Martha Collier, (daughter of Hezekiah, then deceased,) Nov. 29, 
1772. James, 2d, d. Sept. 4, 1820, aged over 68 years; had no 
issue. He lived at the south corner of State and Front Streets, in 
Hartford.. 

BULL, FREDERICK, son of Caleb, Jun., b. March 11, 1753 ; 
he ni. Lydia, daughter of Maj. Josiah Griswold, of Wethersfield, 
Oct. 17, 1771. He d. Feb. 20, 1797, aged 44 years. Lydia, his 
widow, d. at N. Y. at the house of her son Frederick, Dec. 3, 1811. 
Children, 

1. Frederick, lived in New York in ISll. 

2. Lydia Royce, daughter of Frederiek, d. May 7, 1832, aged 59. 

3. Mrs. Martha Cook, daughter of Frederick, of dt, Arniand, U. C, d. Nov. 
3, 1S32, aged 5S. She fust ni. J. M. Chenevard ; he d.; second, m. Cook. 

One of his grand-daughters m. first, Geo. Sheldon, and had one 
daughter; second, John Butler, of Hartford, and had one daughter. 
Clarissa, m. Russell Bull. Clarissa is yet living in West Hartford ; 
James d. in N. York before his brother Frederick. 

Esther, b. Oct. 6, 1754, m. Amos Hosford, of Berlin, Jan. 5, 178G, 
and died in childbed, of fever, Nov. 30, 1786, aged 32. 

BULL, GEORGE, first son of Caleb, Jun., was b. Nov. 26, 1755, 
and d. March 13, 1759, aged 4 years. 

George Bull, second son of Caleb, Jun., by the name of George, 
b. March 30, 1761 ; he m. Catherine, daughter of Samuel Marsh, 
May, 1789 ; she d. Sept. 20, ISOO, at Northampton, Mass., and in- 
terred at Hartford. George, d. at the house of Thomas Bull, in 
Hartford, Feb. 23, 1812, aged 50, interred at the North burial yard. 
He left no children. He was a merchant, large, and of fine ap- 
pearance. 

BULL, HEZEKLVH, sonof Caleb, Jun., of Hartford, wash. May 
24, 1758. He went supercargo of a ship to Ireland ; while there 
he m. Miss Sarah Hoyland, an Irish lady, March 5, 1785, in the 
County of Kiloare. Children, 1. Maria, b. in Hartford, Jan. 2, 
1786; 2. Esther, b. July 21st, 1787, and Emily— sons Caleb and 
Tho's Jefferson Bull, went to Ohio. 

. Hezekiah, the father, d. at Kendall, Stark County, Ohio, May 26, 
1821, aged 63 years. His widow, Sarah Hoyland, d. at Loudon. 
I villfe, OJiio, June 13, 1825, aged about 62 years. 



396 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BULL, MICHAEL, son of Caleb, Jun., wash. March 4th, 1763 ; 
m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Butler, Feb. 5, 1791 ; she 
was b. Sept. 17, 1770, and had issue, 

1. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 14, 1792, single. 

2. Sarah Cadwell Bull, b. Feb. 2S, 1793, single. 

His wife, Elizabeth, d. March 9, 1793, aged 22 years, and he m. 
for his second wife, Ann Whetten, daughter of Capt. Wm. Whetten, 
of New York, Dec. 1.5, 1795; she was b. at New York, Feb. 8, 
1773, and had children, viz., 

3. Margaret Ann, b. Oct 13, 1796, at N. Y., cl. 179S ; inter'd in New York. 

4. Esther Mariah, b. at New York, July 7. 

5. Col. John Whitten, b. Oct. 13, ISOO, of Hartford ; m. Mary King, of Ms. 

6. 2d Margarett Ann, b. Sept. 3; now resides at Hartford, unmarried. 

7. Morgan, b. Sept. 10, 1S04, d. April 30, 1816, aged 11. 

8. Mary Howard, b. at Hartford, whfere she resides. 

9. Stella B., b. Feb. 13, ISIO, m. Francis J. Huntington, Esq. 
10. Henry Brevoort, b. April 11, IS 13, d. young. 

Michael, the father, d. Dec. 7, 1831, aged 69. His second wife, 
Ann, d. Aug. 7, 1851, aged 78. Mr. Bull was several years a mer- 
chant in the city of New York, where two of his children were born. 
He removed to Hartford, where he continued the business of a 
merchant. 

BULL, CoL. .TOHN W., son of Michael, married Mary King, of 
Palmer, Mass., daughter of Dr. Aaron King, July, 1834, a descend- 
ant of the Earl of Montrose, and has children, viz., John W., d., 
second John W., Mary E., Harriet Ann, George H., Wm. W. 

Col. John W. Bull has been one of many successful merchants 
in Hartford, where he now resides. 

BULL, THOMAS, born June 5, 1765, son of Capt. Caleb, Jun., 
m. Ruth Butler, daughter of Moses, b. April 16, 1765; m. Aug. 
26, 1786. Children were, 

1. Thomas, b. Nov. 9, 17S7, m. Sarah P. Clark, daughter of Russell Clark, 
of New Haven. 

2. Ruth, b. Oct. 6, 1789, m. Richard E. Goodwin, son of George Goodwin, 
of Hartford. 

3. Charles, b. May 8, 1791, unmarried. 

4. Ursula, b. March 23, 1793, m. Fred. Bange, of Amsterdam, Holland. 

5. Rebecca Butler, b. July 20, 1794, m Theodore D. Lyman, Greenfield, Ms. 

6. Moses Butler, b. July 29, 1796, m. Sarah Symonds, of East Hartlbrd. 

7. Francis, b. Oct. 17, 1797, m. Samuel Dodd, of Hartford, Feb. 6, 1823, 

8. Eliza, b. Dec. 16, ISOO, m. Penfield B. Goodsell, of Hartford. 

His first wife, Ruth, died June 5, 1806, and he m. for his second 
wife, Lucinda (Barnard,) widow of Nathaniel Blake, Nov. 29, 1806. 



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397 



The children by this marriage were, 

9. Caroline, b. July 18, ISOG, m. Rev. James Anderson ; settled in Vermont. 
10. William, b. Sept. 11, ISOS, d. Feb. 3, 1S19. 

Thomas Bull the father, d. March 4, 1830, aged 64 years. 

BULL, Capt. AARON, son of Caleb, Sen.; will proved 1793. 
Joseph and Caleb, his nephews, executors ; wife, Sarah. Children, 
1. Abigail Brown ; 2. Mary Bull ; 3. Asher, and 4. Sarah Steel, wife 
of John Steel. He noticed his grandson Aaron, son of Asher, of 
New Hartford, and his grandson Epaphras Wadsworth Bull, grand- 
daughter Deborah Bull, and his grandson John C. Bull, in his will. 
Will dated 1790. He gave his property, in 1795, to his widow and 
his daughters Mary and Abigail. Epaphras was also his son. 

BULL, Col. JOSEPH, son of Deacon Daniel, of Hartford, and 
grandson of Daniel ; his will proved 1797. Thomas Y. Seymour, 
James L Bull and Thomas Chester, Esq's, executors. hildren. 
James L Bull, Esther Margaret, (m. Thomas Chester, Esq.,) and 
Wm. Gidney Bull ; the last being 16 years old in 1797, chose his 
brother James L Bull, for his guardian. Col. Joseph owned land 
in Hartford ; also 300 acres in Windsor, Vt. ; 1,000 acres in Mid- 
dletown, Vt.; 750 acres in St. Johnsbury, Vt.; one-quarter of one 
ninety-sixth part of the Conn. Gore lands, and 6,666 acres in Geor- 
gia, &CC., as inventoried. One of the grand-daughters m. J. M. 
Bunce, of Hartford, Ct. 

BULL, Major EPAPHRAS, of Hartford, son of Capt. Aaron, 
d. about 178S. ]\Ir. Bull held a high rank .with the whigs of Conn, 
during the War of the Revolution. In 1775, there was convincing 
proof that a design had been formed by the British ministry, to make 
an invasion from Quebec, upon the Northern Colonies ; some steps 
had been taken to carry their designs into execution. Some of the 
citizens in the vicinity of Ticonderoga, who were immediately ex- 
posed to incursions, for their own preservation had taken possession 
of that post and of Crown Point, where were then lodged cannon and 
military stores, exposed to be taken by the enemy, with the few offi- 
cers and soldiers stationed there. But as Connecticut had no com- 
mand of those posts exclusively, and as those posts were in posses- 
sion of the people of different colonies, it was considered impractica- 
ble for the officers and soldiers of Connecticut to return to Ticonde- 
roga or Crown Point at tiiat time ; and it became necessary that 
such officers and soldiers and their families, prisoners of war for the 
time being, should be provided for by the Colony. The General 
Assembly therefore resolved, und did appoint the following impor- 
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tant Committee, or any three of them, at the expense of the Colony, 
to take care of and provide for the officers and soldiers and their 
families, &c., viz., Col. Erastus Wolcott, Capt. Samuel Wadsworth, 
Capt. Ezekiel Williams, Epaphras Bull, Henry Allyn, Col. Fisher 
Gay, Col. Matthew Talcott, Col. James Wadsworth, Capt. Jonathan 
Welles, Ebenezer White, and Col. Jonathan Humphrey. In Oct. 
of the same year, the Legislature appointed the same Committee 
who had been appointed to provide for a number of officers and sol- 
diers and their families, who were then prisoners of war at Hartford. 
And as the Assembly had made no provision for their confinement 
and support, it was now resolved that said Committee be authorized 
tD take care of and provide for said officers and soldiers, at the pub- 
lic expense, as before directed. At a session of the Legislature of 
Connecticut, in Nov., 1776, Epaphras Bull, of Hartford, was ap- 
pointed Commissary of prisoners of war in Connecticut, to take care 
of all prisoners of war then in Connecticut, and such as should be 
sent into the State, and make his monthly returns to the board of 
war appointed by Congress, of the condition of the prisoners. It had 
been found necessary by Congress, that a Commissary of prisoners 
of war should be appointed in each State ; therefore the Legislature, 
in May, 1777, appointed Ezekiel Williams, Esq., a Commissary of 
prisoners in Connecticut, in place of Epaphras Bull, who was then 
serving as a captain in the Continental army. During the war, 
(family tradition says,) he was transferred to a Virginia regiment, 
who refused to serve under a Yankee ; Major Bull challenged some 
one of the regiment, and was shot in a duel. He died about 1788. 
He had children, 1. John Coleman; 2. Deborah ; 3. Epaphras 
Wadsworth. John C. and Deborah, chose their grandfather, Capt. 
Aaron Bull, for guardian, and the Court appointed Capt. Aaron Bull 
guardian for Epaphras W. Bull, in 1790. Epaphras W. became 
a lawyer of eminence, and located himself at Danbury, where he 
died in middle life, and left a young family. 

BULL, MOSES, died at Bolton about 1745. His son Jonathan, 
aged 16, chose Major Jabez Hamlin, of Middletown, for his guard- 
ian, in 1750. In 1746, his widow, Mabel, was guardian for her son 
Jonathan. Moses, son of Moses Bull, of Bolton, chose Joseph Tal- 
cott, of Hartford, for his guardian, in 1753 ; perhaps others. ( 

BULL, DANIEL, m. Mary ; he removed to Jamaica, L. I., and ' 

died there in 1729. He had children, Isaac, b. Oct. 9, 1714; he ' 

hose Daniel Bull, of Hartford, for guardian ; Susannah, aged 13, t 



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chose her mother, IMary, for Iier guardian ; Jonathan Seymour cho- 
sen guardian for Daniel, aged 17, and Aaron, aged 15. 

BULL, SAMUEL, son of Deacon Thomas, of Farmington, learned 
the trade of a blacksmith, and removed and settled in Woodbury 
about 1690 or 7, when he became of age. He m. Eliz'th, the dau'r 
of Rev. Zachariah Walker, the first minister of Woodbury. They 
had no issue. He adopted John, (a son of his brother John, who 
settled at West Hartford,) a blacksmith by trade. This John m. 
Mercy Buck, and died quite young, July 21, 1737, and left a daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth, two days old. His widow was soon after called 
" Widow MHlard," on record. Deacon Samuel, after John Bull's 
decease, next adopted Major Thomas Bull, of the Revolution, son of 
his brother David Bull, of Farmington. Deacon Samuel's wife, 
.Eliz'th, died at Woodbury, Sept. 22, 1741, aged 67 ; and Deacon 
Samuel m. for his second wife, in his old age, widow Hicox, of 
Waterbury, (now Watertown.) He d. Oct. 27, 1749, aged 72 years- 
His second wife survived him, and returned to Watertown, and d. 
there with her children. 

BULL, Major THOMAS, of Woodbury, son of David, of Far- 
mington, an adopted son of Deacon Samuel Bull, m. Eliz'h, daugh- 
ter of Nathan Curtis, of Woodbury. She d. April 13, 1770, aged 
37 years, and left two children, viz., Esther and David. Major 
Bull, in his old age, m. widow Prindle, of Newtown, the mother of 
Mrs. Nathan Preston and Mrs. Asa Stoddard, then of Woodbury. 
This second wife d. about a year before he did ; he d. Feb. 24, 
1804, aged 74 years. Elizabeth, daughter of Major Bull, m. Rev. 
Ab'm Smith, of Great Hill, in Derby ; she d. about 1817, and left a 
daughter Elizabeth, who m. Rev. Samuel T. Babbit, and now re- 
sides in Illinois, if living, and has a large family. 

BULL, DAVID S., b. 1763, son of Major Thomas Bull, (and 
father of Thomas, now of Woodbury,) d. Oct. 17, 1810, aged 47. 
He m. for his first wife, Ruth Emm Hinman, daughter of Sherman 
Hinman, Esq., of Southbury. She d. without issue by him, Oct. 
24, 1796, aged 29 years. He m. for his second wife, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Jonathan Mitchell; she died May 2, 1S43, aged 65. 
They had issue, Thomas, b. Dec. 9, 1801, and David Samuel, born 
Sept. 6, 1805, d. Dec. 8, 1823, aged 18. 

BULL, THOMAS, Esq., son of David S. and Eliz'th, b. 1801, is 
one of the principal men of Woodbury. He has long been a Magis- 
trate, Judge of Probate, and Representative of the town; a gentle- 



400 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

man farmer, with a handsome fortune. He m. Susan Sherman, of 
Woodbury, and they have issue, 

1. Elizabeth, b. 1825. 

2. David S., b. 1826. 

3. Julia E., b. 1829. 

4. Susan, b. 1833. 

Thus far are all the Woodbury Bulls. EBENEZER, son of Mo- 
ses and Mabel Bull, of Farmington, d. of fever at Woodbury, Jan. 
26, 1760, aged 28, a single man, and a carpenter. His brother Dr. 
MOSES BULL, of Sheffield, Mass., went to Woodbury to attend 
him in his sickness. He also took the fever, and d. April 15, 1760, 
aged 22. Their property was divided between their brothers and 
sisters, viz., Jonathan Bull, Susannah, wife of Daniel Hull, Abigail, 
wife of Dr. Ebenezer Lee, Sarah, wife of Daniel Butler, Mabel, wife 
of Moses Bull— sons of Moses, of Bolton, and grandsons of Jonathan, 
of Farmington. 

BULL, ROGER, d. at Wethersfield. Estate distributed to his 
widow, one-third ; only son, Russell, £280, 35. ; and only dau'r 
Eunice, £140, Is. 2d., in 1785. 

The family of Bulls in Hartford, have been so numerous, that 
but a small part of them can be published in a work like this, with 
only a single subscriber of the name. 

BULL, WM., was in Charlestown, Mass., in 1638. 

BULL, HENRY, made free in Mass. in 1637. 

As to John Bull, his daughter Hannah, and son Edward Bull, see 
Sayhrook Records, vol. 4, p. 20, showing they were of the Parish of 
Stowe, Gloucester County, in England, in 1679. 

BULL, HENRY, Daniel, John and Henry Brown, and Samuel 
Bennit, were amongst the first settlers of Rhode Island. 

BULL, ISACK, embarked in the America, for Virginia. JOHN, 
of Boston, free in 1691. 

BULL, HENRIE, aged 19 years, came to New England with 
certificates from the minister of St. Savior's, Southwark, in the Eliz- 
abeth, from London, Wm. Stagg, master. 

BULL, JOHN, of Hartford, had Elizabeth, b. July, 1652. Who 
was he ? 

BULL, JOHN, son of John, of Harwinton, m. Dotha Austin, of 
Goshen, 1814, and had Lucretia, John Norris, Lucy Ann, Norman 
Austin, and Henry — five children. 

BULL, ROB'T,of Saybrook, m.Phebe Jose, Dec, 1649, and had 
issue, Mary, b. Dec. 7, 1651 ; John, b. March 10, 1653; Phebe, b. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 401 

Aug., 1655; Robert, b. March 1, 1662-3. (Robert is not of the 
family of Capt. Thomas.) 

BULL, WM., was at Cambridge in 1644, (probably the same 
Wm. wlio was at Charlcstown in 1638.) His children were Re- 
becca, b. 1644 ; John, b. March 9, 1647 ; Mary, b. ; Wm., b. 

1652 ; Samuel, b. 1654 ; Elisha, b. 1657. Wife was Blyth. 

There was originally Robert Bull, early at Saybrook, about 1649; 
Lieut. Thomas Bull, in Hartford in 1636. And John Bull had a 
daughter, Eliz'th, b. at Hartford in 1652. And Benedict Bull, from 
Rhode Island to Milford, about 1711. 

Thomas Bull embarked for New England in the Hopewell, Babb, 
master, Sept. 11, 1635, aged 25 years, in company with Andrew 
Hulls, 29, John Kerbie, Jo. and Daniel Pryer a-nd others, who came 
to Connecticut. 

BULL, BENEDICT, a descendant of Gov. Henry Bull, of Rhode 
Island, came from Newport, R. I., and settled in Milford, Conn., 
about 1711 or 12. He left brothers in R. I., Joseph and John. Henry, 
his ancestor, embarked in the James, Jno. Maye, master, for N. E. 
There was also a Henrie Bull came over in the Elizabeth de Lon- 
don, Wm. Stagg, master, with certificates from the minister of St. 
Savior's, Southwark, &c., in 1635. Benedict Bull, from R. I. m. 
Sibella, daughter of Alexander Bryan, Jun., of Milford, Dec. 11, 
1716, and had issue, born at Milford, viz., 

1. Benedict, Jan., b. 1717 ; killed by a fall from a ladder. 

2. Sibella, b. Feb. 24, 1719, m. at Norwich. 

3. Jirah, b. Oct. 10, 1721, m. Sibella Peck, daughter of Jeremiah. 

4. Benjamin, b. Oct. 10, 1721, m. a daughter of Stephen Baldwin. 
5.' Content, b. Feb. 24, 1724, m. a Brya.n. 

BULL, JIRAH, son of Benedict, m. Sibella Peck, and had issue, 

1. Sibella, m. Daniel Buckingham. 

2. Jabez, b. Jan. 19, 1747, m. Naomi Bristol, 
•i. Jerusha, m. David Noble, of N. Milford. 

1. Content, m. David Baldwin, of New Milford. 

'). Henry, b. in 1754, m. Harriet, daughter of Dr. John Harpin, of Milford. 

'I. Jeremiah, b. March 10, 1757, m. Anne, daughter of Stephen Gunn, Esq. 

BULL, BENJAMIN, son of Benedict, m. a daughter of Stephen 
Baldwin, of Milford, and had sons, viz., 

1. Benjamin, b. June 22, 1761, m. twice, but left no children. 

2. Daniel, b. Oct. 23, 1703 ; he removed to Tlymouth, Ct., and his de.scend- 
ants have been numerous. 

BULL, BENEDICT JABEZ, son of Jirah and Sibella Peck, m. 

Naomi Bristol, and had issue, 

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402 GENEALOGY OF THE , PURITANS. 

1. James, who m. Bryan. 

2. Lucy, m. William Atwater. 

3. Jirah. 

BULL, HENRY, son of Jirah and Sibella, and grandson of Ben- 
edict, m. Harriet Harpin, and had issue, Frederick, John, Jerusha, 
Philip, d. in N. Orleans, and Wm. Harpin. Mary rn. Woodhull, of 
Lockport. Cornelia Harriet m. Stephen A. Treat. 

BULL, JEREMIAH, son of Jirah, of Milford, m. Anne Gunn, 
and had issue, 

1. Anne, b. August 20, 17S1, m. Edward A. Lambert, Jan. 16, 1806. 

2. Jeremiah, b. 17S4,d. in infancy. 

The Bull family of Milford, have been numerous and respectable, 
from the first settler, Benedict Bull. 

Coats of Arms. — Bull, (Bruan,) 1 ; Bull, (Ongar, County Essex,) 
1 ; Bull, (Lord Mayor of London, 1774,) 1 ; Bull, (London,) 2; 
Bull, (London, Yorkshire and Hockwold, Co. Norfolk,) 1 ; Bull, 
(Oxfordshire,) 1; Bull, (Walles,) 1; and four other coats of arms 
for the name of Bull. 

BULLARD, at Ashford, at an early period. John, of Dedham, 
Mass.; daughter Abigail born there in 1640. 

Six by this name have graduated at Harvard College, and three 
at Yale. 

BULLEN, JOHN and SARAH, of Windham ; son Joseph b. 
Aug. 30, 1716; Mary, b. June 11, 1721. David Bullen, of En- 
field, will dated Nov. 23, 1756. Wife Abigail. Children, Abigail 
.Pinny, d. before her father ; Hannah Hardin ; Juda Richardson ; 
David Bullen. He noticed his daughter Abigail's children, and 
made his son David, executor of his will. Estate, about £650. 

CAPT. THOMAS BULL. 

[Wlien I find a Puritan who deserves the gratitude of all New England, as well as 
Albany and Schenectady, as much as Capt. Bull, I cannot refrain from giving him a 
passing notice. Capt. Bull was born in London, near the south part of the city, par- 
ish of Southwark, in 1610. He sailed for New England from London, Sept. 11, 1635, 
when about 25 years old. Perhaps was educated a soldier in England, as he is found 
a Lieutenant in the bloody battle against the Pequot Lidians in 1637, under Capt. John 
Mason, where more bravery was displayed, and greater good achieved to New Eng- 
land, than by any battle wliich has since been fought, not excepting the battle of 
Bunker Hill. The Pequots were the most warlike and blood-tliirsty Lidian nation in 
New England. By this action they were defeated and ruined as a nation, as their fort 
was destroyed, seventy wigwams burned, about 600 Indians killed in the action by 
fire and sword, with only about seventy active white men in the field ; by which 
Connecticut was saved. The war spirit which inspired the ancestor to vanquish the 
Pequots, induced his descendants, viz., Epaphras, Thomas, Jonathan, WilHam, James 
and Moses Bull, to be active whigs during the War of the Revolution.] 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 403 

SAMUEL, freeman in Mass., 1G41. SAMUEL and his wife 
Mary, of Dedham, had a daughter Mary, b. there in 1642. This 
name was early in New Jersey, and of good standing. 

BULLEN has five coats of arms ; BuUer, five. One, by this name, 
graduated at Yale in 1772. 

BULLIER, JULLLVN, ofSaybrook, m. Eliz'th Brooks, Jan. 15, 
16G5. He d. Jan. 14, IG77, and left no issue found. His widow 
Eliz'th m. James Fitzgerald, April 28, 1678. 

BUMP, SAMUEL, resided in Bolton. His will dated April 15, 
1730, and offered in Court in 1747. He had a son Matthew by his 
first marriage, and a son Samuel by his second wife. Both were 
minors at the death of their father. He appointed Edward Rose, of 
Bolton, guardian for Matthew, until ho became of age, and Abel Gay- 
lor, of Bolton, guardian for Sanmel. Inventory, £600. 

BUNCE, THOMAS, was not an original proprietor of Hartford, 
yet he came early to Hartford, from Mass. He had lot No. 13, but 
was one of those settlers who had lots only at, the courtesie of the 
town, with liberty to keep swine or cows on the common, and fetch 
wood, &:c. He resided in Hartford, south of Little River, S. W. of 
John Wilcock, in 1640. His corn was pilfered by the Welchman, 
Lewis, for which Lewis was fined 40s. in 1645. Thomas Bunce, 
Thomas Bull and James Steel, appointed a Committee to consider 
the grievance of widow Lord, as to her common fence, Oct., 1662. 
Juror, Dec. 6, 1649. Thomas Bunce and James Olmsted drew 264 
acres of land in the land division in E. Hartford, June 12, 1666. 
He was a soldier in the battle against the Pequot Indians in 
1637. He d. in 1683. His wife Sarah, d. in January, 1693-4. 
He had children, John, Thomas, Jun., and Elizabeth White. In- 
ventory of his estate, taken Aug. 3, 1683, amounting to £767, in 
Hartford, and £257 in Wethersfield, which was a large estate at 
that time. He gave his son John his house, barn and home-lot in 
Hartford, which he purchased of Thomas Gridley, and 40 acres near 
i Wethersfield line; also his right in a saw-mill built by Mr. Gardner, 
Stephen Hosmer and himself; also, 16 acres in the south meadow ; 
also, a lot near Mr. Webster's. To Elizabeth he gave £20. He 
I left a legacy to each of his grandchildren ; also, to his cousin, Eliz- 
[ abeth White, £5 ; to his sister, Katherine Clark, £10; he also pro- 
■ vided liberally for his wife, Sarah. To his son, Thomas, Jun., he 
,gave, after the death of his wife, all his housing and lands, not dis- 
i posed of before, and made his son Thomas, executor of his will. 

BUNCE, SARAH, widow of Thomas, Sen., made her will in 



404 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1689, in whicli she notices her grandchildren, Sarah, Thomas and 
Mehitabel Meekins, and the two oldest children of her son John 
Bunco, and gave the remainder of her property to her sons John 
and Thomas Bunce, executors of her will. 

BUNCE, THOMAS, son of Thomas of Hartford, (supposed Dea- 
con,) will dated April 25, 1709, an aged man, (Will.) He was a 
man of large estate in lands ; had many lots south of Little River, 
on Rocky Hill, in Wethersfield, east of Great River, his house and 
home-lot in Hartford, where he lived, a right in five-mile purchase, 
interest in mills, &c.j &c. He had children, 

1. Thomas, to whom he gave most of the above property. 

2. Joseph he also provided for, by giving him ttie home-lot and house in 
Hartford that had been his father's, and on which Joseph then dwelt, with all 
the housing, out-housing thereon, &c., and land east of Great River, &c. Jo- 
seph m. Ann Sanford, April, 170S; son Abijah, b. Feb. 11, 1709-10 ; Ann, d. 
Oct. 18,1710. 

3. Jonathan, he gave his housing, out-houses, home-lot, and all his upland 
in Wethersfield, (except a lot by Joseph Skinner's, he gave Thomas,) with all 
his right of commonage there, &c. 

4. Susannah, b. Oct. 22, 1710; he gave 20s. besides what he had given her 
before. 

5. Sarah, he gave £9, besides what he had before given her. 

6. Abigail, he gave £10, in country pay, and made his son Thomas sole ex- 
ecutor. Notices the legacies given his children by his father. 

BUNCE, THOMAS, son of Thomas, m. Elizabeth Easton, June 
2, 1709, sister of Jonathan Easton. Elizabeth, his widow, offered 
the inventory of his estate in Court, 1712, £1,185, 10s. 2d. Jona- 
than Bunce, brother of the deceased, and Elizabeth, if she desired 
to be, administrators. The court appointed Jonathan sole adminis- 
trator, Feb. 7, 1711-12. Richard Edwards, attorney for Elizabeth, 
petitioned to have Elizabeth appointed sole administratrix. 

ELIZABETH, widow of Thomas Bunce, had married Caleb Bull, 
of Hartford, and at a Court of Probate, at Hartford, April 4, 1727, 
said Bull, in right of his wife Elizabeth, as adaiinistratrix on Thomas 
Bunce's estate, rendered her administration account ; and the prop- 
erty ordered distributed — £122, 18^. 9d. out of the movable estate, 
and one-third of the real estate of her deceased husband, Thomas 
Bunce, for life to said Elizabeth, and the remainder to Susanna, the 
only child of said Thomas, deceased. Susanna, then about IG years 
old, made choice of James Easton for her guardian. Susan was b. 
Oct. 22, 1710. 

BUNCE, JOSEPH, 2d son of Thomas, m. Ann Sanford, April, 
1708, and had a son Abijah, b. Feb. 11, 1709-10 — perhaps others. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 405 

At a Probate Court held in Hartford, April 1, 1718, the Court ap- 
pointed said Joseph guardian, for his son Abijah, to take care of his 
estate descended from Abijah's grandfather, Lieut. Zachariah Sand- 
ford to him. Ann Bunce died Oct. 18, 1710 — (supposed wife of 
Joseph.) 

BUNCE, JONATHAN, son of Thomas Bunce, of Hartford, dee'd, 
administration granted to Sarah, his relict, and Robert Sandford, 
Dec. 11, 1717. Children, Zachariah, (then) about 15 years old ; 
chose his mother, Sarah Bunce, for his guardian, Jan. 25, 1717-18, 
and the mother Sarah was appointed guardian for Jonathan's other 
children, viz., Susannah, about 13 years old ; Sarah, about 11 ; 
Abigail, about 9, and Jonathan, Jun., about 8 years. Inventory, 
£426, 3*. dated Jan. 6, 1717-18. 

(Ensign Thomas Bunce's Inventory, dated April 25, 1712, was 
£1,683, 126-. Id.) 

BUNCE, ZACHARIAH, son of Jonathan, settled at Wethersfield, 
and m. Eliz'lh, daughter of Ensign Michael Grisvvold, and had chil- 
dren, viz., Eliz'th, b. May 29, 1726; Zechariah, b. Oct. 5, 1728; 
Ann, b. Aug. 8, 1731. 

BUNCE, ZECHARIAH, Jun., m. Sarah Bowin, June 13, 1753, 
and had children, Sarah, b. 1755 ; Wm., b. 1757 ; James, b. 1760 ; 
Richard, b. May 2, 1766 ; Simeon, b. Jan. 25, 1768. 

BUNCE, JONATHAN, youngest son of Jonathan and Sarah, 
settled at Wethersfield; m. Elizabeth, and had Jonathan, b. 1766; 
Elizabeth, b. 1768; Dinah, b. March 4, 1770; John, b. April 20, 
1774; Charles, b. Sept. 5, 1779 ; Wm., b. June 24, 17S2 ; Zecha- 
riah, b. July 20, 1784, and Abigail, b. 1788. 

Bunce, (Kent and London,) 1 coat of arms. One by the name of 
Bunce, graduated at Yale College, 1850. This has been a wealthy 
family. 

BUNDY, JOHN, of Stafford, d. there, and James Bundy, of Pres- 
ton, was appointed administrator on his estate in 1746. Not an 
early name in Connecticut. The name was also in Ashford. 

BUNNEL, BUNNIL, BUNEL, W'M, was early in the New 
I Haven Colony, and had a daughter Mary, b. there May 4, 1650 ; 
1 Ebenezer, b. August 28, 1653. He may have had children before 
1050, and after 1653. 

BUNNILL, BENJ'N, of New Haven, had a daughter Rebecca, 
b. 1667, d.; second Rebecca, b. Feb. 11, 1668 ; probably others. 

BUNNEL, HEZEKIAH, was of Farmington, and died May 25, 



406 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1764. Esther, his wife. Children, Daniel, Nathaniel, (d. in 1760, 
before his father,) Jesse, Esther and Titus. 

BUNNEL, NATH'L, son of Hezekiah, m. Thankful Spencer, 
Sept. 8, 1755. Issue, Susanna, b. Aug. 4, 1756 ; Nath'l, Jun., b. 
May 9, 1758, d. 1776; Thankful, b. 1760. 

BUNNEL, JESSE, son of Hezekiah, m. Mehitabel Royce, April 
19, 1757, and had issue, Abel, b. April 29, 1758 ; Rich'd, b. March 
9, 1760; Jesse, Jun., b. June 19, 1763; Bela, b. Aug. 27, 1767; 
Levi, b. Sept. 14, 1768. 

BUNNEL, TITUS, son of Hezekiah and Esther, had issue, Oli- 
ver, h, Dec. 29, 1768; Titus, Jun., b. June 19, 1769; Sibil, b. 
June 20, 1771 ; Asa, b. May 24, 1776; Rhoda, b. Aug. 8, 1778. 

BUNNEL, JOSEPH, (perhaps a brothei^of Hezekiah,) m. Han- 
nah, and had issue, Miriam, b. March 20, 1753 ; Amos, b. May 9, 
1761 ; Hannah Miriam, b. 1765 ; Hull, b. 1768. 

Bunnel has one coat of arms. 

Bunnel, Nathaniel, of N. Haven, m. Susannah Whitehead, Jan. 
3, 1665. 

Bunnill has one coat of arms. 

Two by the name of Bunnel, and two by the name of Bunnell, 
have graduated at Yale College. 

BUOR, Major PETER, from the Island of St. Christophers, pur- 
chased the Bentworth farm of the Ijeirs of Edw'd Palmes, in 1723, 
(Caulkins' N. L., p. 239,) for £24, which became the model farm. 
In 1737, he leased his farm for sixteen years, at an annual rent of 
£107, 16^., to Benj'n Ellard, including " ferry, boat, oars, rope and 
other utensils," &c. The lease was relinquished in 1739, and Buor 
sold the farm and ferry to Henry Paget, styled of Newport, but " late 
of Dublin." He was probably one of the first churchmen in Conn., 
and as early as June 6, 1725, subscribed the sum of £50, to pay to 
Rev. Mr. James McSparran, or to his substitute, towards building a 
church for the service of Allmighty God, according to the Liturgie 
of the Church of England. (See Miss Caulkins' Hist. N. L.) It is 
probable Mr. McSparran had preached at N. London several times 
in private English families, before they took any measures to raise 
funds to build an Episcopal church at N. London. As they raised 
£216, by the subscription in 1725, they probably soon after erected 
the first Episcopal Church in Connecticut. (See Caulk., pp. 440-3., 

Bruer has 1 coat of arms ; Bruers, 2 ; Bruin or Bruen, 3. 

BURBANK, JOHN, was the first of the name at Suffield, and an ■■ 
early settler there, and had allotted to him 50 acres of land located : 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 407 

in Feather Street, in Suffield, July 17, 1G74. He had three wives ; 
lst,Susannah, d. Oct. 10, 1690; '2d, Sarah, d. Aug. 19, 1691. He 
then m. for his 3d wife, JMehetabel, and had issue by the third wife, 
Susannah, b. Nov. 23, 1695, and perhaps children by his first and 
second wives. John, the father, d. June 1, 1709, and his widow Me* 
hitabel d. Feb. 24, 1727-S. 

John Burbank made free at Boston, May 13, 1640. 
BURBANK, JOHN, (perhaps son of John above, by his first wife,) 
m. Mary Granger, Dec. 21, 1699, and had John, b. Feb. 18, 1701 ; 
Abraham, b. Sept. 8, 1703 ; Joannah, b. Aug. 19, 1705; Mary, b. 
May 26, 1707 ; Timothy, b. Aug. 1, 1709 ; Caleb, b. Dec. 21, 1712 ; 
Lois, b. Jan. 15, 1714-15. His son Caleb d. Aug. 16, 1716. The 
father died March 25, 1729. 

BURBANK, Capt. ABRAHAM, son of John, of Suffield, m. Me- 
hetebel D wight, and had Mehetebel, b. July 28, 1729; Abia, b. 
Jan. 5, 1731-2 ; Ellenor, b. April 4, 1734 ; Shem, b. May 21, 1736; 
Ab'm, b. Feb. 24, 1738-9 ; Ruth, b. Aug. 26, 1741 ; Anne, b. Aug. 
20, 1744. The father d. Nov. 20, 1767 or 1772. Daughter Anne 
d. Dec. 27, 17G7. His estate in Connecticut and Massachusetts, 
appraised over j£3,970. 

BURBANK, TIMOTHY, son of John, m. Esther Hanchett, of 
Suffield, May 14, 1733, and had Sibbil, b. Feb. 18, 1734-5 ; Ash- 

bel, b. Nov. 11, 1737; Esther,, b. Oct. 31, 1739, d. 1741; Sibbil, 
d. June 30, 1741 ; Ashbel, d. July 1, 1741 ; second Sibbil, b. Oct. 

20, 1741 ; second Ashbel, b. Feb. 8, 1743-4, and d. Nov. 15, 1744 ; 

third xVshbel, b. Sept. 8, 1745. 

BURBANK, JOHN, son of John, m. Rachel Austin, Jan. 3. 

1732-3, and had Theode, b. Oct. 2, 1733 ; John, b. Jan. 6, 1734-5 ; 

Ebenezer, b. May 5, 1741 ; son John d. 1741; Rachel, b. Jan. 22, 

1737; Mary, b. April, 1739; Theode d. 1741; Rachel d. 1741; 

second .lohn, b. July 5, 1743 ; Daniel, b. March 27, 1744. 
BURBANK, EBENEZER, of Suffield, m. widow Rebecka Prit- 

chard, Oct. 9, 1698 or 9, and had Ebenezer, b. Aug. 15, 1700 ; 

Samuel, b. Sept. 15, 1702; Thankful, b. Sept. 3, 1704; Anna, b. 

Oct. 5, 1707 ; Lidia, b. Oct. 5, 1710, d.; Anna d. 1710 ; Caleb, b. 

May 30, 1712, d. 1712; Noah, b. Sept. 6, 1713; Dinah, b. June 

16, nig;"* Samuel d. Feb. 23, 1721 ; son Ebenezer d. at Hanover, 

Dec 26, 1722. 

Burbank, Marie, aged 17, was passenger for Virginia, Aug. 1, 

1635, in the Elizabeth de Lo[ndon.] 
BURBANK, SHEM, graduated at Yale College in 1758, and 



408 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Abraham in 1759. Two more graduated at Harvard College. There 
was a John Burbank, of Rowley, freeman there in 1640, probably 
the father of John, who settled at Suffield in 1674.* 

f BURDEN, JOHN, of Saybrook, in 1664. 

ABRAHAM, a first settler at Stafford, Ct. Stafford was settled 
in 1718 or 19, and Priest Graham, the first minister. 

One of this name graduated at Yale College, 1830. 

John Borden, 28 years ; Joan, his wife, aged 23 years ; Nath'l, 
5, and Elizabeth Borden, 37 years old, embarked in the Elizabeth 
and Ann, for N. E., Roger Cooper, master, about 1635. 

BURDICK, ROBERT, of Westerly, took the oath of fidelity in 
Rhode Island in 1679, as did Thomas Burdick. Ruth, a daughter 
of Samuel Hubbard, an Englishman, who resided at Newport, R. I. 
Some of Hubbard's family settled at Westerly. Naomi Burdick, 

* The following are the names of the voters of the town of Suffield, on the 29th day 
of March, 1681-2, by the Country law, (" to vote in all town afiixh-s,") all of whom 
probably were at the time inhabitants, and resided there, viz.. 

Major John Pynchon, Eev. John Younglove, Lieut. Anthony Austin, Ensign Geo.- 
Norton, John Mighill, Sen., Timothy Palmer, James Barker, Tho. Parsons, Judah 
Trumble, Joseph Trumble, Serg't Samuel Kent, Tho. Remington, Sen., John Bur- 
bank, Isack Cakebread, Edward Allen, Sen., Serg't John Pengilley, Wm. Brook, Vic- 
tory Sikes, Tho. Cooper, Luke Hitchcock, John Barber, Sen., Obadia Miller, James 
King, Tho. Hanchet, Sen., John Hanchett, Tho. Hucksley, Launcelot Granger, Sarg't 
Jos. Harman, Hugh Roe, Corporal Thomas Spencer, Corp. Zerubbabel Ffyler, Timo- 
thy Hale, James Rising, Tho. Copley, David Winchell, Edmond Marshall, Timothy 
Eastman, son of Roger, of Salisbmy, Mass., Abraham Dibble and Jonathan Winchell, 

The first general Town meeting in Suffield was held by order of the General Court, 
March 9, 1681-2. First selectmen were Lieut. Anthony Austin, Serg't Samuel Kent, 
Tho. Remington, Sen., John Barber, Sen., and Joseph Hannan ; first Town Clerk, Lt. 
Anthony Austin; Surveyors of Highways, Serg't John Pengilly and Tho. Copley. 
Samuel Marshfield, of Springfield, (by consent,) was chosen measurer, for the lands to 
be laid out, aided by Joseph Harman. Luke Hitchcock was elected for sealer of 
le.T,ther. Also voted to continue the Constable. In 1682-3, the Constables were Tim- 
othy Hale and Judah Trumble. Serg't Samuel Kent was one of the Selectmen in 
1682-3. Anthony Austin was chosen Recorder many years. 

Voted, to invite Mr. Trowbridge, to teach school in Suffield, five years, at £10 
per annum. 

It was voted the time of beginning meetings on the Sabbath, and that the Select- 
men should procure a ladder, at the expense of the town, and a red flag to hang out 
for a signal to notify persons of the time of meeting. 

Two of this name have graduated at Harvard College, two at Yale, and one at Brown 
University. 

t The following persons were the Committee to agree upon the terms upon which 
Lyme should be set off, and become a plantation, Feb. 13, 1665. 

Those for Saybrook, west of the river, were John Wastall, Wm. Pratt, Robert Lay, 
Wm. Parker and Zechariah Sandford. Those of the Committee for Lyme on the east 
side of the Conn. River, were, Mathew Griswold, Wm. Wallar, Renold Marvin, John 
Lay, Sen., Richard Smith and John Comstock. 



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daughter of Mr. Hubbard, m. Jonathan Rogers, March 2, 1678 ; 
she was baptized at Westerly, with James Babcocke and others. 
Ruth, the wife of R. Burdick, joined Mr, Clark's Church in 1652, 
aged about 13 years, (dee Ruth^s Letter to her father and mother, 
Coll. of the E. I. His. Sac., vol. 3, p. 117.) Though this name is 
now in the eastern part of Connecticut, and at Hartford, it is strictly 
a Rhode Island name. 

Byrdett, Mr. Geo., freeman, Mass., Sept., 1635. 

BURGES, BURGIS, RICHARD, came from Mass. to Fairfield, 
Conn., probably about 1650. He m. the widow of James Clark ; 
she was a daughter of John Peacock, of Stratford. After the death 
ofBurgis, she m. Benjamin Beach; from this connexion are the 
Burgisses of Fairfield County. 

BURGIS, BENJ'N, of Windham, and Sarah, his wife, had issue, 
Wm., b. March 7, 1734. 

Benjamin Burges and Susannah, of Windham, had a son Wm., 
b. March 7, 1739. Susannah, his wife, d. Feb. 9, 1769, and he m. 
Hannah Holt, March 16, 1769. 

BURGIS, WM., of Windham, m. Eunice Putnam, Dec. 23, 1756, 
and had issue, b. at Windham, viz., Rebeckali, Aug. 11, 1758; 
Eunis, Oct. 1, 1760 ; Freelove, July 14, 1763 ; Euphal, a daugh- 
ter, b. July 24, 1767. Wm., the father, d. at Windham. 

Burges has 11 coats of arms; Burghes, 1; Burgis, 1. 

Burge, Joseph, and Thankful, of Windham, from Cape Cod, had 
a son Seth, b. at Windham, May 31, 1744. 

James Burgis, aged 14, came to New England in the Hopewell^ 
in 1635. Ellen Burgis, aged 45, and Katherine Bowes, aged 20, 
embarked for Virginia in the Phillip, Richard Morgan, master, about 
1635. 

Dyer Burgess graduated at Brown University in 1820. Four of 
this name graduated at Yale College before 1847 ; also one Burges 
at Yale. 

BURLES, or BURLESON, Edward, had an allotment of forty 
acres of land in Suffield, 1678. He also had laid out to him, eight- 
een acres for a home-lot in Suffield, in 1687 ; also, in 1695, four 
acres. 

Burl son, Edward, 1664. 

BURLESON, EDWARD, Sen., m. Sarah, and had John, b. Oct. 
9, 1677; Fearnot, (a son.) b. Dec. 18, 1679; Mary, b. June 22, 
1683 ; Edward, b. March 1, 1686 ; Return, b. April 5, 1682, and 
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4l0 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

died at sea October 4, 1709. Sarah, the mother, d. May 9, 1707. 
The father d. June, 1698. 

BURLESON, JOHN, son of Edward, m. Sarah Holladay, Nov. 
16, 1698, and had Sarah, b. Nov. 20, 1699 ; John, b. Dec. 28, 1701 ; 
Jonathan, b. June 11, 1704; Mercy, b. Jan. 12, 1706; Joseph, b. 
Nov. 26, 1708 ; Abigail, b. Nov. 11, 1710 ; Mary, b. Feb. 6, 1712- 
13 ; Eliz'th, b. March 28, 1715 ; Rachel, b. Nov. 29, 1716. 

BURLESAN, FEARNOT, son of Edward, of Suffield, m. Eliza- 
beth Bucklin, Feb. 8, 1704-5, and had Job, b. Aug. 7, 1714; Dan- 
iel, b. March 7, 1717-18 ; Mary, b. March 3, 1720-1. The father 
d. Nov. 13, 1732. Widow Eliz'th d. Dec. 7, 1733. 

Son Job m. Thankful Gaines, May 3, 1744, and had Joel, b. Feb. 
1, 1745. 

BURLESON, JOHN, son of John, of Suffield, m. Hepzibah, and 
had Abigail, b. April 17, 1732; Hannah, b. March 15, 1734-5; 
Edward, b. Nov. 11, 1737. 

BURLESON, EBENEZER, of Hartford, m. Sarah, and had 
Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1739; Fearnot and Ruth, twins, b. Oct. 19, 1742; 
Hope, b. Oct., 1745 ; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 20, 1748. 

BURLESON, DANIEL, of Hartford, m. Mary Burleson, Sept., 
1744, and had Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1745, d. 1748 ; second Mary, b. 
April 6, 1749. 

The name of Burley was early at Ashford. 

Jo. Buries, aged 27, embarked in the Defence, de London, 1635, 
for New England. John Buries, aged 26, embarked in the Bless- 
ing, for N. England, John Lester, master. 

BURLISON, JOB, and Thankful Gaines, were m. May 3, 1744, 
and had Joel, b. Feb. 1, 1745, at Hartford. 

BERLEY, (Ireland,) one coat of arms, and two others. BUR- 
LEIGH has one. BURLEY, 12. BURLY, one coat of arms. 

BURLEIGH was not an early name in Connecticut, though the 
name has been many years in the town of Plainfield, and perhaps 
other towns in the eastern part of Conn. Jo. Buries embarked in the 
Defence, for N. England, in 1635. Grace Berlie, 30, passenger in 
the Susan and Ellyn, to N. England, 1635. One by the name of 
fiurley, graduated at Harvard Coll. One by the name of Burleigh, 
graduated at Yale Coll. in 1803. 

BURLANT, THOMAS, 1647; perhaps of Springfield. 

BURNAP, MARY, the mother of Mr. Jacob Burnap,d. at Wind- 
ham, Dec, 1741, aged 80 years. Her son, JACOB BURNAP, of 
Windham, m. Abigail Clark, of Windham, Feb. 3, 1735-6, and had 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 411 

issue, Mary, b. April 13, 1737; Abigail Betty, d. 1741; Eliz'th, 
b. 1742; Lydia, b. 1745. Abigail, widow of Jacob Burnap, d. Oct. 
3, 1796. Mr. Jacob, her husband, d. at Windham, Aug. 31, 1771, 
aged 68 years. 

BURNAP, ABRAHAM, of Windham, m. Hannah Adams, April 
12, 1722 ; this name is first found in Conn., at Windham. Robert 
was of Roxbury, Mass., in 1642. These were perhaps his descend- 
ants. 

BURNAP, JONATHAN, from Hopkinton, Mass., united with the 
church at Hampton, Conn., Feb. 14, 1748; he lived and died in the 
Goshen District. His descendants have been some of the best citi- 
zens of Hampton. While he lived, the name was spelled Burnap, 
but is now as universally spelt Burnett. He m. Elizabeth Averill, 
April 21, 1747, and had issue, b. at Hampton, viz., Ruth, b. Feb. 
3, 1748 ; Jonathan, b. June 8, 1749; Wm., b. April 27, 1751, d. 
1769; Benjamin, b. Feb. 21, 1753; James, b. April 5, 1756; 
Martha, b. March 6, 1758 ; Calvin, b. May 18, 1760; Catherine, b. 
March 31, 1762; Luther, b. Feb. 14, 1764; John,b. June 7, 1766, 
d. 1768; Esther, b. Aug. 13, 1767; Wm., b. Sept. 17, 1769. 

BURNETT, LUTHER, b. 1764, son of Jonathan Burnap; he 
m. Cynthia Durkee, daughter of Andrew, of Hampton, April 2, 
1794 ; he settled at Worcester, Mass., where he d. 'Issue, Luther, 
Jan., Harvey, Warren, Dolly, Calvin, Sally and Mary. 

BURNET, JAMES, Esq., son of Jonathan Burnap, b. 1755, in 
Goshen District, m. Chloe Martin, daughter of David, (S. Bigelow,) 
Feb. 28, 1783. Issue, Clarissa, (m. Griffin;) James, Jun.; Chloe, 
m. Martin Flint ; Eliz'th, m. Spencer; Phebe, m. Buckley; Ase- 
neth, m. Abbott ; John, b. July 1, 1793, d. in N. York, Oct. 1, 1834 ; 
Lora, David, Jonathan, Harriet, and Elsworth ; the last was killed 
by Indians in 1835. James, the father, d. Jan. 27, 1840, nearly 84 
years old. Chloe, his widow, d. Feb. 8, 1847, about 82 years old. 
JOHN, son of Jonathan Burnap, m. Saraii Avery, March 30, 1786 ; 
daughter Anne, b. Sept. 19, 1789. BENJAMIN, b. 1753, son of 
Jonathan Burnap, m. Eliz'th Coburn, Feb. 16, 1775. Issue, Chloe, 
b. Nov. 3, 1775; Benj'n, Jun., b. March 28, 1777; Bishop, b. 
Dec. 22, 1779. Jonathan's children were all baptized at Hampton, 
the first Feb. 14, 1748, and the last, Sept. 24, 1769— twelve in all, 
four daughters and eight sons. James, Sen., was a justice of the 
peace, and held other places of trust, and did a large share of public 
business. 

Burnet, (Northumberland,) has one coat of arms; Burnet, one. 



412 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

same arms. Burnet, (Aberdeen, Scotland,) two. Burnet, (Craig- 
myle, Scotland,) one. Burnet, (Dalleladies, Scotland,) one. Burnet, 
(Innerleith ; a cadet of Leys,) one. Burnet, (Waristoun ; a scion 
of Leys,) one. One other for Burnet, and four for Burnett. 

Three by the name of Burnap graduated at Harvard Coll. ; one 
Burnett, at Brown Univ.; also one Burnet and one Burnett at Har- 
vard College ; three Burnets at Yale College. 

BURNE, JOHN, held land in Hartford in 1652. 

*BURNHAM, THOMAS, Sen., and his wife Ann, had children, 
viz., 

* Burnham, Thomas, came to Hartford about 1647 or 8, perhaps from Ipswich, Ms., 
(others of the name went from Ipswich to Windham.) He was a large land specula- 
tor and holder in the colony. He was bondsman for his man Rushmore, in court, in 
the sum of ^£10, that Rushmore should appear at the next P. Court, &c. Particular 
Court held in Hartford, Sept. 6. 1649. (This was Burnham's first appearance on Co- 
lonial or Court Rec.) In Dec, 1649, he was a plaintiff in court; made a freeman at 
the General Court in May, 1657. In 1659 he was required by the Gen. Court to ap- 
pear at ye court in Octob' to answer for his former carriage, complained of to the 
court, &c. At the General Court of Connecticut, April, 1660, it appears that T. Bum- 
ham had made a contract with Tantonomo for lands at Podunk, upon which a com- 
mittee had been appointed, and made a return to the court; upon which the court 
concluded as to the contract of Burnam with Tantonomo, Sachem of the Podunk In- 
dians; that a part of the lands laid out to Burnham and his co-partners, belonged to 
Foxen's successor^ by a gift from Foxen to his allies. Therefore the court ordered 
that the Podunk Indians should enjoy and possess their lands according to a former 
order; and that those Englishmen who contracted with Tantonomo, should enjoy and 
possess only the property of Tantonomo that the Indians should consent to or that 
Tantonomo could prove to be his property. And the court appointed Mr. John Allyn 
and Jonathan Gilbert, "to bound out ye said Tanto: part to Tho's Burnam and his 
partn''%" &c. Thomas Burnham was re-admitted to his freedom by the Gen. Court 
at Hartford, May 11, 1665. A long controversy followed as to these lands, between 
Wm. Pitkin and B. Barnard against Bumam, for a division of these lands, by their 
purchase of Jacob Migat, who purchased the land in company with Migat of the Sa- 
chem, and Migat sold his share to Pitkin and Barnard, in May, 1666. (See Col. Rec, 
tmd Court Files.) 

The court in May, 1668, made a final close of the controversj' between Pitkin and 
Barnard vs. Burnam. Tho's Burnam was in the list of freemen of Windsor, Oct. 11, 
1669. At a meeting of the General Court at Hartford, Feb. 21, 1675, the enemy draw- 
ing down into these parts to do mischief, the Council ordered that what corn and pro- 
visions there were on the east side of the river, on the farms there, not in garrisons, 
should be immediately transported to the plantations and secured from the enemy, 
and the constables in the several plantations ordered to assist the people, by impress- 
ing men, boats and te.ams, to transport them. The people were also ordered to draw 
themselves into garrisons for safety ; to bring their cattle and hay to be under the 
command of their garrisons, that they might be preserved — except they should bring 
them over to the towns — not to go forth upon their business without arms and in com- 
panies, so as to defend themselves. Also ordered that garrisons should be kept at 
Nath'l Bissell's, Thomas Burnam'' s, (at Podunk,) Jlr. John Crow's, and at Nabuck, 
(in Glastenbury,) and at Mr. AVillys's farm, and that each garrison should be manned 



GENBALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 41S 

1. Thomas. 

2. John. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Mary; m. Morton. 

5. Anna; m. for second husband, Samuel Gaines. 

6. Another daughter m. Nicholas Moorecock, and Thomas, Sen., speaks^of 
her son as his grandson. 

7. William; went to Wethersficld. 

8. Richard ; was a blacksmith, and mended guns for the Indians. 

9. Rebecca ; m. Wm. Mann, who lived and d. at Wethersfield. 

BURNHAM, THOMAS, Sen. and Jun., and his son John, all re- 
sided at Podunk. There was a Thomas Burnham, Jun., a freeman 
at Ipswich, Mass., in 167-. 

BURNHAM, THOMAS, Jun., son of Thomas, of Podunk, m. 
Marcy Hull, of Killingworth, Jan. 4, 1676, and had issue, 

1. Thomas, born April 16, 1678. 

2. John, born May 22, 1631. {IVindsor Records.) 

3. Josiah. 

4. Charles ; had the shop tools. 
8. Elizabeth Oilman. 

6. Sarah Molford, (Mulford.) 

7. Naomy Gaylor. 

8. Mary. 

9. Abigail Williams. 

His will dated March 15, 1726. Naomy, his relict. His son 
Charles, executor. Thomas, Jun., d. May 12, 1726. Inventory 
dated March 31, 1726. 

BURNHAM, JOHN, son of Thomas, Sen., of Podunk, appears 
to have died in Hartford in 1721. Mary, his relict. His son John 
executor. Will dated April 12, 1721. ^Estate, £487, 18*. Id. 
Children named, 

1. John. 

2. Jonathan. 

3. Jabez. 

4. Caleb. 

5. Mary Webster. 

G. Rachel. ■ 

7. Amy. 
9. Sarah. 
9. Elizabeth. 

by at least six men, and the garrisons be well fortified, and no other places to be in- 
habited upon the cast side of the river — (Connecticut River) — and the constables or- 
dered to give notice forthwith to the people in their limits, and require their attend- 
ance to the orders, &c. The Council further ordered, that for the next expedition, 
there should go from Hartford, 2.3 men; Windsor, 22; Wethersfield, 16; FarmingtoD, 
10 ; Midleton, 8 ; Haddam, 1 ; each to have a horse and a bushel of oats, &c. 
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414 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

*BURNHAM, SAMUEL, Sen., son of Thomas, Sen., resided in 
Hartford. Wife Mary. Children named, 

* In May, 1766, during the session of the General Assembly of Connecticut, the 
news of the repeal of the Stamp Act reached Hartford. The joy expressed by the 
people was overwhelminfj. The General Assembly appointed the Friday after as a 
day of jubilee and rejoicing. Friday came, the bells rang, the colors of the vessels in 
the river were displayed; 21 cannon procured and discharged at 12 o'clock. All 
was hilarity, and in preparation for a great illumination. The Legislature had granted 
a quantity of powder for the festivities of the occasion, which was deposited in a large 
brick school-house in Hartford. Many of the young men of the place had assembled 
in the school-house, to prepare the fireworks for the evening. Two companies of the 
militia were in attendance ; each soldier received a pound of powder, which was de- 
livered at the school-house ; by the delivery of which the powder was scattered, and 
a trail formed from the powder casks out of the doors. The boys, alive on the occa- 
sion, seeing the powder iipon the ground, without design of injury, set fire to the 
wasted powder, which at once reached the powder in the building, and instantly de- 
stroyed the house, and with it the following young men of Hartford, as published in 
the Hartford Courant of that day. The blowing up of the school-house is often men- 
tioned by the old men of Hartford. The grave-stones of some of these unfortunate 
young men, notice the cause of their decease, viz. 

" Mr. Levi Jones, John Knowles, (an apprentice to Mr. Thomas Sloan, blacksmith,) 
and Richard Lord, (second son to Mr. John H. Lord,) died of their wounds, soon after 
they were taken from under the riiins of the building. Mr. William Gardiner, mer- 
chant, had both his thighs broken. 

Mr. Samuel Talcott, Jun., very much burnt in his face and arms. 

Mr. James Tiley, goldsmith, had one of his shoulders dislocated, and some bruises 
in the other parts of his body. 

Mr. John Cook, Jun., had his back and neck hurt much. 

Ephraim Perry, slightly wounded. 

Thomas Forbes, wounded in his head. 

Daniel Butler, (the tavern-keeper's son,) had one of his ancles put out of joint. 

Richard Burnam, son to Mr. Elisha Burnham, had his thigh, leg and ancle broke. 

Eli Wadsworth, (Capt. Samuel's son,) 'is much wounded and burnt, in his face, 
hands, and other parts of his body. 

John Bunce, Jun., (an apprentice to Mr. Church, Hatter,) wounded in the head. 

Normand Morrison, (a lad that lives with Capt. Tiley,) a good deal burnt and 
bruised. 

Roderick Lawrence, (Capt. Lawrence's son,) slightly wounded. 

William Skinner, (Capt. Daniel's son,) had both his thighs broke. 

Timothy Phelps, (son to Mr. Timothy Phelps, shop-joiner,) had the calf tore off 
from one of his legs. 

Valentine Vaughn, (son of Mr. Vaughn, baker,) had his skull terribly broken. 

Horace Seymour, (son of Mr. Jonathan Seymour, Jun.,) two sons of Mr. John Good- 
win, a son of Mr. John Watson, and a son of Mr. Kellogg, hatter, were shghtly 
wounded. 

Two mulatto and two negro boys were also wounded. 

We learn from the subsequent numbers, that Doct. Nathaniel Ledyard, Mr. Wm. 
Gardiner, and Richard Burnham, aged 19, died of their wounds, making six in the 
whole. Doct. N. Ledyard was the son of John Ledyard, Esq., who that spring repre. 
gented the town of Hartford in the General Assembly." 



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415 



1. Samuel. 

2. Joseph. 

3. William. 

4. Daniel. 

5. Timothy. 

6. Hannah Drake. 

7. Anna Trumble. 

Mary Church and Rebecca Burnham ; sons Samuel and Joseph, 
executors. Will dated Nov. 20, 1727. Inventory about £600. 

BURNHAM, WILLIAM, son of Thomas, Sen., of Podunk, set- 
tled in Wethersficld. Married Eliz'th , and had children, 

1. Wm. Jun., graduated at Harvard College, 1702, d. Sept. 23, 1750, a'd 65. 

2. Nathaniel, graduated at Yale College, 1709, m. Mehetabel, daughter of 
Major John Chester, May 5, 1714. 

3. Jonathan, b. March 21, 1G92, m. Mary, daughter of Major John Chester, 
Jan. 1, 1718. 

4. Mary, b. Sept. 2, 1G94, d. April 17, 1715. 

5. Abigail, b Dec. IG, 169G. 

6. David, b. Oct. 12, 169S. 

Elizabeth, the mother, d. Nov. 19, 1717, and Wm., Sen., m. for 
second wife, widow Martha Gaylor, of Windror. 

This was one of the most respectable families of Wethersfield. 

BURNIIAM, RICHARD, son of Thomas, Sen., of Podunk, was 
a blacksmith by trade, and made himself trouble by mending guns 
for the Indians. He m. Sarah Humphryes, June 11, 1680, and had 
issue, 

1. Sarah, b. July 11, 1683. 

2. Rebecca, b. Sept. 20, 1685. - 

3. Mercy, b. April 14, 1688. 

4. Mary. 

5. Richard, b. July 6, 1692. 

0. Martha Esther, b. March 22, 1697. 

7. Charles, b. July 23, 1G99. 

S. Susannah, b. Feb. 

9 Michael, b. May 30, 1705. 

Richard Burnham, of East Hartford, d. Feb., 1754, aged 61. His 
wife Hannah d. March 2S, 1784, aged 89 years. 

BURNHAM, Rev. WM., son of William, of Wethersficld, grad- 
uated at Harvard College in 1702, and settled in the ministry at 
Kensington, Dec. 10, 1712, and d. in 1750. He appears to have had 
two wives. His first wife died some time before he did. His son, 
Capt. VVilliam, was m. and resided near his father. He also had 
sons Josiah and Appleton. He gave his house and homestead to his 
youngest son. His large tracts of land, divided or undivided, in 



416 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Farmington, he gave equally to his three sons, as well as lands in 
other towns. He left four daughters, viz., Hannah, wife of Jeremiah 
Curtiss, of Southington ; Lucy, the wife of Jacob Root, of Hebron; 
Abigail, the wife of Lieut. Robert Welles, of Newington ; and Mary, 
the wife of John Judd, of Farmington. To his daughters he gave 
his servants, furniture, money, plate, books, cattle, swine, horses, 
indeed all his personal property, except his tools for husbandry. 
His Spanish Indian woman, (Maria,) he gave liberty to live with 
any of his children, and made them responsible for her support. His 
mulatto boy, James, he desired Abigail to take at appraisal ; in case 
she refused, he then required William to take him upon the same 
terms, and if he refused, then to have him disposed of in one of the 
families of his deceased wife's children, or her sister's children. 
Rev. William was a gentleman of great Mealth. His son, William, 
was his executor. 

BURNHAM, Capt. WILLIAM, son of Rev. William, great- 
grandson of Thomas, Sen., resided at Kensington, (then Farming- 
ton.) He died in 1749. Wife, Ruth. Elisha was his only son, to 
whom he gave half of his estate ; the other half he gave to his two 
daughters, Sarah and Ruth. He left an estate of £8,246, 105. lid. 
Distribution on file, 1756, and perhaps he left a daughter Mehitable. 
Sarah m. Elisha Pratt, 1726. 

BURNHAM, JONATHAN, son of Wm., Sen., of Wethersfield, 
b. 1692, m. Mary, daughter of Major John Chester, Jan. 1, 1718, 
and had issue, 

1. Jonathan, Jun., b. Nov. 7, 171S, d. 1740. 

2. Elizer, b. March 21, 1722, d. in infancy. 

3. Abigail, b. Aug. 17, 1727. 

4. Prudence, b. Dec. 1, 1729, d. 1730. 

5. Second Elizer, b. June 24, 1733. 

6. Mary, b. Aug. 9, 1735, d. same month. 

The father d. Jan. 24, 1752 ; the mother d. April 19, 1766. 
BURNHAM, JOHN, son of John, had issue, 

1. Silas, b. Nov. 27, 1721. 

2. Mary, b. Dec. 30, 1722. 

3. Stephen, b. Nov. 25, 1724. 

4. Sarah, b. July 19, 1727. 

5. Daniel, b. Nov. 4, 1730. 

6. Mabel, b May 7, 1734. 

BURNHAM, THOMAS, 3d, m. a daughter of John Strong, of 
Windsor, who was executor of his will, dated Feb. 11, 1725-6. In- 
ventory dated May 20, 1726. He left three children, viz., 1 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUEITANS. 417 

1. Thomas. 

2. Eliznbeth. 

3. Esther. 

THOMAS, Sen., made free at Hartford, 1G57. 

JOHN, of Ipswich, Mass., in 1648. 

THOMAS, of Ipswich, before 1648. 

Thomas, Sen., readmitted to his freedom in May, 1665. Bernam, 
Robert, tax payer at Dover, N. H. in 1657. 

Four of the name of Burnham, have graduated at Harvard Coll. 
One Burnam at Yale College, and Burnham at Brown Univ. 

BURNHAM, BURNAM, BURNUM, EBENEZER, and his 
wife Dorathy, with Mary Howard, all from Ipswich, Mass., joined 
the church at Hampton, Conn., in full communion, Oct. 20, 1734, 
where the name was generally spelled " Burnam," as it often is on 
other Connecticut records. 

BURNHAM, ISAAC, and Eunice, his wife, joined the church at 
Hampton, Nov. 16, 1766. 

BURNAM, JOSEPH, m. Lucy Bennet, of Hampton, Dec. 11, 
1746. 

Perhaps Ebenczer, Joshua and Isaac Burnham, were the sons of 
Ebenezer and Dorothy, who had no children born in Hampton. The 
Burnhams, from Ipswich to Hampton, are not descendants of Tho's, 
of Hartford and Podunk ; though there was a Thomas Burnam at 
Ipswich as early as 1647, and he may have been identical with the 
Thomas, of Hartford. This is all the evidence found of those at 
Windham and Hartford being relatives. 

BURNHAM, EBENEZER, of Hampton, m. Martha Hebard, 
Jan. 1, 1746, and had issue, born at Hampton, viz., Hannah, b. Nov. 
27,1746; Ebenezer, Jun., b. Feb. 17, 1748; John, b. Dec 20, 
1749; Josiah and Daniel, b. March 21, 1753 ; Mary, b. Sept. 14, 
1755 ; Eliza, b. Aug. 2, 17.57 ; James, b. Aug. 21, 1759 ; Jedediah, 
b. Dec. 12, 1761 ; Eliphaz, b. March 17, 1764. 

BURNHAM, ISAAC, of Hampton, m. Eunice Holt, March 22, 
1747, and had issue, Jacob, b. April 19, 1748, d. 1749; Sarah, b. 
1750 ; Joseph, b. April, 1752 ; Eunice, b. 1754 ; Cliranna, b. 1760 ; 
Roswell, b. Nov. 15, 1761 ; Isaac, Jun., b. March 8, 1765 ; Try- 
phoena, b. August 21, 1767. 

BURNHAM, JOSHUA, of Hampton, m. Abigail Mainard, April 
19, 1740, and had issue, Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1742 ; Joshua, b. March 
8, 1746; Abigail, b. Jan. 18, 1748; Dorothy, b. Nov. 9, 1749, and 
Lucy, b. Sept. 10, 1751. 



418 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Four of this nnme have graduated at Harvard College, two at 
Yale, and one at Brown. 

BURNHAM, ISAAC, and John Welder, of Hartland, members 
of a convention, in 1788 to ratify the constitution of the U. States. 

This name is yet frequently found in Windliam County and other 
parts of Connecticut. 

Burnam has three coats of arms; Burnham, (Suff.,) one; and 
three others. Also, Burnham-Abbey, (Buckinghamshire,) one. 

BURNET, (See BURNAP.) 

* BURRALL, WM., was an Englishman by birth and education. 

• "BcRRALL, William, of Simsbury. — Mr. Belcher, who was a large proprietor in the copper 
mine at Simsbury, Conn., about 1715, went to England for the purpose of procuring a refiner, 
and twelve miners, to dig and raise the copper ore, and have it refined. On his return from 
England, he brought with him his twelve miners and Mr. Wm. Burrall as a refiner. The fur- 
nace was erected at Boston, by direction of the company. Mr. Burrall soon after learned that 
his wife had deceased at Redworth, and he m Miss Westover, of Simsbury, who resided with 
her brother, Capt Jonathan Westover, an unmarried man of middlle age. She was then the 
widow of Tho's Welton, deceased, of Waterbury. Welton died soon after his marriage, and 
left no children by Miss Westover, though he had several by his previous wife. She was the 
daughter of Jonah Westover, who at the age of eleven years, was brought from Taunton Dean, 
in Someri-etshire, in England, at the time the army of Charles I. gained ground of the Parliament's 
army under Gen. Fairfax. At this time the Westover family were on the parliament side, 
and would all have come to New England when Jonah was sent over, but could not procure a 
passage ; and before a passage could be procured, the fortune of war turned in favor of the par- 
liament army, and the family finally remained in England. After Jonah became of age, he m. 
a daughter of Geo. Griswold, who also came from England to avoid the same disasters in their 
native country, and settled at Windsor. Jonah's children were Jonah, Nathaniel and Jonathan. 
Nathaniel d. about 21 years of age, and left no issue; Jonah m. Abigail Case, and had sons 
Nath'l, Jonah, John, and daughter Abigail, all born in Simsbury, where their father and grand- 
father died. Mr. Burrall, after his marriage with Mrs. Welton, (alias Westover,) removed to 
Boston, where he kept Iiouse, and where his three children were born, (says tradition.) His 
daughter Susan probably was born in Boston, as her birth is not recorded at Simsbury. His son 
Charle."! is recorded as born at Simsbury, Feb.21, 1720, and Jonathan b. March 21, 1722. After 
the mine at Simsbury became unprofitable to the company, it was abandoned; and his son 
Charles in his manuscript says, " Father had a call from an English gentleman to go to Jamaica, 
In the West Indies, to make trial of a mine there ; he therefore engaged to go, and accordingly 
went and eng.nged for three years, at X300 per year, leaving my mother in Boston, with her 
children," — a part of which is incorrect. He also states that his father died in Jamaica. He is 
recorded as having died at Simsbury, and Capt. Jonathan Westover, (their uncle,) was appoint- 
ed guardian by the Probate Court in Hartford, in 1728, for Charles, seven years old. and Jona'n, 
five years old. The widow being left with small means to support her family, placed Charles 
with his uncle Jonathan Westover, until he was old enough to go to a trade. His uncle took a 
particular fancy to Charles, and as his uncle was about 50 years old, and a bachelor, with a 
good estate, Charles expected to become heir to his estate. But his uncle m. a young girl, and 
had children of his own. The mother had removed to Stamford, where she was visited with 
sickness and lameness, but being a lady of education, kept a school there of high repute. She 
took her ton Charles to Stamford, and the following spring placed him under the care of John 
White, of Stamford, who was a saddler and tanner. Soon after his mother placed Charles with 
Mr. Saxton, who resided at Huntington, L. I., to learn the clothier's trade, where he remained 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 419 

He was a refiner of Metals and a chemist. He came to New Enjj- 
land about 1715, and left his wife in England, who died soon after 
his departure, and he m. for his second wife, Miss Westover, of 
Simsbury, Conn., a sister of Capt. Jonathan Westover, of said Sims- 

about two years. When he supposed be was master of his trade, be went to Norwalk, Conn., 
and round bis moiber in his absence had m. Samuel Prindle, who resided in the parish ofCa* 
naan; (this was about 1737.) Charles left Norwalk in 1737, »nd returned to Simsbur>-, and 
lived with John Forbes. He afterward went to Slietiicid, Ms., and lived there with John Westo- 
ver, where he was taken sick with a fever. After his recovery, (it then being winter.) the snow 
being deep, and no other road to reach Simsbury, e.xcept through Canaan anJ Litchfield, and 
this only a track in the snow, when on his way from Sheffield, in the town of Canaan (Litch- 
field Co ,) he met his father-in-law Prindle, who had for him two woollen shirts, a pair of stock- 
ings, and cloth for a great coat, and some money, sent by his mother, supplied from her earnings 
in school teaching and her own industry. He then returned to Westover's, in Sheffield, and 
bad bis cloth made into a great coat. The spring after he went to his uncle Jonathan Westo- 
ver's, in Simsbury. Soon after this a cancer appeared on his lip, and Daniel Adams, a friend of 
bii, carried him to Hartford, West Division, fo the care of Doct. Daniel Hooker, who cut out the 
cancer, and burnt the flesh with a hot iron to destroy the roots. (Doctot's bill £3, and board at 
okl Capt. Steel's.) He returned to Simsbury, and from thence again went to Sheffield, where he 
labored with Nath'l Smith on wages, and during the summer was taken with fever and ague, but 
got in his wheat in Canaan, being three acres allowed him by his father Prindle as his share. 
His father Prindle moved his family to Canaan about this time, and settled near the mountain. 
Cta's worked fur Richard Seymour, who went to Canaan from Hartford to build iron works, near 
where the old Forbes iron works have since stood. He was a blacksmith by trade, and had a 
shop and tools in Canaan. Mr. Seymour and his wife went to Hartford in the winter.and left 
Charles Burrall and Samuel Stevens in full possession of his house, with pork and bread and 
plenty of water to live on, being their own house- keepers. His father Prindle had several tracts 
of land there, and finally a large farm. Charles purchased a farm in Salisbury, but finally settled 
Id Canaan, near his father Prindle. Hem Joanna Segcr, a sister of his uncle J. Westover's wife, 
who was a lady of great beauty. She died in child bed, about one year after her marriage at 
Canaan, on the 25th of Dec. He sent his daughter to the care of her aunt at Simsbury. About 
the next year he ni. Abigail Kellogg, 18 years old, on the 25th of Dec, one year after the death 
of his first wife. Abigail's first child, Abigail, was born the 5th day of the next Dec. She had 
four sons and five daughters ; her daughter .Mary d. aged four years. His second wife d. Jan. 
98, 1789. Col. Clia's Burrall was one of the first settlers of Canaan, (now) in Litchfield Co. 
Soon after his second marriage, he was chosen Constable, and Clerk of the first train-band in 
Canaan. He was Selectman many years, and went rapidly from an Ensign to Captain, Major 
and Colonel, Justice of Peace, and often a Representative to the General Assembly. He was 
one of the delegates in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the United States. At the commence- 
ment of the War of the Revolution, Col. Burrall had the command of a regiment of militia. In 
1776, Congress sent him a commission to raise a battalion of 800 men, consisting of eight com- 
panies, and march them to Canada, to relieve the troops there and reduce that Province. Col. 
Burrall raised the regiment for one year, and marched them to Canada, but proved unsuccessful 
and left Canada on the retreat to Mount Independence, which they fortified. Col. Burrall wai 
afflicted with the camp distemper and bilious fever, which reduced him to a very enfeebled 
state of health, and in Sept. his son Win. went to Mount Independence, and carried his father 
over Lake Ceorge in a boat, and from thence in a covered wagon, on a bed, to Canaan, Ct. His 
afflictions, contracted in the service of his country, followed him to his death, in 1803. 

Charles Burrall was appointed in May, 1774, Col. of the 14lh regiment, to fill the vacancy oc- 
casioned by the decease of Col. John Williams. A call from Gen. Washington on Connecticut, 
March 6, 1777, for one more exertion of the public spirit of Conn, to supply 2,000 troops of the 



430 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

bury, for her second husband. She was then the widow of Thomas 
Walton, deceased, of Waterbury, and had no children by her first 
marriage. Mr. Burrall had children by this marriage, viz., 

1. Susan, b. supposed in Boston, aslier birth is not recorded in Simsbury. 

2. Charles, b. at Simsbury Feb. 21, 1720, and so recorded there. 

3. Jonathan, b. at Simsbury, Conn., March 21, 1722. 

BURRALL, Col. CHARLES, b. March 4, 1720, son of William, 
the Englishman, m. first, Joanna Segar, b. 1722, she d,' 1745, and 
had a child b. in Canaan, Conn., viz., 

1. Joanna, b. Dec. 20, 1745. 

Abigail Kellogg, second wife, b. 1728, d. 1789. 

2. Abigail, b. Sept., 1747, d. 1838. 

3. William, b. July 18, 1749. 

4. Charles, b. Feb. 18, 1751. 

5. Susannah, b. Feb. 18, 1753, d. 1802 ; no issue. 

6. Mary, b. June 28, 1755, d. June 22, 17.59. 

7. Chloe, b. Oct. 27, 1757, d. March 1, 1810. 

8. Jonathan, b. Aug. 12, 1759. 

9. Ovid, b. July 23, 1761. 

10. Second Mary, b. Oct. 3, 17G5. 

Col. Charles d. Oct. 7, 180.3. 

JOANNA, daughter of Col. Charles, by his first marriage, m; 
Wm. Douglass, of Canaan, Ct., and had one child, a daughter, who 
m. Hon. Israel Smith, former Governor of Vermont, and U. S. Sena- 
tor from Vermont. Gov. Smith resided in Rutland ; he left a son 
Douglass Smith, who was for a time Secretary of State in Vermont, 
After the death of Hon. Israel Smith, his widow m. Judge Harring- 
ton, of Vermont. 

ABIGAIL, daughter of Col. Charles Burrall, m. first, Doct. Ed- 
ward Sutton, and had three children ; he died at Saratoga, N. Y. 
She m. second, Nehemiah Lawrence, and had two children, viz., 
Villee, and Charlotte, the wife of Alpha Sage, Esq., of Hartford. 

WILLIAM, son of Col. Charles, of Canaan, m., Elizabeth Mor- 
gan, a sister of the late John Morgan, Esq., of Hartford, and had two ; 

militia, to march to Peekskill forthwith for a short service, was complied with by the state, and 
144 men were detached from (the 14th) Col. BurralPs regiment, and the remainder of the 2,000 ' 
men, from nine other regiments. Col. Burrall was ordered by the Governor and Council, October 
1777, to direct such a guard as he should deem necessary for the security of the furnace and 
arms at Salisbury. , 

The poverty of Col. Burrall in his boyhood, was occasioned by the decease of his father, but like li 
Gen. Jackson, he never had his spirits dampened, but misfortune only sharpened his ambition to i 
press forward. He died at Canaan in his old age, in 1803, a gentleman of wealth and high stand- , 
ing in Litchfield County, and left to his posterity in his life and character, a sample worthy of ■ 
imitation. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 421 

children, viz., Hon. Wm. M. and Wealthy Ann; the last m. David 
Hunt, of Canaan, and had children. Hon. Wm. M. Burrall, son of 
Wm. and Elizabeth, m. Abigail Porter Stoddard, daughter of Major 
Luther^ Stoddard, of the U. S. army, by whom he had two children, 
viz., Hon. Wm. Porter Burrall, of Bridgeport, and a daughter Eliz- 
abeth ; she m. Edmond Belden, a merchant at Canaan Falls, and has 
children. Abigail P., the wife of Hon. Wm. M. died after the birth 
of her two children, and Judge Wm. M. m. for his second wife, 
Betsey Ann Bostwick, of New Milford, daughter of Col. Bostwick. 
After several years she died without issue, and he m. for his third 
wife, Mrs. Rockwell, of Winsted. He was thirteen years a Judge 
of the County Court for Litchfield County, and seven years Judge of 
Probate, many years Justice of the Peace, County Surveyor, fre- 
quently a member of the General Assembly in both branches, a 
member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of Conn, in 
1818 ; a member of the State Senate in 1842, and by a unanimous 
vote of that body was appointed to preside over both Houses for the 
election of State officers. 

BURRALL, Hon. WM. PORTER, son of Hon. Wm. M. Bur- 
rall, (now of Bridgeport,) graduated at Yale College in 1826, prac- 
ticed law at the Litchfield County bar, several years ; State Sena- 
tor in 1851 ; Mayor of the city of Bridgeport ; President of the Hou- 
satonic Railroad Company, &c. He m. Harriet, daughter of Hon. 
M. Holly, deceased, of Salisbury, and has several children. 

CHARLES, JuN., son of Charles Burrall, of Canaan, m. Anna 
Beebe, of Canaan, and had several children. 

JONATHAN, son of Col. Charles Burrall, m. Charlotte Davis, a 
sister of Wm. Davis, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and had children, 
William and Thomas D. His son William died at sea when about 
18 years of age. Tho'sD. graduated at Yale College in 1803, prac- 
ticed law a few years at Poughkeepsie, where he m. his cousin, a 
daughter of Wm. Davis ; he afterward removed to Geneva, N. Y., 
and has been widely known as the inventor of several patents. He 
now resides at Geneva, as a gentleman farmer of fortune. He has 
children by a second wife. 

OVID, son of Col. Charles Burrall, m. Lucy Welles, of West 
Hartford, a descendant of Gov. Welles, and had children, Charles, 
Edward, Frederick, Ovid, Jun., Delia, Mary, Lucy and Abigail. 

CHLOE, daughter of Col. Charles, m. Judge Noah Smith, of Vt., 
a brother of Gov. Israel Smith, former U. S. Senator from Vt. 
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422 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

SUSAN, daughter of Col. Charles,* Sen., m. Cornelius Villee, a 
merchant in N. Y., and died without issue. 

MARY, daughter of Col. Charles, Sen., m. first, Timothy Rock- 
well, of Colebrook, and had two children ; both died young, and 
Timothy, the father, died. His wido%v Mary m. for her second hus- 
band, Martin Rockwell, brother of her first husband, and had chil- 
dren, Timothy, (of Ohio;) Charles, (minister of Sharon ;) Wm., (of 

• List of the Members of the Convention of Connecticut, Jan. 3, 1788, for the ratification of 
the Constitution of the United States, and their votes indicated, by those who voted against the 
approval being in itaUcs. — [Collected by W. S. P.) 

"Convention met January 3, 1788. 

Gov. Matthew Griswold, President ; Jedediah Strong, Secretary. 

After organization at the State House, the Convention adjourned to the North (Centre) Meet- 
ing House. The debate was opened by Judge Oliver Ellsworth, in favor of adoption. The next 
day, Dr. Wm. Samuel Johnson followed on the same side. On Monday, the 7th, Gen. James 
Wadsworth led forth in opposition. He maintained that it gave the power of the purse to the 
general Legislature ; another paragraph gave the power of the sword ; and that authority which 
has the power of the sword and purse is despotic. He objected against imports and excises, be- 
cause their operation would be partial, and in favor of the Southern States. Mr. Ellsworth re- 
plied. The vote was taken on the 9th, after brief speeches by Gov. Samuel Huntington, Gov. 
Oliver Wolcott, Hon, Richard Law, and others." 

The following was the vote. Nays in italics. 

Hartford, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Jesse Root. Norwich, Gov. Samuel Huntington, Jedediah 
Berlin, Isaac Lee, Selah Hart. Huntington. 

Bristol, Zebulon Peck, Jr. Bozrah, Isaac Huntington. 

East Hartford, Elisha Pitkin. Colchester, Rev. Robert Robbins, Daniel Foot. 

East Windsor, Erastus Wolcott, John Watson. Franklin, Eli Hide. 

Enfield, Daniel Perkins. Groton, Joseph Woodbridge, Stephen Billings. 

Farraington, John Treadwill, Wm. Judd. Lisbon, Rev. Andrew Lee. 

Glastenbury, Joseph Moseley, Wait Goodrich. Lyme, Gov. Matthew Griswold, Wm. Noyes. 

Granby, Hezekiah Holcomb. Montville, Joshua Raymond, Jr. 

Simsbury, J^oah Phelps, Daniel Humphrey. Preston, Jeremiah Halsey, Wheeler Coit. 

Southington, John Curtiss, Asa Barnes. Stonington, Charles Phelps, Nathaniel Miner. 

Suffield, Alexander King, David Todd. Fairfield, Jonathan Sturges, Thaddeus Burr. 

Wethersfield, Step. M. Mitchell, John Chester. Danbury, Elisha Whittlesey, Joseph M. White. 

Windsor, Oliver Ellsworth, Roger Newberry. Greenwich, Amos Mead, Jabez Fitch. 

Nkw Haven, Rog..Sherinan, Pierpont Edwards. New Fairfield, Neh'h Beardsley, Ja's Potter, 

lli.inford, IVm. Oould, Timothy Hoadley. Newtown, John Chandler, John Beach. 

Cheshire, Samuel Beach, David Brooks. Norwalk, Hezekiah Rogers. 

Derby, Daniel Holbrook, John Holbrook. Reading, Lemuel Sanford, William Heron. 

Durham, James Wadsworth, Daniel Hall. Ridgefield, Philip B. Bradley, Nathan Dauchy. 

East Haven, Samuel Davenport. Stamford, Jas. Davenport, John Davenport, Jr. 

Guilford, Andrew Ward, John Elliot. Stratford, Wm. Sam. Johnson, Elisha Mills. 

Milford, Gideon Buckingham, Lewis Mallett, Jr. Windham, Eliphalct Dyer, Jedediah Elderkin. 

North Haven, Daniel Basset. Ashford, Simeon Smith, Hendrick Dow. 

Wallingford, Street Hall, Samuel Whiting, Brooklyn, Seth Pain. 

Waterbury, Joseph Hopkins, John Welton. Canterbury, Asa Witter, Moses Cleveland. 

Woodbridge, Samuel Oshorn, Samuel JVcwton. Killingly, Sampson How, Wm. Danielson. 

New Londo.n, Richard Law, Amasa Learned. Lebanon, Wm. Wilhams, Ephraim Carpenter. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 423 

Pennsylvania ;) a daughter, m. Mr. Emmerson, of Andover, Mass.; 
a daughter, m. Rev. John Pierce, President of a College in Ohio, and 
two daughters unmarried. 

BURRALL, JONATHAN, son of William, Sen., (the refiner, 
from England to Simsbury,) brother of Col. Charles, Sen., was early 
placed by his mother, as a clerk in a store at Norwalk, where he 
afterward was a merchant. He m. Hannah, daughter of Samuel 
Carter, an Englishman, from London, (see CARTER,) April 7, 
1746. He had children, viz., 

1. Theophilus ; supposed died at sea in 1772. 

2. Samuel, m. Deborah Benedict, Jan. 1, 1782 ; he d. at Norwalk, and left 
three sons, John, b. Dec. 7, 1785, who was a merchant at Norwalk, and Cha's, 
b. Oct. 1, 1791, a merchant and broker in New York. He also had Samuel, 
Jun., b. Sept. 11, 17S3, d. 1793. Samuel, Sen., d. 1S21. 

3. Jonathan, at N. York, was cashier of the old U. States Bank, and Bank 
of America; he had two daughters and no sons. 

4. Charles, was a merchant, and post- master at Baltimore, Maryland ; he 
never married. He died with his friends at Goshen, N. Y. He was a gentle- 
man of large estate. Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan, m. Levi Hanford, and 
had issue, Ebenezer, Levi, ElizabetVi and John. 

5. Susannah, daughter of Jonathan. I have no knowledge of her life or 
death. 

Four of this name have graduated at Yale College, and Samuel 
Burrill, at Harvard, in 1818. 

BURRELL, JOHN and REBECCA, of Weymouth ; son Tho's, 
b. Feb. 2, 1659. 

Mansfield, Constant Soulkworth, J^'ath'l Mwood. Torrington, Epaphras Sheldon, Eliphalet Eno. 

Plainfield, James Bradford, Joshua Dunlap. Warren, Eleazer Curtis. 

Pomfret, Jonathan Randall, Simeon Cotton. Washington, John Whittlesey, D. N. Brinsmade. 

Thompson, Daniel Learned. Watertown, Thomas Fenn, David Smith. 

Voluntown, Moses Campbell, Benj'n Dow. Winchester, Robert McCune. 

Woodstock, Stephen Paine, Timothy Perrin. Woodbury, Daniel Sherman, Samuel Orton. 

LiTcnriELD, Oliver Wolcott, Jedediah Strong. Middletown. Asher Miller, S. H. Parsons. 

Barkhamsted, Joseph Wilder. Uaddam, Cornelius Higgins, Hez'h Brainard. 

Beihlem, Moses Hawley. Chatham, Ebenezer White, Hez'h Goodrich. 

Canaan, Charles Burrall, Nathan Hale. East Haddam, Dyer Throop, Jabez Chapman. 

Cornwall, Matthew Patterson. Killingworth, Theoph's Morgan, Hez'h Lane. 

Goshen, Daniel Miles, Asaph Hall. Saybrook, Wm. Hart, Samuel Shipman. 

Hartland, Isaac Burnham, John Wilder. Tolland, Jeremiah West, Samuel Chapman. 

Harwinton, Mark Prindall, .Uner ff'illson. Bolton, Ichabod Warner, Samuel Carver. 

Kent, Jedidiah Hubbell. Coventry, Jeremiah Ripley, Ephraim Root. 

.V. H.^rtford, Aaron .\uslin, Thomas Ooodman. Ellington, Ebenezer JVash. 

N. Milford, Samuel Canfield, Daniel Everett. Hebron, Daniel Ingram, Elihu Marvin. 

Norfolk, .Isahel Humphrey, Hosea Humphrey. Somers, .Jonathan Pomroy, Jtlriel Pease. 

Salihburj-, Hezekiah Fitch, Joshua Porter. Stafford, John Phelps, Isaac Foot. 

Sharon, Josiah Coleman, Jonathan Gillet. Union, Abijah Sissions. 

Southbury, Benjamin Hinman. Willington, Caleb Holt, Seth Crocker. 



424 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BURRILL, FRANCIS, of Lynn ; wife Elizabeth ; daughter 
Elizabeth b. Dec. 1, 1655. 

BURRILL, EPH'M, and LIDDA, of Weymouth, had a daughter 
Lidda, b. 1689 ; Mary, b. 1690 ; Samuel, b. 1691 ; Ephraim, b. 
1694 ; John, b. 1697 ; Sarah, b. 1699. 

JOHN and MERCY BURRELL, of Weymouth, had Elizabeth, 
b. 1689 ; John, b. 1692 ; second John b. 1694. 

BURRILL, Lieut. JOHN, Sen., of Lynn, and John, Jun., free- 
man in Mass. Also, Joseph Burrill. 

BURRIL, JOHN, of Lynn, made free Feb., 1685-6. 

The name of Burwell and Burrell, are distinct names and families, 
in this country and in England. (See BURWELL.) 

One Burrill graduated at Harvard College, and four Burralls at 
Yale College ; two Burralls at Brown Univ. 

Burrell has six coats of arms ; Burell, (Burell, in St. Stephen's, 
near Saltash, Co. Cornwall,) 1. 

BURROUGHS, BURROWES, BURROWS, BURRUS, BUR- 
RAS, BURROES, ROBERT, was the first of the name found in 
Conn. He settled first at Wethersfield, where he owned land in 1641, 
and was a defendant in court at Hartford, Dec, 1645. In 1645, 
Samuel Ireland d. at Wethersfield, and the inventory of his estate 
was presented in court at Hartford, by Jo. Edwards, and Maiy, his 
relict, then the wife of Robert Burrows, to administer and have her 
thirds, and the other two -thirds set out to her two daughters, Martha 
and Mary, being £30 each. Robert m. the widow of Ireland, before 
the estate of the latter was settled in 1645-6. He had been an early 
settler at Wethersfield, and after his marriage, removed to N. Lon- 
don, about 1650, and soon settled at Poquanuck. He is in the list of 
those enumerated by Miss Caulkins, who worked at the mill dam in 
N. London, in July, 1651, -and was one of the earliest settlers on the 
west side of Mystic, and he had a grant of " a parcel of land be- 
tween the west side of the river, and a high mountain of rocks." 
Dated April 3, 1651. Goodman Burrose was chosen ferryman for 
Mystic River, to ferry a horse and-^ man for a groat. He was rated 
for his minister tax at N. Lond. on £246, in the year 1666. He sold 
his house-lot in 1653, which the town gave him, to Edward Culver, 
from Dedham, Mass. Robert was trustee for the two daughters of 
his wife, by her first husband, which was delivered to their father-in- 
law, (Burrows,) by John Lattimer, of Wethersfield, Oct. 20, 1651, 
and pledged his house, land, &c., at Pequanock, as security for 
Martha and Mary Ireland. Mary, wife of Robert, d. in Dec, 1672. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 425 

Robert had two sons, Samuel and John, and perhaps others. The 
two sons were made freemen in the Colony, in October, as early as 
1669. {Cau?kins and Col. Rec) JOHN, son of Robert, m. Han- 
nah, daughter of Edward Culver, and had children. There was a 
John Burrows settled at Enfield, in 1680, and d. in 1691, aged 42, 
and had one son who settled at Enfield, who had sons b. in Enfield, 
viz.,John, b. 1711; Simon, b. 1719 ; David, b. 1724 ; Abner, b. 1728, 
and a daugliter Mary, who m. Nehemiah Chandler, Sen., and d. 1807, 
aged 95 years. Miss Caulkins also says, that John Burrows married 
Lydia, daughter of Hugh Hubbard, b. Feb. 7, 1675-6, of N. London. 
It appears that John, son of Robert, remained at N. London as late 
as Oct., 1704, as his name is in the list of patentees, sanctioned at 
that time by the Governor and Company of the Colony of Connecti- 
cut, while Samuel's name is omitted. Robert d. in 1682, and his 
wife Mary d. in 1672. This name was at Stamford before 1700, 
and was also found at Farmington many years since. MARY d. at 
Middletown, July 12, 1851, aged 83. JOHN BURRAS, of North 
Stratford, and wife Hannah, had issue, Sarah, b. May, 1749 ; Han- 
nah, b. April 11, 1751; John, b. June 16, 1755; Mary, b. April 
25, 1760; Selah, b. 1762. Eph'm and Ann, of N. S., had Eph'm, 
b. 1772. There was a JOHN BURROWS, of Newtown, L. I., 
with Rich'd Betts, Mr. Loveridge, Samuel Toe, Caleb Loveridge, 
Ralph Hunt, John Ramsden, Nicholas Carter, Gershom Moore and 
James Christy, all of Newtown, L. L, May, 1664, accepted as free- 
men by the General Assembly of Connecticut, if they accepted. (See 
Col. Records.) Capt. John Burrows, of Saybrook, m. Mehitabel 
Booth, of Covy Island, Oct. 4, 1722, and had issue, Elizabeth, b. 
Nov. 28, 1723 ; Mehitabel, b. May 19, 1728 ; John, b. Jan. 21, 
1727 ; Wm., b. Feb. 12, 1729 ; Courlant ? b. April 21, 1731 ; Mary, 
b. June 21, 1733, born at Saybrook. 

BURROUGHS, Rev. JEREMIAH, educated at Cambridge, pas- 
tor at Rotterdam. Preached at Stepney and Cripplegate, near Lon- 
don — an Independent in the Westminster Assembly, died in 1646, 
aged 47. Benj'n, of Windsor, widow Sarah and 6 children; he d. 
1760. Estate, £20, 

BURROUGHS, Rev. GEORGE, was for a time at Salem, but 
left Salem and was tried for Witchcraft, and carted through the 
streets in Salem, after his trial, to the gallows, and executed. John, 
of Salem, 1637. Rev. Eden Burroughs, graduated at Yale College, 
1757; settled in third society of Killingly, in 1760; dismissed 1763 
and d. 1913. Burroughs, Jeremiah, of Scituate, about 1647 
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426 ^ GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

GEORGE, a church member, of Roxbury, 1674, settled at Casco, 
Me., afterward in Mass., in 1680 at Salem. He left Salem, and 
Willis, in his History of Portland, says, " The first notice of his re- 
turn to Casco," was in June, 1683. He was afterward committed 
to prison in Boston, in 1692, on a charge of witchcraft ; was found 
guilty, and hung at Salem in 1692. 

BURROWS, EDWARD, Richard Fletcher, and others, were 
present at the purchase of land of the Indians in N. Jersey, by O. 
Bruen, Samuel Kitchell, Robert Denison, from New London, and 
Michael Tompkins, and John Brown, Sen., of Milford, and signed 
the deeds July 11, 1667. Bounded eastward on the Bay, northward 
on the River Pesayak, westerly to the foot of the great mountain 
Watchung. 

Edward, son-in-law of Edw'd Higby, of Mid'n, who gave Edw'd 
two pieces of land, March 30, 1676, in Mid'n, at Pilgrim's Harbor. 

Coats of Arms. Burrowes or Burrows has two ; Burroughes has 
two ; Burroughs has one ; and Burrough has two, or Borough, 
(Lincolnshire,) one. 

Elder Silas Burrows, was pastor of the second Baptist Church in 
Groton, in 1765. Daniel was of N.- London, in 1691, and became a 
local preacher. Two of tliis family were many years settled at 
Middletown ; one of them a member of Congress from Connecticut, 
and Enoch, a State Senator, &c., and both held an exalted standing 
in Connecticut. 

Wm. Burrow, 19 ; Symon Burd, 20 ; Grace Burlie, 30 ; Jo. 
Bush, 15 ; came to N. E. in the Susan and Ellin, Edw'd Payne, 
master, in 1635. 

John Barrows, 26, &c., embarked in the Plain Joan, for Virginia, 
May 15, 1635. (Somerhy.) 

BURROWS, Elder SILAS, b. Aug. 8, 1741, d. Aug. 8, 1818, 
aged 77; m. Mary Smith, b. Nov. 15, 1743, m. April 7, 1764. 
Children, 

Silas, Jun., b. March 14, 1765, d. Dec. 22, 1781. 
Daniel, b. Oct. 28, 1766, m. Mary Avery, Dec. 16, 1787. 
Roswell,b. Sept. 2, 1768, m. Jerusha Avery, Jan. 28, 1790. 
Enoch, b. July 28, 1770, m. Esther Denison, 1791. 
Jabez, b. April 13, 1772, m. Betsey Bell. 
Gilbert, b. May 10, 1774, d. Oct., 1775. 
Joshua, b. Jan. 10, 1779, d. in Spain, Jan. 28, 1809. 
Mary,b. May 9, 1782, m. Jedediah Randall, 1799. 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1784, d. Dec. 9, J 785. 
Lucy, b. Dec. 5, 1786, d. Aug. 11, 1791. 



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BURROWS, DANIEL, son of Elder Silas, b. Oct. 28, 1766 ; m. 
Mary, daughter of Jasper Avery ; she was born Dec. 12, 1768 ; had 
issue, 

Daniel, Jun., b. Sept. 20, 17SS, d. Oct. 2.5, 1S23. 

Silas, b. Oct. 11, 1790. 

Mary, b. Feb. 15, 1793. 

Gilbert, b. Jan. 15, 1795. 

Wobune, b. Nov. 22, 1798. 

Francis A., b. Jan. 10, 1802. 

Edward, b. Oct. 2, 1S04. 

Leonard, b. July 2, 1S07. 

Elizabeth A., b. Aug. 14, ISll. 

Amos Burrowes d. June 1, 1773; his wife Eliz'th d. Jan. 25, 
1808, aged 87. 

Three of this name have graduated at Harvard College ; four at 
Yale College. 

Burrough (SufTolk) has one coat of arms ; Burrough, or Borough, 
(Lincolnshire,) one; Burroughcs, (Burlingham Hall, Co. Norfolk,) 
one ; Burroughes, (Long Strattan, Co. Norfolk,) one ; Burroughs, 
(Castle Bagshaw, Co. Cavan, bart,) one; Burrow, (Port-Glasgow,) 
one ; Burrow, one ; Burrowe, one ; Burrowes, two ; Burrows, one. 
^ BURR, BURRE, BENJAMIN, was the first of the name in the 
Conn. Colony, and was in the land division at Hartford in 1639, as 
an original proprietor and settler, and had six acres in the allotment. 
He also drew eighteen acres in the land division in East Hartford in 
1666. His house-lot in Hartford, in 1640, was bounded N. E. on 
Stephen Hart, N. W. on Jolin Warner, S. W. on the road to cow 
pasture, and S. E. on Samuel Hale's lot. Also Thomas Burr ap- 
pears in Hartford, and had a daughter Mary, b. at Hartford Sept. 
17, 1645, and was a selectman in 1647, perhaps a brotlier of the' 
above Benjamin. He soon after disappears. Benjamin, Sen., had 
a house-lot in the N. W. part of the village of Hartford, in 1640. 
Ilis wife's name was Anne — maiden name not found. He must 
have been married before he came to Hartford, a.s his son Samuel 
was a young man at this time. His children found were, viz., 

1. Samuel, 

2. Thomas, b. at Hartford, Jan. 26, 1645. 

3. Mary, m. Christopher Crowe, of Windsor, Jan. 15, IGoti. 

4. Hannah, m. Hillyer, of Wifidsor. 

Benjamin Burr, the father, d. at Hartford, March 31, 1681. His 
wife, Anne survived him. His will dated June 2, 1677. He gave 
his son Samuel all his lands and buildings at Greenfield, (in Wind- 



428 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

sor,) and his son Thomas had his house and land in Hartford, farm- 
ing utensils, &c., after their mother's decease, and enjoined him by 
the will, to do his mother's team-work. He gave a small sum to 
each of his daughters, Mary and Hannah, and to his granddaughter, 
Mary Crow, daughter of his daughter Mary, a small sum, provided 
she lived with and served her grandmother, until she married, or 
became 18 years of age. Widow Anne and Son Thomas, execu- 
tors. Inventory, £234, 125. 6d. Benjamin and his son Samuel, 
were made free at Hartford, in May, 1658. 

Burr, Anne, widow of Benjamin, d. Aug. 31, 1683. Her prop- 
erty was divided equally between her son, Thomas Burr, and Mary 
Clark, except one coat, Mary Crow had. 

BURR, SAMUEL, son of Benjamin, Sen., d. Sept. 29, 1682, and 
the court distributed his large estate, (£541, 10s. lid.) to his chil- 
dren, viz., 

1. Samuel, Jun., £160, aged 19 years in 1GS2. 

2. John, £101, aged 12 in 16S2. 

3 Jonathan, £100, aged 3, settled at Middletown. 

4. Mary, £80, aged 9 years in 1GS2 ; m. Daniel Clark in 1693. 

5. Elizabeth, £80, aged 7 years, to possess the proj^ertyas they came of age, 
sons in housing and lands, and daughters the personal estate. Stephen Hop- 
kins and Tho's Catlin, adm'rs. Inventory offered in court, Oct. 5, 1682. Dis- 
tribution, 1684. 

BURR, JONATHAN, of Middletown, from Hartford, son of Sam- 
uel, Sen., m. Abigail Hubbard, b. 1686, daughter of Nath'l and 
grand-daughter of Geo., of Middletown, May 12, 1708. Children, 

1. Mary, b. March 18, 1708-9. 

2. Ebenezer, b. Jan. 21, 1710-11. 

3. Jonathan, Jun., b. March 21, 1712-13. 
■4. Nathaniel, b. March 23, 1716-17. 

5. Elizabeth, b. April 23, 1719, 

6. Abigail. > ^^^..^^^ 

7. Thankful, b. March 12, 1720-1.) 

S. Hannah, b. April 23, 1723; recorded at Middletown. 

Mr. Jonathan Burr d. Jan. 1, 1734-5. These are the ancestors 
of those of the name at Weslbrook, and in that part of Connecticut. 
(Jonathan appears to have m. Rebecca Whaples, Nov. 12, 1714.) 
Perhaps second wife. 

BURR, SAMUEL, Jun , son of Samuel, Sen., m. Mercy, and 
had children, 1. Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1691 ; 2. Martha, b. Jan. 14, 
1693 ; 3. Bazey, b. Feb. 27, 1695 ; 4. Samuel, b. May 4, 1697. 
The father d. March 4, 1698, and left his wife Mercy and the above 



GENEALOGY OF TUE PURITANS. 429 

children. Samuel Church appointed guardian for Samuel, b. 1G97, 
and Mcrcv, guardian for Bazey, b. 1695. 

BURR, JOHN, son of Samuel, Sen., wife Sarah ; he resided either 
in West Hartford or Farmington. He d. as early as 1741. His 
children were, 

1. Ebcnezcr. 

2. Thankful, b. 1712. Lucy, bap. March 21, 1714, d. 

3. Gideon, b. Nov. IG, ITIT) ; settled at Goshen, moved there from Farming- 
ton, and returned to Windsor. 

4. John, Jr., b. May, 1726. 

5. Stephen. 

6. Noadiah. 

7. Nathaniel; settled in Farmington. 

8. Sarah, wife of Joseph Gillett, Jr. 

9. Eunice Case, wife of Samuel, of Sirasbury, 

10. Miriam Case, wife of Nathaniel. 

11. Thankful Brown, wife of Ej)li'm, of Farmington. 

He had two wives, and by his second wife, Mary Root, m. Nov. 
25, 1722, he had children, viz., 

Salmon, b. Sept. 25, 1723. 

J6hn, b. May 28, 172G. ^ 

Mary, b. June 14, 1729. 

Ruth, b. Oct. 26, 1732; perhaps Amos, 173G. 

BURR, NOADIAH, son of John, Sen., m. Hannah Gillett, Nov. 
5, 1731, and had issue, Noadiah, Jun., b. April 29, 1732 ; Titus, b. 
Oct. 16, 1737 ; perhaps others. 

BURR, SAMUEL, son of Thomas, m. Christian Cadwell, Dec. 
17, 1752, and had issue, Christian, b. Oct. 5, 1753 ; Ebenezer, b. 
May 22, 1755 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1757 ; Rosalinda, b. Oct. 22, 
1759; Samuel, b. Oct. 4, 1761; Lodiama, b. Sept. 13, 1764, and 
Mary, b. 1766. 

BURR, THOMAS, son of Benjamin, b. 1645; wife Sarah . 

Had issue, Samuel, Joseph, Jonathan, Moses, Daniel, Benj'n, Isaac, 
Thomas, Sarah, Hannah, Ann and Abigail. Sarah and Hannah un- 
married at the father's death. He gave his sons Thomas and Daniel, 
his land east of Conn. River. His undivided lands at New Bantam, 
he gave equally to Tho's, Samuel and Jonathan. Will dated April 
25, 1722, and a codicil in May, 1731. 

BURR, THOMAS, Jun.,. son of Thomas, Jun., m. Sarah King, 
and had children, viz., Samuel, Wm., (had sons Wm., Jun., Harry, 
and John ; Wm., Jr. and Harry d. single ;) Geo., (m. and had Geo., 
Jun., Horace, Charles and Thomas ;) James, m. Miss Olcott, and 
had Jason and Norman ;) Anna, (m. John, son of Treasurer John 



430 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Lawrence, of Hartford ;) Mary, m. James Pratt, fatlier of Harry, of 
Rocliester, N. Y. Jerusha, also a daughter of Thomas, Jun. Sa- 
rah, relict of Tho's, Jr., d. 1799, aged 73 years. Tho's, the father, 
d. Oct. 27, 1777, aged 5S years. 

BURR, SAMUEL, son of Tho's, Jun., b. Jan. 14, 1745, O. S., 
m. Rebecca Stillman, of Wethersfield. She was b. Aug., 1747, and 
had children, viz., 

1. Rebecca, b. June 2, 1774, d. an infant 

2. Second Rebecca, b. 1776, d. 1778. 

3. Samuel, b. 1778, d. single. 

4. Harriet, b. 1781, m. Solomon, son of Wm. Williams, of Lebanon. 

5. Amelia, b. 1783, m. Charles L. Porter. 

6. Rebecca Stillman, b. 1785, m. Eph'm Robins, of Ohio. She d. May 2G, 
1818. 

7. Allen, b. 1788, m. Mrs. Ann I. Porter, and has a son William. 

Mr. Samuel, the father, d. at Wethersfield in a fit, in 1792, aged 
47 years. Samuel's mother Sarah, d. in 1799, aged 73 years. 

Rebecca, wife of Samuel, d. 1831, aged 84. 

BURR, MOSES, son of Thomas, m. Eliz'th King, (d. June 1, 
1776 or 9 ; sons Hezekiah and Moses, ex'rs.) Children, 

1. Timothy, had by the will, one-fourth of the homestead, eight acres at Win- 
sted, five acres in Hartford, Chapel lot. 

2. Joseph, one-fourth of the homestead, land at brick-kiln swamp, and ox 
pasture. 

3. Moses, Jun., one-fourth of the homestead, &c. 

4. Hezekiah, had one-fourth of the homestead, buildings, &c. He gave his 
sons his wood at Blue Hills, equally, with a right of wood for his daughters, 
while single. 

5. Rachel, d. single. 

6. Sarah, m. Nathan Wadsworth ; no issue. 

7. Ruth, m. Esq. Lord, of Killingworth. Each of the daughters had £50, 
and some land. 

8. Eliz'th, wife of Charles Kellogg, had the land on which her husband had 
erected a house. She hud no children. 

He also gave Timothy and Joseph, hind at Soldier's Field. Will 
dated 1783. Moses, the father, d. Jan. 13, 1792, aged 77 years. 
He left a large estate to his family. 

BURR, SARAH, daughter of Thomas, d. without issue, Oct. 16, 
1750, aged 69, and gave her lands in Hartford to Dr. Isaac Burr, son 
of her brother. Rev. Isaac Burr ; £50 to Daniel, son of her brother 
Daniel. Her sister Abigail, m. Capt. Timothy Phelps. Her brother 
Samuel, executor of her will, dated 1750. 

BURR, Rev. ISAAC, son of Thomas, and grandson of Benj'n, of 
Hartford, graduated at Yale College in 1717, m. Mary, daughter of 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 431 

John Eliot, Esq., of Windsor. He preached several years at Wor- 
cester, Mass., and then returned witii his family and located them 
at Windsor, about 1744, where he d. about 1751-2. Many articles 
of merchandise are found in his inventory, probably goods from the 
estate of his fallier-in-la\v, John Elliott, Esq., who had been a mer- 
chant in Windsor. Instate about £2,000. Mary, his relict, adm'rx. 
His children were, 

1. John Elliot, oldest son, a double portion. 

2. Dr. Isaac, d. before 1795; a physician in Hartford. 

3. Samuel, d. before 1795. 

4. Jonathan. 

5. Mary, d. before distribution. 
C. Prudence. 

7. Lois, m. Talmadge Bishop. 

John E., Jonathan and Prudence became insane, and Henry Al- 
lyn, Esq., of Windsor, appointed their conservator, with Pliny Hill- 
yer, Esq., &c., appointed to distribute Rev. Isaac's estate in Granby, 
in 1795. First distribution, April, 1756, by J, Bissell, N. Loomis, 
and H. Allyn. 

Dr. ISAAC, son of Rev. Isaac, was a respectable physician in 
Hartford ; he d. and Tho's Burr, Jun., a merchant, his cousin, was 
admin'r on his estate. His lands, &c., appraised at £300. 

BURR, BENJ'N, son of Tho's, settled at Suffield. His wife Ra- 
chel, exec'x. He d. 1758, and gave his wife all his estate in Suf- 
field. His other property in possession or reversion, he gave equally 
to his daughters Rachel and Nancy, and his wife. Estate, £122, 
2*. Sd. His widow, Rachel, d. about 1761. No sons noticed in his 
or her will. 

TIMOTHY, son of Moses Burr, m. Susan Maria Hinsdale. He 
d. about 1799. His property distributed, viz., to Susan Burr, his 
widow, ^.3,800.77; to Gen. Timothy, 82,533.46, (by his first wife.) 
By second wife, Miss Hurton, of N. Y., Edwin, attorney, in N. Y., 
§2,533.48; Maria, $2,532.61. Sidney d. an infant in 1795. The 
Legislature of Conn, empowered his son Timothy, in 1800, to sell a 
portion of the Western Reserve lands, and apply the avails to the 
estate of his deceased father. In 1801, his estate in Conn, was all 
distributed. Timothy, of Hartford, appointed guardian for Maria 
and Edwin, in 1801. Timothy d. of yellow fever, Aug. 15, 1799, 
aged 50. 

BURR, Gen. TIMOTHY, son of Timothy, m. Miss Chapin. He 
was a splendid ofTicer. He had a family of children, and removed 
\ to Rochester, N. Y., where he died. 

HEZEKIAH, son of Moses Burr, m. Jennett Mitchel, and had 
children, Hezekiah, Jun., Edward, dtc. 



432 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

MOSES, son of Moses Burr, m. Lois Barnard, and had issue, 

1. Chauncey, m. Miss Allen, of Bloomlield, daughter of Elislia Allen. 

2. Moses, m. in N. London County. 

3. Sidney, m. Hannah, d'r of Pardee Baker, Hartford. Rem. to Buffalo, N. Y. 

4. Louisa, ni. John Flagg, of Buffalo. 

5. John, m. at the west; lived in Wisconsin. 
G. Maria, m. in Buffalo, N. Y. 

JOSEPH, son of Moses Burr, m. Mary Moohler, of Hartford, and 
had issue, 

1. Betsey, rn. Tenyke, of N. Y. 

2. Joseph. 

3. William. 

4. Nathan. 

5. Julia. 

6. Calvin. 

His wife d. Dec. 27, 1796, aged 36 years. Joseph, Sen., removed 
to the state of New York, where he died at Cazenovia, and the chil- 
dren became wealthy. 

BURR, WM., son of Tho's, Jun., m. Mitta Steele ; she d. Aug. 
26, 1773, aged 27 years. She had a son William, who died 1792, 
aged 20. He m. for his second wife, Lydia Olcott, (maiden name 
Barnard;) by his second wife he had sons Harry and John. The 
father d. 1777, aged 58. 

GEORGE, son of Thomas Burr, m. Miss Joyce, of Middletown, 
and had issue, George, Jun., Charles, Horace, Thomas, d. at the 
west, unmarried, and some daughters. 

JAMES, brother of George, d. 1846, (sons of Thomas, Jun. and 
Sarah,) m. Lucretia, daughter of Joseph Olcott, and had issue, 1. Ja- 
son, d. 1839 ; 2. Norman ; 3. Cornelia, d. 1806 ; 4. Almira ; 5. Lev- 
erett, d. 1848 ; 6. Eliza ; 7. Jane C; 8. Alfred E.; 9. Luther S. ; 10. 
Charles C; 11. Delia; 12, Mary E.; 13. L. Franklin; 14. Ellen. 
Norman m. Eliz'th Stevens Bunce, May, 1836 ; Leverett m. Or- 
velia K. Howe, and had issue, Ja's and Warren, and 2 d. in infancy; 
Jane m. Robert Johnson, Jun., of Mid'tn, and had 3 children; Mary 
m. James G. Crocker, of Hartford, in 1847 ; Alfred E., m. Sarah 
A. Booth, of Meriden, in 1841, and had issue, Lewis Edmund, d. 
1846 ; Willie Olcott, and Sarah Ella ; Delia m. G. D. Jewett, 1848, 
and has issue, George B ; Luther S. m. in Memphis, Tenn.; Eliza 
m. Dan'l Brown, 1849 ; Almira m. Cyrus Goodell, 1845, has 3 chil- 
dren ; L. Franklin and Ellen, unmarried. 

BURR, THO'S, the father of the aforesaid Samuel, Wm., George, 
James, &c., wife Sarah, had daughters Anna and Jerusha, m. Bar- 
ber ; Anna m. L Lawrence, a son of Treasurer John Lawrence. 
Tho's d. 1777, aged 58. His wife Sarah d. his widow. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 433 

JOSEPH, son of Joseph, and grandson of Moses, never m. He 
removed with his father, first to Hudson, N. Y.. from thence to Caze- 
novia, where he d. a man of wealth. 

BURR, CALVIN, brother of Joseph, Jun., and grandson of Mo- 
ses, m. and had one daughter and no sons ; he resides at Ithica, 
N. Y., a man of large estate. 

WILLIAM, son of Joseph Burr, grandson of Moses, m. Miss 
Tenyke, and settled at Cazcnovia, as a merchant ; also a man of 
wealth. He has children. 

NATHAN, son of Joseph Burr, and grandson of Moses, settled at 
Auburn, N. Y., and has become a man of large estate. He m. a 
daughter of Charles L. Porter, of E. Hartford, Conn., and has 
children. 

BURR, JEHU, was in Mass. as early as 1630 ; freeman, 1631 ; 
a member of the church at Roxbury, Mass., while he resided there 
before 1636. He was a carpenter by trade, and was one of the first 
eight persons who came from Roxbury, Mass., to Agawam, (Spring- 
field,) with Wni. Pynchon, in 1636, and one of the principal pioneers 
in this great enterprise. The agreement made by these eight men 
who settled Agawam, was dated May 13, 1636. It appears that Mr. 
Wm. Pynchon and his company, intended when they first came to 
Springfield for a few years, to unite with the Conn. Colony, as we 
find Mr. Pynchon a member of the Gen. Court at Hartford, Nov. 1, 
1636 and 37, and some sessions afterward ; and Jehu Burr, by the 
Gen. Court of Conn, in 1637, was appointed collector of rates for 
Agawam, and a committee or member of the lower house of the 
Gen. Court in April, 1638, and in 1641. Mr. Burr remained an 
active and useful member of society at Springfield about eight years. 
He then removed to Fairfield, about 1644, where he held a high 
standing in his new society, as a man of worth, as he represented the 
town of Fairfield at the Gen. Court in Hartford, in 1645, and in 
April, 1646, and six other sessions before the union of the two colo- 
nies. In Oct., 1644, the Gen. Court appointed Jehu Burr and Eph'm 
Wheeler, of Fairfield, collectors for Uncowa, to raise funds to aid 
scholars at Cambridge College, in Mass. In 1660, he was a grand- 
juror for Fairfield, with twelve other important men in the Colony, 
and as such was ordered by the Gen. Court to " inquire and consider 
of ye misdemeanors and breaches of the orders of this Colony," and 
present to the Particular Court the next Oct., all offences. 

In May, 1664, he was appointed Commissioner for the town of 
Fayrefeild, and ordered to repair to a magistrate and take the oath. 
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434 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

John and Nathaniel, his sons, of Fairfield, made freemen in 1664. 
Little is found of Jehu Burr before he came to Roxbury. The honor 
of being the ancestor of Reverend Aaron Burr, of Newark, New 
Jersey, and afterward President of the New Jersey College, and of 
Hon. Aaron Burr, son of Rev. Aaron, and late Vice President of the 
U. S.; of Gen. Thaddeus Burr, of Fairfield, one of the Governor's 
Council of Safety in 1777, and one of the most efficient officers in 
Conn, during the War of the Revolution, with his valorous wife. 
Also, Samuel and Hon. Peter Burr, — has been meeded to Rev. 
Jonathan Burr, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, through his son John 
Burr. It is now fully settled, that Jehu and not Rev. Jonathan, of 
Dorchester, was the ancestor of these important personages from 
Fairfield. The cause of this eri'or arose from the fact that the name 
of Jehu, on the Fairfield records, has been taken for John. 

BURR, JEHU, had sons Jehu, John, Nath'l and Daniel. 

BURR, JEHU, JuN., son of Jehu, the carpenter, had sons Daniel, 
Hon. Peter, Samuel, and daughters. 

BURR, Hon. PETER, son of Jehu, Jun., graduated at H^arvard 
College in 1690, (see Catalogue,) and became one of the distinguished 
men of New England. 

BURR, DANIEL, son of Jehu, Jun., had six sons and four daugh- 
ters, Stephen, Peter, David, Moses, and Rev. Aaron. 

BURR, Rev. AARON, son of Daniel Burr, was b. at Fairfield, 
Jan. 4, 1716. (See his tombstone at Princeton, N. J.) He gradua- 
ted at Yale College, 1735. He settled first in the ministry at New- 
ark, N. J., and preached there until lie was appointed President of 
Princeton College. Rev. Aaron m. Esther Edwards, daughter of 
Rev. Jonathan, and had issue, Sarah, who m. Hon. Tapping Reeve, 
of Litchfield, who had an only child, Aaron Burr Reeve, Esq., who 
d. at Troy, N. Y., and left no issue now living. Rev. Aaron Burr 
left an only son. Col. Aaron Burr, late deceased, of New York, for- 
mer Vice President of the United States. Col. Aaron had an only 
daughter, who m. Mr. Alston, of South Carolina. She was either 
murdered or lost at sea, when on her way from Charleston, S. C, to 
New York, to meet Iier father, on his return from Europe. Rev. 
Aaron d. Sept. 24, 1757, aged 42 years. (See Fairfield Prolate 
Record^ Town and Ch.; also, Inscription on Tombstone, Col. Bee, i 
His. Gen. Reg., No. 29, p. 472.) i' 

BURR, JOHN, of Fairfield, m. Sarah Fitch, and had children, fj 
John, Jun., Samuel, Jonathan, David, Mary, Debrow and Sarah. 
He gave his son John a part of his home meadow, which had been .; 



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435 



his father's, and entailed his lands to Jolin, Samuel, Jonathan, David ; 
Mary had £100, Debrow, £100. Sarah m. Charles Chauncey, who 
was sole executor of his wife's mother Sarah's will. John Burr ap- 
pointed his son John sole executor of his will, and desired his brother 
Nathaniel Burr, and his cousin Peter Burr, to be overseers of his 
will, dated March 19, 1693-4. He m. Sarah Fitch. Her husband 
made provision for his wife's portion of her father Fitche's estate. 
Codicil dated Oct. 22, 1694. "TlieHon. Major Burr's" will, proved 
Nov. C, 1694. His widow Sarah made her will June 8, 1696, in 
which she noticed her son Samuel's daughter Sarah Chauncey, the 
wife of Charles; her daughters Mary and Debrow. Her son Cha's 
Ciiauncey, executor of her will, and Hon. Nathan Gold and Hannah 
Bastard, witnesses. 

BURR, PETER, Clerk of Court in Fairfield, 1698 and 1702. 

BURR JOHN and NATH'L, of Fairfield, made freemen October 
1664. Rev. JONATHAN BURR, of Dorchester, Mass., arrived 
in this country in 1639 ; graduated at Bennet College in 1627, d. 
at Dorchester, Aug. 9, 1641; minister at Dorchester, 1639; b. at 
Redgrave, in Suffolk, Eng., 1604. His wife, Frances, and three 
sons, Jonathan, John and Simon. After the death of Rev. Jonathan, 
in 1641, his widow m. Hon. Richard Dummer, of Newbury, and d. 
Nov. 19, 1682, aged 70. {Farmer.) 

BURR, MATTHEW, aged 27, embarked in the Primrose, Capt. 
Douglass, master, per certificate under the minister's hand of Graves- 
end, July 27, 1635, and took the oath of allegiance and supremacy. 
(Somerby.) 

Rev. Jonathan Burr, an assistant to Rev. Richard Mather, at Dor- 
chester, Ms., d. Aug. 9, 1641. 

Mr. Jehu Burr, Nath'l, John and Daniel Burr, were all in the list 
of freemen at Fairfield, Oct. 10, 1669, and Nath'l, son of Jehu, was 
one of the constables who made said list. 

Jehu Burr, the carpenter, of Fairfield, Kev. Jonathan, of Dorches- 
ter, Rev. Aaron, of New Jersey, Hon. Aaron Burr, his son, of New 
York, Peter, and Samuel, and Gen. Thaddeus, of the Revolution, 
and his valorous wife, Eunice Burr, (see Appendix, p. 618, of Hin- 
man's War of the Revolution,) have given a character to the name of 
Burr, that will ever be recorded on the pages of the history of Conn. 

Burr, Thaddeus, and Jonathan Sturgis, of Fairfield, were mem- 
bers of the Convention of Conn., to ratify the Constitution of the U. S. 
in 1788 : both voted to ratify it. 



436 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Four of this name have graduated at Harvard College, thirteen at 
Yale College, and two at Brown University. 

BURR, .lOHN, of Gloucester, Mass., m. Mary Fowler, Jan. 20, 
1673, and had a son Joseph, b. Dec. 7, 1675. {Ge7i. Reg. p. 3G1.) 

BURR, SYMON, of Hingham, made free 1684. The name 
was early at Dorchester, and Hingham, Mass. Farmer notices 
John Burr, of Ipswich, Symon, Jonathan and others, early in Mass. 
There is no evidence found which proves any family relation be- 
tween Jehu Burr, the carpenter, of Agawam and Fairfield, and Ben- 
jamin Burr, the first of the name in Connecticut, who settled and d. 
in Hartford, who was the ancestor of all the Hartford Burrs. 

Burr has three coats of arms ; Burrs, 1 ; Burre, 1 ; Burie, 1. 

Jeremy Burr, aged 20, embarked in the Speedwell, of London, 
Jo. Chappell, master, for Virginia, May 28, 1635. 

BURRIT, BURRET, BURIT, BURET, WILLIAM, was an 
original settler at Stratford before 1650. The name is not found 
early in any other town in Connecticut. He had sons Stephen and 
John. His son Steven became a famous Indian fighter. 

WILLIAM, was the ancestor of Elihu Burritt, the learned black- 
smith ; also of those at Southbury, Roxbury, Poughkeepsie, &c. 

BURRITT, W'M, and Mary, his wife, of North Stratford, had a 
son Eben, b. April, 1762, and this Eben settled at Roxbury, and d. 
in old age. 

BURRIT, ISRAEL, of Killingworth, was elected deacon in 1741, 
and d. Oct. 30, 1774, aged 88, at Stratford. 

Burrit or Burt, has one coat of arms ; Burt has three ; Buret has 
one. 

BURRIT, STEVEN, son of WiUiam, of Stratford. The Council 
at Hartford, Sept. 18, 1675, ordered that " the dragoones from Fayre- 
field County, being com up (to Hartford,) and Major Robert Treat 
sending to us to hasten them up to tlieir head quarters at or neer 
Suckquackheeg, it was ordered that accordingly the dragoones of 
Fayrefield should forthwith march away up to Norwottog, and so to 
or army, under the conduct of Ensign Steven Burritt." Lieut. Mun- 
son had the same command of the New Haven troops, and they were 
both ordered in their commissions to march their men toNorvvoltock, 
and so on up the river to our army, and join them in defense of the 
Plantations up the river; and to kill %ind destroy all such Indian 
enemies as should assault them or the said plantations, (as would 
not submit to the mercy of the English, and continued in hostility 
against them,) &c., under the command of Major Robert Treat. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 437 

Steven Burrett, at a meeting of the Council of the Colony, Nov. 
23, 1675, was appointed Commissary of the army, and empowered 
to grant tickets for the quartering of men and horses, and by his war- 
rant impress other conveniences necessary for the soldiers, by the 
appointment of the Major or other commanders. 

The Council met Jan. 17, 1675, and appointed Mr. Jonathan Sil- 
lick, Captain of Fairfield Company, and Steven Burrett, his Lieut. 
(See Rec. of Council.) 

Steven Buret was in the list of freemen, at Stratford, 8th m. 7th 
day, 1669, and was confirmed an Ensign in the Train-band at Strat- 
ford, in 1672. 

BURTON, JOSEPH and REBECCA, of N. Stratford, had issue, 
Benjamin, b. June, 1748; Bethia, b. Aug., 1750; Rebecca, b. Mar. 
12, 1752; Joseph, b. Jan. 7, 1754; Mehitabel, b. Nov. 12, 1755; 
Phebe, b. 1757, d.; second Phebe, b. Aug., 175S ; Charity, b. April 
12, 1760 ; Buler, b. 1768. 

BURTON, SOLOMON, m. Hannah Sherman, of Stratfield, Dec. 
12, 1749; had Sarah, b. Sept. 1, 1750; David, b. May 14, 1752. 
NATH'L BURTON m. Loel Hawley, of North Stratford, Dec. 14, 

1749. JOHN BURTON m. Abigail , of N. Stratford, and had 

a son Lewis, b. there March, 1753. 

BURTON, NATHAN, and wife Loice, of N. Stratford, had a 
daughter Hulde, b. there Aug. 11, 1751 ; Anne, b. April, 1753. 

BURTON, JAMES, and wife Naomy, of N. S., had a son Silas, 
b. Dec, 1771. This name was at Stratford, as early as 1700. 

BURTON, SAMUEL, Middletown, east of the river, d. April 23, 
1733. Estate, cfSO. Left a widow Sarah, and children. One of 
the name has graduated at Harvard, and one at Yale Coll. 

BURTON, THO'S, Mass., 1653. ELIZ'TH, 1644. 

BURTON, BONH^ACE, was a freeman in Mass., in 1635. 

BURTON, JACOB, was slain by Indians, May 19, 1676. {North- 
ampton Record.) 

BURTON, WM, Richard Bate?, Wm. Barnes, Abraham Bcnt- 
Icy, Richard Adams, Humphry Buckley, ^Vm. Andrews, Richard 
.\bbott, Matthew Bateman, Lucie Bucklie, Wm. Barloe, Nicholas 
Bate, Wm. B; te, Jacob and George Auerie, Debora Barrio, &c., 
embarked in the Globe, of London, for Virginia, Jeremy Blackman, 
master, Aug. 7, 1635 or 3. 

BURTON, HENRY, Clerk of the Closet to Prince Henry and 
Charles I. He preached against Episcopacy, for which he was tried , 
37* 



438 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

imprisoned, fined and cropped, with Bostwick, &c. He d. in 1648, 
aged 69 years. 

One of this name graduated at Harvard College, one at Yale, and 
three at Brown. 

Farmer notices Boniface Burton, of Lynn, freeman 1635, d. June 
13, 1669, aged 113 years. Also, John, of Salem, 1637, d. 1684. 

Burton has fifty-nine coats of arms ; Burton-upon-Trent has one ; 
Burton Abhey, one ; Burton-Jjazer Hospital, (Leicestershire,) one ; 
Byrton has three ; Birton has two ; Berton has three. 

BURT, BIRT, JOHN and JOSEPH, were early at Windsor. 
Henry, of Springfield, had a daughter Patience, b. the 18th day of 
the 6th mo., 1645 ; Mercy, b. the 27th day of the 7th mo., 1647. 

JONATHAN, b. there the 12th day of 7th mo., 1655, and Sarah, 
b. 1656. 

Burt, Hugh, aged 25 ; Ann Burt, 32; Hugh, 15, and Edward 
Burt, 8, embarked in the Abigail, for N. England, June 17, Robert 
Hackwell, master. Deliverance Burt, former wife of Tho's Han- 
chett, of Suffield, d. June 10. 

BURT, HUGH, the elder, of Lynn, presented by the grand-juror, 
" for a common sleeper in time of exercise," fined 2s. Sd., 1644 ; 
(see His. Gen. Reg.) Also, Hugh, Jun., of Lynn, 1650. Hugh d. 
1661, son-in-law of Wm. Bassett; sons Hugh and Edward. 

Farmer names George, of Lynn, in 1635, d. Nov. 2, 1661, and 
left scHis, George, Hugh and Edward. Also, Henry, of Northamp- 
ton, freeman, 1648, one of the early settlers. Also, David, an early 
settler there ; had fifteen children, &;c. 

This name was early at Westfield. 

Burt has three coats of arms ; Burtt, or Birt, one; Byrt or Byrtt, 
one. 

One of this name graduated at Harvard Coll. ; one at Yale Coll., 
and four at Brown Univ. 

BURWELL, JOHN. This name is first found in Mass., at an 
early period. John Burwell is also found early at Milford, and a 
free planter there in 1639. He was from Hertfordshire, in Eng- 
land. He m. Alice before he came to N. England, and d. at Mil- 
ford in 1649, many years before John Burwell, of the Parish of BoV- 
ingdon, of Hertfordshire, England, came over and died at Green- 
wich. John, of Milford, may have been the uncle of John Burewell, 
who m. Miss Lockwood, and d. at Greenwich ; and his first visit at 
Milford in 1685, perhaps was to visit the family of John Burwell, 
then deceased, of Milford, as they were both from the same County 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 439 

in England. The children of John, of Milford, were probably some 
of them born in England. His children were, viz., 

1. Jolin, who appears to have remained in England. 

2. Zecliariah, settled at Newark, N. J., under Rev. Ab'm Pierson. He m. 
Elizabeth Baldwin, Nov. IS, 1063. (See Deed, Milford Rec. Lib. 4, p. 258.) 

3. Samuel, bap. Oct. 11, 1640 ; m. Deborah, and had a family of children. 

4. Ephraitn, bap. May 19, 1044, and had children, Ephraim, Sarah, and 
Samuel. Those who settled at Newtown, were of this Samuel. 

5. Nathan, bap. Feb. 2, 1646, settled in Norwalk. 

6. Elizabeth, d. unmarried. 

This family have descendants at Waterbury, Albany, N. Y., N. 
Jersey, and in the West Indies. Ephraim and Zechariah, both re- 
moved from Milford, and settled at Newark, N. J., and signed the 
articles of government as early as 1G67. {Milford Rec.) 

There was a John Burwell, at Roxbury, Mass., where his daugh- 
ter Sarah was b. in 1634 ; perhaps this was the same John, who set- 
tled at Milford, Conn., in 1639, and d. in 1649. 

Burwell has four coats of arms, and Berwell has one. 

BURWELL, SAMUEL, with Josiah and Samuel Baldwen, were 
Commissioners at Milford, in May, 1069. Ensign Samuel Burwell 
d. at N. Haven, Dec. 30, 1719 ; his daughter Ann d. 1685. 

There was also another JOHN BURWELL, from the Parish of 
Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, in England, 
who came to this country about 1685, and stopped for a time at Mil- 
ford, Conn. He was the son of John Burwell, of Hertfordshire, in 
England, who died there previous to May, 1670. His son John, 
when he came to America, left a large and valuable landed estate in 
England, in the possession of his sister, Maria Burwell, at Boving- 
don, near Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire. He is first found at 
Milford, Conn., in this country, and in Feb., 1687-8, he is next 
found purchasing a house-lot at Greenwich, where he about this 
time married Hannah " Lockward," (now spelt Lockwood,) a d'r 
of Gershom Lockwood, of Norwalk. In 1689, he returned to Eng- 
land, to see to his estate at Hemel Hempstead, and other property 
there, and returned to Greenwich in tlie spring of 1690, and imme- 
diately after, while on a visit of business to N. York, he took the 
small pox, and returned to Greenwich and d. May I, 1690. His 
wife survived him, and afterward married a Mr. Hanford. Mr. 
Burwell left an only child, Hannah, as sole heir to his estate in this 
country, and his large estate in England. The death of Mr. Bur- 
well, while his daughter was an infant, left no person to look after 
his estate in England, and therefore it has never been recovered 



440 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

from tlie wrongful possessors, by the legal heirs of John Burwell. 
His daughter, Hannah, m. John Betts, Esq., of Norvvalk, April 15, 
1708. John Betts, Esq., d. in 1745, and their children, by the name 
of Betts, will be found in the note below.* 



•NoTK. — Betts, John, Esq. iti. Hannah Burwell, daughter of John Burwell, (his wife was b. 
March 30, 1687,) and had children, viz., 

1. John, b. July 27, 1711, in. Sarah Gregory. 

2. Burwell, b. April 17, 1715. 

3. Joseph, b. March 2<J, 1717, m. Sarah Piatt. 

4. Silas, b. Dec. 6, 1718, m. Abigail Smith, daughter of Ezek'l, of Stamford. 

5. Sarah, b. Aug. 10, 1720. 

6. Ab'm, b. July 2, 1723. 

7. Hannah, b. March 21, 1725-6. 

8. Timothy, b. May 1, 1728. 

9. Gideon, b. June 8, 1732. 

BETTS, JOHN, son of John and Hannah Betts, m. Sarah Gregory, and had children, viz., 

1. Nehemiah, m. Hannah Bouton, and left children. 

2. Timothy. 

3. John, m. Martha Smith, and had children, son Nehemiah, of Ballston. 

4. Jesse, m. Ruth Belden. Children, Ester, m. Aaron Hyat ; Sarah, m. Samuel Loder, who 
had Hannah, ni. Cranston. 

5. Sarah, m. Samuel Seymour, of Horse Neck, and left children at Newburgh. 

6. Susannah, m. Zuriah Fitch, of Huntington, L. I. 

7. Elizabeth, b. June 4, 1742, and d. Jan , 1786-7 ; m. Ab'm Gregory, b. Sept. 17, 1736. 

8. Mary, m. Sylvanus Hoyt, of New Canaan ; afterward lived in N. Y., with Jesse, her son. 

9. Hannah, d. 

ELIZABETH, who m. Ab'm Gregory, had children, viz., 

1. Hannah, b. April 5, 1761, m. Seih Marvin and had Betsey, Ebenezer, Henry, Lucretia, 
Charles, and Charlotte. 

2. Ebenezer, b. Jan. 11, 1763, d. Dec. 10, 1793. 

3. Abraham, b. Sept. 7, 1767, m. Polly Allen ; removed to N. York. 

4. Sarah, b. Jan. 2, 1772, m. Mr. Hanford. 

5. Nancy, b. Sept. 17, 1776, d. July, 1838 ; m. Francis Galpin, and had Charles, Francis and 
George. 

6. Sabra, b. Dec. 8, 1779, m, Asaliel Crossman, Oct. 24, 1822. 

7. John, b. April 3, 1763, m. Olive Raymond. Children, Eliza Ann, m. Wm. Gay; Mary, 
m. IMr. Hoyt ; Harriet. 

8. Wm. S., b. Jan. 1, 1786 ; resided in Sullivan, N. Y. 

BETTS, BURWELL, son of John and Hannah, m. Thankful Raymond, Nov. 1, 1740, and had 
children, Joseph, b. and d. 1741 ; Hannah, b. May 8, 1743 ; James, b. March 10, 1745 ; Ben'n, 
b. Oct. 20, 1747. Thankful, his wife, d. Dec. 3, 1747, and on the 7th day of Nov., 1754, he m. 
for his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Nathan Burwell, of Norwalk, and by her had Nathan, b. 
Aug. 14, 1755 ; Molley, b. April 4, 1757; Peter, b. Nov. 0, 1758; Sarah, b. March 7, 1761 ; 
Joseph, b. Aug. 8, 1763; Nancy, b. May 9, 1767; Esther, b. July 1, 1769 ; Betsey, b. July 3, 
1772 ; Hannah, b. March 7, 1 775. 

BETTS, HANNAH, daughter of Burwell, m. Seth Abbott, and had children, Hannah, (who ra. 
Wm.Scofield,and moved to Stamford, from thence to Saratoga, N. Y.;) Seth, (who m. a lady in 
Stockbridge ;) Polly, m. Thomas Whelpley, of Wilton, (and moved to Ohio and had children, 
Samuel and Thomas, perhaps others ;) Anne, m. Asahel Foot, of Stockbridge, Mass. 

JAMES, son of Burwell and Thankful, m. Nancy Williams, of Huntington, L. Island, and had 
children, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 441 

Coats of Arms. — Burwell (Wrigley, Co. Essex,) one; Burwell 
(Wootlbridge, Co. SufTolk,) 1 ; and 2 others. 

BUSARRE, PEETER, had several piecesof land in Hartford be- 
fore 1646, probably a Dutchman. 

BUSH, JAMES, was in Conn., 1646. 

1. Natiri Win., had a daughter Eliz'th, thai m. Ralph Pecock. 

2. James, m. Sylva Ross, of Rahway, N. J., and had a son and two daughters. 

3. Jesse Lockwood ; left no heirs. 
A. Horatio Gates I d. witliout heirs. 

5. George W., left no heirs. 

6. Nancy W., m. David Ilanford, N. Canaan ; no heirs. 

7. Edward, d. without issue. 

BENJ.\M1N, (son of Burwell and Thankful,) ni. Jane Cameron, of Norwalk; his children 
were, 

1. Burwell, m. at Horse Neck, and had children. 

2. Susan, ni. Joseph Bugbee, of Albany. 

3. Lodowick Riley, d. 

i. Anne, m. Joseph Laughson, of Stamford. Second husband, Bailey, of Albany. 

NATIIA.X, son of Burwell, by his second wife, m. Azubah Abbott, and had Thomas, Nathan 
and Burwell. 

MOI.LV, or MARY, (daughter of Burwell by his second wife,) m. Hezekiah VVhitlock, 1780, 
and had children, viz., 

1. Tliaddeus, b. March 15, 1784 ; he left a daughter Mary, who m. James E. Holmes, who 
had children, Ann Eliza, John, Benj'n, Edward, Susan Jane, Caroline and Joseph. 

2. Nancy, b. March 17, 1787. 

3. Charles, b. Dec. 29, 1700. 

4. Nancy, b. Feb. 27, 1793. 

5. Lewis, b. Oct. 24, 1795 ; settled at Bridgeport. 
G. Burwell, b. Aug. 4, 1797. 

7. Fanny, b. Aug. 4, 1799, m. James Stevens, in 1821. 

PETER, (son of Burwell, by second wife,) m. Bathsheba Wright, and moved to Greenbush, 
N. Y. Had no heirs. 

SAR.AH, daughter of Burwell by second wife, m. Samuel Lockwood, and for her second hus- 
band, Daniel Westcott. She had children, 

1. Thomas Lockward, who left children in Fallsburg. 

2. James, settled at Ellensville, N. Y. 

3. Uriah, settled at Newburg, N. Y. 

4. Samuel \Ve.stcott, removed to Indiana. 

5. Sally, supposed settled at Wilton. 

6. Geo. Hetts, " " 

JOSEPH, son of Burwell, by second marriage, left no issue. 

NANCY, (daughter of Burwell, by second marriage,) in. Zebulon Dickinson, of N. York, and 
had children, viz., James, Mary and Betsey ; (Betsey m. John Lockwood, and had Nancy, Ange. 
line, George, Frances, John, Elizabeth and Harriet.) 

BETSEY, (daughter of Burwell by second wife,) m. John Gregory, and had children, viz., 
George. Delia, Antoinette and Angeline, (twins,) and Burwell Denton. 

HANNAH, (youngest daughter of Burwell, by his second wife,) m, John Raymond, of Troy, 
N.Y., and had children, 

1. Harriet. 

2. Delia. 

3. Sally Watson, m. David Hubbel. 



442 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUSH, SAMUEL, had an allotment of fifty acres of land in Suf- 
ficld, in 167S, and an addition often acres b_v his meadows in 1681, 
and six acres at Muddy Brook. He was tything-man in Suffield in 
1686. 

BUSH, JOHN, of Enfield, had children recorded there, viz., Jon- 
uthan, b. Nov. 22, 1685; Daniel, b. Nov. 13, 1689; Ebenezer, b. 
April 19, 1692, perhaps others. Daniel d. at Enfield, Oct. 31, 1691. 
It was an early name at Westfield. 

Samuel Bush, Samuel Kent, Jr., John Allen, Mr. Pritchard, Na- 
than Harmon and John Scott, Sen., tything-men for Southfield, in 
1685. 

BUSH, JONATHAN, a first settler of Enfield, 1680, d. 1739, 
aged 89, had two sons; Jonathan, m Rachel Kibbe, daughter of 
Elisha Kibbe, d. 1746, aged 65, left four sons; Joshua, b. 1712, m. 
E.xperience French, 1737, settled in " Terry Lane," d, 1793, had 
three sons ; Joshua, b. 1737, d. in Enfield ; Eli, b. 1741, moved to 

SILAS, son of John and Hannah Belts, of Norvvalk, m. Abigail Smith, of Stamford, and had 
children, 

1. Frederick, m. Polly Sacket, of Horse Neck, (Greenwich.) 

2. Hannah, m. Mr. Hitchcock, of Greenwich. 

3. Sally, m. Ab'm Quick. 

4. Polly, m. John Spady. 

5. Anne, m. Silas Davies, of Florse Neck. 

BETTS, JOSEPH, (son of John and Hannah, (m. Sarah Plait, and had children, 

1. Justus, settled at Chatham, N. Y. 

2. Silas. 

3. Moses, m. Mary Gregory, of Greenfield. 

4. Amy, ni. Mr. Starr. 

5. Susan, m. a son of Wm. Weeks, of Norwalk. 

BETTS, ABRAHAM, son of John and Hannah, married and resided at Ridgefield, and had 
children, 

1. Eunice, m. Mr. Northrop, and had one child. 

2. Amy, ra. Mr. Williams, and had four children. 

3. George, m. and had children, one in Wilton. 

GIDEON, (b. June 8, 1730, son of John and Hannah,) m. Rachel Si. John, b. 1731, d. 1801, 
and had children, viz., 

1. Nathan, b. Aug. 13, 1753, m. Anne Gilbert, of Lysander, N- Y.; had Hannah, who m. Ch'g 
Lemons. 

2. Sarah, b. June 2, 17G0, m. Edward Tylee, and had Sarah, Rosanna, James, &.C. 

3. Hannah, b. May 10, 1755, m. Jared Olmsted, had Hiram, Hannah, three daughters. 

4. Gideon, b. June 24, 1757, m. Jane Rockwell, of Galloway, N. Y.l had Mary, Nancy, Wm., 
Anne. 

5. Anne, b. March 20, 1769, m. Mr. Fountaine. Children, Silas F., Ann Eliza. 

6. Mary, b. March 4, 1772, m. Benj. Gilbert ; son Kufus in Troy, N. Y. 

SARAH, daughter of John and Hannah, m. John Lockwood, or ward, and had children, viz., 
John, Matthew, Seth and Betty, perhaps others. 
Hannah m. Elijah Hawley. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 443 

New York and died ; Jonatlian, b. 1747, died also in New Yorl< 
State ; Moses, second son of Jonathan Bush, Jun., b. 1714 ; Aaron, 
third son, b. 1717, ni. Alice French, d. 1805, had five sons; Caleb, 
fourth son, b. 172"), left town j John, second son of Jonathan Bush, 
Sen., b. 1685, d. young, left one son, Joseph, b. 1718. 

BUSH, THOMAS, of Southold, L. I., made free with many oth- 
ers of Southold, by the Gen. Court of Conn., in 1662. This is an 
old name at Greenwich, Conn., and was probably from L. Island 
to Greenwich. Ralph, of N. York, and Mrs. Col. VVm. Mosely, of 
N. Haven, are of the Bush family of Greenwich. DAVID, of 
Greenwich, early. 

Jo. Bush, 17, embarked in the Transport, of London, Edward 
Walker, master, July 4, 1635, by certificate from Gravesend for 
Virginia. In the same ship came Alexander Burlie, aged 18, Ann 
Bristo, 22 ; Robert Bateman, 20; Henry Burket, &c. 

BUSH, RANDOLPH, m 1642, and JOHN, at Cambridge, in 
1654. 

Four of the name had graduated at Yale College, in 1844. John, 
of Welles, in 1753. 

BUSHE has three coats of arms ; Bushe or Busse, has one coat of 
arms. Busche or Bush. Ar. out of a mount in base, a forest of 
trees vert. Bush ; Ar. on a fessse betw. three boars pass. sa. a 
fleur-de-lis bctw. two eagles displ. or. 

Bushe, (Wiltsliire.) Also, Bushe, (Wiltshire;) Bushe or Busse, 
(Heather, Co. Lincoln.) Ar. three bars sa. 

Four by this name have graduated at Yale College. 

Busche, a German name, is the same as the American name 
Bush. 

BUSHMORE, THOMAS; (this name wasRushmore, though on 
the Conn. Records the R, is formed more like a B, than an R, and 
has been so printed.) He was in Connecticut in 1649, and in 1663 
he became a troublesome settler at Hempstead, L. I., by opposing 
the government of Connecticut there. Being a man of energy and 
talents, the magistrates of Connecticut advised the inhabitants of 
Hempstead, that in case Rushmore continued to oppose them, to elect 
an able and judicious man in Hompstcad to the office of Constable, 
firstly displacing Rushmore, and directed Mr. Hicks to administer 
the oath of office to the person so elected Constable. Also advised 
that the inhabitants of the English towns on L. Island, should sub- 
mit to the officers elected by the towns. 

Thomas Rushmore, of Hempstead, L. I., for disorderly conduct 



444 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

on the Sabbath, in the meeting-house, was committed to prison until 
the Court should see fit to free him, Sept., 1649. The name of 
Rushmore yet continues on Long Island and in the city of N. York, 
all of whom, as far as known, originated in Hempstead, and several 
of them possess the energy and business tact of Thomas, Sen. (See 
RUSHMORE. Colony and Hempstead Rec.) 

BUSHNELL. This name is mentioned by Farmer, at an early 
period in Mass. Widow Bushnell, of Boston, in 1637. Goodman 
Bushnell. JOHN, of Boston, in 1665. Several persons of this name 
are early found at Guilford and Saybrook. FRANCIS is the first 
of the name in the New Haven Colony, and was one of the signers 
of the contract to settle Guilford, June 1, 1689. He may have been 
the Francis Bushnell, aged 26, a carpenter, who with Maria Bush- 
nell, aged 26, and Martha, one year old, embarked in the Planter, 
for New England, in 1635. JOHN, mentioned by Farmer, at 
Boston, in 1665, perhaps and probably was the John Bushnell the 
glazier, aged 21, who embarked in the Hopewell, for N. England, in 
1635, Burdock, master. Francis, who settled at Guilford, lived but a 
few years, as his will was proved in the Gen. Court, Oct. 13, 1646, 
to which Rev. H. Whitefield and Gov. Leete were witnesses ? The 
husband of Rebecca, (daughter of Elder Francis,) of Guilford, pre- 
sented in Court the inventory of the estate, Feb. 11, 1646, of all such 
fencing and lands as were remaining in her hands, &c., at her de- 
cease. FRANCIS, JuN., as he is called, could not have been the 
son of Francis, aged 26 years, when he embarked for N. England, 
if the age of Francis, Jun. was 82, at his decease in 1681. In May, 
(22,) 1648, he was consulted about taking the Guilford Mill, and the 
same year he removed to Saybrook, where he built a mill on Oyster 
River, and the town of Saybrook gave him a tract of land, on condi- 
tion that he should keep up the mill, for the benefit of the proprie- 
tors of the town. He was chosen a deacon at Saybrook, about 1648 
or 9, and held the office until his death, Dec. 4, 1681, aged 82 years, 
so that he must have been b. in England, in 1599. 

Francis, who d. in 1681, m. a sister of Robert Chapman, of Say- 
brook, and had children, viz., 

1. Elizabeth, in. Wm. Johnson, of Guilford. 

2. Samuel, m. Ruth Sanford, and had children, Nath'l, Daniel or David, and 
Samuel, who d. Oct. 11, 1771. 

3. John, m. Sarah Scranton, of Guilford, May 15, 1665, and had issue, John, 
b. March 5, 1G65-6 ; Sarah, b. 166S; Hannah, b. 1670; Mary, b. 1672, and 
EHz'th, b. 1674. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 445 

BUSHNELL, RICHARD, who was at Saybrook about 1644, was 
probably a brother of Frixncis, of Guilford. On the 4th of October, 
1648, he m. Mary, daughter of Matthew Marvin, then of Hartford. 
She was born in England, and came to Hartford with her parents, 
and arrived in Mass. in 1635, when she was about six years of age, 
and her father continued in Hartford until the settlement of Nor- 
walk, about 1651, when Matthew and his family removed and set- 
tled there. (See MARVIN.) 

Richard and Mary Bushnell had issue, Richard, b. 1653, and Jo- 
seph, b. 1651 ; Mary d. 16.54 ; second Mary b. 1657. Richard, the 
father, owned land in Norwalk in 1655, but probably never located 
his family there. Richard had a £200 lot granted to him at Nor- 
walk*, which lot Robert Stewart (ancestor of I. W. Stuart, Esq.) 
purchased Jan. 22, 1674. Richard, Sen., probably d. at Saybrook, 
about 1658, before the settlement of Norwich, and his widow Mary 
m. for her second husband. Deacon Thomas Adgate, then of Nor- 
wich, (and before of Wethersfield and Saybrook.) He had two d'rs 
by his first marriage, b. in 1651 and 3, and his second wife had two 
sons and two daughters, by her first marriage. The second mar- 
riage produced three daughters and one son, Thomas, b. 1669 ; he 
became a deacon, and died when over 91 years old, and had sons 
Thomas and Matthew Adgate. 

Joseph and Richard, sons of Richard and Mary (Marvin,) went 
to Norwich when young, and though under age, were proprietors in 
Norwich, and lived with their aunt, the wife of John Holmsted, 
(Olmsted.) 

RICHARD, son of Richard, deceased, of Saybrook, m. Elizabeth 
Adgate, (a daughter by Mr. Adgate's first wife,) in 1672. His sons 
were, Caleb, b. 1679, and Benajah, b. in 1681. Mr. Bushnell was 
a standing justice of the peace in Norwich, for many years, and one 
of the principal inhabitants there. His brother Joseph appeared be- 
fore him, and complained of himself for killing a buck, June 3, 1708. 
Richard, Esq., d. in Norwich in 1727, aged 74 years. Capt. CA- 
LIB BUSHNELL, son of Esq. Richard, was also an important man 
at Norwich, as appears by his tombstone, viz., " Here lyeth what 
was mortal, of that worthy gentleman, Capt. Caleb Bushnell, son to 
Capt. Richard Bushnell, Esq., who died Feb. 18, 1724, aged 46 
years, 8 months and 23 days." 

BUSHNELL, JOSEPH, a brother of Richard, Esq., of Norwich, 
m. Mary Leffingwell, daughter of Thomas, in 1673. His sons were 
Joseph, b. 1677 ; Jonathan, b. 1679 ; Nathan, b. 1686. His wife 
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446 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

d. March 31, 1748, aged 91 years. Joseph, the father, d. Dec. 23, 
1748, aged 97 years. The Bushnells of Norwich, have been valua- 
ble citizens there since the first settlement of the town. (Record, 
and Miss Caulkins' History of Norwich.) 

BUSHNELL, WM., was at Saybrook probably as early as 1644, 
as his first child was born or recorded there in 1644. Who his wife 
was is not found. Deputy to Gen. Court, May, 1670. Wm., Sen., 
d. Aug. 31, 1684. His children were, 

1. Joshua, b. May 6, 1644, m. Mary Seymour, May 16, 16S4. 

2. Samuel, b. middle of Sept., 1645, d. 1727. 

3. Rebaka, b. Oct. 5, 1646. 

V -4. Wra., Jun., b. Feb. IS, 1648; ancestor of Dr. Buslmell. 

5. Francis, b. Jan. 6, 1649, m. Ruth Sanford, 1684, and settled at Norwalk. 

6. Stephen and Thomas, b. Jan. 4, 1653. 

7. Judith, b. Jan., 1655, m. Dr. Joseph Seward, of Durham, 1681. 

8. Abigail, b. middle of Feb., 1659, m. John Seward, of Guilford, 1679. 

In recording the death of the above Wm., Sen., at Saybrook, he 
is recorded the son of John, Sen., of Boston. 

Thomas, b. in 1661 ; Lydia m. Caleb Seward, of Durham, in 1686. 

BUSHNELL, Lieut. WM., son of Wm.; his wife Rebeckah d. 
May 14, 1703, and was the mother of his children, viz., 

1. Sarah, b. March 1, 1673-4. 

2. Eph'm, b. Feb. 14, 1675. 

3. William, b. April 3, 1680. 

4. Esther, b, Nov. 2, 1683. 

After the death of his wife Rebeckah, May 14, 1703, he m. widow 
Sarah Sanford, or Bull, June 7, 1705. 

BUSHNELL, WM., son of the last Lieut. Wm., b. 1680, mar'd 
Catherine J., April 16, 1701, and had issue, viz., 

1. Nehemiah.b. April 22, 1701. 

2. Wm., b. Oct. 26, 1703. 

3. Stephen, b. April 29, 1708. 

4. Lydia, b. July 6, 1712. 

BUSHNELL, WM., son of the above, b. 1703; wife Mehitabel. 
Issue, b. at Hartford, 

1. Mehitabel, b. Feb. 28, 1726-7. 

2. Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1728-9. 

3. Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1730. 

4. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 24, 1732-3. 

5 and 6. Susannah and Abigail, b. May 12, 1735. 
(No sons found.) 

BUSHNELL, FRANCIS, b. 1649, son of Wm., Sen., of Say. 
brook, removed and settled at Norwalk, where he m. Hannah, d'r. 



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of Tho's Seamer, of Norwalk, Oct. 12, 1675, and had a daughter 
Hannah, b. Aug. 22, 1676; Mary, b. Dec. 21, 1679. Soon after 
the birth of Mary, he removed with his family to Danbury, in the 
early settlement of the town, and where he had five other daughters 
born. (Records burnt during the war of 1775.) He left no sons. 
Mary, who was born at Norwalk, had four sisters, who lived to a 
great age. Mary or Mercy Bushnell, m. Major John Bostwick, of 
N. Milford, Jan. 8, 1712, (see BOSTWICK,) and among other chil- 
dren, she was the mother of Rev. David Bostwick, who was b. 1721, 
who was pastor ofa cliurch on L. Island, and afterwards in the city 
of N. York. After the death of Maj. Bostwick, she m. for her sec- 
ond husband, Col. James Lockwood, of Norwalk. She d. Nov. 5, 
1767, aged 80, and was the youngest of the five old sisters, who 
were all living in Danbury and Norwalk in 1764. The eldest in 
1764, was 87 years old ; the second in her 86th year ; the third in 
her 84th year, the 4th in her 81st year, and the 5th, Mrs. Lockwood? 
in the 77th year of her age. The eldest of these sisters m. Rev. 
Seth Shove or Shrove, the first minister of Danbury. ( Taylor's Say- 
brook and Norwalk Rec.) 

* The Bushnells of Conn., have been noted for their mechanical ingenuity and talents, and 
particularly David Bushnell, of Saybrook, (of that part now called Westbrook.) He graduated 
at Yale College in 1775. He was a great proficient in mathematics while a member of college. 
He became the inventor of the " American Turtle," a machine to annoy the British vessels 
which often came near our shores, during the war of the Revolution, which aided to keep them 
in check. As early as 1776, the Gov. and Council of Conn, requested Mr. Bushnell to appear 
before them and explain his machine for blowing up ships, which he did. After he retired, they 
voted that they were under bonds of secrecy, and directed the Dep. Gov. to reward Mr. Bushnell 
for his attendance, and inform him that the Gov. and Council fully approved of his plan, and de- 
sired him to proceed and make all necessary preparation and experiments about it, with the ex- 
pectation of proper public notice and reward. {Col. Rec.) In 1777, David Bushnell, with Col. 
Huntington, appeared before the Gov. and Council again, upon this subject, and exhibited a new 
invention for annoying ships, &c. They gave him an order on officers, agents and commissaries, 
to afford Mr. Bushnell assistance of men, boats, powder, lead, &c., as he should wish, and to bo 
deUvered to hitn without stint. April 3, 1778, the Gov. was desired by the Council to write to 
the Conn. Delegates in Congress, relative to this machine, and request them to lay the same be- 
fore Congress, &c. This gave Mr. Bushnell a high reputation. He was appointed a Captain of 
a company of sappers and miners, and served until the close of the war. Mr. Bushnell was 
probably never married, as J. Hill says of him, (Wn. IVar iJeu., Appendix, p. 585,) "He died at 
an advanced age in the state of Georgia, a few years since, after acquiring a handsome properly, 
which was brought on by his friend, and delivered to the children of his deceased brother Ezra, 
together with some curious machinery, partly built," &c. 

The title of Deacon has been appended to many of this name, viz., Francis, of Saybrook, about 
I6<8 ; Joseph, Dec, 1742, d. aged 88; Samuel, 1771 ; Benjamin, 1786, of Pautapaug, d. aged 
77 ; Deacon Jonathan, of Westbrook, 1796, and several others. The Bushnells of Norwich, 
have been prominent, leading men there since the early settlement of the town. (See Note» 
p. 88. 



448 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUSHNELL, SAMUEL, sonof Wm., Sen.,ofSaybrook, m. Pa- 
tience Rudd, Oct. 7, 1675, and had issue, Abigail, b. July 27, 1677 ; 
Judith, b. Sept. 14, 1679; Samuel, b. Aug. 21, 1682; Jonathan, b. 
April 10, 1685 ; Daniel, b. Feb. 20, 1687 ; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 18, 
1690; Ilepzibah, b. Aug. 19, 1701, and Ebenezer, a twin, 1701; 
Priscilla, b. Dec. 19, 1703, and Josiah, b. June 9, 1706. (Perhaps 
the four last were children of Samuel, Jun., and Priscilla Pratt, his 
wife.) 

BUSHNELL, STEPHEN, son of William and Catherine, of Say- 
brook, and brother of Nehemiah, born in 1708, d. at Farmington in 
1750, and his brother Nehemiah gave bonds for Temperance, relict 
of Stephen, to administer on the estate. Stephen, at the time of his 
death, had £12 in real estate at Saybrook. He left children, Ste- 
phen, b. Sept. 18, 1743 ; Abraham, b. Dec. 27, 1744 ; Temperance, 
three years, and Catherine, about one year old. His two sons were 
b. at Saybrook. His real estate valued at about £300. 

BUSHNELL, STEPHEN, son of Stephen, of Farmington, and 
brother of Ab'm, settled at Whitestown, N. Y., where he raised a 
family and became wealthy. 

BUSHNELL, AB'M, (above,) son of Stephen, was the grand- 
father of Dr. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford. He resided at Canaan 
Falls, Conn., and m. Miss Ensign, of Salisbury, and had twelve 
children, who all lived to mature age, viz., Polly, Samuel, Ensign, 
Esq., (the father of Dr. H. Bushnell,) John, Lois, Electa, Sedgwick, 
James, Myron, Alvira and Harleyet, &c. 

BUSHNELL, ENSIGN, Esq., the second son of Ab'm, removed 
to Starksborough, Vt., when about 21 years of age. He afterward 
returned to Litchfield, Conn., where his son. Dr. Horace Bushnell, 
of Hartford, was born. About two years after, he removed with his 
family to New Preston, in Washington, where he remained several 
years, and then removed to the state of New York. The children 
of Ensign Bushnell were Horace, D. D., Rev. George, &c. 

BUSHNELL, HORACE, son of Ensign, graduated at Yale Col- 
lege in 1827, with a high reputation as a scholar, and was appointed 
a tutor at Yale in 1829, where he continued about two years. He 
afterward, for a time edited a paper in the city of N. York. After 
he was thoroughly prepared for the pulpit, he was ordained over the 
North Congregational Church at Hartford, May 22, 1833 ; where 
in all the agitation which has been raised against him, out of the pale 
of his own Church and Society, his parishioners have sustained him 
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GENEALOGY OF THK PURITANS. 449 

of their attachment to him, his principles and demeanor as a clergy- 
man. His reasoning powers, aided by a finished education, in gen- 
eral literature, and particularly in theology, have placed him at the 
head of his profession, not only in the state, but the country. Dr. 
Bushnell, in early life, m. Miss Mary Apthorp, of N. Haven, and 
has had five children, three of whom are living. The line of de- 
scent to Dr. Bushnell, from the first settler, has been, John, of Bos- 
ton ; William, of Saybrook ; Wm. 2d, of Saybrook ; Stephen, of Far- 
mington ; Abraham, of Canaan Falls; Ensign, of New Preston, and 
Horace Bushnell, D. D., of Hartford. 

Francis Bushnell, a carpenter, aged 26, and Marie Bushnell, 
(probably his wife,) aged 26, and Martha, an infant, aged one year, 
embarked for New England in the Planter, April 6, 1635. {Mass. 
His Col., vol. 8.) Francis was certified by the Minister of St. Al- 
bans, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Bacon had a Secretary by the 
name of Bushnell, at St. Albans. 

BUSHNELL, JOSHUA, son of William, son of John, of Boston, 
m. Mary Seymour, in May, 1682. {Ch. Rec.) Children, Thank- 
ful, b. Jan. 3, 1686 ; Joshua, Jun., b. Nov. 18, 1690; Hannah, b. 
1693. His son JOSHUA, b. 1690, ni. Margaret Chapman, Jan. 21, 
1713; she d. 1716, and he m. Elizabeth Hawley, Feb. 23, 1717, 
and had issue, b, at Saybrook, Mary, b. Aug. 27, 1714, by his first 
wife, and Phineas, b. April 23, 1718, by his second wife, and per- 
haps others. Joshua Bushnell gave a deed dated 1778, of eighty 
acres of land on the Avcst side of a swamp to Samuel Chipman, " now 
late of Salisbury." 

BUSHNELL, JOHN, son of Francis, of Saybrook, m. Sarah 
Scranton, and had issue, John, b. March 5, 1665 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 

17, 1668 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 10, 1670 ; Mary, b. Feb. 20, 1672, and 
Eliz"h, b. Dec. 23, 1674. John was selectman at Saybrook in 1686. 

BUSHNELL, JOHN, of Saybrook, m. Rebeccah Coalle, (Cole,) 
May 10, 1692, and had children, John, b. Nov. 2, 1695; Francis, 
b. Nov. 17, 1697; Samuel, b. March 12, 1700; Amos, b. Jan. 18, 
1702 ; Rebeccah, b. Sept. 18, 1704 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1706 ; Ben- 
jamin and Lemuel. 

BUSHxNELL, JOILV, of Saybrook, m. Catherine Kelsey, June 

18, 172-1, and had issue, John, b. March 4, 1725, d. 1731 ; Ira,* b. 
Oct. 19, 1727, (perhaps 13.) 

Note. — "This was rit by Ira Bushnell, in the year 1791, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. 
Let the same be continued for a memorandum to my children and children's children. Note 
that" 

"About the year 1GC2, old Deacon Francis Bushnell builded the mill that I now own. It hath 

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450 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUSHNELL, EPH'M, son of Wm. and Rebecca, m. Mary Lay, 
Nov. 19, 1697, and had issue, b. at Saybrook, viz., Mary, b. Aug. 

been in the possession of several of liis posterity ever since. In tlie year 163G, Wm. Finnek, 
-ord Say and Seale, and Robert Lord Brook, laid the foundation settlement of Saybrook. The 
iccount of the family of Bushnell, from what part of England they came, I could never learn, 
-ome of the oldest men of the family of the Bushnells, was of the mind that their fathers came 
.rom the north ; others said they came from the west of England. As for their family or pedi- 
gree, I know nothing, as their parentage is lost and to me unknown. Whether there be any of 
the name of Bushnell now in England, I cannot tell or find out by any enquiry that I have made. 
As for the name of the Bushnells, it might probably arise from some occupation or office ; some 
learned men think the word Bushnell derived from a man that preserved or pruned the young 
wood, in copies or forists, for the change of an R for an L, was common in the old English 
words, as cudgel, hovel, cotherel, &c. The old English language is now much altered from what 
it was 300 years ago. The older account I can get is, that abought the year 1638, when the In- 
dependents in England were persecuted so violently, on account of their religion, by some hot- 
headed Bishops that were truly more Papists than Protestants, they persecuted all but their own 
sect. Then on account of enjoying their religion, and civil liberties, there came from England 
six brothers of the family of Bushnells. After they had made some stay at the Massachusetts 
Bay, where they first landed, four of them come that remained. They first stopped at Long 
Island, but not liking Long Island for settlement, they come over to Guilford about the year 
1648. Mr, Robert Chapman prevailed with three of them to remove to Saybrook, their trade 
being much wanted in Saybrook at that time, they being carpenters, and Wm. Bushnell had m. 
Robert Chapman's sister. Three of them, viz., Francis, and William and Richard. There was 
an Isaac ; he was unfortunate, as it was said, in getting a bad wife. He left her and returned 
home to England with his effects, he being a merchant and owned a considerable estate. 

My great grandfather's father Francis, lived in Saybrook about 33 years, and was deacon of 
the church in Saybrook, being what was called Independents. Deacon Francis Bushnell died 
Dec. 4, 1681, about 82 years of age. His brother Richard removed to JVorwich soon after that 
town was settled. Deacon Francis Bushnell was father to John Bushnell, and one Samuel 
Bushnell. He had 5 daughters ; one of them was m. to a Johnson, of Guilford, and was mother 
to a good credible family of the Johnsons. Mr. Johnson, the church minister of Stratford, was 
her grandchild. Anotlier of his daughters m. to one Hosraore or Osmore, at Windsor or Hart- 
ford. One of her children was minister at East Haddam. Another m. a Jones, and another m. 
one Joseph Ingham, and one m. a Smith, at Glastenbury. My great-grandfather had but one son, 
named John. My great-grandfiither d. in the year 1686, about 54 years of age. His brother 
Samuel d. Dec. 16, 1P89; he left no children. My grandfather, John Bushnell, m. Rebeccab 
Cole. She was born in Hartford. My grandfather had seven sons and two daughters; my 
rather was the oldest of his sons that lived to grow up. My father's name John, ne.\t Francis, 
me third Samuel, the fourth Amos, the fifth Benjamin, the sixth Lemuel. My grandfather had 
a son before my father; he d. before he was two years. His daughter's names, Rebeccah and 
Sarah ; they left no children. My grandfather d. March 10, 1724, aged 63 years wanting two 
days. My father, John Bushnell, was m. to Catherine Kelsey, of Killlngwortli, June 18, 1724, 
in the 28th year of his age. My father had a son John, born March 4, 1725, and lived till six 
years and 8 months and 16 days old. He d. Nov. the 20, 1731. This 2d son was born Oct. 13 
1727. My father d.Jan. 16, 1738, in the 42d year of his age. 

My uncle Francis had two sons, Francis and John, both d. young. He had five daughters 
who lived to have families, and two that d. young. My uncle, Samuel Bushnell, had three sons 
wtio lived to grow up, and several that d. young, and one daughter. He d. in Oct , 1772, in the 
72d year of his age. My uncle, Amos Bushnell, d. in the year 1733. He never m. and d. in 
the 28th or 29th year of his age. My uncle, Benjamin Buslmell, had three sons and one dau'r, 
but only his son Francis lived to marry and have children. He d.in the year 1786, in the 78th 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 451 

8, 1698; David or Daniel, b. Nov. 8, 1699; Martha, b. May 16, 
1701 ; Eph'm, b. Sept. 27, 1702 ; Sarali, b. April 21, 1704 ; Jede- 
diah, b. March 5, 1705, d. His wife d. and he m. Anne Hail or 

year of his age. July, 1790, ray uncle Francis d. in the 92d year of his ape. My uncle, Lem- 
uel Bushnell, is now alive, and is now in the 80tli year of his age. He hath had four sons and 
four daughters, but two of his sons d .young ; only Daniel and Lemuel lived to grow up, and have 
children. My mother d. April 10, 1761, in the 74th year of her age; she was the daughter of 
Daniel Kelsey, of Killingworth ; her mother was Jane Chalker, daughter of .Alexander Chalker, 
ofSaybrook. [See CHALKER.] Ira Bushnell, (the writer,) b. Oct. 19, 1727-8, was m. to Pa- 
tience Bushnell, d'r of Capt. Samuel Bushnell, Oct. 28, 1750. My wife Patience lived with me 
till June 28, 1764, (and d. in her 39th year.) My first d'r Catherine, was b. Aug. 11, old stile, 
1751. My d'r Patience was born Nov. 4, 1754. My d'r Hannah, born Feb. 18, 1756. My son 
Ira was born Dec. 24, 1757. My d'r Eunice, b. Aug. 17, 1700. My first son, Auryulus, was b. 
June 10, 1760, [should be 1764,] he died Aug. 16, 1764. My wife Patience d. June 28, 1764, 
in the 39th year of her age. I, Ira Bushnell, was m. to Mabel Chapman, the d'r of Benjamin 
Chapman, son of Robert Chapman, ihe son of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers ofSay- 
brook, My 2d son Augustus was b. July 6, 1766. My son Richard, b. Aug. 2, 1768. My d'r 
Mable, b. March 26, 1770. My oldest d'r Catherine was m. to Asa Kirtland, son of Capt. John 
Kirtland ; he was b. Dec. 7, 1746, and m. May 18, 1775, in the 29th year of his age, and she 
in the 24th year. John Kirtland, the son of Asa and Katherine Kirtland, was b. May 29, 1776 ; 
Asa, 2d son, b. Feb. 25, 1778 ; 3d son, Joseph, b. Oct. 5, 1779 ; 4th son, Bushnell, b. Oct. 9. 
1781 ; d'r Almira, b. Sept. 9, 1783 ; Catherine, b. Sept. 1, 1785 ; 5th son, Ezra ,b. March 27, 
1789 ; 6th son, Gilbert, b. April 25. 1793. (The mother of Ira d. Jan. 5.) 

■ Bushnell, Ira, 2d, b. Dec. 24, 1757, ni. Martlia Parker, (b. April 24, 1756.) Issue, Sophia, a 
d'r, b. April 4, 1780; Martha, b. Oct. 6, 1781; Henry, b. Aug. 21, 1783; Charles, b. April 15, 
1785 ; Wm., b. March 22, 1787 ; Ira, b. July 14,1790; Richard, b. Nov. 19, 1791. Bushnell, 
John, son of Ira, b. Nov. 23, 1752, ra. Lydia Chapman, Dec. 2, 1779, he being then in his 28th 
year, and his wife Lydia in the 18th year of her age. Issue, Martha, b. Nov. 3, 1780 , Polly, b. 
Feb. 23, 1783; Lydia, b. June 4, 1785 ; Betsey, b. Aug. 2, 1787. His oldest son John, b. June 
16, 1791. His 5th d'r Nancy, b. Nov. 1, 1792. BUSHNELL, EUNICE, daughter of Ira, m. 
Martin Kirtland, Nov. 30, 1781, and had issue, Fanny, b. March 10, 1783 ; Eunice, b. Sept. 12, 
1785 ; Sally, b June 25, 1788 ; Martin, Jun. b. July 15, 1790. 

BUSHNELL, LEMUEL'S wife, (maiden name, Ruth Web,) d. April 16, 1791, aged about 84 
years. 

BUSHNELL, HANNAH, d'r of Ira, m. Samuel W. Gladding, May 15, 1789, and her oldest 
•on, Samuel Bushnell, b. May 24, 1790. (Samuel Wise Gladding was 24 years old when m'd.) 
Hannah Wealth Pariiiale, b. Dec. 29, ]79]. 

BUSHNELL, P.ATIENCE. daughter of Ira, m. Joseph Bushnell, Jan., 1786, in her 37th year. 
Her oldest d'r Cynthia, b. July 10, 1786 ; her oldest son Titus, b. March 19, 1788 ; d'r Jennet, 
b.Nov. 21, 1791. 

BUS H.NELL. AUGUSTUS, m. Ethelinda Jows, Feb. 21, 1796, and had issue, Ethelinda, b. 
Nov. 30, 1790; Mable, b. Jan. 21, 1799; Elizabeth, b. March 19, 1801; Augustus, b. .March 
18, 1804, Augustus d. Aug. 30, 1805, aged over one year; Lovinia, b. Aug. 8, 1806 ; Augusta, 
b. July 2, 1809; 2dson Augui-tus.b. Sept. 30, 1812; Jackson J., b. Feb. 19, 1815. The mother 
who was the widow of Ezekel Jows, d. Jan. 15, 1815, aged 84 years. Catherine d. aged 79. 
May 19. 18;)1. Ethelinda m. David Hays, of the County of Chenango, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1833." 
Most of the foregoing is a literal transcript from the family record of Ira Bushnell, ofSaybrook. 
whod. Aug. 10, 1794, in the 67th year of his age, and b. Oct. 19, 1727, old style, and supplied 
by Rev. Wm. Chapman, of Glastenbury. The facts are probably as correct as any other ac- 
''luntof the original family of Bushnells. 

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452 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Hill, Oct. 16, 1712, and had second Sarah, b. July 26, 1713 ; second 
Jodediah, b. May 23, 1714 ; James, b. March 12, 1716 ; second 
Martha, b. Aug. 12, 1718 ; Anne, b. Oct. 24, 1720 ; Tho's, b. Aug. 
24, 1722 ; Rebeckah, b. June 22, 1728. 

BUSIINELL, NEHEMIAH, b. 1701, of Saybrook, son of Wm. 
and Catherine, m. Susan Ingham, Nov. 28, 1739. Issue, Daniel, b. 
1740 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 18, 1743 ; Ezra, b. June 29, 1746 ; Lydia, 
b. Aug. 26, 1750. 

BUSHNELL, THO'S, son of Eph'm, b. 1722, m. Dorothy Doug- 
lass, June 24, 1756, and had issue, Anne, b. April 4, 1758 ; Eph'm, 
b. Aug. 24, 1760 ; James, b. Nov. 21, 1762 ; Hannah, b. April 24, 
1765. 

BUSHNELL, SAMUEL, a farmer, and his wife Hannah, of Say- 
brook, sold land in Simsbury to Elias Slater, of Simsbury, deed dated 
Oct. 2, 1716; deed acknowledged at Killingworth before Ab'm Pier- 
son, justice of peace. 

BUSHNELL, SAMUEL, of Saybrook, m. Hannah Hill, March 
3, 1710, and had issue, Jeremiah, b. Sept. 27, 1710 ; Jemima, b. 
Feb. 19, 1713; Hannah, b. Dec. 8, 1719. Jeremiah m. Abigail 
Cu — , of Hebron, June 30, 1747, and had a daughter Abigail, b. at 
Saybrook, Dec. 31, 1748. 

BUSHNELL, ESTHER, widow of Nathan, d. Sept. 20, 1840. 
She was the last survivor at Saybrook of the old half-way covenant 
members admitted under Rev. Mr. Hart. 

BUSHNELL, FRANCIS, Stephen Post and Thomas Tracy, of 
Saybrook, in May, 1653, were agreed upon by Wm. Waller and 
John Clark, Jun., of Saybrook, as appraisers of property for them. 
In March, 1660, the Gen. Court ordered the Secretary to send an 
order to Robert Chapman, to authorize the new constable of Say- 
brook, to levy £9, 6s. Id. upon Wm. Bushnell, and order said Bushnell 
to levy the £9, Os. Id. upon such estates at " Norridge," as were 
defective in rates, &c. Wm. Bushnell was made sergeant of the 
band at Saybrook, Oct. 3, 1661. Richard Bushnell Avas a school- 
master, and Esq., and military man at Norwich. Richard and his 
sons m. into some of the best families of that day. 

Coats of Arms. Bushell, (borne by Joseph Bushell, of Myers- 
cough Cottage, Co. Lancaster, Esq.) Busshell, or Busshill, (Chesh- 
ire,) same arms. Bushell, (Warwickshire.) 

Bushnell coat of arms. Ar. five fusils in fesse gu. in chief three 
mullets sa. Crest — on a ducal coronet a wivern, sans feet. 



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Jo. Bushnill, glazier, 21, einbiirkcd in the Hopewell, for N. Eng- 
land, Wm. Burdock, master, 1035. 

BUSHROD, HANNAH, d. at Suffield, Sept. 8, 1731. 

BUSBRAVV, PETER, had a home-lot at N. London, ahout 1650, 
but did not long remain there. 

BUTCHER, JOHN, was a surveyor, and acted as such for the 
New Roxbury Company. He was one of the thirty-eight original 
company to settle Woodstock, and though he was not an inhabitant 
of Ro.xbury, Mass., he was admitted into the company, and approved 
of by the selectmen of Roxbury, Mass. He drew a home-lot, No. 
15, of sixteen acres, witli sixteen acre rigiits. His first division of 
meadow was four acres, and his second division one and a half acres, 
and an addition afterward, and was allowed sixteen acres for survey- 
ing and aiding in the division of the meadows. His lot. No. 15, was 
located the west side of the eastward vale in Woodstock. Fie drew 
No. 8, in the division of the good meadow, about 1690. His home- 
lot was increased to twenty acres. May 26, 1690. At a meeting of 
the inhabitants of Woodstock, Nov. 27, 1690, at the house of Wm. 
Bartholomew, to divide the meadows of South Woodstock, &c., John 
Butcher was selected to survey it, and aid in the division, and have 
five shillings per day for his pains, &c. April 11, 1694, he was 
again appointed to survey and make another distribution. 

John Butcher was one who signed the contract with others from 
Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 7, 1683, to settle the town of Woodstock. 

Butcher has one coat of arms, and Butchers has two ; Bucher, 
two. 



* These are the 13 men who first went " to spy out Woodstock," from Roxbury, Ms., 1683 or 4. 

Benjamin Sabin. 

Jonathan Smethers. — 

Henry Bowen. 

John Frizele. 

Matthew Davis. 

Nathaniel Gary. 

Thomas IJacnn. 

John Marcy. 

Peter .Aspinwall. 

Denjatnin and George Griggs. ■ 

John Lord. 

Ebenezer Morris. 

The first discovery of Woodstock for a settlement. ''Oct., Anno Dom. 1684. The town of 
Roiljury, (Mass..) in prosecution of the grant, improved Lt. Samuel Ruggles, John Ruggles, Sen.) 
John Curtice, and Isaac Morris, to view the wilderness and finde a convenient place where they 
might take up the above said grant, who after due time spent in searching, found a convenient 
place in the Wapaqunssen Country, westward of Myanekessc River." 



454 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUTLER, WILLIAM, a brother of Richard Butler, both proba- 
bly came to Hartford in company, and with Mr. Thomas Hooker and 
his company from Newtown, in Mass., (Cambridge,) to Newtown in 
Conn., (Hartford,) in June, 1630. Wm. Butler was a proprietor 
and in tlie first division of land in Hartford in 1639, and had 28 
acres ; his house-lot was bounded east by the road to Wethersfield, 
and west by John Talcott, north of Little River in H., (Map.) He 
possessed an estate larger than the majority of the settlers at Hart- 
ford. He lived so few years after he came to Hartford, that less is 
known of him than of his brother Richard ; both were highly re- 
spectable settlers. Wm. Butler died at Hartford in 1647 or 8, and 
left no children, and divided his estate by will. He left three-score 
pounds to the church in Hartford ; to the children of his sister West, 
then in England, .£5 each ; to his sister Winter's children, also in 
England, £5 each ; Rev. Samuel Stone and Rev. Thomas Hooker, 
of Hartford, and John Steel and Mr. Wm. Goodwin, each £10; to 
Wm. Gibbons and Mr. John Cullick, £3 each, and the remainder of 
his property to his brother Richard Butler, being in all about £429. 
, BUTLER, Deacon RICHARD, was one of the company of first 
settlers at Cambridge, as early as 1632, and one of the church. He 
probably came from Braintree, in Essex County, in England, where 
others at Cambridge were from, and he and his brother Wm. Butler, 
must have come in company to Hartford, with Mr. Hooker, as they 
are soon after found at Hartford, with many others from Cambridge. 
He m. Eliz'th Bigelow, before he came to Hartford. 

He had sixteen acres in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639. 

At a Gen. Court held at Boston on the 7th of Nov. 1683. In answer to the petition of W^m. 
Parke, John Boulds, Joseph Grigs, John Ruggles and Edw'd Morris, Selectmen of Rosbury and 
in their behalf, dated Oct. 10 and 17, 1683, for a tract of land for a village to be layed out 
about Quialtesen, lo the quantity of seaven miles square. The court granted the petition, pro- 
vided the grant to Major Thompson, Mr. Stoughton, Mr. Dudley and Company, should have th« 
first choice, and make their choice before the 10th next Juno. And provided 30 families should 
settle on the plantation within three years from that time and maintain "among" y™ an able 
and Orthodox Godly Minister. 

These facts are collected from the record of the Proprietor's records of the south half of 
Woodstock, the earliest settlement in the town. The north half was settled a few years later, 
and had a separate proprietor's book, which is lost. The Childs' were among the first set- 
tlers in N. Woodstock, from Roxbury. 

There were a May and a Lyon family who were early settled in the north part of the town, and 
with the eight brothers by the name of Childs, were the principal men in the town, and the 
original farms of these families have few of them changed names since the first settlement or 
of which a deed has been given. Caleb Childs now lives on the same ground the oldest of the 
eight brothers settled, and honors his name; and the same is true as to the descendants of the 
other brothers. Caot. Wm. Lyon is similarly situated. To Caleb Childs, no other than the firit 
Indian title has been given him since, except by descent. j 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 455 

He soon held a respectable standing in the town as a Christian, and 
a man of strict integrity. He was a Juror in 1643, 4, 7 and 8, and 
Townsman in 1644 ; a Grand-juror in 1660 and 62 ; one of the 
Deacons of the church, and repeatedly a Representative to the Gen. 
Court of the Colony, and held many other places of trust bestowed 
upon him by the church, town and colony, during his life. His chil- 
dren were sonje or all of them born before he came to Hartford, as 
his son Thomas was made free at Hartford in 1656, and John in 
1657. He was appointed with Wm. Wadsworth to judge of "that 
y' Varleet doth pay to redeeme y' still," &c., in 1661. He dec'd in 
1684 ; wife Eliz'th ; made his will in 1677. Children named, 

1. Thomas, had the upper lot in long meadow, &c. 

2. Samuel, had all his land of meadow, in Wethersfield meadows. 
3/. Nathaniel, his meadow lot, near long meadow gate. 

4. Joseph, his lands in south meadow. 

5. Daniel, he gave his house, buildings, and land about it. 

6. Mary Wright, he gave twenty shillings. 

7. Elizabeth Olmsted, twenty shillings. 

8. Hannah Green, twenty shillings. 

Estate, £564, 15^. 

BUTDER, SAMUEL, was accepted a freeman by the Gen. Court 
and took the oath Oct. 12, 1665, and was Deputy to the Gen. Court 
in May, 1668. 

SAMUEL, DEACO^f, was in, the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 
Oct. 1669, where he had settled. His wife Eliz'th d. before him, 
Oct. 12,1681. 

BUTLER, SAMUEL, son of Richard, Sen., of Hartford ; will 
offered in Court March, 1692-3. He d. at Wethersfield, Dec. 30, 
1792 ; will dated the same day and year. Inventory, £629, 7*. 
His son Samuel, executor. His children noticed in his will were, 

1. Samuel, had his house, home-lot, &:c. 

2. James, had land in the little west field, &c. 

3. Jonathan, had the fifty acre lot, &c. 

4. George, had ten acre lot in little west field, &c. 

5. Mary Hopkins, £C), to be paid by his son Samuel, &c. 
G. Dorothy, £10, to be paid by his son Samuel, &c. 

7. Elizabeth Emons, had the Indian purchase, east of Great River. 
S. Sarah Bucke, a pewter platter, «.\:c. 

His son GEORGE d. unmarried, and Benjamin Churchill exhib- 
ited his inventory in Court in 1698, and his property divided by his 
brothers and sisters, and approved by the Court. 

BUTLER, SAMUEL, son of Samuel, m. Mary Oilman, Afarch 
2, 1703-4. 



456 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

BUTLER, NATH'L, son of Deacon Richard, of Hartford, b. 
1641, d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 9, 1697, aged about 56. Inventory 
offered in Court May 11, 1698, His children were, Samuel, Wm., 
Hannah Case, Ann Riley, Abigail Walker, and Ruth Butler. His 
son Samuel, of Southampton, L. I., was adm'r on his estate, and d. 
before he closed the settlement of his father's estate ; and Sarah, 
widow of said Samuel, dec'd, of Southampton, petitioned the Court 
at Hartford for letters of administration on said Nathl's estate, which 
the Court granted June 7, 1708. 

BUTLER, THO'S, of Hartford, son of Richard Butler. Distri- 
bution to his children in 1697, viz., to Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, 
John; d'rs, wife of Edw'd Cadwell, wife of John Day, wife of Tho's 
Cadwell, wife of John Porter, Margaret Butler, Hope Butler, Susan- 
na, and wife of Cornelius Holybut. He left a widow. Son Tho's, 
administrator. 

BUTLER, THO'S, Jun., son of Tho's and grandson of Deacon 
Richard, m. Abigail Shepard, Aug. 6, 1691. Children, 

1. Abigail, b. 1691. 

2. Isaac, b. 1693; graduated at College, 1722, m. Sarah Marshfield, 1722. 

3. Deborah, b. 1695. , - / a^ 

5. Daniel, b. 1700. ^ 

6. Elisha and Elizabeth. 

7. Thomas. 

BUTLER, DANIEL, son of Deacon Richard, of Hartford, m. 
Mabel, who survived him. Daniel d. March 28, 1692. Inventory, 
£391, \s. Daniel m. Mabel, and had children, Sarah, b. Sept. 28, 
1680; Mabel, b. Aug. 12, 1684 ; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 22, 1686 ; Mary, 
b. Nov. 7, 1689 ; Hannah, b. Nov. 17, 1691 ; no sons found. 

The family of Butlers m. into the families of Hills, Kilbourn, Ed- 
wards, Williams, Goodrich, Churchill, Standish, Riley, and other 
old and reputable families of Connecticut. 

BUTLER, JOSEPH, son of Richard, d. March 20, 1712. He 
had a son Charles who m. Susanna Williams, d'r of Amos, May 17, 
1704, and had children, Mary, b. Feb. 25, 1706 ; Bathsheba, b. 
Sept. 21, 1709 ; Charles, b. March 11, 1712, d. 1713. He d. Sept. 
25, 1711, in the Queen's service, at Milford, on his return home. 

BUTLER, JO., aged 21, Jo. Billings, 26, &c., embarked in the 
Safety, for Virginia, in August, 1635. 

BUTLER, HENRY, 14, passenger for Virginia, in the Assurance 
deLo., J. Bromwell, master, in 1635. 

BUTLER, NICHOLAS, of Eastwell, yeoman, his wife Joice, 



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with three children, and five servants, took passage from Sandwich 
to New England, certified under the seal of office of Mayoralty, 
June 9, 1637. {Savage.) 

BUTLER, GYLES, of Marlborough, England, also came to N. 
England. 

BUTLER, RICHARD, of Stratford, was one of the first settlers 
there in 1639 or 40, {Plant,) and a leading man in the town and 
colony ; was several sessions a member of the General Assembly 
from Stratford. He was appointed Collector of Customs at Strat- 
ford by the Gen. Court, in 1658-9, and received many other marks 
of distinction from the town and colony. He was probably married 
before he went to Stratford, and had a family of daughters, but left 
no sons to perpetuate his name. His d'r Mary m. Mr. Hicks, of 
Long Island, and d'r Phebe m. Mr. Peck ; perhaps other d'rs. He 
owned a favorite servant, who settled, after the death of Mr. Butler, 
at a place then called Escek, and his neighbors drove him out of 
Escek. In 1651, the Deputies of Stratford to the Gen. Court, in- 
formed the Court in behalf of Richard Butler, that Nimrod, an In- 
dian, had wilfully killed some swine of Mr. Butler's, and the Court 
consented that Mr. Ludlow should prosecute Nimrod according to an 
order made by the commissioners. 

BUTLER, TIIO'S and DANIEL, were both from Mass. to Wind- 
ham, Ct., at an early period of the settlement of Hampton. 

BUTLER, THO'S, of Windham, and Abigail Crafts, were mar'd 
March 9, 1732, and had issue, Thomas, b. June 23, 1734; Eleazer, 
b. Sept. 24, 1736; Benjamin, b. April 21, 1739; Abigail, b. Jan. 
10, 1744. His wife Abigail d. Jan. 11, 1744. And he m, for his 
second wife, Deborah Meucham, Feb. 7, 1744. She d. March 3, 
1749, and he m. Thankful Luce, of Windham, June 19, 1749, and 
had issue, Mary, b. Sept. 20, 1750 ; Deborah, b. March 22, 1752 ; 
Wm., b. Jan. 27, 1754; Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1756; Sarah, b. Mar. 
14, 1760. This family came from Mass. to Windham, not known 
to have been connected with Richard or Wm. Butler, of Hartford. 

BUTLER, DANIEL, and Hannah Parker married Dec. 5, 1744. 
Had two Daniels and Wm., and seven dau'rs b. at Hampton, Conn. 
Daniel was also from Mass.; neither is it known that the Butlers of 
VVindluun and Hampton were connected willi Richard Butler, an 
early settler at Stratford, Ct. Daniel's children were all baptized 
at Hampton, the eldest May 11, 1746, and the youngest Oct. 13, 
1765. 

The Butlers, of Branford, wlio were there before 1700, perhaps 
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458 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN3. 

were from Wethersfield or Hartford,, as many people from Wethers- 
field settled in Branford. JOHN, of Branford, perhaps from New 
Haven. 

BUTLER, JOHN, of Branford. The bounds between William 
Barker, of Branford, for himself and the land of John Todd, of New 
Haven, in right of his wife Hannah, heir to the estate of her brother 
John Butler, dec'd, of Branford, near Stoney Creek, in Branford, 
were settled in 1710. 

BUTLER,, RICHARD, had swamp land in Branford, granted 
him by the town in 1685. JOHN BUTLER and Cha's Tyler, cho- 
sen collectors of Branford town rate, 1685. 

BUTLER, JOHN, Wm. Bartholomew and Samuel Bradfield, 
were surveyors of highways at Branford, in 1684. John had his 
division of plow land March 13, 1682, in Branford. 

BUTLER, SAMUEL, Deputy, May, 1668, to the Gen. Court. 

There were two families of this name in Branford, (one John 
was there before 1682,) who were not relatives. 

The Butlers of Durham, are supposed to have been descendants 
of Jonathan Butler, of Saybrook. 

Deacon Richard Butler, and his sons Thomas, Joseph, Nathaniel 
and John, were all in the list of freemen at Hartford, who lived there 
October 13, 1669. His son Samuel had removed to Wethersfield, 
and was in the list of freemen at Wethersfield. Richard Butler in 
the list of freemen at Stratford, 8th mo. 7th day, '69, with Arthur and 
John Bostick, John Birdseie, Sen,, townsman, and his son John, Jr. 

Butler, [Marquess of Ormonde,) has one coat of arms; Butler, 
(Earl of Carrick and Viscount Ikerrin,) \ ; Butler, {Earl of Lanes- 
borough,) 1 ; Butler, [Earl of Kilkenny,) 1 ; Butler, (Earl of Glen- 
gall,) 1 ; Butler, {Lord Dunloyne,) 1 ; and about 50 others. 

Seven of this name have graduated at Harvard College, eleven at 
Yale, and two at Brown Univ. 

BUTLER, JOHN and THOMAS, were not first settlers at New 
London. MissCaulkinslocates them there after 16S0, and says that 
Tho's d. Dec. 20, 1701, aged 59, and John Butler d. March 26, 1733, 
aged 80. Katherine, wife of John, d. Jan. 24, 1728-9, aged 67, a 
daughter of Richard Haughton. Her daughter, Abigail Butler, ! 
April 8, 1725, m. Allan Mullins, chirurgeon, (surgeon,) and son of i 
Doctor Alexander Mullins, of Gal way, L'eland. WALTER BUT- ; 
LER was in the east division of lands in Greenwich, Ct., in 1672. | 
Miss Caulkins says, Walter Butler, of N. London, was probably a 
son of Thomas, of N. London, and m. Mary, only child of Thomas 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 459 

Harris, and an lieiress, and that Lieut. Butler m. in 1727, Deborah, 
relict of Ebenezer Dennis, and had a son John bap. April 28, 1728. 
That the name of Walter Butler is associated with the annals of 
Tryon County, N. Y., as well as with N. London ; that he received 
a military appointment in the Mohawk country in 1728, and removed 
his family there fourteen years after, where he was several years 
Capt. of the Fort. That Capt. Butler was ancestor of Col. John and 
Walter, who were associated with the Johnsons as royalists in the be- 
ginning of the war of the Revolution — and few of this family or de- 
scendants are now found at N. London. 

Walter Butler was probably an Episcopalian, as he subscribed 
£10, about 1725, to build the first Episcopal Church in N. London, 
for tlieir service, according to the Liturgy of the Church of England. 
This branch of the Butler family has produced its share of prom- 
inent men. 

Butlers, or Butler, John, had an ear mark at Lyme, in 1737. 

BUTLER, JOHN, m. Eliz'th Morrill, Jan., 1665, and had a d'r 
b. at New Haven, Sept. 9, 1667 — perhaps of the Branford family. 

BUTLER, JONATHAN, an Irish gentleman, came to New Lon- 
don, Ct., about 1724, and settled at Saybrook, where he m. Temper- 
ance Buckingham, of Saybrook, Dec. 8, 1726 ; he d. March 30, 
1760. His grandson says they had ten children born there ; but 
the following is the record found there of his marriage and children ; 
yet I am inclined to believe the grandson is correct in the number of 
children. 

Butler, Jonathan, (an Irishman,) m. Temperance Buckingham, of 
Saybrook, Dec. 8, 1726. " He d. March 30, 1760. (Issue recorded 
at Saybrook, viz.,) Elnathan, b. April 18, 1728 ; Jonathan, b. Mar. 
28, 1730 ; Stephen, b. Feb. 26, 1732 ; Ezekiel, b. April 12, 1734 ; 
Temperance, b. March 24, 1737." He also must have had sons 
John and Charles. 

Three of his sons, viz., Ezekiel, John and Charles Butler, settled 
at Branford. Ezekiel m. and had a family of children. His son 
Ezekiel settled near Hudson, N. Y., and had a family. Ezekiel, 
Jan., had a son Medad, who also m. and had sons Benj'n F., Cha's, 
Esq., and other children. This Benj'n F. Butler is the Hon. B. F. 
Butler, of N. York, who has been far famed as a politician, states- 
man and lawyer. As well known at Washington as Attorney Gen. 
of the U. S. for the Southern District of New York, as in his own 
city. Charles, Esq., his brother, holds a high rank in his profession 
as a lawyer in the slate of N. York. John, son of Jonathan, Sen., 



460 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

m. and had a family born in Durham, Ct. He removed west of the 
Hudson River, in the state of New York. Charles Butler, Esq., 
youngest son of Jonathan, Sen., d. in Branford, Ct., Dec. 17, 1811, 
aged 64 years. He m. Hannah Atwater ; she d. Dee. 16, 1805, 
aged 54. Their children were two by the name of Anna, who died 
young. Benedict A. d. in Brazil in 1810. Wyllis, Esq. has a fam- 
ily, and now resides in Branford, aged about 72 years. David d. 
in New Haven. Wm. d. at Trinidad, W. Indies. Nathaniel d. in 
North Carolina. Charles, Jun., resides in Mass. Two only of the 
family of Charles, Sen., are now living. 

BUTLER, JOHN, was a voter at Norwalk in town affairs in 1694, 
(probably from Hartford or Wethersfield.) 

BUTLER, WALTER, had land at Greenwich in 1672 ; (he ap- 
pears to have been of none of the former families, except of New 
London. 

There was a PETER BUTLER, at New London about 1699. 

BUTLER, HENRY, b. in Kent, Eng., in 1624. Educated at 
Cambridge College. Came to N. England in 1650, and was in the 
ministry eleven or twelve years. He returned to England, and was 
settled at Yeovil, in Somersetshire, and d. April 24, 1696, aged 72. 

BUTLER, RICHARD, Cambridge, 1632 ; freeman, 1634. 

BUTLER, WM., Boston and Cambridge, freeman, 1635 ; he m. 
Eunice, sister of Tristram Coffin, who came to N. England in 1644. 
{Farmer.) The last Richard and William were probably the two 
brothers who came to Hartford. Wm. Butler was an original pro- 
prietor and settler in Hartford, in 1639; house-lot No. 17, between 
State and Village Streets. -Richard was also an original settler at 
Hartford, as early as 1639 j he also had a house-lot No. 26, between 
State and Village Streets. In Nov., 1674, Richard and Thoma.s 
Butler drew lot No. 2, in the west division, and Deacon Rich'd drew 
lot No. 11. 

BUTLER, JOHN, of Middletown, (vol. 2, p. 44,) m. Sarah Fos- 
ter, Dec. 3, 1728, and had children, Hannah, b. Dec. 20, 1729; 
Wm., b. Sept. 29, 1731 ; Peter, b. Aug. 10, 1733 ; Sarah, b. June 
20, 1736 ; Ruth ; John, Jun., b. Jan. 16, 1740-1 ; Comfort, b. Nov. 
16, 1743, d. aged 83 ; Thomas ; Mehitable, b. Sept. 30, 1747. 

BUTLER, Deacon SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, d. Dec. 31, 1692, 
ye last day of ye year, ye last of ye month, ye last day of ye week,, 
and he had said, so it proved, ye last of his life. ( Wethersfield Rec. 
p. 19.) His wife, Eliz'th, d. Oct. 12, 1681. 

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BUTTER has four coats of arms. Butters, one. 

There appear to have been several distinct families in the two 
Colonies, at an early period, viz., VVm. and Richard, of Hartford ; 
Richard, of Stratford ; Thomas and Daniel, of Windham; Walter, 
of Greenwich ; John and Thomas, of New London; Jonathan But- 
ler, of Saybrook, and John, of Branford. 

Walter, ofN. London, was probably the same Walter Butler, pre- 
viously found at Greenwich, aland holder. 

Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1850, and 
seven at Harvard Coll. 

BlITTERFIELD, freeman, Mass., 1643. BUTTERFIELD, 
Woburn. NATH'L, of Chelmsford, freeman, 1682. WILLIAM, 
of Bolton, Ct., aged 16, chose Ephraim Shailor, of Bolton, for his 
guardian, in 1738. 

BUTTERFIELD, of Saybrook, was taken by the Indians and 
tortured to death by them, in October, 1636 ; and the meadow where 
he was taken, was afterward called Butterfield's meadow, and is so 
named until this day. 

BUTTERFIELD has four coats of arms. 

BUTTERS, JOHN, had an ear mark at Lyme, 1737. 

BUTTOLPH, Lt. JOHN, settled at Wethersfield, not as early 
as some others. He m. Hannah, and had Jonathan, b. Jan. 8, 1677 ; 
Joseph, b. Dec. 12, 1680, d. in 83 ; (John, David and George.) 
His wife d. June 6, 1681, He m. Abigail, for his second wife, June 
27, 1682, and had Abigail, b. April 3, 1683 ; James, b. Dec. 22, 
1684. His second wife d. June 5, 1687, and Lieut. John, the father, 
d. Jan. 18, 1682. Estate, £1,042, 35. Id. He owned lands in 
Wethersfield, Hartford, Glastenbury, a farm at Lancaster, with 
buildings in Wethersfield and Hartford, a house and the land upon 
which it stood in Boston, in reversion, five aci'es ; about 3 or 4,000 

• NoTc. — Whether the three Butlers who early settled in Conn., were descended from a cob- 
bler, or from Tho's Butler, Esq., of Clonghgrenan, in the County of Carlow, or the Oth Earl of 
Ormonde, is not known. They were all respectable families. A good story is told of one of the 
sons of Deacon John Builer, of Ms., that he often inquired of foreigners whom he happened to 
meet, if they knew any Butlers in their country. A man lately from Ireland, called at his house ; 
he made of him the usual inquiry. The Irish wit answered that be did, saying they were of 
vWe blood, that the Duke of Orinond was a Butler ! Butler remarked, they were of high blood 
then, were ihcy "? Yes, answered the Irishman, I have seen some of them so high they stood 
upon nothing. 

VVM. BUTLER, of Salem, made free 1662. JOHN, free in Mass., 1649. WILLIAM, made 
free in Mass., May 6, 1635; and NICHOLAS in 1638-9. RICHARD, free in Mags., 1634. 
WALTER BUTLER was in the drafu for lands in the east division in Greenwich, Ot., in 1672 

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462 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

acres at Norwich. (Inventory, the last he had by his wife.) Capt. 
Mason and his son John were executors. 

His son John also d. at Wethersfield, Jan. 13, 1692, and left his 
wife Eliz'th. Estate, £687, and left a son David and other children. 
Geo. Buttolph, of Wethersfield, died about 1696. An inventory was 
presented of his estate by his widow, and John Buttolph and Henry 
Buck appointed to assist her in 1696. He left three children, Geo., 
aged 6 years, Elizabeth, 3, and Joseph, 2. Estate, £204, 3s. 6d. 
Buttolph, David, probably from Wethersfield to Simsbury, d. at 
Simsbury in 1717 ; left his wife Mary, his relict, who was admin'x. 
Children, Jonathan, Martha Adams, David, Penelope Case, Silence 
Mather, Mehitabel Holcomb, Mary and Hannah. In 1723, the widow 
was appointed guardian for Hannah, aged 11 years, and Temper, 
ance, aged 9 years. 

BUTTOLPH, Mr. JOHN, had license to retail wine and liquors 
to his honest neighbors, and to suffer no wine or liquors drank in his 
house on penalty of the law provided in such cases, and to sell to 
no others than house-keepers, such as would be likely to make good 
improvement thereof, for their comfort and refreshment, 1667. 

BUTTOLPH, GEO., Simsbury, d. in 1696, and left a small es- 
tate, and children, John, David, and one other child. David d. in 
1717, and left an estate of £176. John d. in 1692, and his son Da- 
vid was his executor. 

BUTTOLPH, DAVID, ^^cordwinder," of Simsbury, sold land to 
John Slater, of Simsbury, dated May 11, 1716. 

BUTTOLPH, MARTHA, wife of Jonathan, (Martha Holcomb,) 
daughter of Nath'l, d. Jan. 29, 1725-6 ; m. June 21, 1723. 

BUTTOLPH, Serg't JONATHAN, widower, m. widow Martha 
Phelps, Feb. 15, 1758. 

BUTTOLPH, JONATHAN, Jun., m. Jerusha Dibol, July 3, 
1746. Buttetolft, one coat of arms ; Buttolf, one. 

BUTTOLPH, NEERING, of Simsbury, b. March 11, 1724, d. 
March 15th, 1724. One of the family removed to Canaan, Conn. 

BUTTOLPH, THO'S, free in Mass., 1641. 

BUTTOLPH, Mr. JOHN, of Boston, freeman, 1673. 

Three of this name have graduated at Brown Univ. 

BUTTOLPH, THOMAS, aged 32, his wife Ann aged 24, em- 
barked in the Abigail, Richard Hackwell, master, for N. England. 

BUTTALL, THO'S, a glover in Boston, a member of the church 
there in 1639. {Snow''s Hist.) 

BUTTOLPH, THOMAS, freeman, Boston, 1641, (perhaps same 



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man.) (See Snow, 105.) Had sons Tho's, b. 1637 ; John, b. 1639. 
Thomas, the father, d. in Boston, 1090. His son John, above, b. 
1639 ; probably was the Jolin Buttolpli, who settled at Wethersfield. 

BUTTON, WM., was the first of the name who came to this 
country. He was a servant of Samuel Fuller, who came in the May- 
flower, in 1620, and d. Nov. 6, 1620. 

BUTTON, DANIEL, came to Windham, wife Anna. She joined 
the church at Hampton, Ct. Children, Daniel, Jr., b. July 22, 
1724 ; Deborah, Anna, b. May 2, 1727, twins ; Thankful, b. Mar. 
9, 1731-2. He removed to Farmington. 

BUTTON, CHARLES C, of Hampton, was twice m. First wife, 
Lucy, had daughters Rosetta and Elethea. By his second wife, 
had Ruth. Some of this family were of Hampton, as late as 1832. 

BUTTON, PETER, was at N. London, as ea^ly as 1700. 

JOHN, freeman at Boston, 1634. MATTHIAS, of Ipswich, 
164S. ROBERT, of Salem, admitted to the church and freeman, 
1642. (See Farmer.) It was not an early name in Conn. 

BUTTON, MATTHIAS, a Dutchman, at Haverhill, 1658, wife 
Tegell or Tiagle. {His. Beg.) 

BUTTON has ten coats of arms. ^ 

One of this name graduated at Yale College in 1839. 

BUTT, BATTE or BATTS, ROBERT, a landholder in Weth- 
ersfield in 1640. John Batte had several lots of land in Wethers- 
field, 1640, {Bates.) 

The above was probably Robert Bate, who removed to Stamford, 
one of the first settlers. 

BUTT, SAMUEL, from Canterbury, joined the church in Hamp- 
ton, May 1, 1748. Sarah Butt, wife of Samuel Butt, from Brook- 
lyn, united with the church in Hampton, Jan. 9, 1774. Samuel 
Butt, of Hampton, had a son James, bap. there July 17, 1748, and 
daughter Hannah, bap. Sept. 9, 1750. 

BUTT, JOHN and ANNE, had a son Samuel and daughter Anne 
bap. at Hampton, June 27, 1813. 

BUTTY, EDWARD, m. Rebecca Stevens of Killingworth, May 
6, 1678. JOHN BUTTERS had an ear mark for his beasts at 
Lyme in 1737. The name of Butts is yet found in Conn. 

BUTT has one coat of arms. BUTTS has seven. BUTS, one, 

One of this name graduated at Yale Col. in 1822. 

BUXTON, CLEMENT, of Stamford, had lands at Stamford in 
1650, and the name yet continues at Stamford. Has 4 coats of arms. 



464 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Buxton lias four coats of arms. 

BUXTON, ANTHONY, of Salem, freeman, 1682. 

BYINGTON, DAVID, wife Mary, Farmington ; he cl. 1767. 
Had children, David, Eunice, Jerusha, Mercy, Patience, Joseph, 
Jacob. Sarah m. Nath'l Barnes, Dec. 1, 1763. Descendants of 
this family are now living in Wolcott, and the towns adjoining. 

This name was at an earlier period in Fairfield County, where it 
yet continues. 

BYLES, Kev. MATHER, who was ordained at New London, 
Nov. 18, 1757, was a son of Mather Byles, D. D., of Boston, whose 
mother was a daughter of Rev. Increase Mather. He was so popu- 
lar at N. London, as a preacher, that his call for a settlement at N. 
London, was unanimous, and a salary of JEIOO, and a gratuity or 
settlement of £240. The New London church, the day before the 
'ordination of Mr. Byles, rejected the Saybrook Platform as a rule 
of discipline in that church. Mr. Byles was grievously afflicted by 
the Rogerenes, (the followers of John Rogers,) or Quakers or Rog- 
erene Baptists. (See Caulkins.) 

In April, 1768, Mr. Byles closed his ministry in N. London, by 
declaring himself a convert to the ritual of the Church of England, 
and at once called a church meeting and asked for a forthwith dis- 
mission from that church, to give him an opportunity to accept a call 
to become the pastor of an Episcopal church in Boston. By a letter 
from the wardens and vestry of the North Church in Boston, dated 
March 8, 1768, he acknowledged himself an Episcopalian, and 
accepted a call made by them, at a salary of £200. April 2, 1768, 
Mr. Byles made a formal demand for dismission. " Voted, that this 
society do fully comply with his request.^' The church record as 
brief. " April 12, 1768. The Rev. Mr. Mather Byles dismissed 
himself from the church and congregation." Mr. Byles left New 
London in great haste, on board of a packet for Newport, soon after 
his dismission. He preached at N. London, between ten and eleven 
years. (See Caulkins^ Hist. N. L. Col. Rcc.) Pie gave back to 
N. London, on liis dismission, his previous settlement of £240. 

He graduated at Harvard Coll., 1751, successor of Rev. E. Ad- 
ams, 1757. 

Byle has one coat of arms. Byles has one. 

• In a Boston newspaper of April H, 1768, is the following notice, viz. " We hear that 
Christ's Church, at the North End, have made choice of the Rev. Mather Byles, of New London, 
for their minister. That he accepted the same, and soon expected in town, to embark for 
orders." 



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This name was early at Ash ford from Killingly, and held the of- 
fice of Town Clerk many years in Ashford. 

Two by this name, father and son, graduated at Harvard Coll. 

BYXBEE, or BIXBY, MOSP:S, m. Eliz'th llayt or Hoyet, of 
Norwalk, Jan., 17G4, and had Phebe, b, Aug. 20, 1774. 

Joseph Byxbe, of Boxford, free, 1689-90. 



CABEL, CAPELL, CABELL, CABLE, JOHN, of Hartford, 
" was born in the City of Stugand, in high Germany, on the Rhine." 
He d. Dec. 8, 1708, aged 58 years. He was probably the son of 
John, as he must have been born in 1G50, and d. at Hartford, aged 
.58, in 1708. 

JOHN CABELL, or CAPELL, had a suit in Court, July 2, 1640, 
Richard Coker, plaintiff. John Capell was also a defendant in Court 
June 7, 1649. In the same case, in Sept., 1649, he is recorded 
" John Cabell," and in the same case, May 21, 1650, recorded 
" Cable." He was one of the captors of the vessel and goods of Oul- 
sterman, the Dutchman, at Fairfield, in 1652. (See Col. Eec.) 
John Cable, Jun., was propounded for a freeman from Fairfield, 
May 14, in 1668, and John, Sen. and Jun., are found in the list of 
freemen at Fairfield, Oct. 10, 1669, and John Cable is first found on 
Fairfield record in 1653. The name of Cable has continued in 
Fairfield County to this time. 

CABELL, JOHN, Matthew Mitchell, Henry Smith, Wm. Blake, 
Thomas Ufford, Edward Wood, Jonas Wood, Samuel Butterfield, 
Roger Ludlow, W^m. Phelps, John Steel, W^m. Westwood, Andrew 
Ward, &c., signed the petition to the Gen. Court at Newtown, Mass , 
(Cambridge,) in 1635, to remove to Conn. River. Tn May, the pe- 
tition was granted, on condition they should remain under the juris- 
diction of Mass., and the following persons appointed to govern them 
one year, viz., R. Ludlow, J. Steel, Wm. Phelps, W^m. Westwood, 
A. Ward, &c. 

CAPELL, WM., aged 25, and Anthony Day, 22, were passengers 
in the Paule, of London, bound for Virginia, July 6, 1635. {Som.) 

Capel has six coats of arms. Cabell has three. Capell, ten. 

CABELL, JOHN, Springfield, 163G. (See Sprague.) 

CADWELL, THOMAS, was an early settler at Hartford, loca- 
ted in Front Street in 1652, and a respectable farmer. He m. Eliz- 
abeth Stebbins, and had issue, Mary Dickins, b. Jan. 8, 1659; Ed- 
ward, b. Nov. 1, 1660 ; Thomas, b. Dec. 5, 1662 ; William, b. July 



460 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

14, 1664; Matthew, b. Oct. 5, 1668; Abigail, b. Nov. 26, 1670; 
Eliz'th, b. Dec. 1, 1672; Samuel, b. April 30, 1075; Hannah, b. 
Aug. 22, 1677; Mehitabel, b. Jan. 12, 1679. His will was execu- 
ted in 1694 Mrs, Cadwell was the only living child of her father 
Stebbins, at his decease. Mr. Cadwell was a Constable in Hartford 
in 1662, and had a reputable family. He mentions land he had of 
his father Stebbins. In 1669, he exchanged land with the town of 
Hartford, for land at the landing place. 

CADWELL, EDWARD, son of Thomas, Sen., b. 1660, wife 
Eliz'th. Issue, Edward, b. Sept. 24, 1681 ; Wm., b. Aug. 24, 
1684; Eliz'th, b. Dec. 5, 1687 ; Rachel, b. April 3, 1689. 

CADWELL, EDWARD, son of Edward, m. Deborah Bunce, 
Dec. 20, 1704. (daughter of John,) and had issue, Jacob, b. Feb. 22, 
1709; Nehemiah,b. Aprils, 1711 ; Edward, Jun., b. Feb. 5, 1713; 
Debora, b. Jan. 26, 1714-15 ; Ab'm, b. Jan. 13, 1716. The father 
d. Sept. 3, 1751. Deborah, his widow, d. May 1, 1772, aged 85 
years. 

CADWELL, THOMAS, Jun., son of Thomas, Sen., and father 
of Thomas, 3d, b. 1662, m. Hannah Butler, Sept. 23, 1687. Had 
issue, Thomas, b. June 30, 1689 ; Jonathan, b. Aug. 15, 1694 ; 
James, b. April 3, 1697 ; Hannah, b. April 8, 1699; Moses, b. July 
7, 1703 ; Lois, b. Feb. 18, 1705-6 ; Aaron, b. April 9, 1710. 

CADWELL, SAMUEL, son of Thomas, Sen., m. Mary Clark, 
of Hartford, March 6, 1707-8. Issue, Mary, b. Dec. 18, 1708; 
Samuel, Jun.,b. Nov. 1, 1710, and others. 

CADWELL, MATTHEW^ son of Thomas, Sen., b. 1668, m. 
Abigail, daughter of John Beckley, 1695, and had issue, Matthew, 
b. June 11, 1696; Abigail, b. April 28, 1698; Ann, b. May 6, 
1700 ; John, b. Nov. 30, 1702 ; Abel, b. Nov. 27, 1703 ; Daniel, b. 
May 18, 1710, perhaps others. The father d. April 22, 1719, aged 
51. Abel Cadwell m. Anna Dwight, 1731 ; Matthew m. Esther 
Burnham, Aug. 31, 1722, {Ch. Rec.,) and d. Dec. 27, 1723. 

CADWELL, JAMES, son of Thomas, Jun., b. 1697, m. Sarah 
Merry, July 24, 1734, and had issue. Christian, b. Sept. 24, 1735 ; 
Sarah, b. Aug. 6, 1737 ; Pelatiah, b. Dec. 2, 1739. 

CADWELL, JONATHAN, son of Thomas, Jun., removed to 
W. Hartford, and had issue, Morgan, bap. April 22, 1722, and 
others. 

CADWELL, THOMAS, son of Tho's, settled at W. Hartford, 
and had issue, Abigail, bap. Jan. 23, 1723 ; Hannah, bap. Oct. 12, 
1729 ; Mercy, bap. Sept. 3, 1732 : Anne, bap. March 28, 1736 ; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 467 

Lois, bap. Nov. 29, 1741 ; Aaron, bap. Oct. 3, 1754; Eleanor, bap. 
April 16, 1758 ; Hannah, Ruth, Thomas and Roxilan. 

CADWELL, WM., of Hartford, m. Ruth Marsh, Oct. 31, 1711. 
Issue, Ruth, b. Nov. 18, 1714. His wife d. Nov. 21, 1714. Mat 
thewd. Dec. 27, 1723. 

CADWELL, SAMUEL, b. 1710, (son of Samuel and Mary,) 
had children, viz., Mary, b. April 15, 1738 ; second Mary, b. 1739; 
Samuel, b. Nov. 22, 1741 ; second Samuel, b. Jan. 1, 1743; Jos'h, 
b. Sept. 1, 1745; Timothy, b. Aug. 2, 1747 ; Mary Ann, b. 1750; 
Elishabe, b. April 19, 1752; Sarah, b. 1754 ; Charles, b. Sept. 12, 
1756 ; Aaron, b. April 27, 1760 ; Ruth, b. 1763 ; Phebe, b. 1765 ; 
Rhoda, b. Oct., 1767 ; Horace, b. Sept. 22, 1771 ; Martin, b. May 
10, 1773 ; Uriah, b. May, 1775. 

After the settlement of West Hartford, the Cadwells have most of 
them been located there, where there are now several families. 

Three by this name have graduated at Yale College, and eight at 
Harvard College. Perhaps Caldwell. Farmer notices John Cald- 
well, of Ipswich, 1665. 

CADWELL, EDWARD, freeman, at Ipswich, 1677. 

Caddell, has two coats of arms. 

CADY, JAMES, Farmer says, " came from the West of England, 
with three sons, and settled at Hingham, 1635, but appears to have 
removed from thence to Yarmouth, as early as 1640." The same 
year there appears to have been a James Cady, of Boston. Nicho- 
las, of Watertown, 1645, and James and Nicholas Cady, early of 
Groton. (See Fariner.) 

CADY, NICHOLAS, of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Wright, Oct. 12, 
1749, and had Butler, b. Aug. 27, 1750, d. Nov. 25, 1754. 

CADY, DAVID, resided in Canterbury or Brooklyn, and was the 
owner of a large tract of land, which is now in Brooklyn limits. A 
man by this name purchased land in Canterbury in 1714, and died 
there in 1736, as did his wife Mary. He had a son Daniel, who m. 
Joanna Leach, in 1712, and a son Ezra, who m. Hannah Winter, in 

1713. JOSEPH CADY, also, purchased lands in Canterbury, in 
1702. AARON and his wife, Mercy Cady, had issue, Aaron, born 
1718. URIAH CADY, and Hannah, his wife, had a daughter Ra- 
chel, b. there in 1825. JOHN and Elizabeth Cady, had issue re- 
corded at Canterbury, viz., John, b. at old Groton, 1699, also Eliz'h, 
b. at do. 1701 ; Wm., b. 1704; Eleazer, b. 1708; Ebehezer, b. 

1714. JONATHAN CADY, son of John, m. Hannah , and 



468 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

had children b. in 1716, 21, &c. Not conspicuous. W. G. CADY, 
of Hartford, m. Julian Stoddard, March, 1838. 

No. of Coats of Arms. Cade, (Derbyshire,) 1 ; Cade, (Romford, 
Co. Essex,) 1 ; Cade, (Greenwich, Co. Kent,) 1 ; Cade, (Suffolk,) 
1, and one other ; Caddy, 1 ; Caddey, 1 ; Cadye or Kadye, (Glou- 
cestershire,) 1. 

CADYE, BENJ'N, m. Mary Peyes ? Nov. 16, 1663, at Andover, 
Mass. 

CADY, JONATHAN, of Rowley, m. Hester Chandler, Nov. 12, 
1667. 

CAFFINS, JOHN, of New Haven, in 1643 ; had two persons in 
his family ; a farmer, and an estate of £500. John Caffinch, dau'r 
Sarah, b. at N. Haven, March 4, 1650 ; Eliz'th, b. Nov. 12, 1656. 
John Caffinge, Guilford, in 1639, {Trumbull, \o\. 1,) perhaps others. 

Few births are found recorded in N. Haven before 1650. This 
name is not found in the Conn. Colony. 

CAKEBREAD, Capt. THOMAS, was an early settler at Water- 
town, Mass., and had seven lots of land there. (Wat. Rec.) He 
was the " renowned soldier of Watertown," who was solicited tore- 
move to Dedham, and be at the head of military affairs, in 1637, 
(noticed in Haven's Address, p. 12.) 

CAKEBREAD, ISAAC, was at Hartford before 1680, and sold 
his lot in 1693-4, to Joseph Mygatt, of Hartford. He had fifty acres 
of land granted him in Suffield, April 4, 1677. He d. in 1698, and 
left a son Isaac, 18 years old. He removed to Suffield. Isaac Cake- 
bread m. Hepzebah, and had Isaac, b. Jan. 30, 1680 ; Rebeckah, 
b. Feb. 20, 1682. His wife d. March 8, 1683. 

Porter locates Isaac Cakebread, in Elm Street, Hartford, in 1680. 

The town of Hartford voted in 1692, to give Isaac Cakebread fifty 
shillings for his board at Windsor, while trying to get a cure under 
Doct. Matlier. 

Administration granted to Daniel Merell, on the estate of Isaac 
Cakebread, of Hartford, the tanner, 1709. Edw'd Smith, of Suf- 
field, his brother-in-law, refused to be admin'r. Margaret and Hep- 
ziba Cakebread, sisters of Isaac Cakebread, had his property, £7, 
'6s. 10|d. distributed to each of them. 

Thomas Cakebread (Farmer says) was freeman at Boston, 1634. 
Mem. of the ar. co. 1637; removed to Sudbury, and d. 1643. 

Isaac, of Springfield, in the list of freemen, 1678. 

CALDER, THOMAS, in Hartford, in 1645. Had his ear mark 
in Hartford, in 1646. Four coats of arms. 



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CALDWELL was a late name in Conn., after 1700, but has been 
a respectable name in Hartford for many years. 

No. of Coats of Arms. Caldwell, (London and Worcestershire,) 
1, and 6 others; Cauldwell, 1 ; Caldewell, 1 ; Caldwall, (Inglis- 
Scotland,) 1 ; Caldwell, (Linleywood, Co. Stafford, borne by James 
Stamford Caldwell, of Linlywood, Esq., M. A,, &c.) 1. 

Eight by this name have graduated at Harvard College, and three 
at Yale. JOHN, of Ipswich, 1665. 

CALHOUN, DAVID, was admitted to the first church, organized 
at Unity, N. S., Nov. 18, 1730. He and his wife Katherine had 
James, b. April 24, 1731 ; Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1732 ; Hannah, b. 
Dec, 1734 ; David, b. Aug. 14, 1736 ; John, b. Aug. 15, 1738 ; 
Ebenezer, b. Aug. 16, 1741. He was not one of the first settlers 
of Stratford or Milford. The Calhouns, of Washington, Conn., were 
descendants of the above family. The ancestor of Hon. John C. 
Calhoun, removed from Pennsylvania to South Carolina, and is 
claimed by this family as a relative. The family likeness was vis- 
ible — both of Irish extraction. 

Three by this name have graduated at Yale College. 

Mary Cohoon, bap. at Colchester, an adult, Feb. 18, 1733 ; prob- 
ably the same name. 

CALLOUG, CELLOGG, NATH'L, was the first of the name in 
Conn. He was at Hartford as early as 1639. He removed from 
Hartford to Farmington, and from thence supposed to Boston, and 
then to Hadley. He had four acres of land in the first division of 
land in Hartford in 1639. He was the ancestor of the Kelloggs, of 
Conn, and Mass. (See KELLOGG.) This name is first found in 
the Isle of Wight, where are now many families. 

CALLSEY, WM., of Kenilworth, (Killingworth,) was Deputy to 
the Gen. Court at Hartford, May Session, 1671. He removed from 
Hartford to Killingworth. He drew forty-eight acres of land in E. 
Hartford, June 12, 1666, and sold to Phillips. In this division, " it 
was agreed the first lot drawn should ly next Windsor bounds, and 
so successively, and that the waste lands shall belong to those lots 
of upland, against home [whom] it doth lye." " The upland on ye 
East side ye River," next to Windsor bounds. Mark Callsey, of 
Killingworth, m. Abigail Attwood, in 1683. At Killingworth, 1663. 
W'm, who was an early settler at Hartford, removed to Killing- 
worth ; had Abigail, b. at Hartford, April 19, 1645, and son Steven, 
bap. at H. Nov. 7, 1647, perhaps others. The name of Kelsey was 
early at Hartford, Milford and afterward at Killingworth, and prob- 
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470 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ably descended from the Hartford family. (The name is Kelsey. 
See KELSEY.) Wm. Kelsey drew sixteen acres of land in the first 
land division in Hartford, 1639. 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES, a member of the second church of N. 
London, (Montville,) in 1722, and under the preaching of Rev. Mr. 
Hillhouse, a minister from Ireland, and ancestor of the Hillhouse 
family of Conn. 

CAMPBELL, MOSES, and Benj'n Dow, of Voluntown, were 
members of the Convention in Connecticut, in 1788, called to ratify 
the Constitution of the United States. Both voted in favor of it. 
This was not an early name in Conn., though an important one in the 
country. Charles Campbell was one of the first members of the 
church of Rev. James Hillhouse, in 1722, at N. London, (Mont- 
ville.) 

Coats of Arms. Cambell, (Woodford and Clayhall, Co. Essex,) 
1, descended from Sir Thomas Campbell, Lord Mayor of London in 
1609j 1 y Campbell, (Duke of Argyll,) 1, and 54 other coats of 
arms. 

Five by the name of Campbell, have graduated at Yale College, 
and four at Harvard College. 

i CAMP, NICHOLAS, came first to Wethersfield with the early 
settlers, but is found with a house-lot of six acres, one r. and twenty 
p., as early as 1646, at Milford. John Gibbs also left Wethers- 
field as early as 1639, and settled and d. at N. Haven. Nicholas is 
in the list at Milford, Nov. 20, 1639, of the free planters of Milford, 
to make " choyce of public officers," to carry on the affairs of the 
town. Admitted into the church at M., Dec. 2, 1643. He was 
taxed in Milford in 1686, on £199 estate. 

CAMP, NICHOLAS, of Milford, m. Katteren Tomson, a widow, 
July 14, 1652 ; son Joseph, b. Aug. 11, 1653, d. at New Haven; 
Samuel, b. Sept. 15, 1655 ; second Joseph, b. Dec. 15, 1657 ; Mary, 
b. July 12, 1660 ; John and Sarah, b. Sept. 14, 1662 ; Abigail, b. 
March 28, 1667, perhaps others. 

Sarah, wife of Mr. Camp, d. in childbed with twins, Sept. 6, 1645, 
the first adult who d. in Milford ; (his first wife.) 

Nicholas admitted into the church at Milford, Dec. 12, 1643. 

CAMP, EDWARD ; daughter Mary, b. at New Haven, April 
21,1652; Edward, Jun., b. July 8, 1650; Sarah, b. Nov. 25, 
1655, probably others. The three above were recorded at New 
Haven. 

CAMP, NICHOLAS, Sen., gave his son Nicholas, of Milford, in 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 471 

1648, a house-lot of one acre and a half and twenty poles of land. 
Nicholas of Milford's son Samuel had for his portion the farm his 
father purchased of Tho's Wildman, in 1682. John Chatfield, of 
Derby, deeded land in Mil ford to said Camp, April 14, 1686. Nich- 
olas, of Milford, deeded to his son-in-law, Joseph Peck, Jun., of Mil- 
ford, a parcel of land, Nov. 1, 1687. Nicholas, of Milford, was a 
man of reputation ; ho was a Deputy to the Gen. Court, Oct., 1670, 
May and Oct., 1671, May and Oct., 1672, and had other places of 
trust. 

CAMP, WM., of Milford, signed the rules to govern the town of 
Newark, N. J., in 1667, and probably removed to Newark. 

CAMP, JOHN, of Hartford, Porter locates in Wethersfield Lane, 

in 1672 ; his wife Rebecca . Had children b. in Hartford, 

viz., Hannah, b, Nov. 24, 1672 ; John, b. Feb, 13, 1675 ; Sarah, 
b. Feb. 17, 1677 ; Joseph, b. Jan. 30, 1679 ; Mary, b. June 30, 
1682; James, b. June 23, 1686; Samuel, b. Jan. 29, 1690; Abi- 
gail, b. July 30, 1699. Camp, John, son of John and Rebecca, born 
in 1711. Camp, John, was allowed in 1697, a small piece of land 
south of the river, before his house in Hartford. 

James, of H.,d. Dec. 14, 1710; Samuel d. Dec. 17,1710; John, 
Sen., d. at Hartford, March 14, 1710-11. 

The Camps of New Milford, are descendants of the family at Mil- 
ford, Ct. . 

CAMP, WM., of N. London, about 1688 ; he m. Elizabeth, dau'r 
of Richard Smith. Sons, Wm. and James, settled at Montville. 
The father d. Oct. 9, 1713. {Miss Caulkins.) 

Twelve by this name have graduated at Yale College. 

CAMP, JOHN, of Wethersfield ; wife Mary. Had issue re- 
corded at Wethersfield, viz., Mary, b. Oct. 25, 1713. Capt. John 
Camp d. Feb. 4, 1747, aged 71 years. He may have had other 
children. 

CAMP, JOHN, Jun., of Wethersfield, m. Penelope Deming, Nov. 
1, 1739, and had Mary, b. Dec. 10, 1740; Anne, b. Dec. 1, 1742; 
Joseph, b. July 27, 1744 ; James, b. Nov. 30, 1746 ; Lucy, b. Mar. 
27, 1749. 

CAMP, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield, m. Anne Kellogg, Dec. 17, 
and had Anne, b. April 15, 1773; Eleanor, b. July 17, 1775; Sa- 
rah, b. June 4, 1778 ; Joseph, b. March 26, 1781 ; James, b. March 
15, 1784 ; Alma, b. Jan. 31, 1787 ; Lucy, b. May 12, 1790. 

CAMP, JAMES, of Wethersfield, m. Elizabeth Kilborn, Dec. 4, 
1769, and had John, b. April 6, 1770; Samuel, b. Aug. 25, 1772; 



472 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Abigail, b. Oct. 30, 1773 ; Moses, b. April 15, 1777 ; Mary, b. Oct. 
14, 1778 ; Eliz'th, b. March 24, 1782. We^hersfield Caraps. 

Campe (London) has one coat of arms. f. 

CAMP, HEZEKIAH, m. Lydia ; removed from Milford to 

Southend, (E. Haven,) about 1704, and afterward removed to Ca- 
naan, in Litchfield County. They had children, Hezekiah, Abiel, 
Joel, Lydia, whom. Amos Morris, 1745, Rebecca, whom. David Leav- 
itt, Abigail, who m. Joel Northrup, Sarah, and Samuel, an eminent 
minister of Ridgefield, where he d., and John. (See Dodd, His. E. 
H. p. 111.) 

CANADA, ISAAC, was the first settler in what is now the town 
of Hampton, in Conn., as early as 1717 or 18. He m. Phebe Leon- 
ard, Jan. 21, 1730, and had issue, Isaac, b. Dec. 23, 1732 ; Samuel, 
b. April 10, 1739. 

CANADA, HANNAH, was admitted into the church at Hampton, 
Feb. 7, 1725. Neither Isaac or David Canada, who were first set- 
tiers at Hampton, when it was a wilderness, before any white man 
ventured to locate in the forest, were members of the church organ- 
ized there in June, 1723. Margaret Canada joined the church, June 
30, 1723 ; Isaac joined Dec. 13, 1724 ; Elizabeth joined Jan. 3, 
1725 ; Hannali, Feb. 7, 1725. This naine has been uniformly 
spelled upon the Hampton records, Canada, and not Kenady or Kan- 
ady, and is now so spelled by the descendants generally. 

CANADA, DAVID, a brother of Isaac, of Windham Village, m. 
Margaret Lambert, or Lambrut, Nov. 5, 1718, and had issue, Sarah, 
b. Oct. 13, 1720 ; Hannah, b. March 30, 1723 ; Eliz'th, b. June 4, 
1726; David, Jun., b. March 28, 1728 ; Daniel, b. June 19, 1730, 
d. 1732 ; John, b. Nov. 18, 1732. David, the father, d. Nov. IS, 1732. 

CANADA, DAVID, (son of David and Margaret,) m. Deborah 
Jennings, Jan. 10, 1750, and had issue, Sybil, b. Oct. 5, 1750; 
Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1752 ; David, b. Jan. 20, 1755 ; Margaret, b. 
Sept. 8, 1757 ; John, b. Jan. 8, 1761, d. 1765 ; Nathan, b. June 24, 
1763; second John, b. May 7, 1765; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1, 1768; 
Deborah, b. Aug. 12, 1770 ; Hadassa, b. May 2, 1775. 

CANIDA, DANIEL, at an earlier period, had an allotment of 
fifty acres of land to him in the town of Suffield, (in 1679.) 

A family by the name of Kennady, came into East Hartford after 
1700, where his descendants are now found. Maj. John Kennady, 
who was suddenly killed by the turning over his waggon, by a rest- 
ive horse, when he was about 80 years old, &c., was of the East 
Hartford family. This family has uniformly spelled the name with 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 478 

a K, and those of Windham with a Ca. There is no evidence found 
either on tlie records of Suffield, Windham or East Hartford, which 
shows any relation by blood, of these three families, and no tradition 
is claimed that they were relatives. Kannady is now an old name 
in King's County, in Ireland. (See KENNEDY.) 

CANADIZE, DANIEL, a minor, at New Haven. Daniel Holt 
appointed his guardian, 1755. 

CANDEE, ZACHEUS, m. Saria Lane, of N. Haven, Nov. 19, 
1702 ; settled at Middletown, and was perhaps of the Candee family 
of N. H. Issue, Zacheus, Jun., b. June 6, 1703 ; Isaac, b. Dec. 13, 
.1704; Theophilus, b. Dec. 20, 170G; Sarah, b. 1708; Hannah, b. 
1711 ; Abigail, b. May 9, 1714 ; Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1716. Sarah, 
wife of Zacheus, d. Sept. 30, 1737. Zacheus d. there Dec. 20, 
1743, aged 67. 

CANDEE, SAM'L, of N. Haven, m. Abig'l Pinion, Ap'l 28, 1703. 

Mr. Wm. Condy, (perhaps Candee,) of New London, was offered 
for a freeman from New London, Oct., 1669. 

This name was early in Derby and Oxford, Ct. 

SAMUEL, of Mass., in 1664. 

One by the name of Cande, and four by the name of Candee, have 
graduated at Yale College. 

CANER, Rev. HENRY, of King's Chapel, joined in marriage 
Dimond Morton and Margaret Johnnot, of Boston, July 31, 1767. 
Rev. Henry Caner was the first Episcopal minister at Norwalk, in 
1729. He graduated at Yale College in 1724, and was doctorated 
with a D. D. from Oxford College. 

CANER, Rev. RICHARD, graduated at Yale College in 1736. 
In 1738 or 9, he preached at Norwalk. (See Note.) Caner, Henry, 
graduated at Yale College, 1724, and Richard, 1736. CANNEY, 
THO'S, Pascataqua, 1631 ; Bloody Point, in Dover, 1644 ; Joseph, 
his son, m, 1670.* 

* Keith, Rev., a convert from the community or Bociety of Friends, accompanied by Rev. John 
Talbot, both of the Church of England, preached in New London as early as 1702, asmissiona-' 
ries. Mr. Keith addressed a letter to the " Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, 
an 1 all others, the Honorable Members of the Society," dated Nov. 29, 1702 ; in which he gave 
an account of his labors after he arrived in Boston, June 11, 1702. He mentions that Mr. John 
Cotton, grandson to John Cotton, Sen., of Hampton, invited him to preach, and that he did 
preach there twice, and Mr. Talbot once, with great auditories. Also, Mr. Gushing, of Salisbury, 
Mass, where they both preached on Sunday ; and Mr. Gordon Saltonstall, of N. London, where 
they both preached on Sunday. (CA. Rec., Vol. 1, No. 17. See JV. £. Cornwall's His. .Iddrcss.) 
They also preached at Hempstead, L. I. After this, Rev. Mr. Muir, another Episcopal mission- 
ary, visited Stratford in 1700, to visit a few Episcopal families from N. Y., where he was not 
a< amicably received by the authority and minister as they were at N. London, He baptized 

40* 



474 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CANFIELD, CAMFIELD, CAMPFIELD, CAMPFILE, MAT- 
THEW", was an early settler at New Haven, 1640, where three of 
his children are recorded, viz., Matthew, b. May 9, 1650 ; Hannah, 
b. June 21, 1651, and Rachel, b. July 29, 1652. He probably soon 
after this removed into the Conn. Colony, at Norwalk. 

Hon. Matthew had probably passed the middle age of life, when 
he removed from New Haven to Norwalk, and yet some few years 
older, when he removed to Newark. Tradition says, he was a 
brother of Thomas, of Milford. Matthew had four sons, viz., Sam- 
uel, of Norwalk, Ebenezer, Matthew, Jun., and Jonathan. The last 
d. without children. Samuel had a home-lot in Newark, but re- 
mained on his father's lands in Norwalk. Ebenezer and Matthew, 
Jun., were settled at Newark, and perhaps removed there with their 
father, Matthew, Sen. 

His son Samuel, who afterward appears in his manhood at Nor- 
walk, was probably his eldest child, and is not recorded as b. at N. 
Haven. He (Matthew) is found in the list of lands at Norwalk, 
in 1655, for the sum of £283, 10s., and his son Samuel had a home- 
lot at Norwalk, in 1656. Nathaniel Campfield is in the list of those 
who had home-lots at Norwalk in 1652, (perhaps later.) If so, he 
probably was another son, though not named in the will, of Hon. 
Matthew, Sen. Matthew, Sen., was an important and useful inhab- 

about twenty-four persons, chiefly adults, though from his letter to the society, Nov., 1705, he 
had been at Stratford before he wrote. Rev. Evan Evens, another Episcopal missionary, accom- 
panied Mr. Muirson to Stratford. Mr. Muirson had a call by a few families at Stratford and 
Fairfield, to settle there as a missionary, and reside there ; but as Mr. Muirson d. in Oct., 1708, 
they received no answer from him. After this, Rev.'Mr. Talbot, Sharpe and Bridge, all mission- 
aries located at N. Y. and N. Jersey, officially visited Stratford and Fairfield, and baptized sev- 
eral. Rev. Mr. Phillips, another Episcopal preacher, took charge of the parish at Stratford, in 
1713, but soon after left the colony. Mr. Pigot, another Episcopal missionary, was sent to Strat- 
ford, by the society, to reside there, with the charge of the Episcopalians in Stratford and Fair- 
field, in 1722. In 1723, Doct. James Laborie, a French physician, who had been ordained "by 
Mr. Kinglet, antistes of the Canton of Zurich," in Switzerland, taught service under the usage 
of the Church of England, at his house in Fairfield, on such Sundays as Mr. Pigot preached at 
Stratford, &c. A parish was organized at Fairfield in 1724, and Mr. Pigot left Stratford for 
Providence in 1723, and was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Johnson, in 1724-5. Henry Caner, 
(Canner, Conner,) son of Mr. Caner, of N. Haven, read service at Fairfield, when Mr. John- 
son preached at Stratford, &c. He had graduated at Yale College in 1724. He had been en- 
rolled by Mr. Johnson in the registry book of Mr. Pigot, as a communicant at Stratford, March 
28, 1725. " Henry Caner," perhaps father of the last, was enrolled in the same registry book of 
Mr. Pigot, Sept. 2, 1722. It also appears by said book, that in 1724, wardens and vestrymen 
were not only appointed for Stratford and Fairfield, but forRipton and Newtown. The warden 
for Fairfield was Dougal Mackenzie, and vestrymen, James Laborie, Sen., and Benj'n Sturges; 
and James Laborie, Jun., as vestryman for Stratford. Mr. Caner was ordained in England, and 
appointed missionary to Fairfield in 1727. (See Cornwairs Discourse, in 1851. Also, see Col. 
Rec.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 475 

itant in the Colony, as an Assistant, Magistrate, Judge, and Legisla- 
tor ; made freeman at Hartford by the Gen. Court, in 1G54, and a mem- 
ber of the Gen. Court from Norwalk, in May, 1654, 5G, 57; twice 
in 1658, 1659, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 ; May, 1665, 66. Hon. Matthew 
d. in Newark, about 1673, and one of the first magistrates at Newark. 

Nathaniel Camfield, Deputy, May 17, 1655, from Norwalk. 
(Wlio was he?) 

Hon. Matthew was Collector of Customs at Norwalk, March, 
1652-9, on all liquors landed at Norwalk, except for exportation. 
Commissioner for Norwalk, May, 1664. In May, 1654, he was ap- 
pointed an assistant, with Geo. Hull and Alexander Knowles, of 
Fairfield, and Phillip Groves, of Stratford, to be assistants to such 
magistrates as the Gen. Court should at any time send among them, 
to execute justice, to marry, grant summons, bind over delinquents 
to courts, &c. In Oct., 1658, the Gen. Court of the Colony appoint- 
ed Mr. Ward, Mr. Hill, and the Townsmen of Fairfield, to assist 
Mr. John Welles, (of Stratford, son of Gov. Welles,) and Assistant 
Campfield, in proving wills, making inventories, and distributions of 
estates intestate ; appoint administrators, &c., in Stratford, Fairfield 
and Norwalk ; chosen and sworn an Assistant in May, 16G0. The 
Gen. Court in May, 1660, gave liberty to Fairfield, Stratford and 
Norwalk, to raise a small troop of horse, with two proper officers of 
their own election, to exercise them and the troopers to be approved 
by Mr. Gould, Mr. Fairchild, and Mr. Campfield, and the officers 
approved by the Gen. Court, (seven for Stratford, seven for Fairfield 
and four from Norwalk.) Hon. Matthew, of Norwalk, and Phillip 
Groves, of Stratford, were confirmed Assistants, (according to an 
order in May, in 1654,) in May, 1655. He was chosen Assistant, 
May, 1656, and ordered to give the oath to the other two Assistants. 
He was sworn Assistant for the year. May, 1657, and ordered to 
give the oath of freedom, and of a magistrate, to Ensyn Gold. Mr. 
Wyllis and Mr. Allyn were desired by the Gen. Court to hold a court 
at Fairfield, Oct. 20, 1659, and Mr. Camfield to assist them. Mr. 
Campfield, Mr. Gould, Mr. Sherman, Ens. Judson, Mr. Lawes and 
Lieut. Olmsted, were appointed a (/ommittee, or any three of them, 
by the Gen. Court, July, 1655 ; to which committee, each plantation 
in the Colony should consider some way to discover the approach of 
the enemy, and on such approach to give notice to the Committee ; 
and the Committee to extend from Stratford to Rye. This Commit- 
tee was appointed at the time De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was 
xpected on the coast, with his forces. All the Committees from 



476 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

*Southerton to Rye, when met in their respective limits, were em- 
powered, by the Gen. Court, to order and appoint how or in what 
way the order for aid should be carried out and effectually attended. 
In Oct., 1662, the Gen. Court appointed Mr. Campfield, Mr. Gould, 
(Nathan) and Mr. Sherman, or either two of them, to hire vessels to 
transport the corn from the sea-side towns to N. London, &c. In Oct., 
1662, Mr. Campfield, Mr. Gould and Mr. Sherman, were appointed by 
the Gen. Court to hold a Court at Fairfield, when they see cause, for 
the trial of such controversies as they were capable, according to the 
charter: At this Gen. Court, the towns of Stanford, Greenwich and 
Westchester, had liberty granted them to try their cases at the 
Court held at Fairfield thereafter. Mr, Campfield ordered to admin- 
ister the constable's oath to Robert Usher, for Stamford. The Gen. 
Court, March, 1662-3, voted that Mr. Campfield, Edward Griswold 
and Mr. Bond, should be nominated at the next Court, in May then 
next. May 16, 1661, the Gen. Court appointedWm. Wadsworth, 
Mr. Campfield and John Moore, " to ripen ye case respecting the 
horses in controversy twixt Reynold Marven and Matthew Gris- 
wold, for ye determination of ye Court." {Print. Col, Rec.) 

The Gen. Court, in Oct., 1661, appointed Mr. Gould, Mr. Sher- 
man, Mr. Knowles, and Mr. Campfield, or any three of them, pro- 
vided Mr. Gould was one, to try the case of Joseph Jeames and 
Marcy Holbridge, and inflict such punishment as they should judge 
proper. 

As full evidence of the high reputation of Matthew Campfield in 
the Conn. Colony, I mention that he was one of the nineteen petition- 
ers to King Charles II., for the Charter of Conn., and is named in 
the charter as petitioner and grantee. Notwithstanding the exalted 
reputation he enjoyed in the Colony, f Hon. Matthew, after the union 

*Southerton is by tliis Court named Mistick, in memory of that victory God was pleased to 
give tliis people of Connecticut over the Pequot Indians." By Major Mason, Lieut. Bull, &c. 
(Col. flee, p. 21G.) 

t First settlers of Newark, New Jersey, from Connecticut. 

May 11, 1CG5, the union of the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies was effected, to 
which Rev. Ab'm Pierson and others of Branford, Guilford, New Haven, and Milford, were so 
violently opposed, that they determined to remove, and in l(f65, agents were sent from these 
towns to examine the country on the Passaic River, in New Jersey, and make purchases of the 
Indians, and other arrangements necessary for a removal. The Committee were Capt. Robert 
Treat, John Curtis, Jasper Crane, and John Treat. They purchased the land comprising the an- 
cient town of Newark, N. J. The price paid was £130, New England currency, twelve Indian 
blankets, and twelve guns. 

Preparatory to a removal, the emigrants from Guilford, Branford and Milford, met and adopted 
the following " Plaj^txtion Covenant." 



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477 



of the Conn, and New Haven Colonies, removed to Newark, N. J., 
with his family, where llie name is now numerous, particularly in 
Newark and Orange. His son Samuel remained at Norwalk, as 
appears by a deed to him by his fatlier Matthew, when Matthew 
describes himself late of Norwake, now resident of Newarke, in the 
Colony of New Jersey, dated April 1, 1CG9. Hon. Matthew was an 
early magistrate in Newark. 

Deuteronomy, i : 13. \ 1. None shall be admitted freemen or free burgesses within our town 
Exodus, xviii: 21. / upon Passaic River, in the Province of New Jersey, but such planters 
Deut., xvii : 15. ( as are members of some or other of the Congregational ChurChes ; nor 

Jeremiah, ixvi : 21. / shall any but such be chosen to magistracy, or to carry on any part of 
civil judicature, or as deputies or assistants to have power to vote in establishing laws, and 
making and repealing them, or to any chief civil trust or office. Nor shall any but such church 
members have any vote in any such elections, though all others admitted to be planters have 
right to their proper inheritances, and do and shall enjoy all other civil liberties and privileges, 
according to all laws, orders, grants, which are or hereafter shall be made for this town. 

2. We shall with care and diligence provide for the maintainance of the purity of religion 
professed in the Congregational Churches. Whereunto subscribed from time to time, until the 
removal, which happened June 24,'16G7, the following persons: 



Abraham Pierson, Branford. 

Mr. Robert Kitchell, Guilford. 

Samuel Kitchell, (his son,) Guilford. 

Rev. Jeremiah Peck, (son-in-law,) Guilford. 

Mr. Jasper Crane, Branford. 

Samuel Swaine, " 

Laurence Ward, " 

Thomas Blachley, " 

Samuel Plum, '•' 

Josiah Ward, " 

Samuel Rose, " 

Thomas Pierson, " 

John Ward, « 

John Catlin, " 

Richard Harrison, " 

Ebenezer Canfield, Milford. 

John Ward, Sen., Branford. 

John Harrison, " 

John Crane, " 

Thomas Huntington, " 

Delivered Crane, " 

Aaron Blachley, " 

Richard Lawrence, " 

John Johnson, Guilford. 

Thomas [his x mark^ Lyon, Branford. 

Robert Treat, Milford. 

Obadiah Bruen, New London. 

Matthew Canfield, Milford, (AVujo/*.) 

.Michael Tompkins, " 

Stephen Freeman, " 

Thomas Johnson, " 

John Curtiss, Stratford. 



Eph. Burwell, Milford, 

Robert Dennison, [mark R.] 

Nathaniel Wheeler, Stratford. 

Zechariah Burwell, Milford. 

William Camp, " 

Henry Lyon, " 

John Brown, " 

John Rogers, " 

Stephen Davis, Derby. 

Ed. Riggs, " (Milford.) 

J. Brooks. — [mark J. B.] 

Robert Lyman. — [mark V.] 

Francis Linchs. — [mark F.] 

Daniel Tichenor, N. Haven. 

John Bauldwin, Sen., Milford. 

John Bauldwin, Jun., Guilford. 

Jonathan Tompkins, Milford. 

George Day. 

Joseph Walters. 

Robert Doglich. — (Douglass.) 

Hauns, Albers, New York. 

Thomas Morris. 

Hugh Roberts. 

Eph. Pennington, New Haven. 

Martin Tichenor. 

John Brown, Jr. 

Jonathan Sergeant, Guilford. 

Azariah Crane, Branford. 

Samuel Lyon, " 

Joseph Riggs, Derby. 

Stephen Bond. 



478 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS 

CANFIELD, SAMUEL, son of Flon. Matthew, sold his house-lot 
granted by the town of Norwalk, located between Tho's Betts, Sen., 
and Ephraim Lockwood, in 1669. {Hall and Rec.) Samuel's 
name is in the list of those who had home-lots in Norwalk, but the 
exact time is not pointed out. He probably went to Norwalk with 
his father, from New Haven, between 1652 and 1654. In 1675, he 
sold the north part of his home-lot in Norwalk, to Joseph Smith, then 
late from Long Island. He had a house and four acres of land at 
N., Dec. 17, 1681. He had four acres, home-lot, in 1670; free, 
1669. -In the list of children, about 1672, in Norwalk, (he,) Sam- 
uel Camfield, had one child. Samuel Canfield (perhaps Sam'l, 
Jun.) m. Abigail Austin, daughter of Tho's, of Stamford, Aug. 1, 
1709, and had a son Samuel, b. June 4, 1710. His wife Abigail d. 
June 11, 1710, and he m. Abigail Dean, May 9, 1711, and he died 
Sept., 1712. 

CANFIELD, EBENEZER, of Branford or Norwalk, signed the 
contract of the company at Branford, forming rules to regulate their 
town on Passaic River, in New Jersey, Oct. 30, 1665. He was, as 
noted above, son of Matthew. 

CAMPFIELD, NATHANIEL, had a home-lot at Norwalk of 
five acres in the first list of lots; time uncertain; perhaps 1652. 
He probably removed or d. without issue. He was Deputy to the 
Gen. Court in Hartford in 1655, from Norwalk. 

CANFIELD, THOMAS, Sen., of Milford, was not one of the first 
settlers at Milford, Ct. He probably was there as early as 1647, 
from N. H. His wife was Phebe, and his son Thomas was born 
there Oct. 14, 1654. This family and his descendants, on the Mil- 
ford, New Haven and Newark records, have usually spelled the 
name Canfield. He purchased of John Birdseye, in Milford, one 
acre, one rood and eight poles of land, and had three acres for his 
home-lot in 1647. He had liberty from the town of Milford, to ex- 
change a part of his land on the Plaine, in 1659. Serg't Thomas 
Camfield had four acres of the town, for supporting a gate at New 
field. He had one and a half acres of swamp in the West field, and 
a meadow East. He gave his sons, Tho's, Jun. and Jeremiah, lands 
which were confirmed to them by their father. Tho's, Sen., in 1687. 
He represented the town of Milford in the General Court in October, 
1674, and in October, 1676, &c. Lieut. Thomas Canfield was 

Mr. Robert Kitchell was a leading civil magistrate at Newark, and was called at Newark, 
"the benefactor" of the settlement. He went from Guilford, and occupied (R. D. Smith sayS/ 
the place in Guilford, now occupied by the family of Judge Griffin, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 479 

taxed in Milford in 1686, on £154. He was admitted into the 
church at M. in 1657. His will is dated Feb. 23, 1687. Inventory 
dated Aug. 22, 1089, £4S2, Is. 2d., in which he notices his three 
married daughters, Sarah, Phebe, Elizabeth, and gave them £5 
each, payable one year after his wife's death. He gave his dau'r 
Abigail, three acres of land, and gave his three unmarried dau'rs, 
£20 each, payable at their marriage. He mentions his son John 
Smith, and his two sons, Thomas and Jeremiah Canfield, who were 
his executors. This Thomas, Sen., is found to be the ancestor of the —^ 
Milford, Derby, New Milford and Sharon families, and a part of 
those of the name in Newark, New Jersey, and Orange. 

CANFIELD, THO'S, Sen., and Phebe, his wife, had issue, 1. 
Tho's, Jun., b. Oct. 14, 1654 ; 2. Mary, b. Jan. 1, 1656-7 ; 3. Jer- 
emiah, b, ; 4. Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 1657 ; 5. Elizabeth, b. 

Feb. 14, 1659-60 ; 6. Ealis ? a d'r, b. Dec. 16, 1667 ; 7. Mehitabel, 
b. July 2, 1671. Also, Abigail, Sarah and Phebe. (JV. Haven Pro- 
hate and Milford Records.) 

The children settled his estate, Oct. 2, 16S9. 

CANFIELD, THOMAS, Jun., (spelled Campfield,) wife not 
found, had issue, Rebecca, b. Jan. 28, 1682 ; Israel, b. March 24, 
1684, went to Newark; Abiram, (and supposed a Thomas.) His 
son Abiram settled in Derby, where he d. in 1772. This Thomas, 
Jan., d. in 1711 or 12, as the record of lands in M. speaks of land 
deeded by Israel and Abiram, sons of Tho's Canfield, late dec'd, to 
Tho's, their older brother, April 30, 1712. 

CANFIELD, JEREMIAH, son of Tho's, Sen., had children, 
Thomas, b. Sept. 16, 1704; Jeremiah, Jun., b. June, m. Judah Mal- 
lory; Phebe, b. Jan. 27, 171.5-16; Mary, b. June 30, 1719; per- 
haps others. The record speaks of Jeremiah Canfield, son of Serg't 
Tho's, and father of Thomas, deceased, June 30, 1712. 

CANFIELD, THOMAS, of Milford, m. Mary Camp, Jan. 3, 
1705-6, and had six children, viz., Thomas, b. Dec. 28, 1706, died 
1712 ; Mary, b. April or May 24, 1709; Joel, b. Feb. 7, 1711-12 ; 
Hannah, b. Aug. 1, 1714; Gidion, b. June 4, 1717; second Tho's, 
b. Aug. 6, 1720. 

CANFIELD, THOMAS, son of Jeremiah, had sons Loriah ? . 
Jeremiah, Tho's, and perhaps others. 

CANFIELD, JEREMIAH, son of Jeremiah, and grandson of 
Thomas, Sen., had six children, viz., Azariah, Samuel, Jeremiah, 
Zarobabell, Jemima, Joseph. He was an original purchaser of the 
town of New Milford, in 1706. His son, Jeremiah, and daughter 



480 GENEALOGY OF THK PURITANS. 

Jemima, not being on the N. Milford record, probably remained at 
Milford. 

The Milford record speaks of Thomas, in the line of Thomas, liv- 
ing in Washington, Ct., and settling his father's estate at Milford, 
July 29, 17S3. 

CANFIELD, JEREMIAH, of Milford, son of Thomas, of Mil- 
ford, m. Judah Mallory ; his will dated Sept. 18, 1756. He gave 
his wife Judah, one-third, and his only son, David, of New Milford, 
one-half his home-lot, house, barn and all his land undisposed of in 
New Milford. Also notices his daughters, Phebe Smith and Mary 
Collins. Appointed his only son, David, of N. Milford, his sole 
executor. 

CANFIELD, ABIRAM, son of Thomas, Jun., removed early to 
Derby; m. Ruth, and had issue, John, Samuel, Wm., Joseph and 
Josiah. His will proved at N. Haven, June, 1772, John Canfield, 
executor. He noticed one-third of his estate to Ruth, his wife ; also, 
names his grandson, Samuel, son of his son. Dr. Samuel, deceased, 
of Derby ; also his grandson, Abel, son of his son Wm., deceased, 
and of his three living sons, John, Joseph and Josiah. 

CANFIELD, WM., son of Abiram, of Derby, d. about 1761 ; his 
brother John, adm'r ; widow, Hannah, 1761. Inventory, £430, 
16s. 5d., dated Oct. 9, 1761. He left four children, and his widow 
Hannah was appointed guardian over the children, Abel, HannahjL_ 
Reuben and Levi Canfield, minor children of Wm., dec'd, 1762. 

CANFIELD, Dr. SAMUEL, of Derby, son of Abiram ; Mary, 
his widow, and John, his brother, administrators, Sept., 1766. Mary, 
his widow, appointed guardian for his children, Feb. 26, 1767, viz., 
Samuel, Siba, Sabere, Salle, Suse and Sylva, children of Dr. Can- 
field. 

CANFIELD, THOMAS, the first of the name found on the rec- 
ord at New Milford, and one of the original purchasers in 1706, and 
paid towards it £1, 45. After this, he disappears from the record. 
But Jeremiah was also an original proprietor of the town, and his 
was the 8th family that removed into the town, (from Milford.) He 
removed with four sons, viz., Azariah, Samuel, Zerobbabel and 
Joseph. 

CANFIELD, AZARIAH, had Benajah, Nath'l, and Asahel ; he 
removed to Vermont. 

CANFIELD, SAMUEL, son of Jeremiah, remained at New Mil- I 
ford, and had five sons, viz., Jeremiah, Heth, John, Samuel and Ol- 
iver. Samuel's branch of the four brothers became distinguished, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 481 

when Litchfield County was established in 1751. Hon. Samuel Can- 
field was a Justice of the Quorum of the C. C, and so continued 
until 1754. He was also a member of the Legislature repeatedly. 

CANFIELD, ZEROBABEL, son of Jeremiah, m. and had five 
children, viz., Nathan, Lemuel, Enos, Daniel and Hannah. He re- 
sided in the society of Bridgewater, in N. Milford. 

JOSEPH, son of Jeremiah Canfield, settled on Second Hill, in N. 
Milford ; m. and had four children, viz., Joseph, Jun., Isaac, Rhoda 
and Eunice. 

JEREMIAH, son of Hon. Samuel Canfield, resided in New Mil- 
ford, and had five children, viz., John, Jeremiah, Betsey, Abigail 
and Polly. 

HETH, son of Samuel, lived on Second Hill, in N. Milford, and 
had a daughter and perhaps others. 

JOHN, son of Hon. Samuel, settled in Sharon. 

SAMUEL, CoL., son of Hon. Samuel Qfcnfield, resided in New 
Milford; had seven children, viz., Philo, Ithamer, Asher, Herman, 
Judson, Lorraina, and Rebecca^ He was standing Representative 
for the town about twenty-five sessions of the Legislature ; a man of 
influence in the town and state. 

OLIVER, son of Samuel, had three sons, viz.. Homer, Abel and 
Ira. 

NATHAN, son of Zarobabel, settled in Arlington, Vt. His 
brother LEMUEL, m. Sarah Burton, and had issue, Daniel, Burton, 
Esq., Anna, Lemuel, Augustine, Orlando, d. young ; Lemuel lived 
in Bridgewater, N. M. 

ENOS, brother of Lemuel, d. by exposure in the French war, and 
had no family. 

DANIEL d. suddenly and young. He and his father were inter- 
red in the same grave at Bridgewater. 

JOSEPH, Jun., son of Joseph, lived on Second Hill, in N. Milford, 
and had children, Joel, Jerusha, d., and one other. 

ISAAC, brother of Joseph, Jun., had three daughters; no sons. 

JOHN, had three wives, and children, Treat, Everton C, Amza, 
George, Arza, Polly, Betsey, Laura, Phebe, Louisa. He lived in 
Bridgewater Society, N. M. 

! HETH, son of , lived on Second Hill, N. Milford, and had 

three children, Ransome, Lawrence and Alanson. 
1 PHILO, son of Col. Samuel, had issue, Ransom, Avis, and two 
other daughters ; he was a farmer. 

ITHAMER, son of Col. Samuel, resided in New Milford ; became 
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482 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

a man of a large estate, and died over 80 years of age. He m. Miss 
Starr, and had children, Col. Samuel Canfield, Betsey Booth, and 
Royal I. Canfield. Betsey and Royal I. are yet living. 

HERMAN, son of Col. Samuel, removed to Ohio. 

Hon. JUDSON, son of Col. Samuel, and nephew of Hon. John, 
of Sharon, graduated at Yale Coll., 1782, and settled as a lawyer in 
Sharon in 1787. He became Judge of the County Court, in Litch- 
field County, a member of the Council, &c., and late in life removed 
with his family to the town of Canfield, in Ohio, where he d. in 1839, 
over 80 years of age. He left a son, Henry J., and some daughters. 

Col. SAMUEL, a brother of Hon. Judson, also settled at Sharon, 
in early life, as a merchant, where he held the office of Town Clerk 
and other places of trust. A 

ASHER, son of Col. Samuel, a brother of Ithamer, m. Miss Rug- 
gles ; removed to South America, where he died, and left a widow 
and children. His father, Col. Samuel, who was son of Samuel, 
Sen., was also a Justice of the Quorum in Litchfield County from 
1777 to 1790. 

CANFIELD, JOHN, son of Samuel, and brother of Col. Samuel, 
was b. at N. Milford in 1740 ; graduated at Yale College in 1762 ; 
became a lawyer, and settled at Sharon, and soon gained a high rep- 
utation in his profession ; and in 1786, was elected a member of the 
Continental Congress, and d. before he took his seat in Congress, 
Oct. 26, 1786, aged 46 years. He left a son John M., Esq., who set- 
tled at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. He also left daughters, one of whom 
m. Hon. Ambrose Spencer, late deceased, of N. Y., and was the 
mother of Hon. John C. Spencer, of that state, a former Secretary of 
the Treasury of the United States. 

CANFIELD, DANIEL, m. Rebecca Warner, and had Egbert 
and Anna, and now lives in Bridgevvater, at the old Canfield man- 
sion of Z. C. 

BURTON, Esq., m. Polly Mitchell; resided at S. Britain, in ' 
Southbury, and had issue, Harriet, Mitchell Monroe, and Lemuel 
Munson. He removed to South Britain about 1800 ; a very active 
business man. ' 

CANFIELD, LEMUEL, brother of Burton, m, Betsey Mitchell, 
and had an only child, Jerome ; he also removed to South Britain. ' 

AUGUSTINE, son of Lemuel, m. Betsey Canfield, and removed 
to the town of Wakeman, Huron Co., Ohio. ( 

ORLANDO, son of Lemuel, graduated at Yale College, 1811 ; , 
removed to Columbus, Mississippi. I 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 483 

GEORGE m. C. Beecher, and had 6 children, viz., John B., Har- 
riet C, Mary, George and Wrn.; removed to South Britain. 

EGBERT has two children, Daniel and Rebecca ; he resides in 
Bridgewater. MITCHELL M. m. Eliza J. Averill, and has issue, 
Averill B. and Henry M ; resides in S. Britain. LEMUEL M. m. 
Emeline Northrop ; has two daughters and resides in South Britain. 
JEROME m. Hannah Smith, and had six children, viz., Lemuel, 
Mitchell, Cornelia, Edward, Chandler and Emma ; removed to N. 
Haven. 

CAlNFIELD, Rev. THOMAS, was born at Durham, Ct. He 
graduated at Yale College, in 1739, and settled the first minister at 
Roxbury, the third society of Woodbury, in Aug., 1744. He had 
two sons and one daughter, viz., Elihu, Esq., Thomas, and one d'r, 
who m. Rev. Jehu Miner. His son, Elihu, was a farmer; he m. 
Miss Frisby, and had children, Augusten, Betsey, Russell, Sally, 
&c.; all removed to the State of N. York. 

THOMAS, son of Rev. Thomas, graduated at Yale College in 
1772, and was King's scholar; he m. Sarah Mallory, of Roxbury, 
and had children, viz., Polly, m. Ira Sanford; Russel, d. in N. Y.; 
Sally, m. Benjamin Wheeler, of Bridgeport ; and Philemon, who is 
the only survivor of the family, and resides in Hartford. Tho's, 
the father, d. in Hartford, Feb., 1826, and Sarah, his wife, d. in 
Hartford, Jan. 1, 1834. Rev. Thomas d. at Roxbury in his old age, 
1795. It is supposed that Rev. Thomas was a descendant of one of 
the branches of Thomas, Sen., of Milford. Though tradition says, 
his father came from England. 

This name, upon the early records, colony and town, is spelled 
Campfield, Camfield, Camphile andCanfield ; more frequently Cam- 
field. The descendant of Thomas, Sen., of Milford, (Israel,) who 
settled at Newark, N. J., (says Congar,) and all his descendants 
there, have uniformly spelled the name Canfield, as all now do in 
Connecticut. 

CANFIELD, SAMUEL, and Daniel Everett, of New Milford, 
were members of the Convention in Connecticut, in 1789, to ratify 
the Constitution of the U. S. 

CANFIELD, JOEL, son of Thomas and Mary (Camp,) was b. 
at Milford, Feb. 7, 1712. He settled at Saybrook, where he had 
two children born, viz., Hezekiah, b. Dec. 29, 1748 ; Isaiah, b. Feb. 
II, 1750, perhaps others. 

Coats of Arins. Camfield or Camfyld, (Norfolk,) 1 ; Camfield, 
two ; Canfield, (Yorkshire,) one ; Canfield, ar. fretty, sa. one. 



484 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Eight by the name of Canfield, have graduated at Yale College. 

CANNON, JOHN, of Norwalk, was not a first settler. He m. 
Esther Perry, Dec. 1, 1750. Issue, John, b. July 7, 1752 ; Samuel, 
b. July 28, 1754 ; James, Sarah, Le Grand, Lewes, (or Lewis,) 
Will'm, Aspenwall, and Esther. 

CANNON, JOHN, son of John, of Norwalk, m. Sarah St. John, 
1777. Issue, John, Sarah, George, Harriet, Antoinette, Charles 
Ogilvie, Esther Mary, and James Le Grand, b. Oct. 12, 1796. 

JAMES, son of John Cannon, Sen., m. Rebeckah Goold, June 3, 
1779. Issue, Sarah, Esther, Amelia, Mary and James, Jun., born 
Sept. 20, 1796. 

SAMUEL, son of John Cannon, Sen., m. Sarah Belden, of Nor- 
walk, Dec. 26, 1781. Issue, Henrietta, Le Grand and Esther, b. 
Oct. 3, 1793. 

At a town meeting at Norwalk, held Aug. 20, 1770, Capt. John 
Cannon, Col. Thomas Fitch and Capt. Benjamin Isaacs, were ap- 
pointed delegates to attend a Gen. Convention at N. Haven, the day 
after Commencement, to consult affairs, as to importing goods, &c. 
Mr. Cannon was often honored by the town, by being appointed to 
many places of trust. 

CANNON, ROBERT, was accepted an inhabitant at N. London 
in 1678. This name was in Mass. in 1680, and perhaps some years 
previous. 

One by this name graduated at Yale College in 1818. 

JOHN, of Plymouth, 1623. This name is yet found in Conn. 
Robert, of N. London, was as early as any found in Conn. One 
has graduated at Yale College. 

Cannon has three coats of arms. Canon, or Chanon, has one. 

CAPON, Deac. JOHN, died at Dorchester, Mass., April 6, 1692, 
aged nearly 80. His wife Mary d. there June 29, 1704, in the 73d 
year of her age — an old and early name at Dorchester. 

This name came late to Hartford from Mass. 

Eight of this name have graduated at Harvard College. 

Capon has two coats of arms. 

JOHN, freeman, of Dorchester, 1634. JOSEPH, a clergyman 
at Topsfield, son of John, b. at Dorchester, Dec. 20, 1658 ; gradua- 
ted at Harvard College, 1667, ord, at Topsfield, June 11, 1684, died 
June 30, 1725, aged 66. Widow Priscilla and several children, i; 
BERNARD, of Dorchester, d. Nov. 8, 1638, aged 76. His widow j 
Jane d. March 26, 1653, aged 75. (See Farmer.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 4815 

This name was at Milford, many years before it is found at Hart- 
ford. 

CARDER, RICHARD, east of the Thames River, about 1700. 
[CauJkins.) Richard, Boston, free, 1636. {Savage.) 

CAREY, GARY, Lieut. JOSEPH, and Hannah, his wife, of 
Windham, had issue, Joseph, b. May 5, 1689 ; Jabis, b. July 12, 
1691. His wife d., and he m. Mercy, and had Hannah, b. March 
7, 1693 ; John, b. June 25, 1695 ; Seth, b. July 29, 1697 ; Eliza- 
beth, b. April 14, 1700. Lieut. Joseph, the father, d. Jan. 10, 1722. 
Mercy, widow of Deacon Joseph, d. Jan. 23, 1741, aged about 84 
years. 

CARY, JOHN, son of Deac. Joseph and Mercy, m. Hannah 
Thurston, May 15, 1716. Issue, John, Jun., b. April 12, 1717 ; 
Benajah, b. May 7, 1719 ; Phebe, b. July 22, 1721 ; Joseph, b. 
Aug. 4, 1723 ; Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1725 ; Wm., b. Dec. 12, 1727, 
d. Feb. 9, 1743 ; Jonathan, b. Aug. 24, 1729, d. 1742 ; Nath'l, b, 
Nov., 1731 ; Samuel and Phebe. John, the father, d. Jan. 11, 1776, 
aged 81 years. 

CAREY, JABIS, son of Dea. Joseph and Hannah, m. Hannah 
Handy, (Hendee,) Nov. 15, 1722. Issue, Joseph, b. Sept. 28, 1723 ; 
Hannah, b. July 6, 1725 ; Jabis, Jun., b. July 30, 1727; Nathan- 
iel, b. Oct. 23, 1729 ; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1739 ; Benjamin, b. Jan. 
25, 1741-2, d. in infancy. Hannah, the mother, d. Dec. 25, 1742. 

CAREY, SETH, (son of Deac. Joseph, by his second wife,) m. 
Mary Hebard, April 17, 1722. Issue, Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1723; 
Seth, Jun., b. July 12, 1725; Eliz'h, b. April 25, 1727; Josiah, b. 
Jan. 13, 1730; Joannah, b. Dec. 28, 1731; Daniel, b. Feb. 22, 
1734; Abigail, b. May 15, 1736 ; Hannah, b. June 25, 1739 ; Mo- 
ses, b. Dec. 15, 1740. 

CAREY, JOSEPH, Jun., son of Dea. Joseph, m. Abigail Bush- 
nell, July 14, 1711. Issue, Abigail, b. Sept. 7, 1714; Joseph, b. 
and d. 1715 ; Zeruiah, b. May 22, 1718 ; (perhaps others.) 

CARY, ELEAZER, of Windham, and wife Lydia, had issue, 
Sarah, b. April 10, 1720, d. 1726 ; Wm., born March 4, 1722, died 
1726 ; Alatheah, b. Aug. 12, 1724, d. Feb. 22, 1787 ; second Wm., 
b. Oct. 28, 1729. Deacon Eleazer d. July 28, 1754, aged 75. 
Lydia, his widow, d. June 12, 1761, aged about 75 years. He also 
had a son, Eleazer, Jun., who m. Jerusha Wales, of Windham, Jan. 
29, 1736, and TTad children, Eleazer, b. Aug. 7, 1737 ; Nathaniel ; 
Susannah ; Allethea, b. 1744 ; Phineas ; Prudence; Lydia; Jeru- 
siia, b, Jan. 14, 1754-5. Eleazer, Jun., d. July 24, 1754. JOHN 
41* \^ 



486 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CAREY, JuN., m. Rebecca Rudd, Nov. 13, 1740, and had sons, Eze- 
kiel, Wm., Jonathan, John, and four daughters. BEN A J AH CA- 
REY m. Deborah Perkins, Feb. 11, 1742, and had an only son Ja's, 
and five daughters. This has been an old nanae at Plainfield. Jo- 
seph, Sen., of Windham, must have been a gentleman of reputation, 
as no men in Connecticut, at the early settlement of Windham, could 
have held the offices of Deacon and Lieut., unless of high standing 
in the colony. JAMES CARY, and wife Ellinor, were of Charles- 
town, Mass., and had a son born there in 1642. RICHARD CARY, 
aged 17, embarked in the Primrose, for Virginia, July 27, 1635. 
Benjamin Corey, of Windham, (probably Cary,) m. Abigail Abbe, 
Nov. 10, 1743, and had issue, Mary, John and others. George, of 
Salisbury, Mass., 1641. 

Carey has two coats of arms, and Cary has seven. 

Ten by this name have graduated at Harvard College, and three 
at Yale College. 

JAMES came from Bristol, in England ; settled at Charlestown 
as early as 1639, and d. 1681. His children were John, James, b. 
1644; Nath'l, b. 164.5; Jonathan, b. 1646; Eliz'th, Eleanor. 

NICHOLAS, of Salem, 1637. (Farmer.) 

Carary, (perhaps Crary,) Nicholas, free, 1674, in Mass.; (Cary ;) 
Caree, (Cary,) Jonathan, of Charleston, free, 1682. 

CARNES, THOMAS, of N. Haven, (E. H.) m. Mary Brown. 
Issue, Elizabeth, b. Aug. 8, 1684; Alexander, b. Dec. 19, 1685; 
Joseph, b. Aug. 4, 1687. {Dodd.) 

Carnes, (Scotland,) one coat of armb ; Carne, three. 

The company who settled at N. Haven, sailed from Boston, Mar. 
30, 1638, and after a lengthy voyage of about two weeks, arrived 
at Quinnipiack, (New Haven.) 

One Carnes graduated at Yale College, and three at Harvard. 

Farmer notices JOHN, of Boston, member of the Ar. Co., 1649, 
same year its captain. Whitman says he was captain in the Brit- 
ish navy. 

CARLTON, SAMUEL and PETER, of TOLLAND, deceas'd, 
distribution to their heirs, brothers and sisters, viz., Richard, Caleb, 
Sarah, Mehitabel and Hannah Carlton, in 1765. 

ED W ARD, of Rowley, free, 1642. Deputy, 1644, for four years. [ 
JOHN, of Haverhill, d. 1669. (Farmer.) ': 

Carlton, Mary, aged 23, a passenger in the Merchant's bona ven- 
ture, for Virginia, 1634-5. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 487 

Henry Carleton graduated at Yale College in 1806 ; and one grad- 
uated at Harvard in 1814. 

CARPENTER, JO., was a plaintiff in Court at Hartford, June, 
1648. John Carpenter was fined by the Court at Hartford, June 5, 
1646, £10, and bound to his good behavior, for breaking into the 
house of Wm. Gibins, at Hartford, and drinking wine. Tho's Os- 
niore engaged to pay for him £5 in two months, and £5 in three 
months after August, 1646. He was defendant in Court in June, 
1648. 

BENJAMIN, of Bolton, m. Rebecca Smith, of Suffield, 1726. 
EPH'M m. Mary Wheeler, May 21, 1761, by Jacob Eliot, pastor of 
Goshen, in Lebanon. 

JOHN, of Windham, and his wife Sarah, had a daughter Sarah 
b. at Windham, March 20, 1730 ; Eliz'th, b. May 16, 1733, removed 
to Mansfield. 

JOHN, a first settler at Stafford. 

DAVID m. Elizabeth. Second wife O. Bronson, and had a d'r 
Elizabeth, b. 1744, m. Hill ; David, Jun., b. 1747 ; Mary, b. 1750, 
m. Hinman ; removed from Farmington to N. London. 

RUGGLES, of Ellington, and Julana, his wife, had issue, Del- 
ford, b. March, 1800 ; Meriva, b. 1802, and Zander, b. 1704. Rev. 
Josiah, of Chichester, grandson of JOHN, of Rehoboth, and son of 
John, of Norwich, b. at Stafford, Ct., Oct. 6, 1702 ; m. Mary Loomis, 
of Lebanon, Ct. 

Dr. JOEL d. at Ellington, Jan. 25, 1789, and Mary d. there Dec. 
27, 1799. ELIPHALET renewed his baptismal faith at W. Hart- 
ford, March 17, 1728 ; his d'r Hannah, bap. at W. Hartford, Mar. 
27, 1728. 

GEORGE, prisoner at Quebec, in 1775. 

CARPENTER, EPHRAIM, and William Williams, of Lebanon, 
were members to ratify the constitution of the United States, in 1788. 
Williams voted for it, and Carpenter against ratifying it. W'M, 
free in Mass. in 1640. 

CARPENTER, THOMAZIN, aged 35, and Wm. Burrows, 19, 
&c., came to N. England in the Susan and Ellen, Edward Payne, 
master, in 1635. Thomas Carpenter, of Amesbury, a carpenter, 
(by trade,) shipped at Hampton, in the James, of London, of IIIC 
Tomes, Wm. Cooper, master, for N. England, about April vi, 1635. 

CARPENTER, JOHN, Jan. 23, 1692-3, was allowed two acres 
of land in Woodstock, for every acre wanting in complement of his 
home-lot ; w-as an early settler. 



488 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CARPENTER, BENJAMIN, removed from Rehoboth to North- 
ampton, Mass., where he remained for a time, and then removed to 
Coventry, Conn., where he died. He had six sons, Eliphalet, Noah, 
Amos, Jaded iah, Ebenezer and Benjamin. His son Noah wash, 
at Northampton, 1705, and had sons born at Coventry, viz., Abner, 
Ezra, Israel and Benjamin. Benjamin, Jun., son of Benjamin, Sen., 
b. 1695, settled in Coventry, and had nine sons, viz., Benj'n, Jona- 
than, Elijah, Levi, Reuben, Joseph, Dan, Jesse and Comfort. 

CARPENTER, ELIPHALET, son of Benjamin, b. at Northamp- 
ton in 1703, settled at Coventry in 1726, and had children and grand- 
children. 

CARPENTER, ELIPHALET, and Rebecca, of Woodstock, had 
issue, Mary, b. May 19, 1704 ; Rebecca, b. May, 1707 ; Eliphalet, 
b. 170S-9 ; Dotcas, b. April 14, 1711 ; John, b. 1713 ; Joseph, b. 
1715 ; Sarah, b. 1720, and perhaps Dorothy, b. 1723. 

CARPENTER, JESSE, m. Margaret Bacon, Feb. 27, 1711-12, 
and had issue at Woodstock, Margaret, b. Sept. 23, 1713 ; Jesse, b. 
March 3, 1715-16; Anne, b. Jan. 29, 1718-19; Olive, b, 1720; 
Benjamin, b. March 29, 1722 ; Deliverance, b. Aug. 7, 1724 ; 
Amos, b. 1727 ; Henry, b. 1729, and Rebecca, b. May 21, 1731. 

Four of this name have graduated at Yale College, and four at 
Harvard. 

CARPENTER, NATHAN, and wife Patience, of Woodstock. 
Issue, Gideon, b. May 24, 1725 ; Freelove, b. March 28, 1728. 

CARPENTER, ELIPHALET, Jun., m. Mary Bacon, of Keka- 
moochaug, April 22, 1730. Eliphalet Carpenter and Abigail, his 
wife, had issue, Wm., b. Sept. 28, 1732 ; Abail, b. Jan. 6, 1733-4; 
Daniel, b. July 17, 1735. 

CARPENTER, URIAH, of Ashford, m. Sarah Hayward, Nov. 
28, 1733, and had issue, Grace, b. 1734 ; Hezekiah, b. 1736 ; Jon- 
athan, b. 1738, d. 1747-8 ; Uriah, b. Jan. 6, 1740-1 ; Isabel, b. 
1743, d. 1749; Anna, b. Jan. 1, 1745-6; Elizabeth, b. 1748, d. 
1749; Dan, b. June 19, 1750. 

CARPENTER, JOHN, m. Elizabeth Wright, Nov. 23, 1738. 
Issue, b. in Woodstock, John, b. Feb. 22, 1739 ; Bermsley, b. July 
3, 1743. 

CARPENTER, JESSE, m. Margaret Bacon, Feb. 27, 1711-12. 
Samuel Carpenter, of Pomfret, m. Hannah Johnson, Feb. 4, 1713-14. 

CARPENTER, JOHN, of Hempstead, L. I., was accepted by 
the Gen. Court of Conn, as freeman of Conn., if he accepted. May, 
1664, and with him Richard Gildersleeve, Sen. and Jun., Mr. Ford- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 489 

um, Edward Titus, James 'Pine, Tho's Carle, Tho's Hicks, Jolin 
Smithmati, Jeremiah Wood, John Smith, Jun., Henry Persell, Wm. 
Surdine, Wm. Yeats, Robert Murwen. 

Coats of Anns. Carpenter, (Earl of Tyrconnel, &,c.,) 1 ; Car- 
penter, (Barbadoes, granted in Ireland, 10th June, 1647,) 1 ; Car- 
penter, (granted 1661,) 1 ; Carpenter, (London, Hertfordshire, Glou- 
cestershire and Kent,) 1 ; Carpenter, (London,) 1, and eight others. 
Carpenters, (Kent,) 1. 

CARPENTER, DAVID, at Nahantick Ferry, 1680 ; he m. Sa- 
rah Hough, granddaughter of Wm. Hough, of N. L. He liad a son 
David, bap. Nov. 12, 1682, and daughters. He d. in 1700, and his 
relict m. Wm. Stevens, of Killingworth. {Caulkins.) 

Farmer notices W'M, of Weymouth, freeman, 1640; Rep. 1641 
and 1643. W'M, Providence, 1641, one of the founders of the first 
Baptist church. JOSEPH, Swanzey, one of the founders of the first 
Baptist church in Mass. Rev. EZRA H. C, 1720, native of Re- 
hoboth, &c. 

CARR, Sir ROBERT, one of his Majesty's Honorable Commis- 
sioners, with Col. George Cartwright and Samuel Mauerick,- Esqs., 
who presented certain propositions to the Gen. Court of Conn., read 
before said Court at a session held at Hartford, April 20, 1665. 
(See print. Col. Rec, p. 439, vol. 1.) 

CARR, JOHN, a fugitive from Rhode Island to Stonington, C't, 
after having twice broken jail in R. I., 1670. (See Gov. Arnold's 
Letter to Gov. Winthropj in Appendix, print. Col. Rec, vol. 2, p. 
535.) Carr, Richard, m. Dorothy Boyd, of Killingworth, Conn., 
Feb. 10, 1684. (See Killingioortli Records.) Richard Carr, aged 
29, James Dodd, 16, &c., embarked in the Abigail, for N. England, 
July 2, 1635, by the usual certificates. 

CARR, JOHN, was of Mystic, about 1665, and inveigled the af- 
fections of Anne, daughter of Capt. Denison, and without consent of 
parents attempted to induce her to leave her father, and marry him, 
&c. He was tried in Court and fined. He and John Ashcraft, 
afterwards were tried for enticing married women from their hus- 
bands, and writing improper letters, and were fined, and the married 
women ordered to take care. Carr d. in 1675. {Caulk, and Rec.) 
CARR, MARGARET, m. John Logan, at Marshfield, Mass., Jan. 
7, 1723-4. Mr. George Carr, Jun., took the oath of allegiance and 
fidelity, before Tho's Bradbury, Capt. of the military company of 
Salisbury, Mass., Dec. 14, 1677, and Richard and James Carr, Ap'l 
5, 1677. 



490 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Carre has 4 coats of arms ; Carr, (Bristol,) 1 ; Carr, (Tewksbury, 
Co. Gloucester,) 1 ; Carr, (Shaford, Co. Lincoln and Lancashire,) 
1, and 11 others. Carrier has 2. 

One by the name of Carr, graduated at Yale Coll., 1846, and one 
at Harvard Coll. in 1835. 

GEORGE, a ferryman and shipwright, of Ipswich, in 1638, Salis- 
bury, 1642, d. April 4, 1682. (See Farmer.) 

Few of this name are now found in Conn. 

CARR, GEORG, an original townsman of Salisbury, Mass. 
(Thor.) Mr. Carr in the rate of 1652, at Salisbury. James, a free- 
man at Salisbury, Ms., 1690. Georg Car, rated at Salisbury in 
1650, and was townsman and commoner, and so directed by order, 
1650. 

CARRIER, THOMAS, of Colchester, Conn., was b. in England, 
and the oldest man of the name found in Conn. He d. at Colches- 
ter, March 16, 1735, aged (says record) over 108 or 9 years. 
Thomas, Jun., d. at Colchester in 1740, aged 60. Richard Carrier 
d. there Nov. 16, 1749, aged 75 years, probably sons of the first 
Tho's. Tho's, Sen., was at Billerica, in 1665 ; in Andover, 1692, 
but d. at Colchester, Conn. {Colchester Rec. and Allen.) Farmer 
says he was from Wales, and was m. May 7, 1664, to Martha Allen, 
who was one of the victims of the witchcraft infatuation at Salem 
village, Aug. 19, 1692, and had several children b. at Billerica. 

CARRIER, RICHARD, of Colchester, m. Elizabeth Sessions, at 
Andover, July 18, 1694. He d. at Colchester, Nov. 16, 1749, aged 
seventy-five. 

CARRIER, JOHN, of Colchester, had a daughter Mary bap. 
March 19, 1737. Andrew, bap. July 27, 1740. 

JOHN and Hannah Carrier, of the second church in Colchester, 
had sons Uriah and John, bap. March, 1759. 

CARRIER, ANDREW, of Colchester, had a son Andrew bap. 
Nov. 24, 1734 ; Ruth, Sept. 19, 1736 ; Samuel, bap. March 9, 
1740, perhaps others. 

CARRIER, AMOS, had a daughter Thankful, bap. at Colchester 
Aug. 6, 1749; Rachel, bap. 1751 ; Amaziah, bap. Sept. 22, 1754; 
Mehitabel, bap. 1756, perhaps others. 

CARRIER, THOMAS, and Deborah, his wife, of Colchester, had 
children, Deborah, bap. 1743 ; Mary, bap. Dec, 1743 ; Ebenezer, 
bap. 1745 ; John, 1746, and Abigail, Feb. 14, 1748. This name 
has been numerous in Colchester, since 1700. 

CARRIER, JOSEPH, of Colchester, had a son Joseph, bap. July 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 491 

20, 1765, at the second church ; Samuel, Feb. 14, 1771 j Ebenezer^ 
June 7, 1772, d; second Ebenezer, Aprils, 1774; David, June 16, 
1776; one bap. in 1779; Dolly in 1781; Erastus, May 30, 1784; 
also, Epii'm, 1784, and Alfred, bap. May, 1789. 

In 1644, Mr. Trott and N. Dickinson, " undertook" thatCARRING- 
TON should appear in Court or the Gov. should call for him. He was 
defendant in Court at Hartford, June 6, 1644, Geo. Steel, plaintiff. 
Kirkham and Carrington were ordered by the Court to pay 305. to 
the administrators of Vere, for their corn bargain, Oct., 1646. In 
the will of Edward Vere, of Wethersfield, made July 19, 1645, he 
says, " My mynd is that John Carrington and Thomas Kirkham 
shall have 20s. for making my coffin." Vere had property at Weth- 
ersfield and Branford. 

Seven by this name have graduated at Yale College, and four at 
Harvard College. 

EDWARD, Charlestown, Mass., admitted freeman, 1686. {Far.) 
John was indebted to John Talcott, 28s. for setting up railes, be- 
tween the town and the Dutch ground in Hartford, June 3, 1644. 

CARRINGTON, JOHN, of Waterbury; inventory of .£120, II5. 
offered in Court in 1690, by his son John, appointed administrator ; 
aged 23 years. Benj'n Barnes and Tho's Judd, the smith, appointed 
overseers, and empowered by the Court at Hartford, to put out tlje 
three youngest children to the best advantage, and not to be over- 
ruled by John, the administrator. Also, to preserve and take care 
of their portions. June, 1690, distribution to the oldest, (John,) 
£23; to the other children, each £12. His children were, John, 
aged 23 years ; Mary, 18 ; Hannah, 15 ; Clarke, 12 ; Eliz'th, 8 
years and Ebenezer 3 years, in 1690. His relict d. soon after her 
husband. 

In Sept., 1692, an inventory, £59, 175. 2d. was offered, in Court 
at Hartford, of the estate of John Carrington, Jun., and administra- 
tion granted to Benj. Barnes and Tho's Judd, the smith, who were 
to pay his debts and legacies due from his father's estate, and the 
remainder distribute to his brothers and sisters equally, viz., to Mary, 
Hannah, Clark, Elizabeth and Ebenezer. 

CARRINGTON, EBENEZER, son of John, of Waterbury, had 
resided at Hartford, but died at Waterbury, and Wm. Parsons, of 
Hartford, his brother-in-law, was appointed administrator of his es- 
tate, April 2, 1711. Neither John, Jun., or Ebenezer, left families. 

CARRINGTON, HANNAH, was noticed in the will of Eliz'th 



492 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Hobert, of Boston, in 1643 ; also, Stocdell Carrington. Edward, 
free in Mass., in 1636. 

CARRINGTON, JO., aged 33 years, and Mary Carrington, aged 
33, embarked for New England, in the Susan and EUyn, 1635. 
Probably the same who settled at Farmington. 

CARRINGTON, JOHN, of Farmington, 1690, removed to Wat- 
erbury ; had children, John, b. 1667, went to Waterbury ; Mary, 
b. 1672, m. Joshua Holcomb, ofSimsbury ; Hannah, b. 1675, m. 
Wm. Parsons ; Clark, b. 1678, m. Sarah Higginson ; Eliz'th, b. 
1682, m. John Hoskins, of Windsor ; Ebenezer, b. 1687, he moved 
from Waterbury to Hartford, died 1712; Sarah Clark m. Aaron 
Parsons. 

■ CARRINGTON, PETER, of N. H.; son Dan d. June 26, 1700. 
CARINGTON, EDWARD, of Charlestown, Mass., and Eliz'th, 
his wife, had a daughter Sarah born there 1643 ; Eliz'th, b.'ll'='(l) 
1639. 

Edward, of Boston, in 1667. Mary, of Maiden, married Phineas 
Sprague, in 1661. 

Carrington has five coats of arms. 

CARIYG, ROBERT, m. Hannah Willes, of Colchester, Jan. 2, 
1757. 

CARROLL, MICHAEL, of Middletown, deeded lands in Hart- 
ford. May 13, 1728, to Isaac Graham, for £180, lawful money. 
One of this name graduated at Harvard College in 1813. 
CARTER, JOSHUA, owned land in Dorchester, Mass., before 
1636, and one of the first settlers there ; but removed to Windsor, 
Ct., as early as 1638, when his son Joshua was baptized at Windsor. 
His son, Joshua, Jun., is probably the same Joshua Carter found at 
Rocky Plill, in Hartford, about 1691. 

Joshua Carter died at Windsor, in 1647 ; supposed Joshua, Sen. 
Joshua was a jiiror at Hartford, Dec. 9, 1641 ; also, juror, Sept. 
4, 1643. His son, Joshua, Jun., was bap. at Windsor, March, 1638, 
and son Elias, bap. there Aug. 13, 1643. He was one of the first '| 
settlers of Windsor. Joshua sold land in Hartford, to Tho's Rich- 
ards, May 25, 1703 ; also, sold to Bevil Waters, Dec. 25, 1705. In 
1692, the town of Hartford gave to Joshua Carter and Joseph Skin- 
ner, a small piece of land at Rocky Hill, in H. Perhaps Joshua, Jun. f 
CARTER, JOSHUA, of Hartford, m. Mary Skinner, May 21, j 
1691, and had issue, b. in Hartford, Mary, b. Sept. 21, 1692; Sa- i 
rah, b. Nov. 1, 1694; Abigail, b. April 26, 1697; Ruth, b. Dec. I 
27, 1699; John, b.Oct. 12, 1702; Joshua, Jun., b. Sept. 23, 1705; ( 



GENEALOGY OF TUE PURITANS. 493 

Gideon, b. June 23, 1708. Carter, Joshua, of Hartford, named 
above, was the grandson of Joshua, who died at Windsor ; and son 
of his son Joshua, Jun., who settled at Deerfield, Mass., where Joshua 
of Hartford was born, and removed and settled at Hartford. Joshua, 
Jan., son of Joshua, Sen., of Windsor, died at Deerfield, Mass. 

CARTER, THOMAS, and Anne, his wife, of Charlestown, had 
Anne, b. there 1640 ; Elizabeth, b. 1642. CARTER, SAMUEL, 
and Winnfred, his wife, of Charlestown, had daughter Hannah, b. 
there in 1640, and Samuel, b. 1092. 

CARTER, EZRA, m. Jerusha White, of Middletown, June 24, 
1724, and had issue b. there, viz., Ezra, b. March 14, 1724-5, d. 
1726; Jerusha, b. Jan. 11, 1726-7; Margery, b. March 24, 1729 ; 
2d Ezra, b. Nov. 24, 1730 ; Mary, b. Sept. 26, 1732. 

Neile Carter came to Boston in the John and Sarah, of London, as 
early as 1652, from England, as a Scotch prisoner, by order of the 
English government. 

CARTER, JOHN, "late of Woburn," purchased land in Canter- 
bury, Ct., of John Cady, in 1706. John and Mary Carter, his wife, 
had issue, b. at Canterbury, Bethial, b. 1707 ; John, b. 1709 ; the 
last m. Abigail Hagget. John Carter, of Canterbury, m. Deborah 
Bundy in 1731. There is one family of this name now residing in 
Canterbury, of good standing in that community. {Learned.) 

Catherine, of Windsor, m. Arthur Williams, Nov. 30, 1647. 

Carter, Joseph, had a home-lot at Windsor of nine acres, from the 
town, in Feb., 1640. 

CARTER, AMOS, m. Anne Wilcocks, Jan. 10, 1765, and had 
a daughter b. the same year at Saybrook. CARTER, HENRY, 
of New Haven, d. in 1671. DAVID CARTER, of Wethersfield, 
and his wife Susannah, had children b. at Wethersfield, viz., Joan- 
na, b. Jan. 23, 1759; David, b. Sept. 18, 1761; George, b. Jan. 
26, 1763, d. in 1767; Elisha, b. July 26, 1764; Jason, b. Jan. 8, 
1767 ; Geo., b. Sept. 25, 1768 ; Susannah, b. Jan. 18, 1771. CAR- 
TER, JOHN, of Springfield, Ms., m. Sarah Smith, daughter of Eb- 
enezer, of Suffield, in 1714. JOHN CARTER had an earmark at 
Hartford, in 1645. ABIGAIL d. at Windsor, Sept. 23, 1640. JO- 
SIAH and CALEB d. at Windsor in 1647, and Henry Carter's child 
d. there in 1647. Elias and Elisha Carter d. there in 1653. JO- 
SEPH CARTER and wife Abigail, of Saybrook, had issue, Joseph, 
b. Jan. 28, 1737 ; Amos, b. July 1, 1739 ; Abigail, b. June 1, 1741 ; 
Robert, b. May 19, 1744 ; Lydia, b. Aug. 1, 1746 ; Mary, b. 1748, 
and William, b. Sept. 2, 1750. CARTER, NICHOLAS, of Flush- 
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494 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ing, L. I., was accepted by the General Court of Connecticut for a 
freeman, in May, 1664. CARTER, SAMUEL, was « seated be- 
fore the hind pillar" with John Marvin, in the meeting-house at Nor- 
walk, in 1710. John, taxed at Salisbury, Mass., 1650. Joshua, 
freeman in Boston, 1634. Susannah, wife of Thomas Carter, d. at 
Woburn in 1651, aged 51. 

CARTER, SAMUEL, of Norwalk in 1705, is not of the family 
of this name who were early settlers at Hartford or Windsor. This 
Samuel was born in London, and when about twelve years old was 
enticed away from England by the captain of a vessel bound to New 
England, who brought him to Boston, and in 1690 he married Mercy 
Brook, who died in 1700. By her he had children, Samuel, b. 1692 ; 
Mercy, b. 1694 ; Ebenezer, b. 1697 ; Thomas, b. 1699, and Mary, 
b. 1700. He resided at Deerfield, Mass. In 1701 he married 
Hannah Weller for his second wife, and by her had a son, Joseph, b. 
1702, and a daughter, Hannah, b. 1703. When Deerfield was de- 
stroyed, Feb. 29, 1704, he was absent, and his family at Deerfield ; 
his whole family were captured, (Joseph had died before.) His son 
Thomas was slain by the Indians in the open fight upon the meadows. 
The mother, and her daughters Mary and Hannah, were slain on i 
their escape for Canada ; Samuel, Mercy, vEbenezer and Thomas, , 
arrived safe in Canada. The three eldest married in Canada. Eb- 
enezer was stolen by merchants who traded between Albany and 
Montreal, and restored to his father; the other three died in Canada. 
The father, Samuel, settled at Norwalk, Conn., in 1705, and proba- 
bly brought with him his son Ebenezer. Ebenezer married Hannah, 
daughter of Matthias St. John, of Norwalk. In 1731, Ebenezer, 
with his family, removed to the parish of Canaan, (New Canaan, 
Ct.) His father, says Mr. Hall, lived on the place now owned and 
occupied by Jonathan Camp, Jun. The wife of Ebenezer died Feb., 
1774, aged 74 ; he died the next summer, aged 77 years. Ebene- 
zer and Hannah had children : 1. Mary, m. Jonathan Husted, Dec. 
3, 1744, and had no issue. 2. Hannah, m. Jonathan Burrall, April 
7, 1746, and had children, viz., 

1. Theophilns, d. 1772. 

2. Samuel, d. 1821. ^ 

3. Charles. j 

4. Jonathan. '•• | 

5. Susannah. ' | 

6. Elizaheth, ni. Levi Hauford, and had issue, Ebenezer, Levi, ElizabetlJ 
and John. I 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 495 

John, b. Feb. 22, 1730, m. Hannah Benedict, daughter of Tho's, 
(the mother of all his children,) and died 1780. Children, viz., 

1. Hannah, b. 1754, m. John Benedict. 

2. Rachel, b. 1756, m. Nathan Kellogg, 

3. Deborah, b. , m. Gabriel North. 

4. Elizabeth, b. 1763, m. Robert North. 

5. Ebenezer, b. 1765, m. Susannah Benedict, 1786, and Rhoda Weed, April 1, 
1795. 

6. Samuel, b. 17GS, ni. Sarah Hanford, d. Dec, 1S31. 

7. Sally, b. 1769, m. Andrew Powers, and second husband, Enoch St. John, 
and died March 14, ISOS. 

e. Polly, b. 1771, m. Stephen Hoyt, May 20, 1794. 

{E. Hall's Record of Nonvalk, Ct.) 

CARTER, JACOB, removed from Branford to Southington, about 
1770, where he married Sarah Barnes, and had children, Jacob, 
Stephen, Jonathan, Ithiel, Isaac, Elihue, Levi and Sarah. Ithiel re- 
moved and settled at Warren, where he had three children born ; 
he then removed to Torringford, and remained nine years, and re- 
moved from thence to some other place.' 

Some of this family settled at Wolcott. Newton Carter, of Hart- 
ford, is of the Southington Carters. 

Anto Carter, aged 22, embarked from England for Virginia, Aug, 
7, 1635, in the Globe, of London. Jo. Carter, aged 22, embarked 
for Virginia in the ship Safety, John Grant, master, in Aug., 1635. 
John Carter, aged .54, embarked in the America for Virginia, from 
England, Wm. Barker, master, June 23, 1635. Thomas Carter, 
aged 25, a servant of George Giddins, embarked in England, for 
New England, in the Planter, Nic. Frazier, master, April 2, 1635. 
Certificates from the minister of Great St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, 
with Wm. Beardsley, his wife and three children. Martha Carter, 
aged 27, embarked fn the Hopewell, with Robert Day, 30, and oth- 
ers, 1635. Mary Carter, 27, embarked for New England in the 
Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, about 1635. (Mass. 
Col) 

Six persons by this name Iiave graduated at Yale College, and 
nine at Harvard College. 

Thomas Carter graduated at St. John's College, A. B., 1629, and 
A. M., 1633. John Carter took the oath of fidelity in Mass., Dec. 
5, 1677. Phillip took the oath of allegiance to his majesty and fidel- 
ity to the country, Nov. 30, 1677, (Exeter.) John, of Woburn, 
1654. Thomas, of Salisbury, Mass., 1660, 



496 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Carter has ten coats of arms, and Carteret has four. 

Carter, John, aged 54, embarked for Virginia, in the America, 
June 23, 1635. 

Thomas Carter, 25, embarked in the Safety, for Virginia, Aug., 
1635. Thomas Carter, aged 25, embarked in the Planter, April 2, 
1635, with a certificate from the minister of Great St. Albans, in 
Hertfordshire, for N. England, in company with Maria Chittwood, 
Wm. Felloe, &c. 

John, of Woburn, freeman, 1644. Joseph, of Newbury, 1636. 
Joseph, Sen., d. at Charlestown, Dec, 1676. Joshua, freeman, 
1634, (of Windsor soon after.) Richard, Boston, 1641. Thomas, 
first minister at Woburn, came to N. England as early as 1635 ; 
freeman, 1637; lived at Dedham and Watertown. Ordained at 
Woburn, Nov. 22, 1642 ; d. Sept. 5, 1684, aged 74. (See Farmer.) 

CALLENDER is an old name in Connecticut, yet not as early 
as many others. 

Callander or Callender has one coat of arms ; Callendar, one ; 
Callender, two. 

CARUTHERS. This name came late to Middletown, Conn., 
where gravestones only give their history. 

Caruthers has three coats of arms. 

CARTWRIGHT, GIDEON, from Wrentham, Mass., united with 
the church at Hampton, Conn., with his wife Ruth, in 1759. 

Edward, son of Gideon and Ruth, was born at Windham, March 
1, 1753. Jonathan, b. March 4, 1754, removed to Hampton, and 
had Ruth, b. Oct. 7, 1755 ; Silas, b. May 9, 1757 ; Drisilla, b. Jan. 
21, 1761. (J. Clark.) 

Cartwright, Col. George, one of His Majesty's Hon. Comm'rs, 
with Sir Robert Carr and Samuel Maverick, ^sq., who presented 
propositions to the General Court of Conn., April 26, 1665. 

This name was also on Long Island. 

Cartwright has nine coats of arms. 

CARVER, Ensign DAVID, d. at Canterbury in 1727 ; he had a 
son Benjamin, b. 1722. SAMUEL and ESTHER CARVER were 
parents of a family at Canterbury, as were JONATHAN and ABI- 
GAIL CARVER, (maiden name Robins,) the last m. 1746. Bar- 
bersays that Jonathan Carver, the traveler, was a native of Canter- 
bury, but he is not identified. {Can. Rec. and Learned.) 

CARVER, JOANNA, w. of David, d. at Weth'ld Sept. 14, 1751. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 497 

CARVER, JONATHAN, by Eunice Downer, had Jonathan, 
b. Dec. 18, 1741, at Windham. 

Joanna Carver, wife of David, d. Sept. 14, 1751, ae. 17. Whether 
either of the above are descendants of Gov. Carver, of the Plymouth 
Colony, is not known. 

CARVER, MALZER, of Norwalk, is named (by Hall) as having 
married Phebe Wicks, Jan. 29, 1777, and had children born at Nor- 
walk, Amos, Charles, Hannah, Nancy, Joseph, Ebenezer, Stephen, 
William, George and John, b. 1797. 

Two by the name of Carver have graduated at Yale College. 

CARVER, JOHN, one of the first at Plymouth, 1620, and first 
governor of the colony ; died April, 1621, and his wife soon after. 
{Prince's Annals, 105.) 

Carver has two coats of arms. 

CARWITHA or CARWITHEE, KERWITHY, was a defend- 
ant in court at Hartford, Evens, plaintiff, October 1, 1646. 

Caleb Carwithee, of Huntington, L. I,, was admitted to the oath 
of freedom in Connecticut, May, 1664. 

Philip Carwithe forfeited his grant at an early period. Philip 
Kerwithy had a grant of land at Pequot, in 1650, but was only a 
transient inhabitant at N. L. {Calk.) 

CASE, JOHN. (This name is occasionally spelled Cass.) He 
came to Windsor with the early settlers, supposed frora Dorchester, 
Mass. He was a member of the Gen. Court of the Colony in May, 
1670, May and October, 1675, and received other marks of respect 
from Windsor and Simsbury. He married Sarah Spencer, and re- 
mained at Windsor until about 1668 or '9, when he removed to Wea- 
tauge, in Simsbury. A part of his children were born in Windsor, 
and the others in Simsbury. Issue, Mary, b. June 22, 1660 ; John, 
Jr., b. Nov. 5, 1662 ; Wm., b. June 5, 1665 ; Samuel, b. June 1, 
1667, d. July 30, 1725 ; Richard, b. Aug. 27, 1669. The follow- 
ing b. at Simsbury : Sarah, b. April 14, 1676 ; Abigail, Elizabeth, 
Joseph and Bartholomew, d. Oct. 25, 1725. John, Sen., the father, 
d. Feb. 21, 1703-4. 

John Case, of Simsbury, will drawn Nov. 21, 1700, but dated 
Dec. 11, 1700; a codicil to the will was dated Feb. 12, 1703-4. 
He made his mark to the instrument. Mr. Samuel Spencer, of Hart- 
ford, and John Case, his son, executors. Inventory exhibited and 
I sworn to by his son, Richard Case, of Simsbury, March 9, 1703-4. 
Mr. John Case, Sen., d. Feb. 21, 1703-4. Inventory taken by John 
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498 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Slater, James Cornish and Andrew Robe, March 2, 1703-4, £562, 
5*. Id. His wife Elizabeth he gave £5, to be paid her annually, 
which was agreed to before marriage, and he directed in his first 
will, that it should be paid to her as follows : Wiljiara, Samuel, Richard 
and Bartholomew, to pay each 155., and his son Joseph, £2 annu- 
ally during her life, which was altered in his codicil. His daughter 
Elizabeth m. Tuller ; daughters Mary Case, Sarah Phelps, and Ab- 
igail Case. His son William d. March 31, 1700, after his father's 
will was made and before the death of his father. William's relict 
was Elizabeth ; she with his brother John, of Simsbury, were adm'rs 
on William's estate in 1701. Inventory, £276, 9s. 8d., dated May 
29, 1700. He left children, viz., Elizabeth, b. Sept , 1689 ; W'm., 
b. March 22, 1690-1 ; James, b. March 12, 1692-3 ; Rachel, b. 
Dec, 1694 ; Mary, b. 1696 ; Joshua, b. June 1, 1698 ; Mindwell, 
b. March 21, 1700. These children received their father's portion 
in their grandfather's estate. 

CASE, JOSEPH, (son of John and Sarah Case, of Windsor and 
Simsbury,) was a highly respectable man in Simsbury, (Hop Mead- 
ow ;) he represented the town at the General Court, first in October, 
1713, and eighteen sessions afterward. John, Richard, James and 
Benajah Case, all represented the town in the General Assembly 
before 1750, and James and John frequently afterward. (I publish 
but one line of this family, as it is now very numerous.) 

CASE, JOSEPH, among other children, had a son Jacob, b. 1699, 
at Simsbury, (Hop Meadow;) Jacob m. Abigail Barber about 1725, 
and settled in the wilderness at Case's Farms, in the same town, 
where he died July 25, 1763, and his widow died January 8, 1779. 
They had issue: 

1. Abigail, b. Jan. 12, 1730 ; m. Daniel Hoskins ; d. June 20, 1806. 

2. Sarah, b. June 5, 1733 ; m. Elijah Tuller, or Fuller, and d. Dec. 20, 1798. 

3. Jacob, Jun., b. June 19, 1735; m. Elizabeth Hoskins; he d. Sept. 27, 
1S07. 

4. Jesse, b. May 19, 1738; m. Sarah Huinphry ; d. Oct. 3, 1S07. 

5. Anne, b. April 9, 1740; m. Solomon Case; d. April 6, 1S17. 

6. Martha, b. May 21, 1743; she d. young. 

7. Moses, b. Sept. 8, 1746; m. Lucy Wilcox ; d. Dec. 19, 1794. 

8. Second Martha, b. April 12, 1742 ; she d. April 5, 1834. 

CASE, JESSE, son of Jacob and Abigail, b. 1738. Had chil- 
dren, viz., 

1. Jesse, b. July 20, 17G7 ; m. Sarah Cornish and Lydia Church ; d. Feb. 10, 
1842. 

2. Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1768 ; m. Samuel Leet. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 499 

3. Augustus, b. May 30, 1770; m. Hannah Hoskins ; yet living. 

4. Asenath, b. June 30, 1772; d. 1776. 

f). Abigail, b. Oct. 13, 1774; ra. Riverius Case. 

6. Second Asenath, b. Aug. 26, 1777 ; d. Jan. 19, 1S45. 

7. Gideon, b. Feb. 26, 1779; m. Persis Seward : d. May li, 1822. 

8. Hannah, b. Sept. 19, 17S1; m. Edmund O. Sullivan; now living. 

9. Charlotte, b. Jan. 24, 1785 ; m. Allen Barber. 
10. Salome, d. young. 

CASE, JESSE, Jr., son of Jesse and Sarah, had two wives; 1st, 
m. Sarah Cornish ; 2d, Lydia Church ; and had issue: 

1. Jesse O., b. Oct. 29, 1792; m. Chloe Gleason. 

2. Justin, b. Jan. 4, 1795; d. June 22, 1S02. 

3. Everest, b. Dec. 19, 1796; m. Lucy Case. 

4. Sarah, b. Oct. 31,1798; m. Ezekiel H. Wilcox. 

5. Newton, b. June 7, ISOl , d. April 12, 1S07. 

6. Elmina, b. April 15, 1803. 

7. Second Justin, b. March 11, 1S05 ; m. Rachel H. Talcott ; d. Oct. 1, 1841. 

8. Second Newton, b. March 12, 1807 ; m. Lemira B. Hurlbut. 

9. Rowena, b. Nov. 27, 1809; d. Jan. 1, 1S34. 

10. Abigail, b. Aug. 21, 1812. 

11. Lydia C, b. Dec. 5, 1817; d. April 9, 1820. 

12. Second Lydia, b. April 25, 1820. (12 children.) 

CASE, EVEREST, (son of Jesse, Jun.,) b. 1796, m. Lucy Case, 
and had children, Sarah, b. Oct. 22, 1820 ; Levi ; Orestes, d. Oct. 
5, 1S24 ; Emeline ; 2d Orestes ; Lucy M., d. Aug. 14, 1828 ; Helen 
R.; Wm. W.; Nathan, and Lucy A., b. July 9, 1838, d. Sept. 16, 
1838. 

CASE, JESSE O., b. 1792, son of Jesse, Jun., m. Chloe Gleason. 
Issue, Gideon M., b. Jan. 30, 1821 ; Henry; Orlando D.; Nelson 
M., and Mariette, b. Feb. 1, 1833. 

These are the direct descendants, in part, from John Case, Sen., 
of Windsor, to Newton Case, now of Hartford, of the firm of " Case, 
Tiffany & Co." In Nov. 10, 1697, when Rev. Dudley Woodbridge 
was ordained at Simsbury, Joseph, the son of John Case, Sen., was 
a member of his church ; and he paid a rate there in 1696, and was 
a member of the legislature as late as Oct., 1741, and as early as 
1713. 

Jonas Case, from Simsbury, settled at Goshen in Litchfield Co. in 
1715. 

CASE, RICHARD, of Windsor, removed to West Simsbury, (now 
Canton,) about 1737, first settler. His son Sylvanus, is said to have 
been the first white child born there ; he resided on East Hill ; liad 
ten sons and two daughters. ABRAHAM CASE removed from 
Windsor to Simsbury, (to Canton,) 1741, and d, there in 1800. 



600 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

LYMAN CASE, a grandson of Ab'm, d. over 80 years old. His 
brother AMOS, from Windsor to W. Simsbury, had five sons and 
four daughters, and d. aged 86. 

CASE, DUDLEY, a brother of Zaccheus and Ezekiel, removed 
from the parish of Windsor to West Windsor, (Canton,) in 1742, 
when many others removed there from the old parish ; he had seven 
children, and d. aged, in 1792. 

CASE, ZACCHEUS, Capt., brother of Daniel and Ezekiel, re- 
moved to W. Simsbury about 1749 ; he had one son and six dau'rs ; 
■he afterward removed to Oneida County, N. Y., and d. in 1812. 

CASE, HOSEA, from Simsbury to Canton, about 1751, had four 
sons and seven dau'rs, and d. in 1793. Capt. RICHARD CASE, 
of Simsbury, July 4, 1724, was ordered to employ ten men as a 
scouting party, to rendezvous at Litchfield, all of Simsbury, and re- 
mained until Oct. {Phelps' Simsbury.) DANIEL CASE m. Pe- 
nelope Buttolph, of Simsbury, May 7, 1719. 

Watson and Luke Case, of N. York, are descendants of John Case, 
Sen., of Windsor. 

The foregoing families are all, with many others, descendants of 
John Case, Sen., of Windsor. 

CASE, BARNARD, of Windham, was the son of John and De- 
sire Case, and was born Oct. 29, 1688, at Martha's Vineyard ; he 
m. Abigail Rudd, May 22, 1712, and had issue, Seth, b. Jan. 26, 
1712-13^ Joseph, b. April 26, 1714, d. 1714; Wm., b. Feb. 7, 
1715-16 ; Jonathan, b. May 16, 1718 ; Abigail, b. April 8, 1720. 
Abigail, his wife, d. April 10, 1722, and he m. for his second wife, 
Abigail Clark, Oct. 17, 1722, and had Eliz'th, b. Jan. 31, 1725-6. 
(This is not of the family of John Case, Sen.) 

Case, Benjamin, m. Mary Manning, April 25, 1728. 

Case, John, and Desire, his wife, had a son Benjamin b. at Mar- 
tha's Vineyard, Dec. 4, 1703. (Recorded at Windham.) 

CASE, SETH, son of Barnard, b. 1712, at Windham, ni. Sarah 
Griggs, Nov. 11, 1736. Issue, Hester, b. Sept. 26, 1739 j Susan- 
nah, b. April 15, 1739 ; Ichabod, b. April 10, 1741. 

CASE, WILLIAM, b. 1715-16, son of Barnard Case, m. Lucy 
Tracy, Nov. 11, 1736. Issue, Wm., b. Nov. 26, 1737; Lucy, b. 
Nov. 22, 1739. Barnard Case, of Windham, is not found to have 
been a relative of either John, of Windsor, or Richard Case, of Hart- 
ford. He removed his family to Windham from Martha's Vineyard, 
before the birth of his son Seth, about 1711. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 501 

CASE, RICHARD, was not as early a settler at Hartford as many 
others; he m. Eliz'th, dau'r of John Purcase or Purchase, (a first 
settler in Hartford.) He removed on the east side of Conn. River, 
into E. Hartford, about 1669. He had three children b. in Hartford, 
viz., Richard, Jun., John and Mary. He describes himself of Hart- 
ford, in his will dated Sept. 8th, 1690, and d. at E. Hartford about 
1693 or 1694. Inventory dated March 30, 1694, £203, 25. 6d 
His widow Efiz'th, and Tho's Olcott, his kinsman, Exec'rs. He 
made his mark to his will. The Court appointed Thomas Olcot 
and Mr. Wm. Pitkin, Jun., overseers to assist the widow by their 
advice, April, 1694. It has been stated by some of the family, that 
Richard Case, of Windsor, son of John, was the same Richard who 
settled at Hartford. Richard, son of John, was born at Windsor 
Aug. 27, 1669, and Richard, of Hartford, was propounded for a free- 
man in Oct., 1671. Richard Case, Jun., of E. Hartford, son of 
Richard and Elizabeth, d. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 1724, as testified 
by his relict Sarah. He gave to his son Joseph all his lands and 
estate, by Joseph paying his two sisters £35 each ; his son Charles 
or Charter, he had before provided for, and gave him two acres of 
land in his will only. His children recorded as b. at Hartford, Sa- 
rah, b. Oct. 1, 1703 ; Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1705; Eliz'th, b. Sept. 1, 
1710, and others not recorded. These descendants of Richard are 
known as the East Hartford Cases. There was a Benjamin Case, 
who removed from Mansfield to Coventry, at an early period ; he 
was probably of the Windham family. 

CASE, THOMAS, resided at Newtown, L. I., in 1674, and was 
ordered by the court there in May, 1674, not to entertain the wife 
of Wm. Smith, without her husband's knowledge. 

CASE, JOSEPH, was of Rhode Island, and had children born 
there, viz., Joseph, b. in 1678; W'm, b. 1681; Mary, Hannah, 
Margaret, John and Emanuel. 

CASE, RICHARD, and Wm. Burnham, of Hartford, were pro- 
pounded for freemen in Oct., 1671. 

Those relatives who claim that Richard Case, of East Hartford, 
was a son of John, of Windsor, by looking at the birth of Richard, 
ihe son of John, will discover that Richard, of Hartford, was a man 
in active life, before Richard, son of John, was born. 

Ten of this name have graduated at Yale College, and one Case 
and one Cass at Harvard. 

Case has 5 coats of arms ; Casse, 2 ; Cass, 2 ; Cassey, 1. 



502 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Farmer says, "JOSEPH CASS, Exeter, as early as 1680, had chil- 
dren, from one of whom descended Major Jonathan Cass, father of 
Hon. Lewis Cass, late governor of Michigan, a native of New Hamp- 
shire." The lady of Hon. Lewis Cass, lately deceased, was a de- 
scendant of the Selden family, of Connecticut. Quere, were not Cass 
and Case originally the same name. The name of Case is occa- 
sionally spelled upon the Conn, records, Cass. Richard Case, in 
1669, purchased of William Edwards, and Agnes, his wife, all their 
division of upland and water land, east of the Great River, about 
ninety acres — perhaps removed to E. Hartford about this time. 

CASEL, BARNARD, of Windham, m. Abigail Rudd, May 22, 
1712, son of John. Desire, his wife, wasb. Oct. 29, 1688 ; from Mar- 
tha's Vineyard. Barnard " Cease" had children by Abigail, Seth, 
b. 1712; Joseph, d. 1714; William, Jonathan, Abigail, b. 1720. 
His wife, Abigail, died April 10, 1722. Barnard m. 2d, Abigail 
Clark, Oct. 17, 1722. (This name changed to Case, on same 
record.) 

CASTLE, JOHN, of Wethersfield, died before 1645, and left a 
widow and an estate of £59; no issue found. The name of Castle 
is yet found in Litchfield and New Haven counties, Conn. One by 
the name of Castle has graduated at Yale College. Andrew Castle 
graduated at Yale College, 1825. 

Caswell, Daniel, of Colchester ; daughter, Wealthy, baptized May 
27, 1770. 

Cassell or Cassel, 1 coat of arms ; Casstle, 1 ; Castel, 1 ; Cas- 
tell, 11 ; Castle, (London) 4; Caceyll, 1. 

Castel, Henry, aged 22, passenger for Virginia, in the Transport, 
of London, July 4, 1635. George Castell, aged 21, embarked for 
Virginia, August, 1635, in the Safety. 

Castle or Castwell, noticed in Appendix of Temple's E. History, 
as an early family of Whately. 

Cask, Henry, was drowned at Windsor, while catching flood wood 
in the river, at Windsor, March 14th, in the early settlement of the 
town, with M, Rainerd. 

Cassen, Lieut. Samuel, of Milford, in 1713. (See KASSEN.) 

CATTS, KATES, JOHN, aged 23, was passenger for Virginia, 
in the Safety, from England, John Grant, master, August, 1635. 

CATES or KATES, Lieut. JOHN, of Windham, Conn., d. in | 
1697, (supposed the same man.) He gave in his will 200 acres of 
land, by entailment, to the poor of Windham, and 200 acres for a 
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Whiting, of said Windham, and other personal property. To the 
church of the town he gave £10 in money. He made Mary How- 
ard, executrix, and gave her the remainder of his estate, unless his 
child, or any of his children then in England, should come to New- 
England, and if so, such as should come should have all his estate. 
He was the first of the name in the colony. This name is spelt 
Kates, on record at Hartford, and by himself in his will, but he was 
the same Lieut. John Gates who served under Oliver Cromwell's 
administration of the British government. His negro Jo, M'hom he 
gave to Mr. Whiting, he procured in Virginia, where he first 
landed. He escaped his pursuers in Virginia, and came to Nor- 
wich, yet feeling unsafe, he went to Windham, when a wilderness, 
and in 1689 raised the first house, where he closed his life in safety 
from punishment by Charles II. He gave no silver plate to any 
person, in his will, as has been stated by some historians. He and 
his servant were the tWo first settlers in Windham, and erected the 
first house there. 

Gates, Jo, aged 17, passenger in the Assurance de Lo., for Vir- 
ginia, 1635. 

CATLIN, CATLING, THOMAS, was not one of the first pro- 
prietors and settlers in Hartford. He is first found at Hartford, about 
1645-6, by the name of Catling. The time he came from England, 
or the ship he came in, is not found, He was one of the viewers of 
chimneys, in 1646-7, and owned two lots of land in Elm street, 
No's 23 and 24, in 1646. Soon after he came to Hartford, he was 
appointed a constable of the town, which office he held many years. 
The office of constable at that time was one of the most honorable 
and trustworthy in the colony. He held other places of trust in the 
colony and town. He had a portion in a division of lands in 1672, 
and was living in 1687, when he testified in court and was 75 years 
old. He was probably married before he came to Hartford, and 
brought with him his only son John, and his wife, as his son is not 
found born at Hartford, by the record. He had a daughter, Mary,b. 
at Hartford, and baptized Nov. 29th, 1646, and died. A second 
daughter, Mary, baptized May 6th, 1649. 

The 15lh of January, 1684, the town of Hartford granted to Thom- 
as and John Gatlin, ten acres, formerly granted to John Wier. 
Thomas Gatlin purchased the house and land of Richard Billing, in 
Hartford. He owned land south of Little River, purchased of F. 
Addams ; also land purchased of Andrew Warner, about four acres ; 
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504 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

purchased of Richard^Fellowes, Oct. 28, 1653 ; three acres, and 
many other lots of land. John Richards mortgaged his house and 
all his lands to Thomas Catlin, in Hartford, and two cows, for a debt 
he owed Catlin, Feb. 2, 1662. 

CATLIN, JOHN, only son of Thomas and Mary, m. Mary Mar- 
shall, July 27, 1665, and settled in Hartford, where his children 
were born, viz. 

Mary, b. at H., July 10, 166G, died young. 

Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1673; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel, died Aug. 14, 1724. 

John, Jr., b. April 27, 1676. 

Thomas, b. August, 167S. 

Benjamin, b. Feb., 16S0. All born in Hartford. 

John's wife, Mary, d, at H., Oct. 20, 1716. John Catlin signed 
to remove to Hadley, but did not, in 1659. John made free, 1665. 

CATLIN, SAMUEL, son of John, of Hartford ; wife, Elizabeth 
Norton, of Farmington, m. Jan. 5, 1702-3; had issue : 

John, b. Oct. 20, 1703, m. Margaret Seymour. 

Thomas, b. Feb. 17, 1705-6. 

Samuel, Jr., b. March 27, 170-. 

Isaac, b. Nov. 11, 1712, m. Betsey Kilbourn. 

Abijah, b. April 8, 1715, m. Hannah Cook. 

Mary, b. March 20, 1717. 

A daughter b. March 26, 1719, d. Sept. 27. 1719. 

Ebenezer, b. July 25, 1724. 

Samuel Catlin's wife, Elizabeth, d. Aug. 4, 1724. 

CATLIN, BENJAMIN, son of John, b. 1680, m. Margaret Kel- 
logg, b. 1689, of Hartford, d. at Harwinton, 1767 ; his wife d. at 
Harwinton, 1786. They had children, 1. Jonathan, b. Feb. 8, 
1714-15, had two children, Jonathan and Dan. 2. Daniel, b. Dec. 
6, 1716 ; he had three children, Daniel, Jr., Dorcas and Margaret. 
3. Sarah, b. June 18, 1718. 4. Abraham, b. Aug. 13, 1720, had 
eight children, viz., Jacob, Abraham, Jr., Simeon, Hezekiah, Tim- 
othy, Jesse, Elisha and Abigail. 5. Jool, b. Feb. 16, 1731-2, had 
six children, viz., Joel, Hannah, Molly, Thursey, Rebecca and So- 
phia. 6. Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 7, 1723, had two children, viz., 
Benjamin and Abigail. 7. Jacob, b. June 3, 1727. 8. Amos, b. 
June 29, 1729, had two children, Ensign and Thankful. 9. George, 
b. Dec. 22, 1731. Sarah, above daughter of Benjamin, m. Rev. 
Andrew Bartholomew, the first minister of HarwintoJi. 

CATLIN, JACOB, son of Benjamin, born in Hartford, 1727, d. 
in Harwinton, July, 1802, m. Hannah Phelps, of Windsor, and had 
issue, Isaac, Jacob, Jr., Hannah, Rhoda, Elijah, Sarah, Samuel, 
Horace ; three died in infancy. 



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CATLIN, GEORGE, son of Benjamin, b. 1731, m. Mindwell 
Phelps, of Litchfield ; he had children, viz. 

1. Lucy, m. Josiah Butler. 

2. George, Jr., m. Sophia Davis. 

3. Alice, m. Thankful Hodge. 

4. Russel, not married. 

5. Mindwell, m. Kellogg. 

6. Candace, m. Lewis Catlin. 

CATLIN, ISAAC, son of Jacob, of the fourth generation, d. at 
Harwinton, in 1833, m. Ruth Carter, of Southington, and had chil- 
dren. 

1. Stanly. 

2. Chester, died. 

3. David, lived in Illinois. 

4. Belinda, died single. 

5. Joel, settled in Illinois. 

6. Sarah, married and lives in New York. 

7. Isaac, formerly lived in New Britain, went to Illinois. 

8. Wyllis, settled in Illinois. 

CATLIN, JACOB, Jr., second son of Jacob, of the fourth gener- 
ation, was thirty years a minister in New Marlborough, and had 
children. 

1. Joseph, died and left a family. 

2. Polly, married. 

3. John, married and had a family. 

4. Jacob, lives in New York, and has a family. 

5. Emeline, married in Sheffield, Mass. 

6. Julia, married Harvey Holmes. 

7. Rhoda, married Asa Sheldon ; has a large family. 

CATLIN, ELIJAH, son of Jacob, of the fifth generation, m. 
Hannah Starr, of Middletown, and had issue. 

1. Almira. 

2. Clarinda. 

3. Nancy. 

4. Caroline. 

CATLIN, LUMAN, son of Jacob of the fourth generation, mar- 
ried Chloe Wiard, had children. 

1. Polly, 2. Lucas, 3. Linus, 4. Luman, 5. Chloe, fi. Lois, 7. Lucretia, 
->. Maria, 9. Alfred. 

CATLIN, BENJAMIN, son of Jacob, of the fourth generation, 
had children ; wife still living. 

1. Anna, m. Lewis Catlin, son of Lewis, son of Abijah. 

2. Rhoda, m. Lyman Catlin. 

3. Lucy, m. Normand Bull, (widow.) 

4. Hopkins, M. D., of Meriden, widower, has children. 

5. George, m. Lewis, lives in Harwinton. 

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506 GENEALOGY OF* THE PURITANS. 

6. Sheldon, died and left a son and daughter. 

7. Clorinda, not married. 

8. Henry, married and had a family. 

CATLIN, ABIJAH, 1st, son of Samuel, m. Melicent Cook, had 
issue. . 

1. Hannah, m. A. Kellogg ; had a large family. 

2. Melicent, m. Jonathan Rossiter; large family. 

3. Sarah, m. Samuel Baldwin ; had a son Canfield, in Whitestown, N. Y. 
4. HONOR, daughter of Abij ah 1st, m. William Abernethy, M. 

D. Issue : 

1. Honor, m. Daniel Cailin. 

2. Lavinia, m. Aaron Bradley. 

3. Wm. C, had three wives, 1. Phebe Wiard, 2. Dexter, and 3. So- 
phia Hoadley. 

4. Gen. Russell C, m. Aurelia Smith. 

5. Roswell, m. Anna Catlin, daughter of 2d Abijah. 

6. Huldah, m. Abel Peck. 

7. Sarah, m. Selah Whiting. ^ 

8. Andrew Abernethy, M. D., m. Sophia Wells. ^^ 

CATLIN, ABIJAH, second son of Abijah 1st, m. Huldah Wiard ; 
he died 1813, and his wife in 1814. Issue : 

1. Anna, m. Roswell Abernethy, 

2. Abijah, 3d, m. Orinda Williams. 

3. Huldah, m. James Stoddard. 

4. Hannah, m. David Candee, of Oxlbrd. 

5. Lucretia, m. James Woodruff. 

6. Rachel, m. Dana Hungerford. 

7. Samuel A., died unmarried. 

CATLIN, GROVE, son of Abijah 1st, m. Hannah Phelps, of 
Litchfield, and had children, viz. 

1. Grove, Esq., a lawyer in the State of Maine. 

2. Hannah, m. George E. Head, Esq., of Boston. 

3. Sabra, died single, at Hartford, March 17, 1S33, aged 44. 

4. Col. Julius, m. Mary Fisher, of Wrentham, Mass., in 182!), and has two 
sons and a daughter ; resides at Hartford, retired upon a fortune acquired by 
industry. 

5. Flora, resides with her brother at Hartford, unmarried. 

CATLIN, LEWIS, son of Abijah 1st, lived at Harwinton, m. 
Candace Catlin. Issue ; 

1. Lewis, Jr., m. Anna Catlin, daughter of Benjamin, and has five sons and 
one daughter. 

2. Hon. George S. Cailin, the eloquent political orator, m. Miss Tingly, 
member of both branches of the legislature of Conn., speaker of legislature, and' 
four years member of Congress, d. in 1852, and left one daughter, but no sons.) 

3. Candace, m. Gen. Morris Woodruff, of Litchfield, had two sons and one{ 
daughter. ( 

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5. Clarissa, m. Luman Bancroft. 

0. Calista, m. 1. Sanford, 2. Butler. 

CATLIN, ABIJAH, 3d, son of Abijah 2d, m. Orinda Williams 
in 1799 ; was a merchant at Harwinton ; had children. 

1. Harriet, b. ISOO, m. A. G. Miller, M. D., of Mansfield, Ohio. He d. 1849. 

2. Adaline, b. 1S02, m. Hon. Wm. S. Holabird, (Hurlbut,) late Lieut. Got. 
of Connecticut. 

3. Abijah 4th, b. ISO.'j, m. first Mary Simonton, of Georgia, had one child 
which died. He m. 2. Mary Abernethy, of Harwinton, dau. of Dr. Andrew. 

4. David W. b. 1S07, m. Elizabeth Huggins, of New Haven, and has issue. 
He is a wealthy merchant in New York. Children, Mary S., b. Sept., 1842 ; 
William H.,b. Nov., 1S45. 

5. Orinda, b. 1810, m. O. B. Freeman, M. D., of Canton. 

6. Julia, b. 1814, m. Charles Mygatt, formerly a merchant at Hartford, now 
resides at Columbus, Georgia. 

7. Caroline, b. 1S17, m. Anson Hungerford, Jr., of Monticello, Georgia. 

8. Ann H., b. 1S19, m. Gen. Newman, of Ohio. He died about 1849.. 

Abijah 4th has been twice married, first married Mary Simonton, 
of Georgia, and second, Mary Abernethy. He has one son, Abijah 
5th, and a daughter, and is now living on the same land that was 
given to Abijah the first by his father, Samuel. Abijah, Esq., 4th, 
graduated at Yale College, in 1825, read law and practiced for a time 
in Litchfield county ; after a few years he removed to the State of 
Georgia, where he followed his profession successfully for some few 
years, and then returned to his native place in Connecticut, and re- 
sumed his practice in Litchfield county, where he was elected state 
senator of Connecticut, in 1844, state comptroller from 1847 to 1850, 
and commissioner of the school fund of Connecticut, in 1851,, judge 
of probate at Harwinton from 1838 to 1841, judge of the county 
court of Litchfield county from 1844 to 1846, &c., all which re- 
sponsible offices he filled to the satisfaction of the public. 

Catlin, John, from Hartford, and James Church were two of the 
early settlers at Litchfield, about 1722 or '3 ; Daniel and Abijah 
Catlin were in Harwinton, in 1740, with John Coult and others ; 
Daniel Catlin was on the 7nap and a first settler there ; John Catlin 
and Daniel Arnold were made free at Hartford, in October, 1665 ; 
John Catlin, who went to Litchfield from Hartford, was not one of 

'the grantees of Bantam, in the first settlement of Litchfield, but be- 
came the ancestor of the Litchfield Catlins ; Alexander Catlin, of 
Litchfield, married Abigail, daughter of Timothy Goodman, of West 

, Hartford, Feb. 26, 1706, and his first child, Abigail, was baptized at 
VVest Hartford, Dec. 14, 1766 ; the Catlins of Burlington, Vermont, 
are descended from the Litchfield branch of the family ; Alexander 
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508 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITNS. 

at West Hartford, Nov. 23, 1766 ; Benjamin Catlin, quarter-master in 
the army, was taken prisoner in the expedition against Quebec, in 
Dec, 1775 ; George Catlin died at Camden, New Jersey, May 1,. 
1852, aged 75 years; Thomas Catlin, Sen., and his son John, were 
freemen in Hartford, in 1669 ; Thomas held the honorable and re- 
sponsible office of constable and selectman in Hartford, and other 
places of trust ; he owned land in South Meadow, by a deed of Sam- 
uel Wyllys, Nov. 6, 1679; on Rocky Hill, recorded May 26, 1682 ; 
land he purchased of Richard Billings, also land of Jeremy Adams, 
of Andrew Warner, of James Ensign, a lot and house of Richard 
Fellows, Dec, 1658 ; land in South Meadow Swamp, Dec. 20, 
1660; land he and George> Grave bought of Andrew Bacon, Nov. 
18, 1659, and various other lots of land in Hartford, being 16 tracts. 
Col. Julius Catlin now owns some of the land originally owned by 
his first progenitor in this country. John, son of Thomas, Sen., 
signed the agreement to remove to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, but re- 
mained at Hartford ; for some time he is said to have resided at 
Hoccanum. The Catlins of Deerfield were probably of the family 
of John, of Newark, who moved there himself in 1684. 

George Catlin, the celebrated painter of Indian persons and scene- 
ry, and author of travels in the west, was a descendant of the Litch- 
field branch. John, who went to Litchfield, was son of Samuel, who 
married Margaret Seymour, and was born 1703 ; children, John, 
Theodore, Alexander, William, Roswell, Eli, David, George, Uriah, 
Thomas, Samuel, Abel, Roger, Elizabeth and Abigail ; these were 
settled at Litchfield ; thirteen by this name have graduated at Yale 
College. There were no persons of this name in Hadley, in the 
seventeenth century. John, from Newark, was at Deerfield as early 
as 1684. 

Coats of arms. — Catlyn or Catlin, 1 ; Catlin, (Kent,) 1 ; Callyn. 
or Catlyne, 1. 

This name was early at Marlborough, Mass., and Catlin, Keyes^ 
Sheldon, &c., were early settlers from the above town to New 
Marlborough, Mass., where the name of Catlin is yet found, and one 
of this family is now a merchant at Canaan, Conn., and not known- 
to have been a relative of Thomas, of Hartford, or John, of Weth- 
ersfield. 

CATLIN, JOHN, of Wethersfield, was not one of the first set- 
tiers ; whose son he was, or where from is not found ; (the name is 
spelled, recording his marriage, " Catellin, John.") He m. Mary 
, at Wethersfield, Sept. 23d, 1662, and had a son, John, b 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 509 

there July 26, 1663, after which he disappeared at Wethersfield. 
This John is next found at Bran ford, where he signed the contract 
to settle the town of Newark, New Jersey, Oct. 30, 1665, and to 
provide for the maintenance of the purity of religion professed in the 
Congregational church. He is next found at Newark, with other 
signers, from Branford, New Haven, Milford, New London and 
Wethersfield. with Laurence Ward, two John Wards and Jcsiah 
Ward, djc. In 1676, the to\vnsmen of Newark agreed with Mr. 
John Catlin to instruct their " children and servants in as much 
English reading, writing and arithmetic, as he could teach." In 
April, 1669, the town of Newark agreed with John Catlin to hang 
out and fasten poles or young trees in the river adjoining the com- 
mon fence, to prevent hogs swimming around the fence into the 
neck, and allowed him 5s. out of the treasury for his pains, &c. In 
1670, he was a " committee man" to order as to fences, «fcc. In 
1676, and until 1681, he was a townsman of Newark, In 1678, 
town's attorney, (not a lawyer,) an " honest brother," to take care 
that all town orders should be executed, and if a breach occurred, to 
prosecute the offender. In 1681, he was one of a committee to lay 
out highways to the mountain. John Catlin and his associate 
Wheeler, in 1673-4, purchased the Neck, a large tract of land above 
Newark. The title to this property was long contested ; after Cat- 
lin had closed this controversy, he and his wife disappear on the 
Newark record about 1682, when he sold to Henry Lyon, and in 
1683, Judd says, was in Hadley, Mass., for a short time, and is 
found at Deerfield, Mass., in 1684. Deacon Lawrence Ward from 
New Haven and Branford, to Newark, died at Newark, without 
issue, in 1670. Isabel, wife of Joseph Baldwin, of Hadley, (the Jo- 
seph of Milford, and the father of Benjamin, who went to Newark,.) 
was sister to Deacon L. Ward, and Isabel Baldwin authorized 
"her son, John Catlin," also John Ward (Turner,) to act for her 
in relation to the estate of their uncle, Lawrence Ward. John 
Ward, Jun., one of the early settlers, was a cousin of John Catlin; 
he was a relative of " Robert Liman," who was eai'ly at Newark, 
perhaps a brother of John Lyman, who m. Dorcas Plum, at Bran- 
ford, about 1653 ; Robert Liman left Newark, 1677, (before Cat- 
in ;) Isabel calls John Catlin, of Newark, her son, in 1670 ; also 
fohn Catlin says in a law suit that he was the eldest son of Isabel 
Ratlin and Isabel Northam ; Isabel, it appears, had had two hus- 
.•ands before she m. Joseph Baldwin. John Catlin, of Wethersfiel(^, 
>ranford, Newark and Deerfield, may possibly, in the singular dis. 
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510 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

position, at that time, to change names, I conjecture, have been the son 
of John Cattail, who died at Wethersfield, in 1644, (see CATTELL,) 
and the name changed to Catlin. It is certain that John Catlin, of 
Wethersfield, was not identical with John Catlin, of Hartford, son of 
Thomas, Sen. I give some more light as to Joseph Baldwin, and 
his wife Isabel, of Hadley, by a letter from my friend, the irrefraga- 
ble. I find after more research, that Joseph Baldwin, who married 
Isabel Northam for his second wife, was the same Joseph Baldwin 
who was early at Milford, where his first wife died ; he went to Had- 
ley and m. Isabel Northam, the mother of John Catlin, of Newark. 
Joseph, son of Joseph Baldwin, went to Hadley, and died before his 
father. Joseph's sons, Jonathan and David, remained at Milford, 
and his son Benjamin, when young, removed and settled at Newark, 
where his name is recorded. {Newark Record, Judd, Conger, Bran- 
ford, Wethersfield and Decrjield Records.) This appears to, have 
been a distinct family from, that of Thomas Catlin, in 1647, of Hart- 
ford, Ct.* 

CATON, Widow ELIZA, died at Suflield, Dec. 26, 1817, aged 
76; a child of John Caton, died Nov. 19, 1817, aged 5; not an 
early name in Connecticut. 

CATTELL, CATTEILL, JOHN, of Wethersfield, was a juror at 
Hartford, in 1644. This fact proves his respectability and character 
in Wethersfield. The goods of John Catteel were appraised July 
17, 1644. He had a home lot and barn, £12 and six acres in Mile 
Meadow, and three acres in Great Meadow, and garden, £12, 12*. 
in Wethersfield, all presented to the court by the relict and Wm. Gib- 
bons, adm'rs, total £69 ; widow's name not given ; no family or dis- 
tribution found, except his relict. I conjecture he might have left 
an infant son, John, who was afterward the John Catlin who was m. 
at Wethersfield, and removed to Branford and Newark, in 1667, and 
changed his name to Catlin, (see JOHN CATLIN,) as the chang- 
ing of names at tliat time was not uncommon, as Burnap changed to 
Burnet, Boreman to Boardman, Lankton to Langdon and Lan- 
don, &c. 

* Conger says, in a letter to the compiler, " When I last visited Trenton, I examined the rec- 
ords in order to ascertain certain facts as to Rev. David Evans, &c. I then discovered upon 
close examination that Elizabeth Baldwin was really Isabel, If the correction will help us out 
in the John Catlin difficulty, it is better late than never." Sa this last summer, in the proprie- 
tors' records, at Perth Amboy, I find the manuscript reads Hannah Brown. In the names 
printed in the bill in chancery, about 1746, it is Bruen, and thus have we been wild and wan. 
dering after Hannah and Esther Bruen, when Esther was the only one in Newark. Hannah 
should have been JEs/Aer, daughter of Richard Lawrence." (SceBRUEM) -<See CATTELL.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 511 

CAULKIN, CALKIN, CAWKIN, HUGH,* was, says Miss Caul- 
kins, in her History of New London, one of the party that canne with 
Rev. Mr. Blinman, in 1G40, from Monmouthshire, on the borders of 
Wales, and brought with him his wife Ann, and several childreny 
and settled with others of his party, first at Marshfield, and afterward 
at Gloucester, Mass, ; at the latter place was selectman from 1G43 to 
1648 inclusive ; commissioner for trial of small causes in 1645, and 
deputy to the General Court in 1650 and 1651, (Miss Caulkins.) 
Mr. Caulkin probably removed to Pequot about 1650, where he was 
deputy to the General Court of Connecticut twelve sessions, and so well 
was his character known by those who came with him to New Lon- 
don, (Pequot,) that he was elected to the General Court in May, 1652, 
and the same year chosen townsman, and continued to hold the office 
until 166-2, and until he removed to Norwich. In 1660, he was one of 
the associated proprietors to settle Norwich, and the church was organ- 
ized for this purpose at Saybrook, where many of the proprietors re- 
sided, previous to the removal to Norwich, at which meeting Mr. 
Calkin was elected one of the deacons of the new church for Nor- 
wich, and in 1663 and '4, was deputy to the General Court from Nor- 
wich ; he remained, the balance of his useful life, at Norwich, and 
died there in 1690, aged 90 years. His sons, John and David, sur- 
vived him, and his son John, who was also a proprietor of Norwich, 
removed and settled there with his father. David, his youngest son, 
remained upon his father's farm and inherited it at Nahantick, and 
it is now owned by his descendants, {Miss Caulkins, Col. Rec. &c.) 
The first grant to Deacon Hugh was Oct. 19, 1650, made by the 
townsmen of Pequot. Early in 1651, nine lots of six acres each, 
were laid out on Cape Ann Lane, New London ; Mr. Calkins had 
the first lot by the Lyme road to Nahantick, and next to him his 
son-in-law, Hugh Roberts, {Miss Caulkins' Hist N. London, p. 71.) 
He was selectman in New London in Feb., 1660. In Mr. Bruen's list 
of the inhabitants of New London, dated July, 1651, of all who 
wrought at the mill dam, the name of Hugh Calkin is not found. In 
1651, the town of Pequot or "Nameage," directed Hugh Calkin and 
Thomas Mynor to state to the court "that the town's name may be 

• Deacon Hugh Calkin held an exalted rank with the first settlers of Mass., while he remained 
there, and retained his character as a Christian and a man of integrity, after his removal to 
New London and Norwich, and until his death. Some of the family have made themselves 
conspicuous in the French war, and the war of the Revolution, but no descendant of Deacon 
Hugh has added as many laurels to the escutcheon of the family as Miss F. M. Caulkin.», by her 
late History of New London, which should be owned by not only every family wiihin the old 
boundaries of Pequot, but by all whose ancestors had an early home at New London. 



512 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

called London." Three places in New London were fortified in 
1652, viz., the mill, the meeting-house, and the house of Hugh Caul- 
kins, near the entrance of Cape Ann Lane, and in case of an alarm, 
Sergeant Minor's squadron was to repair to Hugh Caulkins' house, 
&c. Wampassock Neck, of 550 acres of upland, and a small neck 
adjoining it, were given to Hugh Caulkins, which afterward went into 
the hands of Mr. Winthrop by purchase, about 1651. August 28, 
1654, Goodman Calkin with six others, were appointed by the town 
of New London, and three of Pockatucke and Mistike, to debate and 
conclude whether Misticke and Pockatucke should be a town, &c. 
May 21, 1653, Hugh Calkin was appointed by the General Court one 
of a committee at Pequot, to advise the constables as to pressing men 
for an expedition then getting up. In Sept., 1654, he was deputy, 
and in October he and Capt. Denison were appointed, with the con- 
stables of Pequot, to press men and necessaries for an expedition, 
with one drum and one pair " cullers," from Pequot. In June, 1659, 
he, with .lames Morgan and James Avery wei'e appointed to lay out 
the governor's land, (which Gov. Winthrop had before requested,) 
at the head of Pocatanack Cove, for a plantation at Quinibauge, and 
the court gave him 1,500 acres on the Fresh River, if not prejudicial 
to any other plantation, and to include but 150 acres of meadow. His 
first election to the General Court in Connecticut, was May 20, 1652, 
also May, 1653, May, 1654, Sept., 1654, May, 1656, Oct., 1656, Oct., 
1657, May, 1658, May, 1659, May, 1660, March, 1662-3, May, 1663, 
August, 1663, May, 1664, May, 1665, May, 1666, Oct., 1666, May, 
1669, Oct. elected and absent, Oct., 1671. Hugh and John Calkins are 
found in the Norwich list of freemen, Oct. 9, 1669. {Col. Rec.) 
Caulkin, Hugh, had sons, John and David, perhaps others, and one 
daughter, Deborah, who m. Jonathan, son of Robert Royce, in 1660, 
and settled in Norwich. David Calkin, son of Deacon Hugh, m. 
Mary, daughter of Thomas Bliss, of Norwich, who was the son of 
Thomas Bliss, of Hartford, and had issue, David, b. July 5, 1674, 
Ann, b; Nov. 8, 1676, Jonathan, b. Jan. 9, 1678-9, Peter, b. Oct. 
9, 1681, John, Mary, Joseph, Lydia and Ann. David, the father, 
d. Nov. 25, 1717. 

CALKIN, LiRUT. STEPHEN, of Lebanon, was a proprietor of 
Sharon, Conn., where he early removed. He had the following 
sons, viz., Stephen, Jun., Joseph, Elijah, Timothy, Amos, Justus and 
David. Lieut. Stephen, Sen., died in 1781. Acquilla and Desire 
Calkins, his wife, of Colchester, (descendants of Hugh,) had children 
born at Colchester, Abigail, b. Sept. 18, 1748, Desire, b. Nov. 11, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITHNS. 513 

1750, Hannah, b, Aug. 25, 1754, and perhaps others. John Calkin 
free 1663. John Calkins of Lebanon, purchased a right of land in 
Litchfield, and removed there in 1721. One of this name has grad- 
uated at Yale College. Farmer says Hugh was of Lynn, and ad- 
mitted freeman 1642, at Gloucester, 1643, representative, 1650 and 
1651 (see Farmer.) Hughe Caukin had a grant of land made to him 
by the townsmen of New London, Oct. 19, 1650. Another says 
Hugh Cawkin was a freeman at Salem, Dec. 27, 1642. Samuel 
Calkins' daughter Ann, baptized at Colchester, May 6, 1733, David, 
also, baptized Feb. 29, 1736. John Caulkins graduated at Yale Col- 
lege, 1788. Calkin has one coat of arms. 

CEELY, CEELEY, ROBERT, a marshal at New Haven in 
October, 1639- (Lambert.) He had a family of four persons there, 
and an estate of £179, in 1643. He was one of the first settlers at 
New Haven. 

Ceely has 2 coats of arms ; Ceily or Cely, 1 ; Cely, 3. (See 
SEELY, ROBERT, Capt., of Wethersfield and other parts of 
Conn, and Long Island, an officer in the Indian wars.) 

CELDEN. (See SELDEN.) This name is generally spelled 
Celden on the West Hartford records, and on most other records, 
Selden. Supposed one of this family went to Hadley about 1660. 

CENTER, JONATHAN, of Middletown, m. Martha Markham, 
dau'r of Wm. Markham, Jr., April 26, 1706. Children : 

1. John, b. Feb. 4, 1707. 

2. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 18, 1708; d. Nov. 30, 1713. 

3. Jonathan, b. Oct. 27, 1710. 

4. Martha, b. April 4, 1713 ; d. Dec. 28, 1713. 

5. Elizabeth, 2d, ) ^^j^ ^ ^^^^^ ^q ^.^^4,^5 

6. Jemima, } 

7. Ruth, b. July 10, 1719. 

CENTER, JONATHAN, of West Hartford, m. Bethiah, dau'r 
of Cornelius Merry, Nov., 1734, and were admitted to full commun- 
ion there. May 27, 1759; also, widow Agnes Center, March 11, 
1787. Jonathan and Bethiah had a son Jeremiah, b. March 11, 
1750. 

CENTER, EBENEZER, of W. Hartf'd,,had a son Ebenezer, bap. 
Sept. 4, 1768 ; Timothy, bap. March 4, 1769 ; Robert, bap. April 19, 
1772 ; Agnes, bap. Dec. 25, 1773 ; Anson, bap. March 25, 1775 ; 
Joab, bap. April 27, 1777 ; Electa, bap. March 7, 1779 ; second 
Agnes, bap. June 7, 1784 ; Nabby, bap. Oct., 1786. Ebenezer and 



514 GENEALOGY OF THE PRITANS. 

his wife publicly renewed their baptismal covenant at West Hart- 
ford, July 10, 1768. 

CENTER, JOHN, of Middletown, d., and his property distribu- 
ted, 1745-6, to Hannah Center, alias Turner, who was some time 
the widow of said John Center, and the remainder to his only dau'r 
Hannah. 

Jeremiah Center m. Mary Wyman, in Mass., about 1718. This 
has been a late and respectable family in Connecticut. 

CESUM, JOHN, was drowned in Windsor, in 1675. Nothing 
more is found of this settler at Windsor. 

CHADWICK, CHARLES, freeman at Watertown, Mass., in 
1631; deputy to General Court, 1657 and 9; died April 10, 1682, 
aged 86. {Shattuck.) 

Farmer says John his son, was freeman 1655, and called Ser- 
geant Chadwick, and had five sons and three daughters and d. Feb. 
5, 1711 ; also THOMAS, son of Charles, of Watertown, had four 
sons and three daughters. Charles desired to bt; made a freeman in 
Oct., 1630, and was sworn in May, 1631. He early had seven lots 
of land recorded at Watertown. {Wat. Rec) BENJAMIN, of 
Maiden, a son of James, in 1689 ; also Abigail, daughter of James, 
b. Feb. 4, 1692. James was a freeman at Maiden, in 1689-90* 
JOHN CHADWICK, of Tyrringham, m. Prudence Seymour, daugh- 
ter of Elisha, of West Hartford, Conn., May 15, 1773. This name 
came late into Connecticut, but for many years has been found at 
Lyme, where several wealthy families of this name now reside ; 
two or more of them are sea captains. An estate in England is 
waiting for the lawful heirs of Andrew Chadwick, deceased, to 
prove their heirship. Mary Chadwick m. Dane Robinson, at Ando- 
ver, Mass., 1693-4. Chadock has one coat of arms, and Chadwick 
has five coats of arms. 

Chadwick, Clark, Child, Chenery and Coolidge were names early 
at Cambridge, Roxbury and Watertown, Mass. 

Chaduck, (perhaps Chadwick,) James, (perhaps Shattuck,) was 
allowed by the council at Hartford, Jan. 22, 1676, " for his paynes 
as Commissary, besides souldiers pay," five pounds. {Eec. of Gov- 
ernor and Council of Conn.) Thomas Chaddock, of Newbury, m. 
Sarah Woolcott, April 6, 1674. Chadwick, Joseph, came from Lon- 
don in England, and landed at Falmouth, Mass., as early as 1709; 
supposed to have been a brother or relative of Sir Andrew Chad- 
wick, who died without heirs in England in the reign of Queen Anne, 
where he left a large estate. Joseph married Martha Lumbard, of 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 515 

Falmouth, Sept. 23, 1709, by Stephen Skiff, justice of peace, and 
had children born at Falmouth, viz. 

1. Martha, b. Dec. 17, 1709. 

2. Joseph, b. May, 1711. 

3. Benjamin, b. Aug. 18, 1713. 

4. Samuel, b. Feb. 2S, 1719. 

5. Marah, b. Aug. 26, 1723. 

CHADVVICK, SAMUEL, son of Joseph, rn. Elizabeth Price, 
both of Falmouth, April 10, 1740, by Rev. Samuel Palmer, the 
minister, and had issue, 1st, Martha, b. Sept. 8^ 1740; 2d, Mary, b. 
Feb. 11 or May 16, 1742; 3rd, Rose, b. Feb. 11, 1745; 4th, Isa- 
iah, b. Dec. 13, 1749; 5th, Abiather, b. last day of Feb., 1754; 
6th, Archilus, b. March 1, 1757; 7th, Samuel, b. March 30, 1760. 
(See Falmouth records; also old bible of Samuel Cliadwick.) 

Dr. Ansel Chadwick, one of the family, furnished the following 
list for one of his family, viz: "Charles Abiather Chadwick, the 
son of Abiather Chadwick and Basheba his wife, who was the son of 
Samuel Chadwick and Elizabeth, who was the son of Joseph and 
Martha his wife, who were married- at Falmouth, Mass., Sept. 23, 
1709." Chadwick, James, and Hannah his wife, of Maiden, had a 
son Benjamin, b. Jan. 28, 1689; Abigail, b. Feb. 4, 1692; Mary 
Chadwick, m. Dane Robinson, of Andover, Mass., Jan. 18, 1693-4. 
Charles Cheedwicke, freeman of Boston, 1630 ; Jno., made free in 
Mass., 1656; John, of Woburn, made free 1680; James, of Mai- 
den, free 1689-90. {His. Gen. Reg.) 

John Chadwick, of West Hartford, m. Prudence Seymour^ May 
■ 15, 1773, the first of the name on the Hartford record. 

Abiather Chadwick, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, m. Desire 
Rider. Archelaus, son of Sam. and Eliz'th, m. Sarah Goodspeed. 
The above Joseph Chadv/ick is supposed by his descendants to have 
been a brother of Sir Andrew Chadwick, who died intestate in Lon- 
dori, without children, and his descendants the lawful heirs of Sir 
Andrew. 

Samuel Chadwick, a settler of Reading, Mass., before 1700. 
Mary Chadwick, m. John Peabody, of Mass., in 1636. 

"CHADDUCK, (Commiss.) JAMES, is allowed for his paynes 
as commissary, besides his souldier's pay, five pounds." Flias 
Shadock d. at Windsor, 1676. {See Record of Council of Conn. 
Jan. 22, 1676. Windsor Rec.) 

CHAFFE, THOMAS, had lands granted him by the town of 
Hingham, in 1637. {His. Gen. Reg.) 



616 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CHAFE, MATHE WE, a ship-carpenter, admitted into the church 
in Boston, 1636, and removed to Svvanzy. (Farmer.) This name, 
spelled " Chaffee," was at Woodstock in the early settlement of the 
parish, a respectable family, (but as the first book of records of 
North Woodstock has been lost, I have few facts of the family at 
Woodstock.) 

CHAFFEE, JOSHUA, of Mansfield, Conn., removed to Sharon, 
Conn., in 1755, and m. the only child of Matthew St. John, Jr., 
where he d. in 1789, aged 56 years. He had sons, b. in Sharon, 
Joel, Matthew and Joshua B. ; his son Matthew d. early ; Joshua B. 
was a Justice of the Peace, and Joel was living in 1842. {Sedg.) 

CHAFFEE, HEZEKIAH, came from England to Rehoboth, in 
Mass., and settled there as a farmer, and had several sons, one of 
whom was John. This John, the son of Hezekiah above, had two 
sons, viz. : John, Jr. and Dr. Hezekiah. John, Jr. is supposed to 
have had no issue ; Hezekiah, brother of John, Jr., b. at Rehoboth, 
in 1731, was educated, and came to Hartford for the purpose of es- 
tablishing a druggist's store and pursuing his profession, but by the 
advice of the first Dr. Isaac Bull, of Hartford, he settled at Windsor, 
Conn., and held a high rank in his profession. He m. Lydia Gris- 
wold, of Simsbury, and had children, Hepzibah, who d. July 6, 1824, 
aged 76. 2nd, Esther, m. Hector McLane, and d. April 4, 1790, 
aged 25. Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., d. Oct. 18, 1821, aged 60. John, 
d. Aug. 1, 1844, aged 77, m. Mary Rowland, daughter of Rev. Mr. 
Rowland, of Wi. ; had no issue. Mary, wife of James Hooker, 
Esq., d. Oct. 7, 1846 ; he d. Dec. 10, 1805, aged 63. 

Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee, Sen,, of Wi., d. March 4, 1819, aged 88 
years. Lydia, his wife, d. Oct. 1, 1801, aged 79. 

CHAFFEE, JOHN, son of Dr. Hezekiah, of Wi., m. Miss Mary 
Rowland, of Windsor, but left no children. 

CHAFFEE, Dr. HEZEKIAH, Jr., his other son, also became a 
physician at Windsor, and sustained the good reputation of his fath- 
er in his profession. Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., brother of John, m. Chat'- 
lotte Bradley, of Fairfield, Conn., daughter of Hezekiah Bradley j 
she d. March 24, 1812, aged 48 ; he had sons Hezekiah Bradley 
and Samuel Griswold, and one daughter, Abigail S. Dr. Hezekiah, 
Jr., died. 

CHAFFEE, ABIGAIL, daughter of Dr. Hezekiah, Jr., m. Col. 
James Loomis, of Windsor, and has a very respectable family. 

CHAFFEE, HEZEKIAH BRADLEY, has never married and 
resides a bachelor in the city of New York. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 517 

CHAFFEE, SAMUEL G., m. first Rebecca Phelps, of Bloom- 
field, only child of Nathan Phelps; she d. Nov. 18, 1818, and had 
children, Samuel Good and Rebecca Charlotte. He m. for his sec- 
ond wife, Julia, daughter of Daniel Lombard, Esq., of Springfield, 
Mass., and had Julia L., Hezekiah and Maria Louisa, also Julia and 
Delia, twins ; Julia d. aged 15 months, and Delia d. 4 months old. 

Hezekiah B. and Samuel G. graduated at Yale College in 1809 
and '10, and were many years merchants in company at Hartford, 
where Samuel G. now resides. 

CHAFFE, ANN, m. Phineas Stcbbin, son of Stephen, a descend- 
ant of Rowland of Northampton. 

CHAFFEY, MATHEW, purchased Dr. John Clark's farm in 
Essex, Dec, 1651. (Gen. Reg.) 

Coat of arms: Chafe, (Exeter,) has one, and Chafie has one. 

CHALKER, ALEXANDER, was an early settler at Saybrook ; 
on page 96, vol! 1, at Saybrook, he m. Katrine Post, Sept. 29, 1649, 
and had issue, 

1. Stephen, b. Sept. S, 1650. 

2. Mary, b. April 27, 1653 ; m. Rich'd Cogens, 1677-S. 

3. Abrani, b. Oct. 19, 1655; m. Debora Barber, 1691. 

4. Catern, b. Sept. S, 1657, m. John Hill, of Greenfield, 1G73. 

5. Sarah, b. Oct. 19, 1659. 

6. Jane, b. May 25, 1662. 

7. Alexander, b. Feb. 21, 1666. 

CHALKER, STEPHEN, m. Eliz'th Chapman, June 3, 1703 ; 
hed. June 2, 1727. Issue, Eliz'th, b. March 12, 1704, d. 1707; 
Phebe, b. Aug. 11, 1705; Stephen, b. July 19, 1707; Mary, b. 
May 30, 1710 ; Lydia, b. July 30, 1713 ; Mehitabel, b. Aug. 13, 
1715, d. March 7, 1730; Deborah, b. May 2, 1718. Stephen fined 
20*. at N. L., for violation of Sabbath, 1673. 

CHALKER, STEPHEN, son of Stephen, Jun., b. 1707, m. 
Mehitabel Cliapman, Dec. 14, 1727. Issue, Stephen, b. Oct. 24, 
1728 ; Eliz'th, b. May 22, 1730 ; Jabez, b. March 24, 1732 ; Me- 
hitabel, b. Sept. 9, 1733 ; Gideon, b. Jan. 9, 1735; Jeremiah, b. 
July 20, 1736, d. Dec. 31, 1736. 

CHALKER, AB'M, b. 1657, son of Alexander, Sen., m. Han- 
nah Sanford, Jan. 16, 1679, and had children, b. at Saybrook, viz : 
Hannah, b. March 25, 1682 ; his wife Hannah d. Dec. 7, 1683. 
He m. for his second wife Sarah Ingham, Sept. 23, 1686, and had 
Abram, b, Sept. 1, 1687, d. Sept. 16, 1687, and his second wife 
^nrah d. Sept. 11, 1687. 
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518 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Isaac Chalker graduated at Y. C. in 1728, and Henry in 1834. 

CHALKER, AMB'M, recorded at Killingvvorth, m. Deborah 
Barber or Barker, Nov. 19, 1691 ; she d. 1753, and he d. Feb. 17, 
1731. Children, Deborah, b. Oct. 3, 1694; Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 
1697; Ab'm, b. May 1, 1699; Hannah, b. July 19, 1703; Isaac, 
b. Sept. 12, 1707 ; Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1710. 

CHALKER, JABEZ, son of Stephen, m. Sarah Coe, May 29, 
1750. Issue, Ja-bez, b. Aug. 21, 1757 ; John, b. Oct. 3, 1758; 
perhaps others. Jabez was taken prisoner in the expedition against 
Quebec, in 1775, with Andrew Hinraan and others. 

CHALKER, SAMUEL, perhaps son of Alexander, of Saybrook, 
m. Phebe, daughter of Robert Bull, Oct. 31, 1676 ; (another entry 
is Nov. 7, 1676;) had children, Stephen, b. Sept. 11, 1677; Sam- 
uel, b. Oct. 6, 1679 ; Phebe, b. March 29, 1682, d. 1683 ; 2d Phebe, 
b. May 9, 1685. 

Alexander was a respectable and early settler at Saybrook. 

Goodm. Chalker, Lt. Prat, Rob't Chapm., Mathew Griswold and 
Wm. Waller, were appointed by the Gen'l Court of Conn't, Oct., 
1666, a committee to entertain and approve such as were received 
" inhabitents on ye east side ye River at Sea Brooke" — (forming the 
town of Lyme.) 

Alexander Chalker was placed in nomination for a freeman in 
Saybrook, Oct. 10, 1667. 

The appointment of Alexander Chalker upon this important com- 
mittee with such men as Chapman, Griswold, &c., shows liis stand- 
ing in the colony. His descendants are yet found in Saybrook, 
Hartford and other towns in Connecticut. 

CHALKWELL, EDWARD, was an early settler at Windsor; 
he made his will Oct. 17, 1648, and his estate was £13, 75. 8d., 
which he gave to Nicholas Saint John, John Moses, Rev. Mr. War- 
ham, Geo. Phelps and the poor of the church in Windsor ; Geo. 
Phelps, Ex'r. He left neither wife or children ; d. single, Dec. 5, 
1648. He gave N. St. John his gun, sword, bandoleers, best hat 
and 405. John Moses and Mr. Warham 505., &c. 

(In one instance the name is spelled Charv/ell.) 

CHAMBERLAIN, CHAMBERLANE, CHAMBERLIN, 
JOHN, of Colchester, had children, Eliphalet, bap. April 13, 1740; 
Joseph, bap. Feb. 14, 1742; Mary, bap. Sept. 31, 1744; Elisha 
and Eliz'th, twins, bap. Aug. 10, 1746. 

CHAMBERLAIN, PELEG, had several children bap. at Col- 
chester, as did John. 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 519 

CHAMBERLAIN, BENJAMIN, had children bap. at Colches- 
ter, viz., Benj'n, Sept. 21, 1735; Oliver, Feb. 9, 1737; Hannah, 
May 30, 1742, and a 2d Benj'n, Oct. 14, 1744, and Ann, Nov. 23, 
1746. Benj'n d. 1750, aged 49 years. 

CHAMBERLAIN, WM., of Colchester, m. Lydia Treadway, 
Jan. 3, 1734, and had Joel, bap. May 4, 1735; Wm., Jun'r, bap. 
Oct. 26, 1735; Roswell, bap. March 16, 1740, and Lydia,^ bap. 
June 14, 1741. WM. CHAMBERLAIN, of the 2d church in Col- 
chester, had a daughter I\Iolly, bap. Aug. 2, 1772. 

CHAMBERLAIN, FREEDOM, of the 2d church in Colchester, 
an adult, was bap. March 25, 1733 ; wife Mary and his daughter 
Lydia, bap. same time ; daughter Delight, bap. Sept. 23, 1733, and 
Ellis, bap. Oct. 12, 1735 ; Irena, b. 1642. He d. In 1763, aged 59 ; 
widow Sarah d. 1768, aged 76. 

CHAMBERLAIN, ELIPHALET, of 2d church in Colchester, 
had daughter Lucy, bap. Nov. 22, 1772, and Lecta in June, 1773. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH, of Colchester, m. Widow Hannah 
Gillett, July H, 1738. Rebecca, bap. June 24, 1739; Mary, bap. 
March 14, 1742 ; Aaron, bap. Sept. 30, 1744. 

CHAMBERLAIN, WM., an inhabitant of Billerica in 1658. 

Wm. taken prisoner on the expedition against Quebec in Dec, 
1775. (His. Gen. Reg.) 

CHAMBERLAIN, EDMUND, at a town meeting at Woodstock, 
Nov. 23, 1693, was allowed a corner of land, about thirty rods, on the 
north side of Muddy Brook, for fencing. Granted IMarch 21, 1693-4, 
three acres adjoining the land he purchased of James Frizell, of 
Woodstock. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH, was early settled at Colchester, 
where he d. in 1752, aged 87 years. The governor and council of 
Conn., March 21, 1712, directed the treasurer to pay him £1, 13s. 
for his entertaining the French embassador when they passed through 
Colchester to and from New London, in March, 1711. 

CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN, of Colchester, had a daughter Bu- 
nice, bap. Oct. 29, 1732; Jerusha, bap. March 4, 1733; John, 
March 30, 1735, and Hannah, bap. 1735. WM. CHAMBERLAIN 
d. at Colchester, Oct., 1755, aged 67. John Chamberlain was one 
of the men under Capt. John Lovewell, by command of Lieut. Gov. 
Dummer in quest of Indians in 1724. 

CHAMBERLAIN, PETER, m. Jane Higgins. 

JOFIN m. Sarah Day, June 7, 1744. 



520 GENEALOGY OF THE PDRITANS. 

CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS, embarked for Virginia in the 
Thomas and John, John Lombard, Master, Jan. 6, 1635. 

Farmer notices Edmond, of Chelmsford, 1655, and son Edm'd, 
b. 1656. Henry, of Hingham, blacksmith, freeman 1638, land 
granted before 1640; and sons H^enry and Wm. John, Charlestown, 
d. 1653 ; Richard, of Braintree, 1644 ; Tho's, of Woburn, free- 
man, 1644 ; Wm., of Billerica, 1654, perhaps bon of Henry, of 
Hingham ; had sons Jacob, Tho's and Edmonde ; he, Wm., d. May 
31, 1706, aged 86 ; R. Chamburlayne is found in the " Roll of Bat- 
tle Abbey," of Norman blood, true as steel. 

Coats of Arms. Chamberlain, one ; Chamberlaine three ; Cham- 
berlan. one ; Chamberlayn, twenty ; Chamberlayne, nine ; Cham- 
berlen, one ; Chamberlin, (London,) one ; Chamberlyn, two. 

This was not an early name in Connecticut, but is found early in 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

CHAMPION, RICHARD, aged 19 years, embarked from En- 
gland for Virginia, in the Merch't Bonaventure, in 1634-5. THO'S 
CHAMPION, of Ashford, England, by a certificate of Edm. Hayes, 
Vicar, 12th of March, 1634, embarked in the Hercules, of Sand- 
wich, from Sandwich, in England, for New England. 

Number of Coats of Arms. — Champeyon has one ; Champion, 
(Berkshire and Essex,) one ; Champion, (London,) one ; Champion, 
(Essex,) one, and eight others; Champeyne, one ; Champeyon, one. 

CHAMPION, HENRY, was born in England in 1611. He came 
to New England, and is found at Say brook as early as 1647, as he 
married there in August, 1647. Henry was propounded for a free- 
man at Lyme in 1670. Henry Champion was one of those com- 
plained of by John Prentice, &c., of N. London, to the county court at 
Hartford, in March, 1671-2, in the great quarrel between the people 
of New London and Lyme, as to the eastern bounds of Lyme and 
western bounds of New London. He had lands beyond " Little 
Stoney Brook," in June, 1674, and other lands. He removed from 
Saybrook to Lyme many years before he died. He died Feb. 17, 
1708. He had children, viz.: 

1. Saraw, (Sarah,) b. 1649. 

2. Mary, b. 1651. 

3. Henry, Jun'r, b. 1654 or '5. 

4. Thomas, b. April, 1656. 

5. Stephen, b. 1653, d. May, 1660. 

Henry, Sen., died in 1708, aged ninety six years. He had his 
earmark at Lyme, in 1673-4. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 521 

CHAMPION, THOMAS, son of Henry, Sen., b. IG56, m. Han 
nah Brockway, of Lyme, Aug. 23, 1682, and had issue, 

1. Hannali, b. Feb. 13,16S3; (died March 2, 1750.) 

2. Sarah, b. March 8, 16S7-8. 

3. Thomas, Jun., b. Jan. 21, 1G90-1. 

4. Mary, b. July, 1693. 

5. Henry, b. May 2, 1C95. 

6. Deborah, b. April 2G, 1697. 

7. Elizabeth, b. July 1, 1699. 
Thomas, the father, diedl705. 

CHAMPION, HENRY, son of Thomas, born May 2, 169.5, re- 
moved and settled at East Haddam. He married Mchitabel Rowlee, 
Jan. 16, 1717, and died in 1779, and had issue. 

1. Ebenezer. 

2. Henry, b. Jan. 19,1723. 

3. Israel, who married and left children. 

4. Judah, b. in E. Haddam. 

CHAMPION, CoL. HENRY, (son of Henry,) born in East Had- 
dam, Jan. 19, 1723, m. D. Brainard. He d. July 21, 1797, and left 
issue. Gen. Henry, b. March 16, 1751 ; Gen. Epaphroditus, bap. 
in the second church in Colchester, April 11, 1756 ; Dorathy, bap. 
Dec, 23, 1759 ; (supposed one b. in Nov., 1760 ;) Esther, bap. June, 
1766. 

CHAMPION, Gen. HENRY, of Colchester, (son of Col. Henry,) 
b. 1751, m. Abigail Tinker, Oct. 10, 1781, and had issue, Henry, 
bap. Oct. 6. 1782 ; Aristobulas and Aristarchus, twins, bap. Oct. 
31, 1784; Abigail, bap. April 8, 1787; Harriet, bap. July 19, 
1789 ; Maria, bap. Feb. 14, 1792, and one other daughter. One of 
his daughters m. Joseph Trumbull, late governor of Connecticut; 
one m. Robert Watkinson, Esq.; one m. Elizur Goodrich, Esq., of 
Hartford ; and his daughter Abigail, m. Gen. David Deming, (now 
deceased,) Sept. 14, 1804. Oneof her daughters m. Rev. Mr. Ship- 
man, one died unmarried, and she has the honor of being the mother 
of Hon. Henry C. Deming, of Hartford, who has been so favorably 
known in Connecticut as an orator and public debater in both branch- 
es of the legislature, and^at the bar. 

CHAMPION, Gen. EPAPHRODITUS, son of Col. Henry, bap. 
in the second church in Colchester, April 11, 1756. He m. Miss 
Hubbard, of Hatfield, Mass., and had but two children who survived 
him. His son Epaphroditus, who was educated a lawyer, died un- 
married at middle age. The only daughter of Gen. E. Champion, 
m. Hon. Asa Bacon, an eminent lawyer of Litchfield, Conn., (now 
44* 



522 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

of New Haven,) who has retired from his profession with an ample 
fortune, full of honors and years. They had three most promising 
sons, all of whom they have lived to consign to the tomb. 

CHAMPION, Rev. JUDAH, son of Col. Henry, and grandson of 
Thomas, b. at E. Haddam, graduated at Yale College in 1751 ; in- 
vited to settle in the ministry at Litchfield, Conn., Feb. 26, 1753, as 
the successor of Rev. Mr. Collins, their fii-st minister, which he ac- 
cepted and became the second minister of the town, where he died 
in 1810, aged 81 years. He early married Miss Welch, a sister of 
the first Judge Welch, of Litchfield, and had three daughters and 
no sons, viz., Nancy, Betsey and one other ; the two last died single. 
Nancy m. John Landon, Esq., who was many years high sheriff of 
Litchfield County, and had one son and two or more daughters. He 
and his wife both died at Castleton, Vt. in their old age. 

CHAMPION, HENRY, supposed Jun., had children born at 
Lyme, viz., Joshua, b. Sept. 28, 16 . . ; Henry, b. Jan. 5, 16 . . ; 
Susan, b. Feb. 25, 16 . . ; Samuel, b. 169 . ; Alse, b. March 15, 
1694; Rachel, b. Dec. 1, 1697; Abigail, b. June 25, 1699 ; Ste- 
ven, b. July 15, 1702; Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1704. Henry, the father, 
died July, 1704. 

CHAMPION, REUBEN, of Lyme, married Lydia Dunk, of Say- 
brook, Feb., 1755, and had issue, born in Saybrook, viz., Sarah, b. 
Dec. 12, 1757; Reuben, b. July 30, 1760; Meads? b. Aug. 18, 
1764 ; Azeubah, b. May 6, 1768. Reuben died at Lyme, Dec. 10, 
aged 92 years — a soldier of the Revolution. 

CHAMPION, STEVEN, married Abigail Bowers, July 18, 1743, 
had Stephen, b. Aug. 24, 1744 ; Jerusha, b. at Saybrook, June 21, 
1746 ; perhaps others, 

CHAMPION, THOMAS, had children, Hannah, died March 2, 
1750 ; Jane, d. March 12, 1750 ; Betty, d. March 13, 1750 ; Sam- 
uel, d. March 14, 1750; Elizabeth, d. March 16, 1750; Phebe, d. 
Dec. 11, 1752; Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1751, and Lucy, b. May 26, 
1754 — (unfortunate family.) 

Jeffery and Wm. Champion, and Christopher, of Weste-ly, R. I., 
took the oath of fidelity in that colony in 1679. Four of this name 
had graduated at Yale College in 1850.* 

* Anecdote for Lyme. — The town of Lyme passed the following vote : " At a public meet- 
ing, April the 18th, 1092, it was votsd, Uiat all bachelors and boys, from eight years old and 
upwards, be catechised once a fortnight on the Lord's day, in the meeting-house." Also voted 
at the same meeting, " that all maids and girls sliall be catechised on the week days, and that 
Mr. Noyes shall see that they meet to order." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 523 

Few families in the Connecticut Colony have been more prospered 
than that of Henry Clmmpion, Sen., of Saybrook. When I speak 
here of his family, I intend his numerous descendants. The branch 
descended from Thomas, Sen., have been peculiarly fortunate in 
amassing wealth, particularly Col. Henry, Gen. Henry and Gen. 
Epaphroditus Champion. Col. Henry was appointed commissary in 
1775, in the commencement of the war of the Revolution, with oth- 
ers, to supply all necessary stores and provisions for the troops then 
to be raised. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia in May, 
1775. The same year he was appointed a full colonel. He officia- 
ted as commissary most of that war, aided by his sons. When in- 
telligence reached the governor of Connecticut, that a large fleet of 
the British, with many transports, " were pushing up Narragansett 
Bay, toward Newport and Providence, in 177G, Col. Champion was 
sent for, and ordered to provide for the troops ordered to Rhode Isl- 
and. In 1777, all the salt of the state in the hands of Mr. Bull, store- 
keeper at Hartford, was ordered into the hands of said Champion, for 
salting pork for the state, and he was ordered to put up one thousand 
barrels of pork for the state. The governor and council of safety, 
Jan. 15, 1778, judging that the quantity of salted and other provis- 
ions laid up for the Continental army, in this state, would prove far 
short of the required quantity, and as fattened cattle were difficult to 
be obtained, " and as Col. H. Champion was considered a gentleman 
of great judgment, capacity and experience in said business, espe- 
cially beyond any other person in this state, and of most unexcep- 
tionable honor and integrity, and of universal acquaintance and abil- 
ity to promote the fattening of cattle and skill in purchasing ; the 
board applied to him to undertake said business." {Record, Jan. 15, 
1778.) Enough is here shown to prove the exalted rank he held in 
Connecticut during the war. Many others of the family were equal- 
ly ardent whigs. His two sons, Gen. Henry and Gen. Epaphrodi- 
tus, though young, were active whigs toward the close of the war, 
and were, after the war, elected members of both branches of the 
state Legislature, and held an exalted rank in Connecticut. 

CHAMPLIN, JOHN, took a lease of the Rope Ferry, at the bar 
on the road from New London to Lyme, of the town of New Lon- 
don, in 1720. A great horse race was held, five horses at forty shil- 
lings each, at Champlin's, March 30, 1725, and Major Buor held 
the stakes. Bly won the money. (See Caulkins, p. 407.) Two 
seamen, Samuel and Lodowick Ciiamplin, were at New London in 



524 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1778 ; also, Lieut. George was killed in a desperate conflict in the 
West India seas, in 1778. {Caulkins, p. 402.) 

Two of this name graduated at Yale College, and one at Harvard 
College.* 

CHAUNCEY, CHANCY, GEORGE, Esq., resided in Hertford, 
shire, in England, a descendant of Chauncy de Chauncy, who went 
to England with William the Conqueror, in 1066. George, Esq., 
d. in 1627 ; he m. and had five sons, the youngest of whom was 
Charles, bap. Nov. 5, 1592 ; graduated at Trinity College, A. B., 
1613 ; A. M., 1624. He m. in England, Catherine, daughter of 
Robert Eyre, of Wiltshire. He died in New England, Feb. 19, 
1672, aged 82, and his wife died Jan. 4, 1668. Mr. Chancy having 
been persecutsd in England, came to New England in 1638, and 
preached at Plymouth three years, and settled at Scituate in 1641, 
until 1654, at which time he succeeded President Dunster, as 
President of Harvard College, where he continued until his deaths 
Febv 19, 1672, in his eightieth year, or as Mather says, eighty-sec- 
ond J' ear. He evidenced a brilliancy of talents which few possess, 
which has continued in several branches of his descendants. His 
children : 

1. Isaac, b. in England, Aug. 23, 1632; d. in London, Feb. 23, 1712. 

2. Ichabod,b. in England, 1635; (wifeMary d. 1736 ;) he d. at Bristol, Eng., 
July 25, 1691. 

3. Barnabas, died in middle life ; admitted into the church at Cambridge, 
Dec. 10, 1656 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1657. 

4. Nathaniel, b. about 1639 ; settled at Hatfield, Mass., where he d. Nov. 4, 
1686. He m. Abigail, daughter of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, and be- 
fore of Windsor, Ct. His widow, Abigail, d. April 15, 1704. 

5. Elnathan, became a noted physician in Boston. 

6. Israel, b. in 1644, was settled as the pastor of the church at Stratford, 
Conn., where he died March 14, 1703. He m. 1. Mary Nichol, and 2. Sarah 
Hodshon, at New Haven, Nov. 11, 16S4. 



* Capt. Lodowick Champlin, of N. London, in 1777, was captain of the privateer ^imerican 
Revenue, and took a brig from Quebec and sent her into Bedford, laden with fish. The same 
year a sloop from New London was taken and carried into New York. April 25, 1777, news 
arrived at N. London that the armed brig Defense, (Capt. Smedley,) owned by Connecticut, and 
the sloop American Revenue, (Capt. Champlin,) of N. London, had arrived from a cruise in a 
safe port, aud had taken four valuable prizes. Capt. Champlin, in 1777, in the American Rev- 
enue, of N. London, in company with a small privateer, took a large ship with 439 hogsheads 
of sugar, and arrived safe in port. He also sent into a safe port, a prize schooner, with 220 
hogsheads of rum. New London, May 8, 1778. The American Revenue, Capt. Champlin, and 
Revenge, Capt. Conklin, of N. London, took the ship Lovely-Lass, Wade, late master, from Lon 
don, with a valuable cargo, and sent her into Boston, (,J\rewspapers of that time.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 525 

7. Sarah, m. Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of Wethcrsfield. (See BULKLEY.) 

8. Hannah. 

Six sons of President Chancy were educated at Harvard College. 
His sons Isaac and Ichabod, returned to England. ISAAC settled 
in Woodborough parish, in Wiltshire, and was rejected by the Bar- 
tholomew act in the reign of Charles II., and afterward studied med- 
icine, and went to London to pursue his profession as physician ; 
but after the death of Rev. John Owen, D. D., in 1663, he succeeded 
that eminent divine, and officiated in the church in Berry Street, in 
London, many years, and for reasons assigned by Dr. Calamy, he 
left preaching, and died in London, Feb. 12, 1712, aged over 79 

years. He m. Jane , in England, and had children, viz.; 1. 

Isaac, Jun.; 2. Uzziel, d. Aug. 31, 1696 j 3. Charles, came to Bos- 
ton, where he was a merchant, and d. there; 4. Elizabeth, m. John 
Nisbit, of London, Dec. 10, 1689, and d. 1727. (Farmer.) 

The will of "Richard Sealis," dated 17th of 7th mo., 1653, was 
witnessed by " Charles, Isaac and Ichabod Chauncye." (Scituate, 
Gen. JReg.) 

CHANCY, CHARLES, last above, was the father of the celebra- 
ted Charles Chauncy, D. D., who was minister of the first church 
in Boston, from the 25th of October, 1727, to his decease in Feb., 
1787, aged 82. 

CHAUNCEY, ICHABOD, son of President Chancy, b. in Eng- 
land, 1635, graduated at Harvard College, 1651 ; prepared himself 
for the pulpit, and returned to England, and became a chaplain in 
Sir Edward Harley'^ regiment, and was at Dunkirk, in France in 
1662, and afterward was of "good note," physician in the city of 
Bristol. Dr. Calamy says, " he was prosecuted on the thirty- 
fifth of Elizabeth, and upon that act suffered banishment, and in 
1684, was compelled to abjure the realm, and removed with his fam- 
ily to Holland, but by liberty from King James, he returned to Bris- 
tol in 1686, where he d. July 25, 1691, aged 56 years. His widow 
Mary d. about 1736, aged 90. 

CHANCY, Rev. ISRAEL,* son of President Chancy, of Cam- 



* By a deed given to Rev. Israel Chancy, at Stratford, in 1676-7, by his parishioners, and 
■igned by them, proves their identity, viz.: Wni. Curtis, Isaac Nichols, Jolin Birdscye, Sen., 
John Beach, Sen., James Blackman, (son of Rev. Adam,) Samuel Hawley, John Burritt, James 
Clark, Nath'l Porter, Eph'm Booth, Thomas Knowles, Benjamin Beach, Daniel Brinsmade, Jno. 
Wilcoxon, Isaac Nichols, John Welles, Samuel Beardsley, Tho's Uffoot, Joseph Havvley, Jehia 
Preston, John Birdseye, Jun., John Bostick, Jonathan Curtis, Thomas Welles, John Ilurd, Jun., 
John Curtis, John Picket, John Beach, Jun., Henry Tomlinson, (ancestor of Gov. G. TomUnson,) 



526 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

bridge, was born at Plymouth or Scituate, educated at Harvard 
College, 1661, and settled in the ministry at Stratford, Conn., 1665. 
He m. for his first wife, Mary Nichol, daughter of Isaac, of Strat- 

ford, and his children recorded at Stratford, are Isaac, b. Oct., ; 

Charles, b. 1668 ; Robert, b. lei 8, perhaps others not recorded. It 
appears his wife died, as the record at New Haven says, Israel 
Chauncy married Sarah Hodslion, Nov. 11, 16S4. His son, Rev. 
Isaac Chauncy, was educated and settled in the ministry at Hadley, 
Mass. Rev. Isaac had a son Josiah, who became grandfather of 
Hon. Moses, of Amherst and Schenectady, and this Hon. Moses was 
the father of Mr. Chauncy, of New York. From the branch of the 
family settled at Fairfield, Conn., is descended Commodore Chancy, 
who d. Jan. 27, 1840, the father of Charles W. and John S., of the 
U. S. Navy, and Rev. Peter Chancy, of Yorkville, N. York. Rev. 
Isrjiel Chancy, of Stratford, was a fellow of Yale College from 1700 
to 1703. He was a finished scholar, a good preacher, and a most 
useful divine. He d. March 14, 1703, aged 59.* 

CHANCY, Rev. NATHANIEL, son of President Charles and 
brother of Rev. Israel Chancy, of Stratford, Ct., was b. at Plymouth, 
about 1639 ; was educated and graduated at Harvard College in 
1661, of which he was afterward fellow ; bap. at Scituate. He first 
settled as teacher of the church of Christ at Windsor, Conn. Hem. 
Abigail Strong, daughter of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, 
Nov. 12, 1673, and had children recorded at Windsor, viz. : 

1. Isaac, b. Sept. 5 and bap. Sept. 6, 1674. 

2. Katherine, b. Jan; 12, and bap. April 16. 

3. Abigail, b. Oct. 14, and bap. 

4. Nathaniel, Jim., b. 1681. 

5. Charles, b. Sept. 3, 1679, bap. 7th, and d. Oct. 31, 1679. 

Katheren m. Rev. Daniel Brewer, of Roxbury and Springfield, 
Aug. 23, 1699, and had eight children ; d. March 15, 1754, aged 
78 years. His daughter Abigail m. 1. Dr. Hudson, and 2. Ed- 
mond Burroughs. Mr. Chancy continued several years at Windsor. 
It was voted in the church at Windsor, June 21, 1668, that the chil- 



Richard Booth, John Minor, (which is certified by John Minor, Recorder, 1676-7.) Mr. Chancy 
had by gift of the town, twelve acres of meadow, and also twelve or thirteen acres of upland in 
the neck ; also, eleven acres ; forty acres as woods on Long Hill, between " Woronoke and 
Pageusett;" also, two acres, two-thirds of swamp, recorded March 22, 1676-7. 

* It will be noticed, Mr. Chancy m. first, Mary, dau. of Isaac Nichol. Before this marriage, 
Mr. Nichol, in his deeds, is uniformly noticed as Isaac Nichol, the soap boiler, which after Mary 
married the minister, was changed to Mr. Isaac Nichol. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 527 

dren should be baptized by Mr. Chancy, if desired by the husband 
or wife, if they presented themselves to the elders in private, (before 
public,) and declared to their satisfaction their knowledge in the prin- 
ciples (of the covenant) and owned their father's covenant, &c. 
After Mr. Nathaniel Chancy left Windsor, he settled at Hatfield, 
Mass., where he died Nov. 2 or 3, 1685, and his widow died July 2, 
1636, and was buried at Roxbury. In the settlement of the estate 
of Rev. Natlianiel, of Hatfield, 1685, inventory, £478, 14s. Ad. — 
" Now whereas, the Rev. Mr. Chancy, of Stratford, hath freely of- 
fered to take care to bring up ye second son (Nath'l,)of his deceased 
brother, to learning, with this proviso, that he (Mr. Chancy) may 
have the use of the library which was his brother's, till such child 
came to be of age, and gave his advice that their said son might have 
the library as his own forever, (Sec; and as to Mr. Chancy's right 
and the remainder of said children, which are a son, viz., the eldest, 
(Isaac,) and three daughters, who are all young, and to bring up," 
&c. (See Northampton Proh. Rec.) Rev. Israel, of Stratford, ful- 
filled his obligation, and educated his nephew Nathaniel, and he 
probably formed his marriage connexion with Miss Judson, of Strat- 
ford, by his youthful days being spent with his uncle, Israel Chancy, 
at Stratford. His son Isaac died without issue. His daughter Sa- 
rah m. Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, of Wallingford, Conn. Nathaniel 
settled at Durham, 

CHANCY, Rev. ISAAC, the second minister of Hadley, Mass., 
m. the widow of Joseph Metcalf, (maiden name Abial Adams, dau'r 
of Rev. Wm. Adams, of Dedham,) soon after 1723. 

CHANCY, Mr. CHARLES, is noted on the records as of Wind- 
sor, Fairfield and Stratfield ; m. Sarah VVolcott, daughter of Mr. 
Henry, of Windsor, Mar. 16, 1698-9, and had issue, Abiali, b. Jan. 
22, 1699 ; Robert, b. at Windsor, Nov. 29, 1701 ; Ichabod W., b. 
Jan. 4, 1703-4. Mr. Wolcott and his daughter, Sarah-Chancy, both 
being deceased, the court at Hartford ordered a distribution of their 
mother's share in her father Wolcott's estate, to be distributed to her 
children, viz., to Robert, Ichabod W., and Abiah Chancy. Rev. 
Charles, of Stratfield Village, Clerk, Nov. 6, 1710, was appointed 
, guardian for his children, named above. Rev. Charles, the father, of 
' Stratfield, d. as early as 1715, and his wife Sarah, d. Jan. 5, 1703-4. 
John More and Daniel Bissell, of Windsor, were appointed guardians 
, for said children in 1715. Personal property distributed 1720 ; real, 
\ distributed 1714-15, £315, 10s.; total, £367, 05. lOd. To each of 
them £122, Gs. lid. Final distribution, Dec. 3. 1722. 



528 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

CHAUNCEY, Rev. NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of 
Hatfield, and grandson of Pres. Chancy, settled at Durham. At a 
town meeting at Durham, June, 1708, it was voted to pay Mr. Nathan- 
iel Chauncey, for the present year's labor in the work of the ministry, 
if he continued there in said labor, £55 in grain at country price 
yearly, so long as he should continue in the work of the ministry 
with them. A church was formed Feb. 11, 1711, and he was ordain, 
ed there the same day. He had preached to the people of Durham 
as a candidate in 1706, where he had continued most of the time to 
his ordination. He was engaged in the war of the Revolution, with 
Col. Ely, as well as Chaplain on Long Island. 

Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, of Durham, was a son of Rev. Nathan- 
iel Chauncey, first at Windsor, and afterward at Hatfield, Mass., and 
grandson of President Charles Chauncy, of Harvard College. He 
was b. at Hatfield, Sept. 26, 1681. He was the first graduate of 
Yale College, who had received his entire collegiate education at 
Yale in 1702. His father died when he was young, and his uncle, 
Rev. Israel Chauncey, of Stratford, had the oversiglit of his morals 
. and education. He was many years a fellow of Yale College. He 
married Sarah Judson, of Stratford, Oct. 12, 1708, and had by her 
six children, viz., Elihu, Sarah, Katharine, Abigail, Nathaniel, Jun., 
and Elnathan. Hed. Feb. 1, 1756. He was a great scholar, divine 
and Christian. 

CHAUNCEY, NATHANIEL, Esq., son of Rev. Nathaniel, of 
Durham, b. Jan. 26, 1720 ; graduated at Yale in 1740. He settled 
at Middletown, where he held a respectable rank as a magistrate and 
citizen. He died Sept. 3, 1798, aged 77. He was twice married," 
first to Mary Stocking, and second to Susannah Gilbert. Issue by 
his first wife, John S., a light-horseman in the war of the Revolu 
tion, and was killed after he had surrendered ; Sarah, Mary, Abi- 
gail, Nath'l, (_father of Henry, of N. Y.,) Michael, of Hartford, John, 
of Western N. Y. and Catherine. {Fowler and Rec.) 

CHAUNCEY, CoL. ELIHU, the eldest son of Dr. Chauncey, of 
Durham, was b. April 2, 1710. He settled at Durham, was judge 
of the county, and for many years was a standing representative to 
the General Assembly. He was concerned in the French War. He 
d. April 10, 1791, aged 81 years. He m. Mary Griswold, who died 
in March, 1791, aged 83 years. They had issue, Charles, died an 
infant; Catherine, b. April 11, 1741, d. April 8, 1830 j Sarah, d. 
an infant; second Sarah, b. May 8, 1745, m. Lemuel Guernsey for 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 529 

her first husband, and Simeon Parsons for her second ; he d. March 
19, 1S23 ; Charles. 

CHAUNCEY, ELNATHAN, third son of Dr. Nathaniel Chaun- 
cey, of Durham, wash. Sept. 10, 1725 ; graduated at Yale College, 
in 1743. After his license to preach, he was called to preach and 
settle at N. Guilford and in Sharon, both of which he declined, but 
remained at Durham to aid his father on his farm and in the pulpit. 
He was a man of brilliant talents. He d. May 4, 1796. He m. 
Elizabeth Worthington, daughter of Rev. William, of Saybrook, 
the widow of Samuel Gale. His children were, Nathaniel William, 
b. Sept. 12, 1761, d. Jan. 29, 1840; 2. Catherine, b. Aug. 6, 1764, 
m. Reuben R. Fowler, the father of Rev. Wm. C. Fowler, of Amherst, 
Mass., d. April 12, 1841; Elnathan Elihu, d., aged four years; 
Worthington G. 

His wife, who had been the wife of Col. Gale, had children by 
Mr. Gale, viz., Asa W. Gale, who d. at Cape Francois, Aug. 14, 
1772, aged about 16 years. Benjamin Gale, second son, proved his 
valor at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a sea-captain. He was 
washed overboard in a violent storm from a vessel, on board of which 
he had taken passage from the East Indies, in 1796 or '7, aged about 
39 years. 

CHAUNCEY, Hon. CHARLES, LL. D., was b. May 30, 1747, 
0. S. He d. April 28, 1823. He was a man of exalted powers of 
mind, but had not received a collegiate education. He read law 
with J. A. Hillhouse, Esq., and was admitted to the bar, Nov., 1768. 
In 1776, he was state's attorney in Conn. In 1789, he was a judge 
of the superior court, which he held until 1793, when he resigned 
his seat upon the bench ; after which he kept a law school. An 
honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by Yale 
College in 1777; and in 1811, the degree of LL. D. was bestowed 
upon him by Middlebury College. 

He m. Abigail Darling, who was born Nov. 9, 1746 ; died Dec. 
24,1818. Their children were, Charles, Jun., LL. D.; Elihu, Esq., 
d. May, 1847 ; Nathaniel, Esq.; Sarah, m. W. W. Woolsey, Esq., 
the father of President J. D. Woolsey, S. T. D., LL. D., the pres- 
ent president of Yale C.'^llege ; and Abigail Chancey, who d. unm. 

Of this family are the Chaunceys of Philadelphia. There has 
been a brilliancy of intellect attending the blood of this family, from 
President Chauncey to this time, and though they generally married 
into thp best families in the country, they communicated their own 
brilliancy by their connection, to other names and families. {Far.^ 
45 



530 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Fowler's Dedication Serinon at Durham, Stratford Kec, Windsor 
Rec, Hatfield Rec, Durham Rec., Old Bible, ^c.) 

Coats of Arms. — Chancy, (Essex and Porter, co. Norfolk,) 1 ; 
Chancey or Channcy, (Essex,) 1 ; Chancey, or Chauncey, (Saw. 
bridgeworth, co. Herts,) 1 ; Chancey, (Lincolnshire,) 1 ; Chancey 
or Chancey's, (Edcott, co. Northampton,) 1 ; Chancey, Chauncey, 
or Chameny, (Northumberland,) 1, and 1 other. Chansey, 1 ; 
Chase or Chansey, 1; Chauncey, (Essex,) 1, and 7 others; Chaun- 
cy or Cauncy, 1. 

CHANDLER, HENRY, one of the early settlers of the N. W. 
part of Enfield, Conn., came from Andover, 1723, and purchased 
700 acres of land, d. 1737, aged 70, had five sons; Henry, d. 1735, 
left three sons, who left town; Samuel, b. 1699, d. 1761 ; Daniel, 
b. 1701, m. Sarah Keep, 1728, d. 1785, left two sons ; Daniel, b. 
1732, d. 1805, out of town; Joseph, b. 1738, d. 1816, in Enfield, 
and left children ; Nehemiah, fourth son of Henry Chandler, b. 
1702, m. Mary Burroughs, daughter of John B., 1737, d. 1756, aged 
54, had five sons ; Samuel, b. 1737 ; Jonathan, b. 1742, died young ; 
Nehemiah, b. 1744, d. 1814 ; John, b. 1746, died young ; Joel, b. 
1748, left town ; Zebulon, b. 1754, left town ; Isaac, youngest son 
of Henry Chandler, b. 1717, m. Abigail Hale, 1741, d. 1787, aged 
70, had five sons, Isaac, David, Henry, Nathaniel and John. Henry 
Chandler had six daughters, five settled in Enfield. Lydia, m. John 
Booth, 1728, d. 1780; Abigail, m. John Rumerill, 1728, d. 1772; 
Sarah, m. Joseph Booth, 1736, d. 1778 ; Deborah, m. Ebenezer 
Colton, d. 1769 ; Hannah, m. Ezekiel Pease, 1732, d. 1756; Mary, 
m. Timothy Pease, 1736, d. 1789. 

CHANDLER, JOHN, Sen., husbandman, was an original pro- 
prietor and settler of Woodstock, from Roxbury, Mass., and drew 
home-lot No. 10, of thirty acres, with thiz'ty acre rights at New Rox- 
bury,, in 1686, at the north end of the eastward vale. He was one 
of the committee of New Roxbury to contract with William Bar- 
tholomew, carpenter, of Branford, Conn., to build the first corn mill 
in Woodstock, 1687. He was many years town clerk, as late as 
1715. The mill contract was signed by William Bartholomew on 
one part, and by Edward Morris, Joseph White, Nathaniel Johnson 
and John Chandler, aud witnessed by Robert Hughs and William 
Whardley. John Chandler, Jun., drew lot No. 16, in the division 
of the good meadow in Woodstock, in 1090. John, Sen., drew lot 
No. 21 in the second division of lots, and John Chandler, Jun., drew 
lot No. 41. John, Sen., drew No. 39, in the division of the bad 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 531 

meadow, and John, Jun., No. 33, and John, Jun., drew lot No. 16, 
in the division of good meadow, in Woodstock. March 21, 1693-4, 
the town gave John, Jun., five acres against John Morse's, and fifteen 
acres at Muddy Brook, &c., for writing in the town books and re- 
cording ear-marks. March 12, 1688, at a full meeting of the inhab- 
itants of New Roxbury, Edward Morris, John Chandler, Sen,, Ben- 
jamin Sabin, Joseph Bugbee, William Bartholomew, Samuel Rice 
and John Butcher, were appointed to state and settle highways, for 
the benefit of all proprietors, and any five of them had power, &c. 
They laid out seventeen highways in Woodstock, and reported them 
on the 18th of March, 1688, and signed their report. 

CHANDLER, CHARLES CHURCH, of Woodstock, and Thad- 
deus Burr, of Fairfield, were appointed by the General Assembly of 
Connecticut, in 1775, at the expense of the colony, to employ two 
news carriers, to perform Regular stages from Fairfield to Wood- 
stock, backward and forward, so as to arrive at Hartford every Sat- 
urday, and forward all intelligence through the country, with all 
convenient speed, (Sec. {Hin. His. Rev. p. 164.) 

Gen. Chandler acted as paymaster for the commissary depart- 
ment, toward the close of the war of the Revolution in Connecticut. 

CHANDLER, Hon. JOHN, was a side judge of the county court 
in Fairfield county, in 1790. He was the first side judge in 1794, 
in Fairfield county. Col. John Chandler, of Newtown, in said 
county, was appointed to command one of the eleven regiments 
ordered raised by Connecticut, in 1777. In 1776, he was appointed 
Lieutenant Colonel of a battalion of foot, ordered to be raised. 
Capt. John Mills' company was annexed to Col. Chandler's regiment, 
instead of Capt. Elderkins, March 14, 1777. Col. Chandler was 
afterward appointed general, and proved a patriotic and useful offi- 
cer, during the war of the Revolution. 

John Chandler and John Beach, of Newtown, and Stephen Bil- 
lings, of Groton, were members of the convention in 1788, to ratify 
the Constitution of the United States, and voted to ratify. 

CHANDLER, JOHN, a licensed taverner at New London, in 
1698. This second John m. Elizabeth Douglass, daughter of Wm., 
of New London ; his son John m. Mary Raymond, daughter of 
Joshua, of New London, and lived at New London until his children, 
John, Joshua, William and Mary, were born there, (recorded,) after 
which the family removed to Woodstock ; the third John in this line 
m. Hannaii, daughter of John Gardiner, of the Isle of Wight, about 
1718, and resided a sliort time in New London. His son John, being 



532 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

the fourth John in succession, was born in New London, Feb. 26, 
1720, (see Caulkins, p. 301.) John, Sen., was at Woodstock, one 
of the first settlers, and John, Jun., drew land rights in 1690. John, 
Sen., who first came to New Roxbury, (now Woodstock,) was one 
of the first settlers who came there from Roxbury, Mass., and in the 
first division of lands in 1687, and proved one of the best families 
who settled there. George Chandler, aged 29, was passenger for 
Virginia, in the America, with a certificate from Gravesend, June 
23, 1635. 

CHANDLER, Hon. JOHN, of Woodstock, a subscriber to 
Prince's Chronology ; also John, of Worcester, Mass. 

CHANDLER, THOMAS, aged 32, 1661 ; William, aged 28, 
1664 ; William, aged 48, 1664, Newbury, Mass. ; John and Thom- 
as, brothers, 1663 ; Thomas, aged 37, in 1665 ; William, aged 54, 
in 1670. [His. Reg.) George Bourn m. Elizabeth Chandler, at 
Marshfield, May 21, 1713 ; Mercy Chandler, of Duxbury, m. Josiah 
Bartlett, of Marshfield, Jan. 3, 1722-3. {His. Reg.) 

John Chandler, Esq., of Woodstock, died Aug. 10, 1743, aged 78 
years. John, Sen,, and John Chandler, Jun., were two of the thirty- 
nine signers to settle Woodstock, with John Bowen, Henry Bowen, 
Thomas Bacon, Jun., James Barnet, &c. 

Isaac Chandler died at Windsor, June 16, 1741, aged 48. Eleven 
of this name had graduated at Yale College, and twenty-three at 
Harvard College, in 1850. William Chandler m. Mary Done, or 
Dany, of Ipswich, Aug. 24, 1658, by Mr. Simons. John, of Ando- 
ver, m. Hannah Abbot, Dec. 20, 1676. William, of Andover, m. 
Bridget Richarson, Oct., 1679. William, also of Andover, m. Sa- 
rah Buckmaster, Dec. 28, 1682. Thomas, m. Mary Peters, 1686. 
William, of Andover, ra. Eleanor Philips, April 21, 1687. William, 
of Andover, free 1669; also, William, of Mass., free 1640. . 

Chandler, surveyor at Duxbury, as early as 1666. Henry 
Chandler, of Andover, Mass., m. Lydia Abbott, Nov. 28, 1695. 
Roger, free 1682. 

Coats of arms. — Chandler, (London,) has one; Chandler, (Lon- 
don,) one ; Chandler or Chaundler, one, and Chaundler, one. 

The above Henry Chandler, perhaps, was the same Henry Chand- 
ler who settled at Enfield, Conn., in 1723, from Andover, Mass., and 
died, aged 70, in 1737. 

CHANCUTT, EDWARD, of Windsor, for divulging misreports 
against Hide, was fined by the court, March 2d, 1647, 40*,, and 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 533 

Benjamin Nubery, for the like, fined 20s., and Masten's boy to be 
corrected. 

CHANCUT, THOMAS, 1647. 

CHANELL, ROBERT, and Robert Latimer, noticed by Miss 
Caulkins, as joint owners and commanders of the Hopewell, in 1662, 
(at New London.) On tlie 19th of May, while the barque was an- 
chored in the harbor of New London. Capt. Chanell, who was well 
in the morning of the 19th of May, was dead at two o'clock P. M., of 
the same day. His affairs were settled ; Latimer purchased Cha- 
nell's interest in the vessel ; the balance of his property, after the 
.settlement of the estate, was sent to his wife and children, in Eng- 
land. (See Caulkins' New London, pp. 231, 232.) 

CHAPELL, WILLIAM, of New London, applied for permission 
to remain at New London, in 1664. He was fined in 1680, for fish- 
ing on the Sabbath. John Chapell was fined with others in Sept., 
1693, for walking on Sabbath night and other offenses. George 
Chappell and John Chapell were both of New London, in 1704. The 
names of Chapell and Chappell appear to be distinct names and fam- 
ilies. William Chapell purchased land in New London, in company 
with Richard Waring, and in company with William Peake, he pur- 
chased land in 1667, on the west side of New London, and William 
Chapell settled on the Cohanzie road. 

William Chapell and Christian, his wife, had children : 

1. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1668-9, m. John Wood. 

2. John, b. Feb. 28, 1671-2, m. Sarah Lewis, Aug. 26, 1698. 

3. William, b. Sept., 1677. 

4. Christian, b. Feb., 16S0-1, m. William Fairbanks. 

5. 2d William. 

6. Joseph, m. Bethiah Dart. After the death of William Chapell, his relict m. 
Edward Stallion, 1693. Edward Stallion was drowned by falling out of a 
canoe, on the 14th of May, 1703. {Caulkins.) Samuel Chappel, of West 
Hartford, had a son, Nathaniel, bap. there May 2, 1736. 

CHAPPELL, NATHANIEL, made free in Mass., 1639. 

CHAPPELL, JONATHAN, m. Lucy Tennant, of Colchester, 
Conn., Dec, 1750. 

CHAPPEL, CYRUS, died at Ellington, April 2, 1807. Thomas 
Chappell, Rowland Cotton, &c., embarked for Virginia, June 23, 
1635, in the America, from England. 

Coats of arms. — Chajjpell, (London,) one, and one other for Chap- 
pell. 

Chapell, or Chappell, (Cambridgeshire,) one. 

Chapell, gu. three chaplets, or, one. 
45* 



534 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CHAPIN, EBENEZER, one of the early settlers of Enfield, was 
the son of Japhet Chapin, of Springfield, and grandson of Deacon 
Samuel Chapin, one of the first settlers of the same place. Samuel, 
at Springfield as early as 1644. He (Ebenezer) was born at Spring- 
field, 1675, lived at Enfield, died Dec. 13, 1772, aged 97. He left 
eleven sons and two daughters, viz. 

1. Rachel. 

2. Ebenezer, b. 1705; lived in Enfield; had two sons; d. aged 97; m. E. 
Pease. 

3. Noah, b. 1707 ; lived in Somers ; had three sons and four daughters. 

4. Seth, b. 1709; lived in Somers; had one son and three daughters; died 
1808. 

5. Catharine, history unknown. 

6. Moses, b. 1712; lived in Somers ; had six sons and five daugtiters. 

7. Aaron, b. 1714; lived in Somers; had seven sons and three daughters ; 
m. S. Markham. 

8. Elias, b. 1716 ; lived in Somers ; had two sons. 

9. Reuben, b. 1718; lived in Salisbury. 

10. Charles, b. 1720 ; lived in Salisbury and Bloomfield, N. Y. ; had two sons. 

11. David, b. 1722; lived in New Hartford; had two sons. 

12. Elisha, b. 1725; died unmarried. 

13. Phineas, b. 1726 ; died unmarried.* 

• (2) Ebenezer, 2d, married Elizabeth Pease. He died 1751, leaving two sons. 
Ebenezer, 3d, b. 1735 ; lived in Enfield; died 1822, leaving children. 

Eliphalet, was brigade-major under Gen. VVolcott ; Lieut. ; lived in Somers ; son of Ebenezer 
and Ruth, of Enfield; b. 1707 ; ra. Mary Wright, of Deerfield, Mass. 

(3) Noah, lieutenant, had three sons and four daughters. 
Oliver, died in the service. 

Noah, lived in Somers; left one son, Oliver, M. D., Esq.; graduated at Williamstown, 1805; 
for many years town clerk of Somers. He has a son, Seth, who is a physician. 

David, died young. 

Chapin, Cornet Noah, b. 1748, d. 1790, son of Lieut. Noah, ra. Mary Williams, daughter of 
John and Ann, Jan. 22, 1778, and had issue : Ann, Abigail, Oliver, Mary, Dorcas, Submit. 
Cornet Noah, the father, died May 5, 1790. 

(4) Seth, b. 1709, married a Bliss, of Longmeadow ; died 1808, and had : 
Elizabeth, married Ezekiel Spencer, of Somers. 

Catharine, married Daniel Sheldon, of Stafford. 

Samuel, b. 1739, married Elizabeth Spencer, of Somers ; died 1833 ; issue : 

Margaret, who married Daniel Davis, of Stafford ; lived in Stafford. 

Seth, who married Mary Stacy, of Wilbraham ; lived in Somers. 

Samuel, who married Mary Pease, of Somers, and lived in Somers. The enterprising keepers 
of the Massasoit House, Springfield, are children of this couple. 

Reuben, b. 1778 ; graduated at WiUiamstown, 1805 ; studied divinity with Rev. Messrs. Hyde,' 
of Lee, Mass., and Pruden, of Enfield ; married Louisa Russel, of Somers, in 1807 ; lost his 
health and settled in Somers ; died 1834, leaving — 

Alonzo Bowen, b. 1808 admitted to the bar in 1S31; ordained deacon in the Episcopal 
church, 1838, and priest, m 1839. 

John Russel, b. 1811 ; graduated at the Berkshire Medical College, 1834 ; practiced in New 
York city ; died in 1852. 

Louisa Cooley, born 1813 ; died 1823. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PUEITANS. 535 

CHAPIN, EPHRAIM, was a first settler at Stafford. 

CHAPIN, JAPHET, of Springfield, m. Thankful Dickinson, of 
Hatfield, May 26, 1726. 

CHAPIN, Deacon SAMUEL, made free at Braintree in 1644, 
and at Springfield, the same year, where he was a leading man. 

CHAPIN, CHEAPIN, JAPHET, had a daughter, Sarah, born at 
Milford, March 15, 1667-8; Thomas, born May 20, 1671. 

CHAPIN, JOSIAH, and MARY, had Samuel, born Nov. 11, 
1659, at Weymouth, Mass.; David, free at Springfield, in 1649. 

CHAPIN, Lieut. NOAH, of Somers, was son of Ebenezer and 
Ruth Chapin, of Enfield; was born Oct. 25, 1707; he m. Mary 
Wright, of Deerfield, Mass. ; issue : Mary, born Nov. 12, 1734 ; 
Sarah, born 17.36; Oliver, born April 9, 1739; Experience, born 
May, 1742 ; Eunice, born 1746, died 1816 ; Noah, born July 20, 
1748, died May 5, 1790 ; David, born March 24, 1753. Lieut, 
Noah, the father, died Aug. 21, 1787, and Mary, the mother, died 
March 8, 1795. 

Reuben Spencer, born 1818; licensed to practice medicine by the Medical Society of New 
Vorkcity, 1848. 

Seth Smitii, born 1821 ; ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, 1851. 

Louisa Cooley, born 1820. 

Bliss, born 17 — ; married Eunice Benton, of Tolland, and settled in that place. He had : 

Elisha Benton, M. D., born 1808 ; graduated at Berkshire Medical College, 1832 ; lived in 
Granby, Mass. ; died 1842. He had also one other son and three daughters. 

Elizabeth, married Philip Davis, and settled in Greenwich, Mass. 

Lucy, married Daniel Smith, of Westfield, Mass. 

(5) Moses, married and had issue : Phineas, settled in Newport, N. H. ; had four sons and four 
daughters. Daniel, born 1758 ; settled in Newport, N. H. ; married Joanna Arms, of Deerfield, 
Mass., and had William Arms, born 1790 ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1816 ; licensed to 
preach, 1821, and has had seven children. Philomela, born 1792; married Reuben Basan; 
died 1824. Elizabeth, married Moses Haven. Daniel Dwight, lived in Newport; had three 
children hving in 1842. David Belding. Horace, was unmarried in 1842. Jason, graduated 
at Amherst College, 1827; studied divinity at Andover. Joanna, married Stephen G. Allis. 
Frederick, settled in Hatfield, Mass. ; had two sons and two daughters. Moses Augustus, lived 
and died at West Springfield. He had Mary ; Moses, attorney at law, judge of circuit court, 
Genesee county, N. Y. ; Elizabeth ; Augustus Lyman ; Alpha ; Seth Dwight ; Elizabeth ; Alonzo, 
M. D., missionary to Sandwich Islands ; Lucina ; Louis. Jason, settled in Wilbraham, Mass. ; had ■ 
one son, Henry, a lawyer in Baltimore. Samuel Dwight, lived in Somers ; left one son, 
Samuel Dwight. 

(6) Aaron, settled in Somers, and had seven sons and three daughters. Hiram, settled in 
Surry, N. H. Justus, settled in Gilson, N. H. Aaron, Jr., settled in Stafford. Jeremiah, settled 
in Somers. Gideon, died in the Revolution. Oliver, settled in Somers. Joseph, died unmarried. 

(7) Elias, settled in Somers, and had two sons. 
Eliaa and Asa. 

(8) Reuben, settled in Salisbury. 

Hon. Graham H. Chapin is supposed to be a descendant of this man. 

(9) Charles, lived in Salisbury ; removed to Western New York ; had : 

Phineas; David. (The foregoing communicated by A. B. Chapin, D. D, of Glastenbury.) 



536 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CHAPLIN, Mr. CLEMENT, aged 48, came from England with 
his wife in company with Mr. Wm. Swayne, aged 50, &c., in the 
ship Eliza and Ann, Cooper, Master, in 1634, to Cambridge, Mass., 
where he had lands. He remained there more than a year, and 
then went to Hartford, probably, with Mr. Hooker and his company, 
in 1636, and owned land in Hartford in 1639, in the first division. 
He did not remain many years in Hartford before he located in 
Wethersfield with Mr. Swayne, and others. He became a large 
landholder there and sustained an exalted reputation among the 
citizens of the town and colony, as elder, first treasurer of the 
colony in 1637, and first secretary. He is first found on the 
colony record of Conn., Dec, 1636, where " A Corte at New Towne" 
"ordered y' Mr. Clement Chaplin shall diligentlie inquire af- 
ter any the goodes of Mr. Oldam deceased," &c. ; and the next notice 
of him on record is his appointment to the high office of treasurer and 
collector of the colony in 1637, and the appointment of his sub-col- 
lectors, viz. : Wm. Wadsworth, Henry Wolcott, Sen., Andrew 
Warde and Jehu Bur. In May, 1637, Mr. Chaplin was one of the 
Committee (or House of Assembly) who boldly " ordered that there 
shalbe an offensiue warr ag' the Pequoitt, and that there shalbe 90 
men levied out of the 3 Plantations," &c. ; and Mr. Chaplyn is in the 
list of creditors to W. Oldam's estate, in 1639, £146, 18*. Od. Elder 
Chaplin in June, 1640, is found in a bitter quarrel with Mr. Michell 
of Wethersfield, and the latter ordered by the General Courteto make 
satisfaction to Mr. Chaplin, in some " publike meeting," as part of 
his censure by acknowledging his fault, &c., and Mr. Michell for 
undertaking the oflice of town clerk or recorder " notwti'standing 
his uncapableness of such office by censure of courte, he is fyned 
to pay to the country twenty nobles," and those persons who voted 
for Mr. Michell for the office, " notwithstanding the censure of 
Courte," were fined to the country five pounds each. Mr. Chaplin, 
though a deputy to the general court in 1643, was fined by the court, 
eleven pounds, for divulging and setting his hand to a written dec- 
laration of slander, defaming the character of Rev. Mr. Smith of 
Wethersfield, with Francis Norton, John Goodridge, Mr. Plum 
and Robert Rose, &c. Elder Chaplin was also deputy, Feb. 14, 
1643. Mr. Chaplin was in court as plaintiff" against Henry and 
Samuel Smith, 1644, and Thomas Staples plaintiff" against Clement 
Chaplin defendant, June, 1645, and plaintiff" in Court 1646. He was 
also plaintiff" against Dickerson in June, 1646, and had other law- 
suits, as was the foshion of the day. (While Mr. Chaplin remained 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 537 

at Hartford in 1640, he was on a lot at market place, bounded north 
on market-place, east on meeting-house alley, south, on John Steel, 
and west on the road from the Palisadoes toCentinel Hill. — Porter.) 

In 1639, Mr. Chaplin was one of a committee of six, viz. : Mr. 
Deputy, Capt. Mason, Mr. Stone, Mr. Goodwin, Geo. Hubbard 
and Elder Chaplin, appointed by the General Court for the better 
keeping in mind of those passages of God's providence, which had 
been remarkable, since their first undertaking in the plantations: 
and report the facts to the General Court, &c. (This report, if 
made, is not found.) The time of his death is not known, as nei- 
ther stone or record is now found to give the day or year of his 
decease. He left by will, all his property to his wife Sarah, and 
from this fact, he probably left no children. His widow, Sarah, 
returned to England after the death of Elder Chaplin, (about 1647, 
or 1648, " where she executed a general power of Attorney to Wm. 
*Parks, of Roxbury, Mass,") in which she calls herseU of Edmonds • 
bury, in the county of Suffolk, in the kingdom of England, widow 
and relict of Clement Chaplin, late of Thetford, in the county of 
Norfolk, in said kingdom, clerk, deceased." (Goodwin.) By vir- 
tue of which Mr. Parks sold to Hon Henry Wolcot, various tracts 
of land and buildings in Wethersfield, which had been the property of 
Elder Chaplin, dated Sept. 24th, 1661, amounting to over 1300 
acres of land, with buildings. It is not known that he left any 
relatives in this country. He had eight parcels of land recorded in 
Wethersfield, as early as 1641. 

It was voted at Hartford, Jan. 14th, 1639, to deal with Clement 
Chaplin for land forfeited to the town. Mr. Wm. Swayne who 
came to New England in the ship with Elder Chaplin, probably 
came with him to Hartford and located at Wethersfield a few years, 
and then removed to Branford or Totoket, where he died. (See 
SWAIN.) Coats of arms — Chaplin, (Scotland,) 1. Chaplin or 
Chapelin, (Londoner Stoneham, co., Hants, granted 1593,) 1. Chap- 
lin, (Lord Mayor of London 1678) 1. Three others for Chaplin. 

CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN, from Reading, in Mass., was received 
into the church at Hampton, Conn.,' June 14, 1736 ; Nathaniel ad- 
mitted to the church, Sept., 1741 ; Janny, also, Benjamin and his 
wife ; Mary, admitted Nov. 15th, 1741, removed to Mansfield or 
Coventry ; Ebenezer, son of Benjamin, Sen., a minister, admitted 
August 21, 1763; Sarah, wife of Dr. Joseph Chaplin, also ad- 
mitted into the church at Hampton, Jan. 6, 1760 ; Mary Chaplin, 



538 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

from Pomfret, united with the church at Hampton, Nov 17th, 1751 ; 
Jammison Chaplin, widow, in 1757. 

CHAPLIN, EBENEZER, (son of Benjamin, Sen,) and Jammi- 
son, his wife, had children, baptized at Hampton. Ebenezer, Jun., 
baptized, June 2d, 1734 ; Mary, April 3d, 1748 ; Jamma, Dec. 3, 
1749 ; Hannah," August 9th, 1752 ; Benjamin, Nov. 30, 1755 ; 
Anna, Dec. 11th, 1757; Mehitabel, baptized Oct. 14, 1759. 

CHAPLIN, JOSEPH, of Hampton, m. Sarah Stedman, June 13, 
1754 ; issue, Joseph, April 10, 1755 ; John, born Nov. 30, 1756 ; 
Nathaniel, b. Mar. 20, 1759, died 1763 ; Daniel, born July 10, 
1761; 2d Nath., born May 1st, 1764 ; Sarah, born Oct. 22, 1706. 
(This has been a notefl family.) 

CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN and Sarah, had a daughter Martha, bap. 
April, at Hampton, May 20, 1764. Benjamin, Jr., joined the church 
in Hampton, 1741. Chaplin, Hugh, of Rowley, Mass., will proved. 
1657. Benjamin was the first of the name in Hampton, Conn, ; 
Nathaniel joined 1741. 

CHAPLIN, ROBERT, aged 22, passenger in the Paule of Lon- 
don, for Virginia, July 6, 1635. 

CHAPLIN, WILLIAM, embarked in the Thomas and John, 
Jan. 6, 1635, John Lombard, Master, for Virginia ; examined and 
took the oath of allegiance, (as was the custom.) 

The town of Chaplin was probably named after some one of the 
above family, formed into a society from a part of Windham, Mans- 
field and Hampton, in 1806, and incorporated a town in May, 1822. 

CHAPMAN, Hon. ROBERT, came to Saybrook about 1636. 
Tradition says he came to this country from Hull, England, in 1635. 
He appeared first at Saybrook, the next year. His father was a 
chandler in England, (then called soap-boilers.) One or more sis- 
ters either came with him or soon after, and one of his sisters mar- 
ried Francis Bushnell. There were but few men came into the 
Connecticut colony who rose higher in public estimation, or proved 
more useful, than Robert Chapman. He was a deputy to the Gen- 
eral Court of Connecticut, Sept. 9, 1652 ; May, 1653 ; Sept., 1653; 
Sept., 1854 ; in 1656 ; four sessions in 1657, three in 1658, two in 
1659, two in 1660, one in 1661, two in 1662, four in 1663, one in 
1664, two in 1665 ; in May, 1667 ; Oct., 1667 ; May, 1668 ; Oct., 
1668. In May, 1669, he was elected an assistant, and deputy also ; 
deputy, Oct., 1669; deputy in May, 1670; Oct., 1670. In May, 
1671, he was nominated for assistant ; chosen deputy. May, 1671 ; 
Oct., 1671. He was again nominated for assistant. May, 1672; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 539 

also, May, 1673; deputy, May, 1674; May, 1675; Oct., 1675; 
Oct., 1676 and '77. Capt. Robert nominated for assistant, May, 
1677, and elected deputy, 1677 ; Oct., 1677, &c. (See. Col Rec.) 

Mr. Chapman was chosen commissioner for Say brook in 1666 ; 
also, commissioner for Saybrook and Lyme in 1668. Mr. Chapman 
and Lieut. Wm. Pratt were chosen commissioners by the plantation 
for Saybrook and Lyme, May, 1669 ; also, in May, 1671 ; also, 
May, 1672 and '73. Mr. Chapman of Saybrook, O. Bruen and 
John Smitli of New London, were appointed by the General Court 
to settle difficulties with the Niantick Indians for burning fences in 
1653. He was grand juror the same year ; also, grand juror, 1661. 
In 1653 the General Court ordered 65 men raised from the several 
towns in the colony to be forthwith prepared with provisions, on a 
day's warning to march, and ordered that one man in each town 
should be appointed a committee for the constables to advise with 
about pressing the men for the expedition. Capt. Mason, Good'n 
Clark and Mr. Robert Chapman were appointed in Saybrook. In 1654 
a like order was. made, and John Clark and Robert Chapman ap- 
pointed a committee to advise with the Major (Major Mason) as to 
thepressing of men and necessaries for the service in the Narragan- 
sett expedition. 

The General Court confirmed a former grant of Twenty-Mile 
Island, with the meadow adjoining on the east side of the great 
river, (Conn.,) and commonage appertaining, to Robert Chapman, of 
Saybrook, in 1656. In 1665, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Wyllis, Mr. Leet 
and Capt. Nash, or any three of them, were appointed a committee 
to hear Uncas's* complaints, and report to the Gen. Court. Robert 

• The earliest records of the town of Hebron are the proceedings of meetings held in Say- 
brook and Lyme by persons styling themselves legatees of Joshua, Sachem. The following 

are extracts : 

" In Sabrook and Lyme. 

" At a meeting of y« Legatees of Joshua Sachem : that is ye Legatees it was agreed that 

y' Legatees doe give unto the Trustees of ye Collegiate Schoole in Conecticott, for y use of 

•^ Schoole, the quantity cf two thousand acre right, in y Lands (^'iven by s'i Joshua, allwayes 

provided y' s*^ Schocle be erected at Saybrooke. 

•'Yc 10''' Febu: 170i — In testimony hereof we set '.o cur hands. And ordr to be recorded. 

Tho- Buckingham Sen'' ^\'•iU'^l Pratt. James Lord 

John Chapman. -"..^ Denj" Lord. ^^ Sam" Clarke 

Sai.v lonej Sean' Stepn Post. Ebenezar Ingliam 

John Parker. Seanr Nathi Pratt. John Kirlland 

Thomas Norton Sean' John Tiliitson. Daniell Lord 

Rob' Chapman. Samii Jones Junr Stcophen Bushnell 

William Pcrker Tbo : Buckingm Junr John Parker, Junr." 

John Pra't Sean' Daniel Bucking'" 

John CIark« liCi^iUiah Bucking™ 



54d GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Chapman, Mr. Tinker and Mr. Campfield were chosen and sworn 
assistants, May, 1G61. He was directed to swear the people as 
freemen in " Sea Brooke," who had been orderly propounded. 
{Col. Rec, 1665.) The same session, Mr. Chapman, with the Gov- 
ernor, Deputy Governor and Mathew Griswold, were appointed a 
committee to try and determine a case presented to His Majesty in 
a petition of Mr. Morton, and report to the General Court in May, 
1666, &c. He was grand juror for Saybrook, May, 1660. He 
and Matthew Griswold were appointed by the General Court to lay 
out Mr. Allyn's farm, Oct., 1661. 

Facts sufficient are related to show the exalted rank in the Con- 
necticut colony occupied by Hon. Robert Chapman of Saybrook, in 
the early settlement of Connecticut, and the organization of its gov- 
ernment, j 'A'^' 

CHAPMAN, Hon. ROBERT, of Saybrook, m. Ann Blith at 
"Seabrook," April 29, Ann^, 1642, and had children, viz. : 

John, b. July, 1644. 

2. Robert, Jr., b. Sept., 1646. 

3. Anna, b. Sept., 164S; d. 1049. 

4. Hanna, b. Oct. 4, 1630. 



•' Say-brooke Febu: lO* 170^' — 

" At a meeting of the Legatees of the last Will and Testament of Joshua Sachem belonging 
to Say-brook." " It was agreed and vouted that Cap' John Clarke, Mr Rob' Chapman, Ens" 
John Pratt, and Serg' Stephen Post should preferr a petision unto the Gen" Court to be holden 
at Hartford next May for the granting a Township within said Land. And y' the name of the 
said place may be called Hebron — And that s'' petision be by said men signed in the name and 
behalf, and preferred at the charge of us the Legatees." {^Hebron Record, copied by Hendee, 
Town Clerk.) 

There is a deed recorded in the Town Records of Hebron, book 3d, page 65, from " Ben 
Uncose Sachem of Mohegin Benjamin Uncose and Ann daughter to Ceasor and wife to said 
Benjamin," conveying the township of Hebron to " Capt Ilezekiah Gaylord Capt. Obadiah Hos- 
ford, Capt Nathaniell Phelps, John Phelps Jonathan White Moses Cass, Joseph Phelps, Charles 
Dewey and Rachell Jones, inhabitance" and proprietors of the town of Hebron and " Nathan, 
iell Man and y' rest of ye inhabitance of y'^ town of Hebron." The deed was executed at Col- 
chester, January 11th, 1737-8. (The magistrate before whom the deed was acknowledged, 
appended the foUowing certificate :) 

"Hartford County ss. Colchester, Jan/ 11th, A. D. 173'^ Plr. John Avery interpretor, 
being sworn did before me y" subscriber Roger Woolcot Assistant in y^ Colony of Connecticut 
interpret y^ instrument contained on ye otl.er side of this paper unto y^ granters therein men- 
tioned, Ben Uncose, Benjamin Uncose, Ann Uncose y^ wife of s't Benjamin Uncose, and de- 
clars upon oath that he had made them all fully to understand ye same and that -p said granters 
did declar that they had received full satisfaction as txpressed in said instrument and y' said 
Ben Uncas and Benjamin Uncas and Ann were then sober and of sound understanding and 
that y« said instrument was their volintary act and deed. 

"Corar Roobr Wolcot, Assistant." 



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541 



5. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 16, 1653. 

6. Mary, b. April 15, 1655. 

7. Sarau, (Sarah,) b. Sept. 25, 1657. 

His wife, Ann,d. Nov. 20, 1685, and Capt. Robert Chapman d. 
Oct. 13, 1687. 

CHAPMAN, Capt. JOHN, son of Hon. Robert, m. Elizabeth 
Hally, or Holly, of Stratford, June 7, 1670, and had children : 
John, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1671 ; Joseph, b. July, 1673 ; Elizabeth, b. 
Feb. 10, 1676, d. 1676. His wife, Elizabeth, d. May 10, 1676, and 
he m. for second wife, Elizabeth Beamon, March 20, 1677, and had 
issue : Andrew, b. April 24, 1678, d. May 16, 1683 ; Elizabeth, b. 
Sept. 26, 1679 ; Thomas, b. Jan. 23, 1681, d. in 1682 ; Lydia, b. 
Feb. 13, 1682; Anne, b. Nov. 5, 1684; second Andrew, b, Oct. 1, 
1686, and d. same year. His wife, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 30, 1694. 

CHAPMAN, ROBERT, Jr., son of Hon. Robert, m. Sarah 
Griswold, of Norwich, June 27, 1671. Issue, Samuel, b. Sept. 12, 
1672 ; Robert, b. April 19, 1675 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 12, and d. Oct. 
15, 1677; Francis, b. Aug. 5, 1678; Dorkis, b. Aug. 26, 1680, d. 
soon after ; Stephen, b. Nov. 24, 1681, d. 1686 ; a son, b. and d. 
March, 1683-4; Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1686, d. soon after; his sixth 
son and ninth child b. Nov. 6, (no date,) and d. Nov. 9, 1689. His 
■wife, Sarah, d. April 7, 1692, and he m. for second wife, Mary 
Sheather, Oct. 29, 1694, and had Benjamin, b. Jan. 1, 1695 ; Me- 
hitabel, b. May 15, 1697, d. 1697-8; Stephen, b. March 5, 1698-9. 
Robert Chapman died when a member of the Gen. Court at Hart- 
ford, and was there buried, where his monument yet says : " Here 
lyeth Robert Chapman, who departed this life Nov. y' 10, 1711, 
aged 63." (The bii'th and age disagree.) 

The Chapmans of Ellington are, many of them, descendants of 
Robert, 3d. John, sou of Robert, removed to East Haddam before 
1690. His second son resided at Oyster River, in Saybrook, and 
was a member of that noted body of Puritans who formed the Say- 
brook Platform, in 1708. He died suddenly at Hartford while a 
member of the Gen. Assembly, and was interred at Hartford in 
Oct., 1711. His son, Robert, the grandson of Hon. Robert, 1st, set- 
tled and d. at East Haddam, and was b. 1674. His first wife was 
Mary, and first child b. Dec. 16, 1698. John had thirteen children, 
several died young ; Joseph, Jabez and Samuel only had families. 
Joseph lived and d. in Saybrook ; Jabez settled and d. in East 
Haddam ; and Samuel, the youngest, was b. in 1092 ; he removed 
to Stonington ; iiis wife was Mary, and she d. young in Saybrook. 
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642 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Samuel deeded land to his son, Samuel, in Saybrook, 1745, and 
Samuel, the son, deeds the same land and buildings, as of Salis- 
bury, in 1748. Jabez has few descendants, and now only one or 
two families in East Haddam, but most of the Chapmans there are 
descendants of Robert, 3d. The Chapmans of Ellington are, many 
of them, descendants of Robert, 3d, by his third son, Jonatlian, b. 
in 1702, and m. Hannah Brainard, Dec, 1730, and had sons : Jabez, 
b. 1731 ; Jonathan, b. Aug. 21, 1734; Joseph, b. Sept. 6, 1736; 
and John, b. Nov. 10, 1739. John and Joseph never married ; 
lived and d. at Millington. Jabez and Jonathan married and settled 
in Ellington from 1760 to '65. 

As Rev. F. W. Chapman, a descendant of Hon. Robert, is pre- 
paring a full genealogy of the family, I publish a small part of it. 
Hon. Asa Chapman, an eminent lawyer and judge of the S. Court 
of Conn., and his son, Hon. Charles Chapman, of Hartford, late 
member of Congress ; Geo. H., of Saybrook ; Libbeus, of New 
York ; Rev. F. W. Chapman, and very many other highly respect- 
able men, are found descended from Hon.- R^ert Chapman, once 
of Saybrook. ;,;_^ 

CHAPMAN, JOHN, d. at Colchester in 1745'', aged 60. iohn' 
and Robert, of Saybrook, nominated for freemen, Oct., 1667. 

Thomas Chapman, deputy to Gen. Court in Conn., May, 1652, 
and Oct., 1654. He testified with others in court, in May, 1651, 
that he knew nothing of John Dyer's carrying Indians on board the 
Dutch vessel, and that that was no cause of their seizing the vessel 
and goods. 

There was a THOMAS CHAPMAN admitted to the church at 
Hampton, Conn., July 31, 1726 ; and Thomas and his wife are en- 
tered as having joined the church at Hampton, Feb. 18, 1728, (per- 
haps father and son.) 

CHAPMAN, EDWARD, of Windsor, m. Eliz'th Fox in Eng- 
land, and had children born at Windsor, viz., 1, Henry, b. July 4, 
1663 ; 2, Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1664, d. ; 3, Mary, b. Oct. 22, (or 7,) 
1654; 4, Eliz'th, b. Jan. 18, 1667; 5, Simon, b. April 30, 1669; 
6, Hanna, b. May 3, 1671 ; 7, Margaret, b. March 7, 1672; 8, 
Sarah, b. May 24, 1675. Some of his daughters appear to have 
been born before he came to Windsor ; he d. at Windsor in 1675. 
Edward Chapman, Corp'l Samuel Marshall, Ebenezer Dibble, Nath'l 
Pond and Richard vSexton, all of Windsor, were in the Indian fight, 
and were wounded, and d. Dec, 1675. The inventory of said Ed- ^ 
ward is dated Feb., 1675, £184, lOs. ; offered in court, March 2, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 543 

1675 ; distributed, iTSl to his widow ; his eldest son, Henry, £30 ; 
the other son, Simeon, JG18 ; to the five daughters, <£15 each. Ed- 
ward was sworn freeman in 1667. Eliz'th, widow of Edward, 
afterward, 1673, had Iier children baptized, after the death of her 
husband. 

CHAPMAN, WILLIAM, of N. London, in 1657, had the house 
and lot which had been Capt. Denison's, purchased of Mr. Blyn- 
man, agent of John Chynnery. {Caulk. N. L., p. 93.) lie rang 
the first bell at N. London, " a large brass bell," as Miss Caulkins 
says, "to signalize the entrance of Mr. Saltonstall on his ofiicial du- 
ties. It cost £25 in current money, and for ringing it, he had 40s. 
added to his salary of £3, as sexton." Wm. was a freeman at N. 
London in 1669. There is no evidence that Robert, of Saybrook, 
and William, of N. London, or John, of N. Haven, were relatives. 

CHAPMAN, SARAH, for sitting under an apple-tree in Goodman 
Chapman's orchard, on the Lord's day, with John Lewis, was pre- 
sented to the court for trial. 

CHAPMAN, JEREMIAH, of N. London, teacher of the gram- 
mar school there, in 1738. 

SAMUEL, of N. London, in 1704. 

Capt. DANIEL, of N. London, commander of one of the com- 
panies raised against Cape Breton, in 1744-5. 

DANIEL d. 1841, aged 80. 

RICHARD CHAPMAN'S wife admitted to the first church at 
Unity, (North Stratford,) Nov. 12, 1730, and Richard admitted in 
1736, and his daughter, Mary, admitted June 25, 1738. Ruth, dau. 
of Richard, deceased, admitted in June, 1741. Abner, son of Mary 
Chapman, b. Aug. 8, 1738. 

CHAPMAN, DANIEL, original proprietor and settler of Staf- 
ford, Conn. 

CHAPMAN, SIMON, and Nathaniel Cook, the first inn-keepers 
recorded in Windsor, 1712. 

ICHABOD, of Colchester, had a son, Ichabod, bap. April 15, 
1733. 

SAMUEL, of Colchester, removed, and was a first settler at 
Sharon, Conn., and had sons, Samuel, Jr., Ezekiel and Nehemiah. 

OBADIAH removed from Colchester to Sharon, in 1741, and d. 
1761; his son, Obadiah, Jr., d. 1763; his son, Pelatiah, d. 1759; 
Matthias and Robert — (Sedg.) 

CHAPMAN, JOSEPH, of Colchester, d. 1765, aged 98 years. 

SARAH, of do., d. 1772, aged 86. 



544 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

JOHN, of do., d. 1745, aged 60. Wife of John, of do., d. 1749, 
aged 75. Her husband, John, d. there, Feb., 1750, aged 97. The 
wife of Joseph, of do., d. there, 1753, aged 75. 

Mr. JOSEPH, of Newport, R. I., m. Bathshua Mansfield, of N. 
Haven, Jan 22, 1705. 

CHAPMAN, JABEZ, and Dyer Throop, of E. Haddam, were 
members to ratify the Constitution of the U. S., in 1788. > 

CHAPMAN, SAMUEL, and J. West, of Tolland, also/were 
members. v 

CHAPMAN, HENRY, aged 19, embarked from England for 
Virginia, July 27, 1635, in the Primrose, Douglass, master. 

CHAPMAN, RICHARD, aged 18, was passenger for Virginia, 
Aug. 1, 1635, on board the Eliz'th de London, Christopher Brown, 
master. (Somerhy.) V 

CHAPMAN, WALTER, aged 44, passenger in the Assurance 
de London, for Virginia, in 1635. 

CHAPMAN, RALPH, aged 20, embarked in the Eliz'th de Lon- 
don, Wm. Stagg, master, in 1635, with certificates from the min- 
ister of St. Saviour's, Southwark, &c. 

THOMAS, aged 26, passenger in the Globe of London, for Vir- 
ginia, in 1635. 

Mary m. Samuel Bate, of Saybrook, April 15, 1677. 

SAMUEL had an ear mark at Lyme, one of the first. 

There was a JOHN CHAPMAN, interested £4, 155. in the set- 
tlement of Mr. John Oldham's estate, which was the first estate 
settled in Conn. 

CHAPMAN, JOHN, a first settler at N. Haven, signed the 
" foundimental " agreement there, in 1639. (See 'Note, p. 76.) He 
was at N. Haven in 1643, with two persons in his family, and an 
estate of j£300. {Larnheri.) As his marriage is not recorded 
there, he was probably married when he came there ; neither has 
he children recorded there. 

Capt. JOHN, of Haddam, d. in his old age, and his children 
divided his property, March 28, 1712, viz. : Joseph, of Saybrook ; 
Jabez and Samuel, of Haddam, then living ; and his sons-in-law, 
viz., Stephen Chalker, of Saybrook ; Joseph Selden, of Lyme, and 
Samuel Richardson, of Stoninglon, by their marriage with his 
daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, Mehitabel, and Lydia Chapman, of 
Haddam, the last unmarried. 

CHAPMAN, LYDIA, of Haddam, d. 173S, and her heirs were 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 646 

her brothers and sisters, viz., Jabez and Samuel Chapman, Anne 
Selden, Meliitabel and Elizabeth Chalker, of Saybrook. 

John, of Colchester, had a son, Gideon, bap. Aug. 6, 1737, and 
daii. Delight, bap. same day. 

WM. CHAPMAN'S dau., Mary, an adult, bap. May 18, 1735 ; 
also, Abigail, an adult, bap. at Colchester, same day. 

CHAPMAN, Mk. ELIJAH, of Tolland, m. Sarah Steel, May 28, 
1747, and had children, Joanna, Reuben, Sarah, Elijah, Ashbel, 
Sarah, Ruth, Esther, Roxanna, Aaron, Dorcas, Daniel. The father 
• d. Feb. 17, 1808. Sarah, wife of Dea. Elijah, d. Feb. 22, 1812. 
Capt. Samuel had issue b. at Tolland, viz., Ruth, b. Oct. 13, 
1733, m. Mr. Eleazer Steel, Nov. 7, 1751 ; Simon, b. Dec. 23, 
1736; Margaret, b. May 5, 1739, (perhaps others.) 
^ JOHN, of Colchester, aged over 70 years, bap. April 7, 1734. 
SAMUEL and his wife, adults, of do., bap. July 18, 1736. 
DANIEL, of Colchester, had sons, Barnabas and Jeremiah, bap. 
Sept. 16, 1733 ; Mercy, May 3, 1735, and Eunice, 1737. 

Ichabod, son of Ichabod, of Colchester, bap. April 15, 1733; 
Elisha, 1736, and Lydia, 1738. 

Farmer notices John, in Mass., freeman, in 1634 ; Jacob, admit- 
ted a resident, or townsman, in Boston, 1642 ; Richard, Braintree, 
1647, killed by Indians ; Dea. Samuel, proprietor at Westfield, in 
1660. This has been a familiar name in many parts of Connecti- 
cut, from the first settlement. 

Coals of Arms. Chapman, (Cambridgeshire,) 1 ; Chapman, 
(Stratton, Co. Gloucester,) 1 ; Chapman, (Cambridgeshire,) 1 ; 
Chapman, (London,) 1, and 22 others. 

Four by this name had graduated at Cambridge college, and eight 
at Yale, in 1850. 



Note for Tolland. Matthew Allen, Roger Wolcot, Timothy Thrall and John Ellsworth, of 
Windsor, had liberty of the Legislature to lay out the town of Tolland, in 1715. In 1719 the 
proprietors sold the town to 53 persons, and reserved to each of the four original proprietors 
300 acres of the land. These fifty three were, and have been deemed, the first settlers, but 
Waldo says, roads were laid out and lots assigned in 1713, and children born there before 
I7i5. Amy Hatch, dau. of Joseph, was b. there Oct. 10, 1713; Margaret Park, dau. of Joseph 
Park, b. there Jan., 1715 ; Joseph, son of Joseph Hatch, was the first male child b. at Tolland, 
Sept. 12, 1715, but Hatch and Park had deeds with the first jjroprietors, yet the settlement 
began befoie 1715. Joseph Benton was Town Clerk in 1719, and he was sent the same year to 
procure a minister, and Rev. Stephen Steel preached there in 1720, and in 1721 was voted jC75 
a year, and in 1723 he was settled their first minister; Noah Grimes and Daniel Cook appointed 
to prepare for the ordination. Mr. Steel dismissed for ill health, Dec. 25, 1758, and d. Dec. 4, 
1759, aged 63 years. 

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546 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CHAPPELL, GEORGE. The first found of this man in the 
colony is on the colony record, March 28, 1637, where the court 
"ordered y' Mr. Frances Stiles shall teach Geo: Chappie, Tho: 
Coop' & Tho: Barber, his servaunts in the trade of a Carpenter, ac- 
cordinge to his p'mise for there s'vice of their terme behinde 4 
dayes in a weeke onelie to sawe and slitt their owne worke," &;c. 
In June, 1645, " Chappell, the Taylar" is found in court at Hart- 
ford, against Southmead. Sept. 4, 1645, George Chappell was 
plaintiff against Leonard Chester — same Court, " Rich: Belding is 
bownd in xxZ., George Chappell in 10/., that the sd. George keepe 
good behauior and appeare the next Court." Dec. 4, 1645, " John 
Eauens" was plaintiff against George Chappell, at Hartford. Geo» 
Chappell was Pl'ff and Deft in Court March 5, 1645. He was also 
in Court Oct. 1, 1646, in . two causes of the previous term, and 
Deft in a case of Rich. Webb Pl'flf. At a Particular Court holden 
at Hartford Sept. 7th, 1648, " George Chappell contra John Good- 
rich." At a Particular Court at Hartford Oct. 17th, 1648, George 
Chappell and Mathew Williams forfeited their recognizance, and the 
judgment was suspended by the Court until they should be found or 
known to be at the house of Thos. Ford or John Sadler ; " and the 
judgment of the Courte is, that if either George Chappell or Mathew 
Williams shall hereafter bee in either of the houses aforesaid, and 
the said Thomas Ford or John Sadler shall not make it knowne to 
some of the magistrates within 24 houres after theire or either of 
theire being in theire bowses or either of theire houses," they shall 
pay the recognizance. Geo. Chappell was also a Deft in Court at 
the suit of Jeames Northam at Hartford Apr. 24, 1649. Particular 
Coui't in Hartford Sept. 6, 1649, " Mrs. Chester complaines against 
George Chappell and. Goody Coleman and Danyell Turner, for mis- 
demeanors." Geoi'ge Chappell soon after this is found at New 
London. About 1650 or '51 he left his first settlement, where lie had 
been about thirteen years before ho went to New London — Miss 
Caulkins locates him on a " lot granted Feb. 20, 1651-2, afterward the 
Manwaring homestead, on Man waring Hill," in N. London — and he 
was one who wrought at the Mill Dam in Mr. Bruen's list in July, 
1651. " George Chappell hath given him 6 acres of land for a house- 
lot betwixt the neck fence and Jordan river, part of it buting on Jor- 
dan river." He sold his lot in N. L., to the Indian Missionary, 
Wm. Thompson, and removed soon after to his new lot " by Nai- 
hantick way-side." He and Clement Minor were the first settlers in 
Jordan district. {Caulk., p. 136.) Geo. Chappell was an inhabitant 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 547 

of N. L., when the Charter of Charles II. was granted to Conn., and 
one of the Patentees of N. London named when the Patent of N. 
L. was sanctioned by the Gov. and Company, in 1704. He lived 
several years into the 18th century, viz., 1709 — he came to N. 
England from London in the Christopher, arrived March 16, 1634, 
aged 20, John White, master, so that he must have been 22 years 
old when the court ordered Francis Stiles in 1637 to teach him the 
trade of a carpenter. The following facts are from Miss Caulkins, 
p. 352. He took his wife Margaret and his eldest children, proba- 
bly four of them, to New London. Miss Caulkins gives his children 
collected from various sources, as follows. She says : At the de- 
cease of Geo. Chappell, these nine children were all living, and his 
aged wife, whom he committed to the special care of his son Caleb 
and grandson Comfort. Caleb, the ninth child of Geo. Sen., had re- 
moved to Lebanon before his father's decease, and adds those born 
at Wethersfield — his wife's name was Christian — Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 
1644 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 21, 1647; Rachel, b. Oct. 10, 1649, m. Thomas 
Crocker. The following Miss Caulkins puts down as his children, 
all living at the father's death, viz. : Mary, married John Dan- 
iels ; Rachel, married Thos. Crocker, had five sons and a daughter 
Mary ; John, removed to Flushing, L. I. ; Geo., born March 5th, 
(17) 1653-4 ; Elizabeth, b. August 30, 1056 ; Hester, b. April 15, 
1662; Sarah, b. Feb. 14, 1665-6; Nathaniel, b. May 21, 1668, and 
Caleb, b. Oct. 7, 1671. Caleb Chapel, of Lebanon, purchased two 
rights of land in Litchfield, in 1721. Caleb Chappell, son of Geo., 
removed from New London to Lebanon ; he had a son Amos who 
moved from Lebanon to Sharon, after 1760. 

CHAPPELL, SAMUEL, of West Hartford, m. Hannah Cadwell, 
July 3, 1723, and had a son Nathaniel, bap. at West Hartford, May 
2, 1736. 

CHAPPELL, SAMUEL, of Hartford, wife Hannah, had issue b. 
at Hartford, viz. : Zebulon, b. Dec. 19, 1724; Lydia, b. Oct. 3, 
1725; Hannah, b. March 29, 1729; perhaps others. 

CHAPELL, JOHN, of Lyme, in 1677. 

GEORGE, son of George, m. 1st, Alice Way, and 2d, Mary 
Douglass, and had sons, George aiid Comfort; from the latter de- 
scended the late Capt. Edward Chappell of New London. Edward 
died 1824, aged 80. Ezra Chappell was first president and one of 
the first members of the corporation of the Savings Bank at New 
London, in 1827. (See Caulk.) 

GEORGE CHAPPELL, Henry Stiles, of Windsor, Henry Stiles, 



548 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

of Hartford, John Stiles, Thomas Stiles, Edward Preston, John Har- 
ris, John Dyer and Francis Stiles, came to New England, from Lon- 
don, in the ship Christopher, in 1634. It appears by this fact, that 
George came in the same ship with Francis Stiles, with whom he 
served his apprenticeship, George then being 20 years of age. 

John Chappell, aged 38, passenger for Virginia in the Assurance 
de London, 1635 ; Thomas Chappell, 33, embarked in the America 
for Virginia, with a certificate from Gravesend, June 23, 1635. 

Samuel Chappell, of Hartford, m. Hannah Bidwell, July 3, 1723. 

CHARLES, WM., aged 21, was passenger in the Assurance de 
London, for Virginia, in 1635. Dorothie Charles, aged 20, was 
a passenger in the Transport of London, in 1635. 

CHARLES, WM., of Mass., 1646; William aged 74 in 1669. 
{His. Reg.) Charles, of New Haven, d. Nov., 1690. 

CHARLES, JOHN, of Springfield, Mass., sold land in Branford, 
Conn., in 1709. John and his wife, Abigail, had a son, John 
Charles, b. at Stratford, Sept. 28, 1686. 

* CHARLES, JOHN, and John Collins, were at Branford, Jan. 



• "Jan 20, 1667 
" For as much as y' it appears y' ys undertaking and y settlement of this place of Branford 
was procured by and for men of congregational principles as to Church Order according to 
y^ platform of discipline agreed on by ye Synod in 48 or there abouts, drawn from y« word 
of God, in y^ which we yt yet remain here can say we have found much good and quietness, 
to our great comfort, for y"^ which we desire for to bless God, and y' it may so remain unto 
such as do continue there abode in this place and to such as shall come in to fill up y« rooms 
of those y' are removed and yt do intend for to remove from this place of Branford." 

" First We all do see cause now for to agree y' an orthodox minister of y' judgment shall be 
called in and settled amongst us — 

" 2'y The gathering of such a Church shall be Incouraged 

'' 3'y The upholdment of such church officers shall not want our proportionate supply of 
maintenance according to rule 

" 4'y We will not in any wise Incroach upon or disturb their liberties in so walking from 
line to line and at all times 

" 5'y Nor will we be any ways Injurious unto them in Civil or Ecclesiastical respects and 
this We freely and voluntarily engage ourselves unto — jointly and severally so long as we remain 
inhabitants in this place, and this we bind ourselves unto by our subscription unto this agree- 
ment. 

" 6'." It is also agreed y' whosoever shall come for purchase or be admitted a free planter 
here, shall so subscribe before his admittance or his bargain vallid in Law amongst us. 
Jasper Crane John Ward Samuel Pond 

John Wilfoid John Linsly Isaac Bradley 

Thorn- Blachly John Robins Jonathan Rose 

Samuel Plum Robert Foot George Adams 

Mick Talntor George Page John Whithead 

John Collens Thomas Goodsell Samuel Ward 

Mick Palmer Daniel Swain Edward Frisbie 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 549 

20, 1667, after many of the inhalntants of Branford had removed to 
Newark, N. J., and then signed the articles toi" church order for 
those who remained in Branford, and such persons as should after- 
ward join them. Also, Thomas and Moses Blackley, Isaac Brad- 
ley, Edward Ball, Samuel Bradfield, Mathew Bickatt, Edward 
Baker, and others. 

CHARLES, JOHN, one of the fii-st settlers of New Haven, 
signed the fundamental agreement of the first settlers on the fourth 
of the 4th month, called June, (1639,) and in 1643"he had a family 
of four persons, and £50 estate at N. Haven. 

CHARLES, WM., and Thankful Ashband, dau. of Joseph, m. 
at Milford, April 18, 1739, and had issue : Penelope, b. Dec. 14, 
1740; William, b. Dec. 7, 1742; Anna, b. May 8, 1745; Mary, 
b. 1747. His wife. Thankful, d. at Milford, Nov. 19, 1747. 

Coats of Arms. Charles, (Bridgenhall,) has 1 coat of arms ; 
Charles, (Devonshire,) 1 ; Charles, (London,) 1, and 8 others. 

CHARLET, Widow, m. Richard Haughton at Boston, and re- 
moved to Pequot, his house-lot granted on Foxen's Hill, N. London, 
in 1651. {Caulk., p. 75.) On Aug. 19, 1658, Uncas gave a deed 
to Haughton of Massapeag Neck, a fine tract of land on the river, 
within the bounds of Mohegan proper. He had eight children ; 
Robert, Joseph and John, probably by a former wife. Richard 
Haughton d. at Wethersfield in 1682, where he was at work as a 
shipwright. 

Mr. R. Houghton and Katherine, former wife of Nicholas 
Charlet or Chelet, were recently married when they first went to 
N. London, and she had two daughters by a former husband : Eliza- 
beth, b. July 15, 1645, and Mary, whose joint portion was £100,35. 
His other five children were by his second wife, viz., Sampson and 
James; daughters, Abigail, m. Thos. Leach, Katherine, m. John 
Butler, and Mercy, m. Sam'l Bill. Richard's wife Katherine 



Henry Gralwick Samuel Bradfield, Tho' Sargent 

Mathew Bickatt Francis Tyler, Moses Blachley 

Tho' Harrison John Charles John Woosters 

Thomas Whedon Sigesmond Richals John Frisbie 

George Seward Willm Rosewell John Linsly Ju, 

Edward Ball Edward Baker William Maltbie 

Will™ Hoadley Pelye Tyler John Rose, 

Elez' Stout Anthony Howd Bartholomew Goodrich 

John Rogers John Adams JohnTaintor" 
" A true copy out of Branford first book of records, Certified p' G. Russell Town Clerk 
March 17 " 



550 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

(Charlet) d. Aug. 9, 1670. (Sec IIAUGHTON, in this work ; also, 
Caulk. N. L., p. 299.) 

CHARLTON, JOSEPH; was at Andover, Mass. ; m. Abigail 
Osgood, Aug. 2, 1694. A Scotchman of this name came to Conn, 
about the time of the war of the Revolution, and has descendants 
here. 

CHARTER, JOHN, Jr., m. Sarah Russell, 1777, and had issue: 
John, Daniel, Nathan, Lemuel, Sarah, Charlotte^ Mary, Rebecca 
and Eunice, b. May 15, 1797. 

Charter has one coat of arms, and Chase, or Chansey, one. Not 
an early name in Connecticut. 

CHARWELL, EDWARD, d. at Windsor in 1648. No other 
account of him is found. 

CHATFIELD, GEORGE, was at Guilford as early as 1642, and 
was the first of the name in the New Haven colony, where he or 
his heirs were assessed in 1642, at £10, 135. Od., and John Bowers 
at £4, 10*. Geo. Chatfield was one of the early settlers at Kenel- 
worth, (Killingworth,) and the following children recorded as his, 
viz., George, Jr., b. Aug. 18,1668; Mercy, b. 1671; (Esther, b. 
1703 ; Cornelius, b. June 3, 1706 ; Naomi, b, 1709; Philip, b. Oct. 
8, 1711 ; Mary, b. Jan. 14, 1715-16 ; these last five probably chil- 
dren of George, Jr.) 

The Chatfields of Roxbury, Conn., were of the Guilford family. 
This name was also at Derby ; all of them supposed descendants of 
George, of Guilford. The name is yet at Hammonassett. In May, 



Note for Chatfield, In Oct., 1C63, Mr. Samuel Wyllis, Henry Wolcott and Wm. Wads- 
worth were appointed a committee to form rules for the settlement of Hammonasset, (Kenel- 
worth.) The committee decided that 30 families should settle on the East side of Hammonas- 
set (River.) Those entered as planters in 1663, were: 1, Bryan Rossiter , 2, Wm. Hayden ; 
3, Edward Griswold ; 4, John Meigs, Sen., John Sliinner (did not go ;) 5, Josias Hull, Sen., Si- 
mon Mills ; 6, Wm. Kelsey, John Stedraan (did not go ;) 7, Wm. Wellman, John Clow, Sen., 
John Clow, Jr., (last did not go,) Josias Ellsworth (did not go ;) 8, Samuel Buell, Robert How 
ard (did not settle ;) 9, Jonas Westover, Josiah Gilbert (did not go ;) 10, Wm. Barber ; 11, Mr 
Mathew Allyn, (did not go,) Mathew Beckwett, (Beckwith,) (did not go ;) 12, Joseph Wilkin- 
son, Richard Warkley (did not settle, or left soon after.) Also is added a farther list : 13,Thos. 
Smith; 14, Henry Farnam ; 15, John Rossiter; 10, Jonathan Dunnin ; 17, Thomas Stevens; 
18, Wm. Stevens; 19, George Chatfield; 20, John Kelsey; 21, Henry Cranne ; 22, Eleazer 
Isbell ; 23, Benj. Wright ; 24, Joseph Hand ; 25, Robert Williams ; 26, John Nettlefon ; 27, 
John Hodge, and 28, Josiah Hull, Sen. The following names are yet found in the town, viz.: 
Rosseter, Griswold, many Hulls, Kelsey, Williams, Buells, Farnam, Stevens,. Chatfield, Crane, 
one Isbell, Wriglit, Nettleton. Hon. Mathew Allyn owned land in the town, but never resided 
there, Annanias Turney was admitted an inhabitant of the town, Nov. 26, 1607. Those 
who have the figures annexed to the names were actual settlers, in 1065, or soon after. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 551 

1665, the Gen. Court deferred administering the oath of a freeman 
to George Chatfield, John Meggs, Jr., John Shether, &c., until a 
farther opportunity. George Chatlield was one of the constables of 
Killingworth, who returned a list of the freemen of the town in 1669. 
Geo. Chatfield was one of the first settlers of Hamnionasset, and 
recorded 19th, or 19th lot in the town. 

George Cliatfield was probiibly one of the most respectable men in 
Killingworth, or he would not have held the reputable office of 
constable of Killingworth, as the constables of the towns were gen- 
erally the Governor's advisers in the towns. 

CHATFIELD, JOHN, of Derby, died, and lii.s will dated, April 
12, 1737. Children : his sons, John and Samuel, had their share of 
his estate by previous deeds, and Ebenezer most of his share. 
Solomon had his house, barn luid land where John then lived. His 
daughters were Mary, Sarah Davis and Abigail Johnson. Widow 
Anna Chatfield. 

Chatfield has two coats of arms. 

CHATTERTON, MICHAEL, was a creditor in the estate of 
William Lothain, in Conn., in 1645. 

CHATTERTON, WM., of N. Haven, (perhaps son of Michael,) 
had children .b. at N. Havea : Sarah, b. July 19, 1661 ; Hannah, 
b. Aug. 4, 166.3, d. Nov. 4, 1663 ; Mercy, b. Nov. 22, 1664 ; Mary, 
b. Dec, 1666 : John, b. Feb. 21, 1668 : Samuel, b. June 10, 1671, 
perhaps others. This has been an old name in New Haven. 

Chatterton has five coats of arms. 

CHECKLEY, ABRAHAM, Iiad a mark for liis cattle, at Guil- 
ford, in 170S-9. 

Four of this name graduated at Harvard College before 1757. 

CHEDESTER, SAMUEL, of Wallingford, m. Mehitabel Tuller, 
(^f Simsbury, Dec. 17, 1719. 

CHEDLE, BENJAMIN, and his wife, Sarah, took - upon them- 
selves the church covenant at Hampton, Conn., Aug. 28, 1723. 
Benjamin Chedlc, of Hampton, m. Sarah Greenslit, Jan. 19, 1762, 
and had issue, Benj'n, b. May 17, 1762; Martha, b. March 17, 
1764; Elijah, Rufus and Daniel, bap. April 16, 1769. 

CHEDSEY, JOHN. At a later period the name has been, uni- 
versally, Chidsey. His name is not found in the list of the signers 
of the fundamental agreement of first settlers of New Haven. His 
wife was Elizabeth ; children, Mary, b. Sept. 22, 1650, d. Oct., 
16.50; John, b. Oct. 21, 1651 ; Joseph, b. Dec. 5, 1655 ; a daugh- 
ter, b. 1653 ; Daniel, b. July 30, 1657, d. 1667, June 4 ; 2d Mary, 



552 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

b. Nov. 21, 1659; Caleb, b. Nov. 20, 1661 ; Hannah, b. Jan. 7 or 
9, 1663 ; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 10, 1665 ; Elizabeth, b. Dee. 16, 1668; 
Sarah, b. 1670; perhaps other children. Elizabeth, wife of John 
Chedsey, and Elizabeth, his daughter, d. 1688. Deacon John Ched- 
sey, the father of the above children, d. Dec. 31, 1688. Anna, wife 
of Caleb, son of Dea. John, d. Jan. 15, 1691-2. John, son of 
Ebenezer Chedsey, d. 1689. Hannah, second wife of Caleb Ched- 
sey, d. Dec. 25, 1703 or '13. Caleb m. Hannah Dickerman, July 
6, 1693. Dea. Caleb, Jr., in the list of estates at N. Haven ; £72, 
with six polls in his family, and drew 19|- acres of land in 1702. 
Ebenezer had seven polls in his family, £53 in the list of estates, 
and drew 19 acres. Second Mary m. Wm. Wilmot in 1692. Han- 
nah m, Caleb Mix. Deacon John was made deacon of the first 
church in New Haven when young, where he remained several 
years, and Dodd says, removed to Stoney River in 1681. John 
Chedsey admitted a free inhabitant at E. Haven, Feb. 19, 1658. 
He was by trade a shoemaker and tanner. The deacons in this 
family show their exalted standing in the society and church 
wherever they resided. 

One of this name graduated at Yale College in 1848. 

CHEENY, JOHN, of Wethersfield, was an early settler; he m. 
Sarah, June 26, 1669, and had issue : 

1. John, Jr.,b. July 1, 1672. 

2. Heniy, b. Feb. 14, 1G73. 

He probably died or left the town, as nothing more is found of 
him at Wethersfield. 

CHEENEY, NATHANIEL, had sixty acres of land allotted to 
liim at Suffield in 1680; also, in 1684-5, thirty acres, and two acres 
for a house-lot. This lot was conveyed by John Cheeny, successor 
of Nath'l Cheney, to Jacob Adams, in 1698. 

NATH'L and PETER, of Newbury, in 1669. Perhaps the* 
same Nath'l who went to Suffield. 

CHEYNIE, WM., of Roxbury, Mass., had a son, John, b. there 
in 1640, and a daughter, Mehitabel, b. there in 1643. 

PETER, of Worcester, in 1709, had children, Huldah, Jemima, 
Hannah, Lydia, Eldad, Ichabod, before 1690. 

CHEENY, Rev. THOMAS, of Brookfield,.Mass. 

One by the name of Cheney graduated at Yale College in 1771, 
and three by the same name have graduated at Harvard College. 

CHENY, WILLIAM, is the first of the name found in the Conn, 
colony. He was not one of the first settlers of the colony. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 553 

CHEENY, CHEENEY, CHENEY, CHENY, WILLIAM,* from 
Little Boston, near Canbury, in Oxfordshire, in England, (Hand's Let- 
ter,) was made a freeman at Hartford, Ct., in May, 1657, and was 
early settled at Middletown, where he was one of the principal men of 

• Cheeney, Mr. 'VVilliaui, of Middletown, not having children of bis own, sent to England for 
Benjamin Hand, his nephew, to come to Mid'lletown, Conn., and become heir to his estate. Ha 
came to Boston, in Mass., and on the 20th cf Feb., 1G81, Hand wrote a letter to his " Dear lov- 
ing uncle and aunt William and Ann Cheeny, of Middletov.n, from yr cousin, Benjamin Hands 
son of your dear brother Benjamin and Kalheren Hands of little boston near Canbury in Oxford- 
shire" — also stating the opposition he met with at home to his coming, and his strong desire to 
come to him — that he lived in London, &.C., that ho had not money to pay his passage, that he 
was in distress at Boston, Mass., out of money and business, and owed X6 toward his passage, 
and desired liis uncle Cheeney to redeem him for his passage, and he would be his trusty and 
faithful servant. Also to pay £3 which a friend had paid for him in London. That he had coma 
to a strange place among strangers, except Mr. Wliitwell or Wilson, who was kind to him, im- 
ploring his uncle and aunt Cheeney to redeem him, and he should " remain y'' low and trusty 
searvant till death God willing," Benjamin Hands, (an elegant signature.) 

On the trial as to the estate of Mr. Cheeney, Caleb Stanley testified, then aged about CO, that 
soon after Benj" Hand came from England, Mr. Cheeny came to his house in Hartford, and 
told him sJ Benj" was his kinsman, and he sent for him to be his heir, and he had come to his 
house, and said he would make him his heir of his whole estate, or the most part of it, and 
when he was at his house in Middletown, Mr. Cheeney called for his young kinsman, for Mr. 
Standly to see him, being much taken with him, and told before his wife that he had sent to 
Engl^ for the young man to be his heir, and he should be his heir, itc; that she said her hus- 
band would be sorry he ever sent for him to come from Engl ' — that Cheeny's wife dasired her 
husband to send for one of the Cheeneys, that was nearer of kin to him, which Mr. Cheeny s^ 
was true, but he had sent for tliis young man and he should be his heir. 

By the will of s'' Cheeny dated March 3, 1G99, he gave Anne Hand, daughter of Benj", one 
cow as a token of his love for her. All the rest of his estate, real and personal, &c., he gave 
to his loving wife Hope, the use of the real for her life, and after her death to be equally divided 
to his d'' Clark and her children, only reserving that his dr Clark's part should be in his house 
and homestead, to be divided equally to her children after her death, &c.; wife Hope, executor, 

Mr. W'm. Cheeny made a second will, dated Sept. 20, 1704, in which he gave his kinsman, 
Benjamin Hands, of Middletown, eighty acres of land in the second part of the first division of 
land in Middletown, which was the estate he willed to said Hands. The remainder he gave to 
Cheeny Clark, son of John Clark, deceased, his son-in-law, about 327 acres east of the river, 
&c. He also gave Ambrose Clark, son of said John Clark, several lots of land on both sides of 
the river, and gave all his personal estate to the three children of said John Clark, deceased, 
his son-in-law, being Cheeny, Ambrose and Eunice Clark. He also provided in case the three 
children named of John Clark, dec'd, should die before they sliould be of age, he then gave al! 
their shares to the church of Middletown, to be improved and laid out upon sacramental uten- 
sils; and appointed his son-in-law, John Williams, and his daughter-in-law, Abigail, his wife, 
executor and executrix of his will, and requested worshipful John Hamlin and his friend Joseph 
Rockwell, to be overseers, and see his will executed. Signed, Wm. Cheny. 

Inventory taken Nov. 12, 1705, being X259, 3s. 6d. 

This will was proved in court at Hartford, Dec. G, 1705 — upon which a long trial was had 
before the court. It was proved by Isaac Johnson, Sen., that in 1G81-2, Ensign Wm. Cheeny 
was informed that be had a cousin who had come to Boston from England, which he had so 
often sent for to his brother Hands, to send one of his sons to enjoy what God had given him in 
New England. Isaac Johnson and his wife testified, that Ensign Cheny employed said Isaac to 

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554 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

the town, and a member of the General Court in May and Oct., 1660, 
two sessions in 1663, one in 1664, one in 1665, one in 1667, one in 
1670, two sessions in 1672, one in 1673, one in 1675, one in 1676, 
&c. He was a large landholder. His wife's name was Hope, who 
probably came with him from England. It appears he had one 
daughter, (or a daughter of one of his wives,) who married John 
Clark, of Middletown, and had three children, viz., Cheeny, Am- 
brose and Eunice Clark. Whether the wife of John Clark was the 
daughter of Mr. Cheeney and his wife, or her child, is not certain. 
For some cause Mr. Cheeney sent to England, to his brother-in-law 
Hands, to send his son, Benjamin Hands, to him at Middletown, 
Conn., and he would make him his heir. (See Note.) Mr. Cheeny 
died at Middletown in 1705. Inventory taken Nov. 12, 1705. Es- 
tate, £259, 3*. 6d. He gave Benjamin Hands, his kinsman, (nephew,) 
SO acres of land ; to Cheeney Clark, 327 acres, and to Cheeney, 



go to Boston, to look up his cousin if to be found there, and that said VVm. Cheney told him, 
that if the boy's name was Cheney, he would not own him, but if he was his brother Hand's son, 
then he should bring him up — (to Middletown from Boston) — that he brought him, and Ensign 
Cheeny and his wife received him as a cousin, the son of their brother Hands: testified Dec. 5, 
1705. Thomas Eany testified he heard Ensign Cheeny say, " there was a young man come 
over from England, that he had sent for to make him his heir," and had divers times heard him 
sayThe would make him his heir. Anna Ward, about forty years of age, testified she had 
heard Mr. Cheny say, since he married his last wife, that he had made wills and laid them about, 
that they might be looked upon. John Hall, aged about fifty-six years, testified that some time 
before Mr. Cheeny married his second wife, he was informed that Mr. Cheeny had made a 
second will, in which he had given to Benjamin Hands little or nothing, and he talked with Mr. 
Cheeny about it, and that Cheeny said it was true ; and he asked him how it was he had so 
changed his intentions, and how it came that his wife and her children saw his will. He re- 
plied, It was for your sake, but ray will shall not be known till after my death. Wm. Lucas testi- 
fied that about fourteen years before, he conversed with said Cheeny about several of his men 
who had lived with him ; he spoke to him about his cousin Benjamin Hands ; that Cheeny said 
he had sentfor him to come from England to make him his heir, and that he would make him i 
his heir — sworn Nov. G, 1705. Worshipful John Hamlin and Noadiah Russell testified, that ; 
about fourteen years previous, they had certain knowledge that Mr. Cheeny Jiad a will, to which I 
they were witnesses, in which he gave the town of Middletown for the use of a school, viz., his ; 
house and home-lot in Middletown. Anna Coc, alias Everts, testified, that after Mr. Cheeny '■ 
married his second wife, he then being sick, he heard Mrs. Abigail Clark say, that her father 
Cheny had sent for Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Russell to make his will, and perceived Abigail and her 
mother had much concern about the matter. Joseph Miller testified that some time after his 
master was married to his second wife, he discovered his mistress was very discontented; that .' 
he overheard a discourse with his master for making such a will ; that she often cried, and she ; 
told his master Cheeny that if that will should stand, he had as good turn them out doors, and i 
said she knew he had given a great part of his estate to his cousin Benjamin Hands. j 

It will be noticeil that .Joseph Hand was at Guilford several years before Benjamin Hand | 
came from England to Boston and Middletown, and there is no evidence found they were 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 555 

Ambrose and Eunice Clark, all his personal property. John Clark 
had deceased before the death of Mr. Cheeney. In the will, made 
Sept. 17, 1704, and proved in 1705, he appointed his son-in-law, 
John Williams, and his wife Abigail, his executors. (See Note.) 
In the will he made in 1699, he noticed Anne Hand, daughter of 
Benjamin Hand ; he also noticed his wife Hope, for the use of a part 
of his estate during her life, and then to go to the children of John 
Clark. By Hand's letter it appears that Wm. Cheeney and Benja- 
min Hands, his nephew, were from Little Boston, near Canbury, in 
Oxfordshire, England. Cheeny had a second wife, and it is doubt- 
ful whether he had children by either. 

CHENEVARD, Mr. JOHN MICHAEL, was a native of Geneva, 
in Switzerland. He came to Hartford about 1723, where he estab- 
lished himself as a merchant, and married Margaret, daughter of 
Mr. John Buchamp, then of Boston, a brother of Adam Buchamp. 
Mr. Buchamp, after the marriage of his daughter Margaret, removed 
to and died at Hartford. (See BUCHAMP.) He died April 7, 
1735, aged 56, and Margaret, his wid., died March 18, 1783, aged 
76 years. His children were : 

John M. W., born July 29, 1733 ; died Oct. 6, 1805, aged 72. 

Catherine, m. Capt. Samuel Marsh, of Hartford. 

Mary, m. Samuel Olcott, of Hartford. 

Margaret, m. Hon. John Lawrence, Sept. 26, 1748, and had twelve children. 
(See p. 169) — former Treasurer of Connecticut.) 

Jane, d. unmarried, Aug. 11, 1788, aged 63 years. 

CHENEVARD, Capt. JOHN, son of John and Margaret, married 
Hepzibah Collier, (who was born July 29, 1733J for his first wife, 
and had issue : 

1. John, d. April 19, ISOS, aged 38. 

2. Michael, m. Margaret, daughter of Frederick Bull ; he d. Nov. 15,1801, 
aged 30 ; no children. His widow married a second husband. 

3. Mary, d. in infancy, May 25, 1774, aged nine months and fifteen days. 
Hepzibah, his wife, d. Jan. 4, 1774, aged 32, and he married for 

his second wife, Hannah Flagg, of Hartford, and had issue : 

4. William, d. young. 

5. Henry, d. young. 

6. Hepzibah, ") These two maiden ladies reside in the old mansion of the 

7. Margaret, ^ family at Hartford, with a competent support. The father, 
John, d. Oct. 6, 1805, aged 72. Second wife d. June 4, 1774, aged 33. In- 
ventory, $'30,321.82. His widow m. a second husband. 

CHENEVARD, JOHN,* (third John,) son of John, and grandson 

1 * Sept. 29, 1809, Thomas Seymour, Esq., of Hartford, was appointed guardian for John M. 
Chenevard, aged about 13 years; Mary Eliza, aged 10; Margaret Juliana, aged 8, and Wm, 
C'henevard, about years old — children of John, Jun., and grandchildren of Thomas Seymour, 
Ew]. 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PUIUTANS. 



of John M., married Juliana Seymour, daughter of Hon. Thomas, of 
Hartford, and had issue: 

1. John M., d. unmarried. 

2. William, d. at sea, unmarried. 

3. Mary E., m. Dr. John Lee Comstock, of Hartford, the celebrated author 
of Comstock's Philosophy, &c. (See COMSTOCK.) 

4. Margaret Juliane, m. Dr. Wra. H. Morgan, of Hartford, now deceased. 
The children of Dr. Morgan and Margaret were, 1. Elizabeth, m. Wm. B. Ely, 
a merchant in Hartford; 2. Gertrude, m. William C. Peters, of Boston, Mass.; 
3. Clara, m. Geo. Sumner; 4. Ellen; 5. Lydia Huntley; G. Talcott, unmar- 
ried; 7. Mary, m. Richard D. Hubbard, Esq., of Hartford, who is one of the 
most prominent young lawyers in Connecticut, and a gentleman of much legal 
science and an eloquent and persuasive advocate. 

MARGARET, the wife of John M., Sen., gave her property, to 
her son, Capt. John, and daughters Jane and Catharine ; to her grand- 
son John, and Michael Chenevard ; to the heirs of her deceased 
daughters, Margaret Lawrence and Mary Olcott. Her son John sole 
executor of her will — the will presented in court in 1801. John M. 
Chenevard and his descendants, have uniformly occupied a good 
standing at Hartford. Capt. John, Jun. was a noted merchant dur- 
ing the war of the Revolution, and in 1777, he and James Church 
were appointed to be of the Committee of Pay Table. In May, 1777, 
Capt. John was allowed £77, 9s. Id. for one-half the expense of 
building the yard round the Hartford gaol." He supplied the army 
with many things during the war, and his name is often found on the 
records at that period, 

Michael Chenevard graduated at Yale College in 1788. 

CHENERY, JOHN, from Watertown, Mass., purchased the 
homestead of Capt. Denison, after Denison removed to Mystic about 
1654. Wm. Chapman had been his agent, and probably purchased 
the Blinman or Denison farm for him. Denison sold, as he says, 
" my new dwelling-house," in the town-plot, to John Chynnery, of 
Watertown, Mass., early in 1652 or '4. 

CHEPPERFIELD, EDWARD, an original settler at New Ha- 
ven, and signed the fundamental agreement of the first settlers. 

CHERRY, JOHN, married Sarah , at Wethersfield, June 

26, 1669, and had a son John born there in July, 1672 ; Henry, b. 
there Feb. 14, 1673. He probably, soon after the birth of his son 
Henry, removed from Wethersfield. Miss Caulkins says, John' 
Cherry, a transient person, was at New London about 1680. He ; 
drew one acre of land in the land division in Wethersfield, in 1670.'; 
Little is found concerning him. The name is found on Mil ford ' 
Recoi'd. 

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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 557 

Cherry, John, with tliree Milford Indians, in 1670, was ordered to 
pay John Brunson, for cider stolen, 20*., and lO^. to Daniel Garrit, 
for bringing them from Milford to Hartford. 

CHESTER, Mrs. DOROTHY, appears to have been a lady of 
some distinction. It is not known whether she was a relation of 
Leonard, of Wethersfield, or Samuel Chester, of New London. She 
appears to have been at Hartford at an early period, and was in the 
first division of land at Hartford, in 1639. She had five lots of land 
recorded in Hartford, Feb., 1639, and the town voted, Jan. 14, 1639, 
to give Mrs. Chester two years' time to build upon her house-lot in 
Hartford. Mrs. Chester, by the ancient map of Hartford, had a lot 
there in 1640, near Sentinel Hill, by which it was bounded north 
and west on the road from Seth Grant's to the pound, south on Rich- 
ard Webb's lot, and east on the road from the palisado to Sentinel 
Hill, (or Main street.) The record says, p. 203, that " Mrs. Ches- 
ter complaines against George Chappell and Goody Coleman and 
Danyell Turner for misdemeanors." Danyell Turner for libeling 
Mrs. Chester, and other misdemeanors, was committed to prison and 
ordered whipped on the next Lecture day, then to be returned to the 
prison for a month, (from the time of the order,) then again publicly 
corrected, and give good security for his good behavior. (Court 
Record at Hartford, Sept. 6, 1649.) 

This may iiave been Mrs. Dorothy Chester, of Hartford, but as 
no other fact is found of her at Hartford, as late as 1649, the libeled 
Mrs. Chester was probably the wife of Leonard Chester, of Weth- 
ersfield. Mrs. Dorothy Chester probably left Hartford, or deceased, 
before 1649- 

CHESTER, Capt. SAMUEL, was early at New London. The 
General Assembly of Conn., May 12, 1664, ordered that Mr. Hag- 
born's ve.ssel, that Ralph Parker and Samuel Chester appraised at 
£100, should be delivered at that price to Lieut. Bull, (for Mr. 
Russell's use,) by the constable of New London, d:c. (See printed 
Col. Rec, p. 430.) Samuel Chester, of New London, was offered 
for a freeman of New London in 1609. In 1671-2, Samuel Ches- 
ter was one of those of New London, who were complained of to the 
County Court in Hartford, by Mr. Matthew Griswold and Lieut. Wm. 
Waller and others, of Saybrook, " for attempts" by violence to drive 
them off their lands, " resistance to authority and assault," &c. He 
first appeared at New London in 1663, from Boston, and engaged 
in the West India trade as owner, factor and commander, with Wm. 
Condy, and had a warehouse, &c., on Close Cove. {Miss Caulkins, 
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558 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

p. 145.) He may safely be called a sea-captain, as he commanded 
the Endeavour for several trips to the West Indies, as early as 1666. 
He also had an interest in a vessel called the New London Tryall, 
Avith Welman & Parker, which Miss Caulkins says was the first ac- 
tual merchant vessel owned there. Though he was a practical sea- 
man, yet he appears to have been a merchant. After 1689 and '90j 
a vessel was built for John Wheeler, a prominent maritime man at 
New London, for European trade ; and sent out under Capt. Sam- 
uel Chester. In 1604, Capt. Samuel Chester received, says Miss 
Caulkins, his first grant of land in New London, in company with 
Wm. Condy, of Boston, called his nephew, for a warehouse. Capt. 
Chester died on the east side of the river, in 1710. She also says, 
p. 353, in her valuable History of New London, that he was much 
employed in land surveys, and was appointed, in 1693, by the Gen. 
Court, one of the agents to meet a committee from Mass., to renew 
and settle the boundaries of the two colonies. He had a tract of 
land in the North Parish, purchased of Owaneco and Josiah, Mohe- 
gan sachems. The children he had baptized in New London, were 
John, Susannah and Samuel in 1670, Mercy in 1673, Hannah in 
1694, Jonathan in 1697, His will, dated in 1708, names only Abra- 
ham, John, Jonathan, and Mercy Burrows, The Chester families at 
Montville, are descendants of Capt. Samuel, {Miss Caulkins and 
Record, an early Indian deed, 1683, to Samuel Chester, SfC.) 

In this place, one generation is not found only by tradition. 

CHESTER, Deacon JOSEPH, grandson of Capt. Samuel, was 
born in Groton, Jan. 17, 1731. He m. Rachael Hillhouse, of New 
London, (Montville,) April 4, 1753, Their daughter Mary was b. 
Jan. 17, 1754. His wife Rachael died April 8, 1754, and his dau'r 
Mary died June 11, 1765. Deacon Chester m. for his second wife, 
Elizabeth Otis, April 21, 1757, and had children, viz.: 

2. Joseph, b. Jan. 27, 175S. 11. Caroline, b. Aug. 27, 1773. 

3. Rachael, b. June 12, 1759. 12. John, b. Oct. 7, 1775; d. Oct. 3, 

4. Elizabeth, b. May 23, 1761. 1796. 

5. Levi, b. Feb. 13, 17C3. 13. Olive, b. March 12, 1776. 

6. Mercy, b. Oct. 5, 1764. 14. Lucinda, b. Feb. 3, 1779. 

7. Otis, b. Aug. 4, 1766. 15. Dorothy, b. Feb. 7, 17S0. 

8. David, b. April 23, 1768. 16. Anna, b. July 21, 1783. 

9. Mary, b. Feb. 27, 1770. 17. Sarah, b. Jan. 12, 17S5. 
10, Mabel, b. Nov. 11, 1771. 

CHESTER, JOSEPH, Jun , son of Deacon Joseph, ni. Elizabeth 
Lee, of Lyme, and he died April 2, 1791. 

CHESTER, RACHEL, a daughter of Deacon Josepii, married 
Jared Comstock, and died in Feb., 1841. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 559 

CHESTER, ELIZABETH, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married 
Ezekiel Fox. He died, and she married Thomas Adgate, and died 
at Bethany, N. Y., Sept., 1830. 

CHESTER, LEVI, son of Deacon Joseph — (little known of him.) 
He died June 2, 1812. 

CHESTER, MERCY, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Jona- 
than Whaley, and for her second husband married Deacon Elisha 
Lord, of Pomfret. 

CHESTER, OTIS, son of same, married Miss Mott, and removed 
to Granville, Mass., and died Feb. 28, 1816. 

CHESTER, DAVID, son of Deacon Joseph, married Prudence 
Fox, and removed to Alabama. 

CHESTER, MARY, daughter of Deacon Joseph, married Asahel 
Otis, and died Jan. 2, 1834. Asahel Otis died Jan. 12, 1837, at the 
house of his son, Levi Otis, in Batavia, N. Y. 

CHESTER, MABEL, another daughter, married James Sterling, 
of Lyme, and removed to Lima, N. Y. 

CHESTER, CAROLINE, another daughter of Deacon Joseph, 
married John Smith. He died Feb. 26, 1830. 

CHESTER, OLIVE, another daughter, married William VV. 
Haughton. 

CHESTER, LUCINDA, died at her sister Sterling's, at Lima, 
Feb. 19, 1801. 

CHESTER, DOROTHY, another daughter, married Ephraim 
Fellowes, of Stonington, Oct. 26, 1806, and became the mother of 
Francis Fellowes, Esq., Counselor at Law, in Hartford, &c. 

CHESTER, SARAH, another daighter, married Elisha Forsyth, 
and perhaps Haughton. 

The foregoing are a small part of the descendants of Capt. Sam- 
uel Chester, of New London, 

CHESTER, LEONARD, Esq., came from England to Cam- 
bridge, Mass., in the early settlement of New England, and stopped 
first at Cambridge, in 1633. He was of an important and distin- 
guished titled family, of Brady, in Leicestershire in England, and 
left his country and all his honors there for New England, to enjoy 
his liberty and religion. In 1635, he went to VVethersfield, to pre- 
pare a house for himself and family, and left his wife in delicate 
health at Watertown, (Cambridge,) and his son John was born at that 
place, where his birth is recorded — (several years afterward, his 
birth was recorded, b. at Wethersfield, the first white male child b. 
there, which was not correct.) Mr. Chester was one of the kw 



560 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

titled gentlemen, who left England, in the early settlement of New 
Eno-land, and remained and died here. His title is engraved upon 
his tomb by his family, as ''Arrniger" — probably with no more fam- 
ily pride than those who have recorded upon the tombstone of 
their progenitor, his office of corporal or " sargant" — (a title of 
dignity next in degree to a knight, an esquire, armor-bearer, an at- 
tendant on a knight.) 

Mr. Chester was a juror in 1643, '44, '45, and grand-juror in 
Sept., 1643 and '44 ; plaintifFin court in 1640. Sept. 29, 1642, the 
Gen. Court, that the country should be the better enabled to kill 
yearly " some beves for supply of Leather," ordered that no calves 
should be killed within the plantatations, except by the approbation 
of two men in each town, appointed by the court, upon a forfeiture 
of ten shillings to the country, and Leo. Chester and Rich. Trotte 
were appointed for the town of Wethersfield. (See Col. Rec.) 

Mr. Chester died when only 38 or 39 years old, Dec. 11, 1648. He 
was only about 25 or 26 years old when he first came to Wethers- 
field. His wife, Mary, whom he probably married in England. Their 
children were : 

1. John, b. Aug. 3, 1635, at Cambridge. 

2. Dorcas, b. Nov. 1 or 5, 1637, at Wethersfield ; m. Mr. Samuel Whithig, of 
Billerica. 

3. Stephen, b. March 3, 1639; d. April 23, 1705. 

4. Mary, b. Jan. 15, 1641. 

5. Prudence, b. Feb. 16, 1643. 

6. Eunice, b. June 15, 1645. 
7. Mercy, b. Feb. 14, 1647. 

CHESTER, Capt. JOHN, son of Leonard, Esq., married Sarah, 
daughter of Gov. Thomas Welles, Feb., 1653, and married by Gov. 
Welles. Capt. John was a gentleman of much use and importance 

Notes. Chester, Mr. Ed : Hainpson Harnson, fined £5 for divulging slanderous speeches 
against Mr. (^Iiester, Dec, 1644. Leo Chester (being in the list of jurors, June, 1645) fined 5»., 
probably for tardiness or absence. Mr. Chester, for resisting the constable and miscarriage in 
court, was fined 40s. Mr. Chester freed from training, Oct., 1646. 

Leonard Chester and Richard Trott were appointed by the court to give license for killing 
calves in Wethersfield — (a law was made in 164'2, that the country might be enabled to kill 
yearly, some beeves, for the supply of leather, it was ordered that no calves should be killed 
within the plantations, upon a penalty of ten shillings, without the approbation of two men 
within the town, appointed by the court.) Mr. Chester was one of a large conmiittee. to take an 
account of what the several towns would disburse for building a ship, in IC42. 

Inscription on the monument of Mr. Chester, at Wethersfield. — " Here lyes the body of Leon- 
ard Chestar, Armiger, late of the town of Blady, and several oiher Lordships in Leicestershire, 
Deceaf-edin Wethersfield, Anno Domini, 1648 — Etatis 39." 



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in the colony. He directed in his will to have each of his children 
have a mourning ring ; also the same for each of his son's wives. 
Anthony, his slave, he gave to his wife, and entailed to his eldest 
son John, his buildings, home-lot, and his land adjoining, to him and 
his heirs male, providing he had male heirs. Their children were : 

1. Mary, b. Dec. 23, 1654; m. John Wolcott,Feb. 14, 1070-7 ; she d. before 
her father, July 10, 10S9. 

2. John, Jr., b. June 10, 1656. 

3. Sarah, b. Nov., 1057; m. Simon Wolcott, of Windsor, Dec. 5, 1089. 

4. Stephen, b. May 20, 1060 ; d. before his father, Feb. 9, 1697-8. Jemima, 
(Treat) his relict, and children, Dorothy, b. Sept. 5, 1692 ; Sarah, b. 1693-4 ; 
Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1690, and a son d. in infancy, b. Feb., 1G97-S. Estate, 
£1,140. 

5. Thomas, b. March 23, 1662 ; d. Dec. 4, 1712, aged 50. 

6. Samuel, b. May 23, 1664 ; d. 1689. 

7. Prudence, b. Dec. 10, 1660. 

8. Eunice, b. May 17, 1068; m.. Timothy Stevens; she d. June 16, 169S. 
Capt. John Chester's will presented in 1698, by Stephen Chester 

and Peter Bulkley. He gave John. Jun., his gold ring, which had 
been his father's, and his mourning ring for his mother. He gave 
his son Thomas half the farm given him by the Gen. Court, laid out 
by Doct. Brocket and Capt. Thomas Yale ; also the gold ring given 
him at the funeral of Mr. Whitwell. Capt. John gave his wife all 
his silver plate, tankard, porringer, wine-cup, silver spoons, &c. His 
daughters Sarah, Eunice and Prudence, he gave each JSIOO. He 
noticed his daughter Mary Wolcott, dec'd, (wife of John Wolcott,) 
and gave her children £75 each. To his daughter Eunice he gave 
his division of the Indian purchase east of the river, of "30 square 
miles." His Japan, with a silver head, he gave Mr. Stephens. He 
gave his brother, Stephen Chester, £5, and made his sons Thomas 
and John, his executors. He gave the town of Wethersfield the land 
at the burying-ground he ])urchased of Samuel Wyllys, Esq. Will 
dated Feb. 21, 1697-8, and proved May 6, 1698. He died Feb. 23, 
1697-8. Sarah, his relict. Estate, £1,103. 

Capt. John was approved by the Gen. Court, 1657-8, as one of the 
first company of troopers in Conn., and was made a freeman in May, 
1658. Capt. John was repeatedly a member of the Legislature — in 
May, 1670 ; in October, 1676 ; May, 1677, and October, 1677, &c. 
Capt. John drew 29 acres in the land division in Wethersfield in 
1670. He d. Feb. 23, 1698, aged 62. Mrs. Sarah, his w., d. Dec. 
12, 1698. 

CHESTER, STEPHEN, son of Leonard, Esq., died about 1705, 
and left no children, having never married. Major John Chester his 



562 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

administrator on his estate. His property was distributed to his 
brother, Capt. John Chester, and to the children of his two sisters. 
His lands, warehouse, &c., were divided into three equal parts, one 
part to the living children of Capt John Chester, deceased, a brother 
of Stephen, deceased; one part to Mr. Samuel Whiting, of Billerica, 
in right of his wife Dorcas, a sister of said Stephen, deceased, and 
the other third to the children, then living, of Capt. Thomas Russell, 
of Charlestown, Mass., deceased, who had married a sister of said 
Stephen, deceased. The above distribution was altered by the 
court, who gave Thomas Russell, son of Thomas, a double portion of 
the one-third, and to Prudence Russell a single portion ; one-third 
to the Whiting children. Inventory dated May 5, 1705. Estate, 
£200, 155. Qd. 

CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Capt. John, Sen., b. 1662, m. 
Mary, daughter of Richard Treat, Dec. 10, 1684, and had children, 
viz.: 

1. Eunice, b. Nov. 23, 1685. 

2. Samuel, b, Sept. 29, 1696, and d. 1710. 

3. John, b. Dec. 17, 1699; d. Dec. 14, 1700. 

4. Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706. 

Thomas Chester, the father, died Dec. 5, 1712, and his widow 
Mary died Jan. 1, 1748, aged 81 years. 

CHESTER, JOHN, Jun., son of Capt. John, married Hannah, 
the daughter of Capt. Samuel Talcott, of Wethersfield, Nov. 25, 
1686, and had issue : Penelope, b. Oct. 21, 1687, d. in infancy ; Me- 
hetablc, b. Jan. 29, 1689 ; Mary, b. March 8, 1691 ; second Penel- 
ope, b. Nov. 18, 1693 ; Hannah, b. May 15, 1696, and died May 
29, 1749; Prudence, b. March 4, 1699; Eunice, b. May 11, 1701 ; 
John, b. June 30, 1703; Sarah, b. July 1, 1707 ; Thomas, b. Aug. 
31, 1711, died in infancy. Major John, the father, died Dec. 14, 
1711, aged fifty-five and a half years. Mrs. Hannah, his widow, 
died July 23, 1741, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. 

CHESTER, Mr. JOHN, 3d, son of John, Jun., of Wethersfield, 
b. June 30, 1703. He graduated at Harvard College in 1722. He 
married Miss Sarah Noyes, a daughter of Rev. James Noyes, of 
New Haven, Nov. 19, 1747. They had issue, John, b. Jan. 18, 
1749 ; Leonard, b. Sept., 1750 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 12, 1752 ; Abi- 
gail, b. May 27, 1754 ; Stephen, b. Oct. 28, 1761 ; Thomas, b. 
Jan. 7, 1764. The father died instantly in the hay-field at Weth- 
ersfield, Sept. II, 1771, in the 69th year of his age. His widoyv 
survived him. 

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563 



was often a member of the Gen. Assembly, held many of the offi- 
ces of the town, was a judge of the county court — (in 1748, he was 
the only male in his line by the name of Chester, says Rev. Mr. 
Marsh's sermon) — an assistant, and distinguished in both branches 
of the Legislature for integrity and brilliancy of talents. In the 
obituary it says, "a strong pillar has fallen when Chester fell," " a 
father to the fatherless and a God to the widow, in the 69th year of 
his age." His widow survived him with four sons and two daugh- 
ters. John d. 1809; Leonard d. 1803 ; Stephen d. 1835 ; Thomas 
d. 1831 ; Abigail m. Joseph Webb, and d. March 16, 1827, aged 
73. 

CHESTER, JOHN, 4th, Col., b. 1749, m. Elizabeth, daughter 
of Hon. Jabez Huntington, of Norwich, Nov. 25, 1773, and had issue: 
Elizabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1774 : Mary, b. April 20, 1779 ; Hannah, 
b. Oct. 27, 1781 ; Sarah, b. June 17, 1783; John, 5th, D. D., b. 
Aug. 17, 1785 ; Charlotte, b. March 20, 1787 ; Henry, b. Oct. 3, 
1790, d. in infancy ; Julia, b. March 15, 1792; Henry, b. Dec. 22, 
1793 ; William, b. Nov. 20, 1795 ; George, b. June 14, 1798. Col. 
Chester died Nov. 4, 1809. He graduated at Yale College in 1766, 
and in 1772 he was elected a representative to the General Assem- 
bly, in his native town. In 1775, he joined the army near Boston, 
at the head of a company of volunteers, and signalized himself at the 
battle of Bunker Hill. He was advanced to the command of a regi- 
ment for his bravery, but in 1777, he reluctantly retired from the 
army, by the imperious calls of his family concerns. 

Col. Chester was a gentleman of dignity of character and appear- 
ance. Previous to 1788 he was repeatedly a member of the House 
of Representatives in Connecticut, and for several successive ses- 
sions was speaker of the House. In 1788 he was chosen one of the 
state council, where lie was continued until 1791, when lie received 
from President Washington the appointment of the office of supervi- 
sor of the district of Connecticut, the duties of which he faithfully 
performed. In 1803, he was again elected a member of the state 
council. He also held the offices of judge of probate, and judge of 
the county court. He died in 1809. Ten of this family of Ches- 
ters have graduated at Yale College, from 1721 to 1831. 

CHESTER, Rev. JOHN, son of Col. John, of Wethersfield, b. 
Aug. 17, 1785, m. Rebecca, daughter of Robert Ralston, of Phila- 
delphia. He prepared for college with Azcl Backus, D. D., then of 
Bethlem. He entered Yale College in 1800, and graduated in 1804. 
I He read theology, and preached his first sermon, as he had promised 



564 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Dr. Backus, when he left him in 1800, he should do, in his pulpit. 
He was, strictly speaking, a popular preacher. His voice was music. 
He preached at Cooperstown, N. Y., where he received a call to 
settle, but declined, as he had done at Middletown. He was ordain- 
ed at Hudson, N. Y., in 1810, where he remained until 1815, when 
he was installed as pastor of the second Presbyterian Church at Al- 
bany, N. Y. He received the doctorate of D. D. from Union Col- 
lege, in 1821. Dr. Chester became a star of the first magnitude in 
the pulpit. His whole soul was devoted to his profession. He died 
on the morning of the 12th of Jan., 1829, aged 44 years, at the city 
of Philadelphia, where he left an amiable widow and a family of 
young children. 

ELIZABETH, daughter of the fourth Col. John, b. 1774, married 
EleazerF. Backus, of Albany, June 8, 1807. 

MARY, daughter of Col. John, b. 1779, married Capt. Ebenezer 
Welles, of Brattleboro, Vt., June 3, 1606.* His father was an En- 
glish minister. 

HANNAH, her sister, b. 1781, married Hon. Charles Chauncey, 
of Philadelphia. She died Feb. 6, 1821, aged 39. Mr. Chauncey 
died in 1849. 

SARAH, her sister, b. 1783, living unmarried. 

CHARLOTTE, b. 1787, died in Philadelphia, July 19, 1844, 
unmarried. 

HENRY, son ofCol. John, b. 1790, died in infancy. 

JULIA, his sister, b. 1792, m. Matthew C. Ralston, of Philadel- 
phia, April 2, 1816. 

Second HENRY, b. 1793, a lawyer in Philadelphia, died in 1848, 
unmarried. 

WILLIAM, son of Col. John, b. 1795, a clergyman in Philadel- 
phia, married a daughter of Dr. White, of Hudson, N. Y. He grad- 
uated at Union College in 1815. 

GEORGE, son of Col. John, 4th, b. 1798; died in infancy. 

CHESTER, THOMAS, son of the first John, married Mary 
Treat, daughter of Richard, Dec. 10, 1684. He died Dec. 5, 1712, 
aged 50. His wife died 1748, aged 81 years. They had issue: 
Eunice, b. Nov. 22, 1685 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 29, 1696, died March 
17, 1710-11, aged 14; John, b. Dec. 17, 1699, died Dec. 14,1700; 
Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706. Eunice, m. Elisha Williams. Estate dis- 
tributed Dec. 6, 1714, to widow Mary, one-third of movables, £152, 
Os. Id.; daughter Eunice, £746, lis., Qd., in real and movables; 
Mary Chester, £746, lis. 6d, 



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CHESTER, STEPHEN, Jun., married Jemima, daughter of 
Lieut. James Treat, Dec. 17, 1691, and had issue, Dorothy, b. Sept. 
5, 1692 ; Sarah, b. March 5, 1694 ; Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1696 ; Ste- 
phen John, b. Feb. 14, 169S, died June 8, 1725. Stephen, Jun., 
the father, died Feb. 9, 1698, nearly 38 years old. 

Capt, John Chester, in his will, gave these children £75 each. 
CHESTER, LEONARD, son of Col. John, 3d, was b. Sept., 
1750; married Sarah Williams, of Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1776, 
and had issue, Leonard Wms. Pepperell, b. Dec. 20, 1777 ; Sarah, 
b. Aug. 8, 1779; Henrietta and Sophia, twins, b. March 8, 1781 ; 
John Noyes, b. March 20, 1783 ; Sally Williams, b. Nov. 2, 1784 ; 
Wm. Williams Chester, b. July 13, 1786. Mr. Chester removed to 
and died in New York. It is supposed he had a daughter Hannah, 
who married Mr. Leffingvvell, who is now living, a widow, in New 
York. Thomas, Esq., of New York, is also supposed to be a son of 
said Leonard. 

SARAH, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1752, married Thomas 
Coit, of Norwich, and had a family of children. 

ABIGAIL, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1754, married Joseph 
Webb, a merchant of Wethersfield, and had twelve children ; two 
only survive, and reside in Hartford ; both unmarried ladies. 

STEPHEN, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1761, married Elizabeth 
Mitchel, daughter of Judge Mitchel, deceased, of Wethersfield. He 
lived and died at Wethersfield. Issue, living, Stephen M., of New 
York ; Walter, in Erie, Pa.; John, of Detroit, Michigan ; Maria 
Strong, who married a son of Joel Strong, and others. 

CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1764, married 
Esther M. Bull, of Hartford. He was many years clerk of the court 
at Hartford. Issue, Rev. Alfred and four daughters, three now 
living. 

The Chester family have, from Leonard, the Armiger, to the pres- 
ent time, been one of the most important families of the colony and 
state ; though few of the name are left in Connecticut, to share the 
honors of their departed and worthy ancestors. 

John Chester graduated at Harvard College in 1722 ; also, John, 
in 1775, and Thomas, in 1784. Stephen J. Chester graduated at 
Yale, in 1721; John, in 1766; Leonard, 1769; Stephen, 1780; 
Thomas, 1780; John, 1804; Stephen M., 1813; Donald, 1814; 
Alfred, 1818; Orlando, 1831 ; Charles T., 1845; George F., 1846. 
Col. John Chester and Stephen M. Mitchell', of Wethersfield, mem- 
48 



566 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS.. 

bers of the convention to ratify the constitution of the United States, 
in 1788. 

Stephen Chester, Esq., appointed sheriti" of Hartford county in 
1789, in place of Ezekiel Williams, resigned. 

CHESTER, Mr. STEPHEN, distribution by consent, April .5, 
1714 : Widow Jemima, £210, 11*. lOd.; John Chester, £500, 11*. 
2d.; Mrs. Dorothy Chester, £2-50, 5*. Id.; Mrs. Sarah Chester, 
-£250, 5*. Id.; Mrs. Mercy Chester, £250, 7s. Id. 

CHESTER, MERCY, distribution Feb. 0, 1749, late of Weth- 
€rsfield, deceased. — To Dority, wife of Martin Kellogg, £794, 8s. 
lO^d.; to Widow Sarah Lamb, ^794, 85. lO^cZ. 

Coats of arms. — Chester, (Chichely, co. Bucks,) 1 ; Chester, 
(Chicheley Hall, Bucks,) 1 ; Chester, (Lee, co. Essex,) 1 ; Chester, 
(Upley, CO. Essex,) 1 ; Chester, (Amesbury, co. Gloucester,) 1 ; 
Chester, (Gloucestershire,) 1, and nine others. Chester, (Glouces- 
tershire,) 1. 

CHEEVERS, CHEEVER, CHEVER, Mr., was one of the 
sio-ners of the fundamental asreement of the first settlers of New 
Haven, "on the fourth of the fowerth month called June," (1639,) 
that church members only should be free burgesses, &c. He, Eze- 
kiel Cheevers, had three in his family at New Haven, in 1643, and 
£20 estate, and was one of the committee to examine persons for the 
first church in New Haven. Mary, wife of Ezekiel Cheever, died 
atN. H., Jan. 20, 1649. JOHN SHEDER was early at Guilford. 
This was perhaps John Sheather, a name afterward found at Killing- 
worth. Tiie title of Mr. being given on the record to Ezekiel Che- 
vers, proves his standing at N. Haven. 
Chever or Chener has one coat of arms. 

Eleven by the name of Cheever, had graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege, before 1814. 

CHESEBRO, as now spelled by the family, is found on the col- i 
ony records spelt Chesebrough, Chessbrooke, Ceessbrooke, Chesbo- 
rough, Cheesbrough, Cheesbruck, Cheesbrook, &c. Chesebro, Wm. 
This name, in the early settlement of Connecticut, was peculiarly ; 
prominent, and a history of two hundred pages could easily be col- ' 
lected of the history of William and Samuel Chesebro. William is 
first mentioned on the colony record, by the Gen. Court, Nov. 7, \ 
1649, when the court ordered a warrant to be issued to the consta- 1| 
ble of Pequot, to go forthwith to " Cheessbrooke, of Long Island," ! 
and inform him that the government of Connecticut " doth disslike ' 
and distaste the way he is in, and trade bee doth drive amonge the! 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 567 

Indians,"' and required of him immediately to desist ; also that he 
should repair to Capt, Mason, of " Seabrooke," or to some other 
magistrate on the Connecticut River, "and give an account of his 
previous conduct. On the 19th day of March, 1(550-51, the Gen. 
Court of Conn, are found in trouble again with *' Cheessbrooke." 
The record says, " Whereas vppon former information given to this 
court that William Cheessbrooke, (a smith, sometimes an inhabitant 
in the Massacliusetts, but more lately at Seacunck, alias Relioboth, 
in the Jurisdiction of New Plimouth) had begunn to settle himself at 
Pacatuck, a place within the limitts of this Colony." The court 
therefore issued an order for him, either to depart from " the place," 
or appear and account for his proceedings. He chose the latter, and 
gave his penal bond to attend before the court. He accordingly pre- 
sented himself before the court, and apologized for his conduct, by 
saying, he intended settling at Pequot plantation, but he found the 
place, in several respects, " vnsutable to his expectations," and hav- 
ing disposed of his former abode, that he was necessitated " for the 
preservation of his estate, " to make winter provision for his cattle 
there," to which he had been encouraged by Mr. John Winthrop, 
" who pretended a commission from the Generall Courte in the Mas- 
sachusetts for the planting of those partes." He was informed by 
the court that the right of the place clearly belonged to Connecticut, 
1 and that his sitting down there without the knowledge and approba- 
tion of the government of Connecticut, was unwarrantable, and 
j " carried (in the open face of it) the greater ground of offence in 
' that by his calling [blacksmith] he was fitted, and by his solitary 
living advantaged, to carry on a mischievous trade with the Indians," 
and against the orders of the country, and very prejudicial to the 
safety of the country — which was increased by reports of his prac- 
tice of that kind where he had last resided. Also that it appeared 
to the court, " more than vncomely for a man professing Godliness, 
, so to withdraw from all publique ordinances and Xtian (christian) 
society." He answered the court by acknowledging his former trans- 
; gression "(for wh''' he justly suffered)" but affirmed that when he 
removed, he sold his tools, and rendered himself incapable of repair- 
ing any gunlocks, " or making so much as a screw-pin" for himself 
or others, and that he was fully resolved not to continue in that sol- 
itary condition, but had good grounds to hope "(if libberty might bee 
: graunted)" shortly " to procure a competent company of desirable 
i men," to plant the place. The court, on consideration, were willing 
. to give the most favorable construction of his previous proceedings, 



568 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

yet expressed themselves altogether dissatisfied " in the aforemen- 
tioned respects," that he should continue there " in the way he was 
in," and refused to give their " aprobation therevnto ;" yet the 
court inclined, "(hee professing his full agreem' with the approoued 
Churches of Christ in all things)" if his own necessities in his own 
opinion were such that he would " adventure vppon his owns acco'," 
and would give a bond of £100, not to prosecute any unlawful trade 
with the Indians, the court would not compel him to remove ; 
provided, before the General Court in the next September, he gave 
in the names of a considerable company of persons, such as the 
court should approve, and such as should engage to plant the place, 
and sit down there before the (then) next winter, and submit to such 
ways and rules as should best promote the public good, that all proper 
encouragement would be given " in that way" — which being made 
known to William Cheessbrooke, he thankfully acknowledged the 
court's favor, and acquiesced in their determination. 

The next we find of this oifender is, he is returned a Deputy to the 
General Court of the colony. May 18, 1653, by the name of Will. 
Cheesbruck. Good: Chesbroock is also deputy, Sept. 8, 1653 ; also, 
Sept. 14, 1654; absent in 1655; also, Feb. 26, 1656; 1664. 

Cheesbrook, Mr., petitioned the General Court, 1664, for their fa- 
vor to pass by the offenses of Mistick and Paucatuck. The court 
considered the petition, and declared that what irregularities and 
abusive practices they had been guilty in seeming to offer contempt 
to the authority established, " it should be forgiven and buryed in 
perpetuall oblivion and forgetfullness, and this to extend itself to all 
ye members of the afoarsayd plantation, Captayn Denison only ex- 
cepted," who had neglected or refused to submit himself peaceably 
to the order of the "Councill of the Colony." (See Col. Rec.) 

Mr. Chesbro became a man of notice in the colony. 

In 1664, the General Court appointed Mr. Wm. Cheesbrook, 
Tho's Stanton and Tho's Minor, judges of cases of forty shillings, 
and grant summonses before them or any court in tlie colony, to pun- 
ish criminals to the value of forty shillings, &c. 

CHESBRO, SAMUEL, of Stonington,* represented the town as ; 

. j 

* The Indian name of Stonington was Pawcatuck. The first English name was Southertown, | 

or Southerton. It was afterward named Mistick, in Oct., 1665, by the General Court of Conn., | 

" in memory of that victory God was pleased to give this people of Connecticut over the Pe- :j 

quot Indians." (See Co/. Kec.) It was named Stonington, in May, 1666. It was firstly claim- i\ 

ed by Massachusetts, under the grant of the Earl of Warwick, and Council for British America, j 
Dec. 10, 1643, and settled by persons who went there under John VVinthrop, Jun , in 1646. It 



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Deputy to the General Assembly, (by the nameof Cheesbrook,) May 
21, 1657; also, May 11, 1665, by the name of Samuel Chesbo- 
rough; also, 1670, 1672, 1673, and commissioner, 1666. Mr. Sam- 
uell, Nathaneell, and Elisha Cheesbrough, were in the list of free- 
men at Stonington, in 1669, Oct. 5. Samuel Chesebrough was 
many years a useful and highly respectable inhabitant of Stoning, 
ton. 

CHESBOROUGH, ELISHA and NATHANIEL, of Stonington, 
were entered to have the oath of freedom, in May, 1666. Mr. Eli- 
sha Cheesbrooke was deputy to the General Court at Hartford, Oct. 
14, 1669. The Chesboroughs, for many years, figured largely in 
Stonington, witii Thomas Miner, Thomas Stanton, Sen., Capt. Geo. 
Denison, Palmers, &:c., in the early settlement of the town. Most 
of these signed the voluntary agreement. (See Dr. Trumbull.) 

CHEESBROUGH, DAVID, Mr., a merchant at Newport, R. I., 
and subscriber for Prince's Chronology. 

CHEESEHOLM, THOMAS, 1663. 

CHEW, JOSEPH, of New London, b. 1720, was a son of Thomas 
Chew, of Virginia, and his mother a daughter of Col. James Tay- 
lor, a progenitor of two presidents of the United States, viz., James 
Madison and Gen. Z. Taylor. Joseph Chew is found at New Lon- 
don, in 1752, an assistant to Joseph Hull, Esq., the collector of cus- 
toms at New London, in the violent quarrel between Col. Salton- 
stall, as to the charge of a Spanish vessel wrecked on Bartlett's 
Reef, west of New London harbor. (See Caulkins' Hist- of Neto 
London, pp. 462, 463, 477, note.) Chew was surveyor in the office. 
Joseph Chew married Miss Deshon, whose mother was Ruth Chris- 
tophers. Joseph Chew left New London, having espoused the cause 
of the Loyalists J 1778. (Note, Caulkins, p. 540.) His brother, 
Capt. Chew, was also from Virginia, and a firm whig ; was killed 
on the 4th of March, 1778, in a conflict in the West India seas, with 
a letter-of-marque of twenty guns, and the brig carried into Boston, 
by Lieut. Leeds, and afterward taken by the British and burnt.* 

. wu assigned to Connecticut by commissioners of the United Colonies, July 26, 1647. This 
order being revoked, the town petitioned the Massachusetts to become a town, which they 
granted Oct. 25, 1658, and was a part of Sutfolk County, in Mass., where the town continued 
until after Connecticut obtained the royal charter in 16C2, and being included in this grant, it 
was annexed to Connecticut, (See FdVs Statistics of Towns, p. 24.) It then included " We- 
quetiquock," the society of North Stonington, which was made a society in May, 1740, and 
Darned North Stonington, in May, 1724. and incorporated a town in May, 1807, by the same 
name. (See State Record.) 
* CHEW, BENJAMIN, of Pennsylvania, Recorder of Philadelphia, Register of Wills, Attor- 

46* 



570 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Coat of Arias. Chew, (Bedfordshire and London, granted 1703,) 
has one. 

CHICHESTER, JAMES, of L. I., made free by Connecticut, 
May, 1664. Also, the following persons from Huntington, L. I., at 
the same session, viz.: John Teed, Edward Hornett, Samuel Titus, 
Thomas Jones, Wm. Williams, Samuel Ketcham, Joseph Whitman, 
Thomas Brush, Caleb Curwithee, Joseph Bayley, John Rogers, Sam- 



ney General and Chief Justice of the State. Washington dined with him in 1774 ; in 1776 
opposed to the whigs, and retired to private life. In 1777, refused to sign a parole, sent to 
prison in Virginia, and after the war in 1790, was appointed President of the High Court of 
Errors and Appeals, and held the office until the tribunal was abolished in 1806, and died in 
1810, aged 87 years. His father, Hon. Samuel Chew, was a Quaker, judge and physician. 

Joseph Chew, of New London, was a commissary in the royal service, and in 1777 was taken 
prisoner at Sag Harbor, L. I., by a party of whigs. Joseph Chew, a magistrate of Tryon, now 
Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1775 signed a declaration of loyalty ; in 1792 was in Canada, 
an officer under Sir John Johnson, and an associate of Brant. Wm. Chew, a lieutenant in a 
corps of loyalists, settled at New Brunswick, after the war, under half pay, and died at Fred- 
ericton in 1812, aged 64 years. {Sabine's American Loyalists, p. 207.) 

Note for Tories. — Abiathar, Abiathar, Jun., and Eldad Camp, were all loyalists in Connecti- 
cut in 1783. Settled at St. John's, New Brunswick, and received grantsof city lots. Abiathar, 
one of the fifty-five petitioners for land in Nova Scotia. He died in New Brunswick, in 1841, 
aged 84. He afterward, by his confession dated Oct. 2, 1775, appears to have regretted his 
course. (See CAMP ; also, American Loyalists, pp. 194, 195.) lie was a citizen of New 
Haven. 

Carpenter, Coles, Jacob, Isaac, James, John, Joseph, .Joshua and Nehemiab, all were loyalists ' 
of Queens county, N. Y., and acknowledged allegiance, Oct., 1776. Nehemiah signed a decla- 
ration of loyalty in 1775. Thomas Carpenter was an ensign in De Lancey's third battalion, and 
an adjutant of the corps. He went to St. John's at the close of the war, and a grantee of the 
city, and had half-pay. AbrahamCarrington, of Milford, Conn., with his wife, went to St. John's, 
New Brunswick, in 1783. EU.sha Case, John Ceely, went with the British army to Halifax, at 
the evacuation of Boston, 1776. Gardner Chandler, a trader at Hardwick, Mass., proscribed, 
and banished in 1778. John Chandler, of Worcester, Mass., in 1774 driven from his family and 
sought protection at Boston. In 1776 went with the royal army to Halifax, and in 1778 was 
proscribed and banished. Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Ct., a member of the Legislature in 
1775 and in August, 1782, wrote a letter to Gov. Wm. Franklin, in favor of the loyalists. He 
removed to Nova Scotia at the close of the war, and perished when crossing the Bay of Fundy. 
His son William, conducted the royal forces to New Haven in 1779. 

Nathan Chandler died at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1816. Nathaniel, of Worcester, Mass., 
son of Col. John, graduated at H. C, 1 768 ; was a lawyer ; one of the eighteen who addressed 
Gage when he departed in 1775. In 1776 he went to Halifa.\, and was proscribed and ban 
ished in 1778. He led a corps of British volunteers. After the war he returned and died at 
Worcester in 1801, aged 51 years. Rufus, son of Col. John Chandler, born at Worcester, 1747, 
graduated at H. C, 1700 ; one of the lawyers who addressed Hutchinson in 1774 ; went to 
Halifax in 1776 ; proscribed and banished in 1778, and died in London, Oct., 1823, aged 76 
years. Wm. Chandler, son of Col. John, of Worcester, Mass., graduated at H. U. 1772. He 
was one of the eighteen country gentlemen driven from their homes to Boston, for addressing 
Gage on his departure in 1775. He went to Halifax in 1776, and was proscribed and banished 
under the act of 1778, yet returned to Massachusetts after the close of the war. {Ser. The 
American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 571 

uel Wood, Thomas Workes, Henry Whisson, Henry Ludlow, Tho"s 
Scudder, John Samway, Tho's Powell, Jonathan Rogers and Isaac 
Piatt ; and the commissioners of Huntington ordered to give them 
the oath of freedom. {Col. Rec.) 

A man of the name of Chichester, was in Hartford in 1649. 

CHIDESTEPv, ANDREW, (probably Chichester,) had a son 
Samuel, born in Connecticut, Oct. 18, 1720. Peter Blatchford tes- 
tified in court, that in the latter end of the last year, (1648,) he put 
on board of CHICHESTER'S vessel, for Mr. Blackleach, by order 
of Jarvis Mudge, six bushels of wheat and three bushels of peas. 

JAMES CHICHESTER, in the list of those of Taunton, able to 
bear arms in 1643. {His. Reg.) 

ABRAHAM, of Norwalk, Conn,, married Mary Arnold, May 30, 
1782, and had children, Abijah, b. Aug. 6, 1783 ; Ab'm, Samuel, 
Polly, Phebe, Aaron, Hezekiah and Betsey, b. Sept. 26, 1797. 

HENRY, of Norwalk, married Deborah Hoyt, June 1, 1784. 
Issue, Walter, b. Jan. 31, 1785; Sally, Amelia, Henry, Jun., Al- 
fred, Ward, Eliza and Emeline. 

This was an early name in Massachusetts and Long Island. 
Farmer names WILLIAM, of Marblehead, in 1648 ; JAMES, of 
Salem, 1651. 

CHICHESTER has twelve coats of arms. 

CHIDSEY. (See CHEDSEY, ante.) 

CHILD. The north part of the town of Woodstock, was settled 
some few years after the south part of the town, and mostly, if not 
all, entirely by persons from Roxbury, Mass., and from under the 
preaching of Rev. John Elliot. The precise time North Woodstock 
was settled, I am not able to state, as the original proprietor's book 
or record, has been lost. The town was settled and claimed by 
Massachusetts, and by them incorporated in March, 1690 ; and in 
Felt's Statistics, p. 23, we find that " Judge Sewall" wrote in his 
MS. diary, March 18, 1690, that he gave New Roxbury the name of 
Woodstock. The town was claimed by Connecticut as within her 
bounds, and came under the government of this state. May, 1749. 
The May and Child families have been prominent, active and re- 
spectable, from the early settlement of the place. The tradition of 
the family is, (which is all I have since the loss of the record book,) 
that the first of the Child family came from England to Roxbury, 
or Watertown, Mass., at an early period ; that he had seven or eight 
sons, all of whom settled at North Woodstock. I have not even 
the names of the seven or eight sons, by the name of Child, who first 



572 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

came to North Woodstock, and therefore am unable to give any of 
the first genealogy of the family.* 



• Anecdote of the seven or eight brothers by the name of Child. ( TVadition.) 
The seven brothers in the north half of Woodstock, owned but one cow — each of the seven 
used her a week in their turn — except on Thanksgiving days, when the elder brother was to 
keep her, until a sufficient quantity of milk should be gathered, so that the seven brothers, with 
their families, could all partake of a Thanksgiving supper of liasty pudding and milk, at the house 
of the oldest brother. On one occasion of this kind, the families had all assembled, and the milk 
served in the long wooden bowls, and with the pudding and milk placed upon a large fall-leaf 
table, each family provided with their own small wooden bowles and wooden spoons, each pre- 
pared for his delicious repast. With only the blessing wanted, and while the elder brother, 
with all the solemnity of a Puritan father, was imploring a blessing, the large watch-dog, in 
passing under the table, hit the leg which held up the leaf, and down fell the table, milk and 
pudding. The younger brother, as he saw the table falling, cried out, Stop, brother, stop, stop; 
the pudding is gone, and the milk is gone, and of what use is a blessing now — but kill the dog. 

Anecdote. — .\s most of the first settlers of the colony who left Ro.\bury, 51ass., to settle in 
the town of New Roxbury, (Woodstock,) were a part of the congregation and church of Rev. 
John Eliot, who preached at Roxbury, and the new settlers from Roxbury being the constant 
subjects of prayer by the Roxbury Church, so that the Rev. Mr. Eliot, every Sabbath, in his pub- 
lic prayers in the church, uniformly prayed for the colony of New Roxbury, Bui on one occa- 
sion, when the congregation had assembled on the Sabbath for worBliip, the pious Eliot neglected 
to mention in his prayer, the colony of New Roxbury, and closed and took his .seat. This neg- 
lect of the minister was noticed by the goodly fathers and mothers of the church with great pain, 
and they began to fear their children at New Roxbury would be devoured by the wild beasts, or 
destroyed by the Indians, and the iniquities of the fathers visit their children, because they had 
been omitted by the godly Eliot. While the good mothers were thus sitting, depressed in spirits 
at so great a neglect, it occurred to the minister that he had not made mention of the New Rox- 
bury colony in his prayer, and immediately arose in his pulpit, and exclaimed, Alas : alas ! I for- 
got to pray for our sons and daughters at New Roxbury, and therefore let us again pray. He 
made a most fervent prayer, especially for the colony, much to the comfort and relief of the 
congregation, friends and relatives of the colony. 

Note. April 11, 1694, a public meeting of the proprietors of Woodstock assembled and vo- 
ted a division of land be laid out, " from the East line on the East side of y« Pond," to four miles 
" Westward, &c." — and chose a committee of three, with John Butcher, the surveyor, to do the 
whole work, viz., Wm. Bartholomew, Benjamin Sabin and Benjamin Grigs, committee. 

NAMES OF THE PERSONS TO WHO.M DISTRIBUTED. 

1 Samuel Perin. 13 Robert Corbit. 

2 John Scarborough. 14 Benjamin Grigs. 

3 Minister's land. 15 Edward Morris. 

4 James Frissel. 16 Samuel Lyon. 

5 Joseph Peak. 17 Joseph Bacon. 

6 John Bowen. 18 Isaac Bartholomew. 

7 Wm. Bartholomew, Jun. 19 John Bugbe. 

S Lieut. Bartholomew, Mill Lot. 20 Nathaniel Johnson, Sen. 

9 John Holmes. 21 John Chandler, Sen. 

10 Joseph Bugbe, Sen. 22 John Hubbard. 

11 Arthur Humphrey. 23 Wm. Bartholomew, Sen. 

12 Joseph Bugbe, Jun. 24 Joseph Frissell. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 573 

Mr. Farmer names EPHRAIM CHILD, of VVatertown, made free 
in 1631 ; that he came to New England in 1630 ; that he was elect- 
ed representative in 1635, 1646, 1649, 1650, and from 1652 to 1662, 
except '53 and '58 ; that he was a deacon of the church, and died 
Feb. 13, 1663, aged 70. This Ephraim was probably the father of 
the brothers of the name, who settled at North Woodstock. He also 
names Dr. Robert Child, who received his degree as Doctor of Med- 
icine from Padua, came twice to New England, and disturbed the 
government. {Winthroirs Hist. N. E., Index.) Willard, in his 
History of Lancaster, says, Robert Child was one of the petitioners 
for a grant of Lancaster in 1644. We find '* Elizabeth Child," of 
Watertown, witnessing the will of Mary Benjamin, of Watertown, 
in 1646. (His. Gen. Reg., p. 178, No. 10, 1849.) Joseph Child, 
freeman, in Mass., 1654 ; also took the oath of fidelity, 1652. Also, 
Richard Child, {Middlesex C. C. Rec, and His. Gen. Reg.) Tho's 
Child, a first settler of Rochester, Mass., married Bethia Westcot, 
Aug. 29, 1727. Thomas Childs embarked in the Speedwell, of Lon- 
don, Jo. Chappell, master, May 28, 1635, for Virginia. Deacon 
Richard Child married Elizabeth Crocker, who died Jan. 15, 1706 ; 
resided and is entered in the list of first settlers at Barnstable, after 
1660. His children are, Samuel, b. Nov. 6, 1679 ; also, sons Tho's, 
Timothy, Ebenezer, James, Joseph, and five daughters. Richard 
Childs, of Marshfield, married Mary Truant, Jan. 24, 1664. Eliz- 
abeth Childs, of Marshfield, married Laurence Cone, July 31, 1718. 
Priscilla Child, of Marshfield, married Shubael Tinkham, Dec. 17, 
1718. Patience Childs, also, married Francis Crocker, at Marshfield, 



25 John Johnson. 41 John Chandler, Jun. 

26 Nathaniel Gacger. 42 Thomas Bugbce. 

27 Mathew Davis. 43 Nathaniel Aspinwall. 

28 Nathaniel Johnson. Jun. 44 Thomas Lyon. 

29 :?amuel Rice. 45 John Butcher. 

30 Watkins' Heirs. 40 James Corbin. 

31 Henry Bowen. 47 Ebenezer .Morris. 

32 John Leavens. 48 Benjamin Sabin. 

33 Joseph Deming. 49 John Marcy. ' 

34 Peter Aspinwall. 50 John Carpenter. 

35 Smith Johnson. 51 Jonathan Davis. 

36 Nathaniel Gary. 52 Benjamin Sabin.jhis second lot. The 48th 

37 Clement Corbin. and 52d lots, lye together, to Benjamin 

38 Jonathan Peake. Sabin, and John Carpenter had the 49th 

39 Jabez Corbin. lot, Jonathan Davis the 50th, and John 

40 Thomas Bacon, before Samuel May. Marcy the 51st and la^t. 
This division was seven years after the first settlement of the tr.wn. 



574 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



March 11, 1723. (See His. Reg.) Jeremiah Child, taken prison- 
er on the expedition against Quebec, in 1775. Mr. John Child, in 
MabS., aged 25 years, in 1653. Ephraim Child had eight pieces of 
land early recorded at Watertown. ( Watertown Rec.) 

It is probable the brothers by the name of Child, who settled at 
Woodstock, were from Watertown, Mass., instead of Roxbury, as 
the tradition is descended from Ephraim and not Benjamin. The 
tradition of the family is in one line as follows : Child, Benjamin or 
Ephraim, who came in 1630, the father of Ephraim, Jun., who was 
the father of Ephraim, the father of Asa, who was father of Rensa- 
lear, who was the father of Asa, Esq., of Hon. Peleg C, and Hon. 
Linus Child. Also a WILLIAM CHILD, admitted a freeman in 
Massachusetts in 1634. EPHRAIM CHILD, Jun., was one of the 
settlers at Woodstock, while Ephraim, Sen., remained and died at 
Watertown. Few families have been more successful in life, or pro- 
duced more influential men in the different callings which they have 
pursued for several generations, than this family. In the Lyon, 
May and Child families in Woodstock, most of the land owned by 
the first settler of the family, has not changed the title deeds out of 
the name of the family. Col. Caleb Child now resides on the same 
spot where the oldest of the first brothers lived, and the same is the 
case with several others of the Child family. 

Capt. Wm. Lyon is similarly situated, and his farm has not been 
changed in title since it was purchased of the Indians. Before 
Woodstock was amicably annexed to Connecticut, in one or more 
instances when the town elected their representative to the General 
Assembly, the delegate attended the Gen. Court in Connecticut, in- 
stead of attending at Boston. 

Coats of Anns. Child, (Bigelly House, co. Pembroke ; descend- 
ed, it is presumed, from a younger son of the noble house of Castle- 
maine, and now represented by James Mark Child, of Bigelly House, 
Esq.,) has 1 ; Child, (Newfield Hall, co. Stafford, as borne by 
Smith Child, of that place, Esq., &c.,) 1 ; Child, (as borne by Coles 
Child, of Lambeth and Streetham, co. Surry, Esq.,) 1 ; and six oth- 
ers of a high order ; Childe, 1. 

CHILLY, JOHN, 1663. 

CHILSON, DANIEL and SYBIL, of Wethersfield, had a son 
Daniel, born at Wethersfield, Feb. 9, 1746. John and John Jun., 
of Middlefield, in 1744. 

CHIPMAN, JOHN, ancestor of all of that surname in the United 
States and adjoining British provinces, (as far as known,) was born 
in or near Dorchester, in Dorchestershire, England, A. D. 1614-15. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 575 

The only son of Thomas Chipman, of whose estate part was and is 
in Marshwood Vale. He was a near kinsman of " Christopher 
Derby, Gent.," of" the Derby's of Stirthill and Askerville." Said 
John Chipman sailed from England in May, 1631, but probably in 
the Friendship, which arrived at Boston, July 14, 1638. He resided 
a while at "Varmouth, Mass., and afterward at Barnstable, at Great 
Marshes, now West Barnstable. In 1GG3, '4 and '5, he was deputy 
to the General Court of his colony, (Plymouth.) In 1666, he was 
"celectman," at which time the selectmen in that colony had func- 
tions since pertaining to justices of the peace. In 1669, he was a 
" Deputy present" and " surveyor of highways" for his town. With 
one other member of the church, he was, April 14, 1670, " chosen 
and ordained to be ruling elder, and was solemnly invested with 
office.'" The following shows how he was estimated: "Whereas 
some have desired and others think it meet to permit some persons to 
frequent the Quaker meetings to endeavor to reduce them from the 
error of their wayes, the Court considering the premises, doe permit 
John Smitii, of Barnstable, Isaacke Robinson, John Chipman and 
John Cooke, of Plymouth, or any two of them, to attend the said 
meetings for the ends aforesaid, att any time betwixt this Court and 
the next October Court." Act passed June, 1609. " The court 
have granted unto Mr. John Rowland one hundred acres of land, in 
that land which Captain Willett made purchase of att Teliquott. 
The court also granted John Chipman and Jonathan Sparrow each 
fifty acres of land at the place where Mr, Howland " is to be accom- 
odated," " next above mensioned," and meadow answerable in pro- 
portion for their upland, (June 5, 1666 ;) also see act, (July, 1673 ;) 
also 100 acres between Taunton and Telicott, &c., in 1673. {Laws 
and Rec. of Plymouth Col., 1673.) There is no evidence Chipman 
received any benefit from the grants, but in the mean time he pro- 
cured a homestead in Barnstable, deed dated Dec. 10, 1672, which 
deed still exists on parchment, drawn by Gov. Hinckley, then an as- 
sistant. Near his house, for more than a century after, stood the 
court and custom-houses. William Chipman, of the sixth genera- 
lion, owns and occupies the same land, and it has never been transfer- 
red from the family and name of Chipman. 

CHIPMAN, JOHN, married Hope, daughter of Hon. John How- 
land and his wife Elizabeth, a granddaughter of Gov. Carver. Thus 
all the Chipmans, in common with the Howlands, share the privilege 
of being the only known descendants of the Pilgrims' now honored 
chief. The ruling elder, John Chipman, died at Barnstable in 



576 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1701-2, aged 88. His wife, Elizabeth, died about twenty years be- 
fore, (soon after her father,) Jan. 8, 1683. His second wife, Ruth, 
widow of Elder John Chipman, died at Sandwich, Mass., Oct. 4, 
1711. Will dated Dec. 6, 1710 ; proved Oct. 8, 1713. 

His children, all except the first, and perhaps the second, were b. 
at Barnstable, viz.: 

1. Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1G47 ; probably died in infancy. 

2. Elizabeth, the second, bap. Aug. 18, 1650. 

3. Hope.b. Aug. 31, 1652; bap. Sept. 5, 1652 ; m. John Huckins, Aug. 10, 
1670; d. 167S. 

4. Lydia, b. Dec. 25, 1654 ; m. John Sargeant, of Maiden,- Mass., his third 
wife ; d. March 2, 1730. 

5. John, b. March 2, 1656-7 ; d. May 29, 1657. 

6. Hannah, b. Jan. 14, 165S-9 ; ni. Thomas Huckens, of Barnstable, May 1, 
16S0; d. Nov. 4, 1696. 

7. Samuel, b. April 15, 1661. 

8. Ruth, b. Dec. 31, 1663 ; m. Eleazer Crocker, of Barnstable, April 7, 1682, 
and died April S, 1695. 

9. Bethiah, b. July 1, 1666. 

10. Mercy, b. Feb. G, 1667-8; m. Nathaniel SkirtV in Sandwich, of Chil- 
mark, Mass., Dec. 13, 1699. 

11. John, 2d, b. March 3, 1669-70. 

12. Desire, b. Feb. 26, 1672-3. 

CHIPMAN, SAMUEL, b. 1661, son of John, settled his father's 
estate. He was ordained deacon of the church at B., Sept. 1, 1706. 
He married Zarah Cob, of Barn.stable, Dec. 27, 1686, and he died in 
1723. His will dated Aug. 31, 1722; proved June 17, 1723. His 
widow died Jan. 8, 1742-3. Will proved May 8, 1743. 

He had ten children. Thomas Chipman, Esq., his eldest son, b. 
Nov. 17, 1687, removed and settled in Groton, Conn., where he re- 
mained several years, and then removed and became an early set- 
tler at Salisbury, Conn., where he held a high rank in the town and 
county. He was at Salisbury at the organization of the county in 
1751. He died at Salisbury about 1751, as he was appointed a 
judge in 1751, and died before he held a court. His second son, 
Samuel, was the father of the late Chief Justice Nathaniel Chipman, 
LL. D., and of the late Hon. Daniel Chipman, of Vt., and their 
brothers scarcely less distinguished. 

II. Son of the last Samuel, was Deacon Samuel, b. Aug. 6, 1689, 
and kept the " Chipman tavern," which was noted until the last 
twenty-five years, in Cape Cod celebrity. His son, Samuel Chip- 
man, b. Nov. 21, 1721, lived at Groton, Ct. Some of his descend- 
ants, and perhaps children, are yet in that vicinity. His son, Eben- 



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577 



ezer Chipman, b. Sept. 9, 1726, lived in Middletown, Conn., and 
some of his descendants are yet in that quarter. His son, John Chip- 
man, b. June 30, 1728, lived at Stratford and Middletown, Conn. 
He has descendants at New Haven, Waterbury, &o. 

III. Rev. John Chipman, b. Feb. 16, 1G90-1, graduated at Har- 
vard College, 1711, and ordained over the second church at Bev- 
erly, Mass., Dec. 28, 1715. He married Rebecca, daughter of Dr. 
Robert Hale, Feb. 12, 1718, and granddaughter of Rev. John Hale, 
of Beverly. His son John, b. Oct. 23, 1722, graduated at Harvard 
Coll., 1738, barrister at law in I\Iarblehead, Mass., had among his 
children, Hon. Ward Chipman, grad. Harvard Coll., 1770, judge 
of the supreme court in New Brunswick, and died president of that 
province, and left an only son and child, Hon. Ward Chipman, 
LL. D., late chief justice there. His son, Capt. Samuel Chipman, 
of Ipswich and Salem, Mass., was the great-grandfather of Rev. R. 
Manning Chipman, (and most of it is abstracted by him from his ex- 
tended account of the family.) Rev. John Chipman died pastor at 
Beverly, March 23, 1775. The widow of his son Joseph, b. 1738, 
resided with Joseph's children, (neither of which children are forty 
vears old,) in the old parsonage house. 

IV. Seth Chipman, of Kingston, Mass., was the ancestor of most 
fthe name in i\Iaine. 

V. Deacon Barnabas Chipman, of Barnstable, Mass., was the an- 
cestor of some of the Chipmans in Vermont, Michigan and Iowa. 

CHIP.AIAN, JOHN, b. March 3, 1669-70, lived in Sandwich and 
Chilmark, Mass., and in Newport, R.I. He married Mary, daugh- 
ter of Capt. Skiff, of Sandwich. After her death in 1711, he m. 
second. Widow Elizabeth Russell, who had been the Widow Pope, 
and was daughter of Capt. Thomas Handley. After she died in 
1725, he married, third, a Hookey, of R. I. Hon. John was judge 
of a court at ^Martha's Vineyard, while he resided at Chilmark, and 
after his removal to Newport, he was first assistant to the governor. 
He had twelve children. 

1. Percy, born Sept. 28, 1702, ancestor of most of the Cape Cod, 
Delaware, Carolina and Mississippi families of the name. 

2. Judge Handley, born Aug. 31, 1717. He resided at Chil- 
. nark and Providence, and in 1761, removed to Cornwallis, N. S., in 
which province two of his sons reside, where his descendants are nu- 
merous and respectable. 

In the extended account of Ruling Elder J. Chipman and his de- 
49 



578 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

scendants, which is nearly finished, in the many generations to the 
6th, and many of the 7th, 8th and 9th, with the extended memoirs, 
&c., with topographical illustrations of English homes of the Chip- 
man race, would have been printed by the family, had the means to 
do so been provided by the family. 

Rev. R. M. Chipman says, that some twenty^ve Chipmans are 
named and described from A. D., 1070, to the present time ; the 
first one of whom was of those who made the Doomsday Survey Book. 
The name, Chipman, as by the armorial bearings, is Chippenham ; 
De Chippenham it originally bore. Chippenham, Chapman's town, 
(or home,) designates three places in England, one of which was 
King Alfred's royal abode. 

Thomas, who went from Groton to Salisbury, represented the town 
of Salisbury in the Legislature in 175^ 

Chipman, (Bristol,) one coat of arms, and two others. 

CHIPPERFIELD, or CHEPPERFIELD, was a first settler at 
New Haven, and signed the fundamental agreement there, of the 
first settlers in 1639. 

CHITTINGDEN, THOMAS, aged 51, (lynnin weaver,) with his 
wife Rebecca, aged 40, and children, Isaac, aged 10, and Hen. Chitten- 
den, six years old, brought thecertificateof the minister of Wapping, 
and two justices. Probably embarked in the Increase de London, 
in April, 1635, for New England. (Mass. Collect.) 



Note. — Samuel Chipman, son of Thomas, of Sahsbury, married Hannah Austin, of Suflield. 
Had six sons, Nathaniel, Lemuel, Darius, Cyrus, Samuel and Daniel ; the last b. Oct. 22, 1705. 
Hon. Nathaniel, a lawyer, died aged 90. Dr. Lemuel d. aged 7G. Darius, lawyer, d. aged 76. 
Dr. Cyrus d. aged 77. Hon. Samuel, a lawyer, d. aged 76. Their father, Samuel, and his broth- 
ers Thomas and Jonathan, d. about 90 years old. Daniel, the youngest of Samuel and Hannah's 
sons, lived to be over 80 years of age. 

The father of Hon. Daniel Chipman removed about 1775, to Tinmoulh, in Vermont. His son 
Daniel graduated at Dartmouth College in 1788; admitted to practice law in Connecticut in 
1790, and did an extensive business at Rutland ; was member of the constitutional convention 
in Vermont in 1793. After a few years he opened his office in Middlebury, Vt. In 1796, he 
m. Eleatherea, daughter of Rev. Lemuel Hedge, of Warwick, Mass., and sister of Professor Levi 
Hedge, of Harvard, Vt. His children were, 1. Austin ; 2. George, grad. at Harvard College and 
read law ; 3. Sarah W., m. Charles Linsley, Esq., attorney at Middlebury, Vt.; 4. Susan H., Ele- 
atheria, Mary and Eliza ; the last m. Rev. Matthew F. Maury, of Danville, Kentucky. Hon. Dan- 
iel was frequently a member of the Legislature in both houses ; professor of law in Middlebury 
College until 1816. In 1812, chosen a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; 
speaker of the House of the Gen. Assembly in 1813 and '14, and in 1814 elected a member of 
Congress. Hon. Nathaniel and Daniel have been ornaments in their profession, to the state of 
Vermont, and were both eminent jurists, and most worthy as well as learned men. Thomas 
Chipman, of Barnstable, m. Bethiah Fuller, of Colchester, Ct., 1760. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN'S. 



579 



This name is spelled on the records, Chittenden, Chettinden, and 
Chittinton, &c.* Thomas Chittenden was an early settler at Guil- 



•Note. A provision was made at Guilford in 


1642, for the assessment of the i 


inhabitants of 


ibe town, and their names, and suras assessed, are now recorded there ; most of 


which are as 


follows, as far as deciphered, viz.; 








Mr. Leete, Dep. Gov., 


XICO Os 


Mr. Joseph Eliot, 


£200 Oj 


John Leete, 


93 10 


Thomas Stevens, - 


6 


Andrew Leete, 


- 105 15 


John Betu, - 


21 


William Leete, - 


88 7 


Mathew Bellamy, - 


- 20 


Josias Rossiter, 


- 152 3 


John Scranton, 


64 6 


William Seward, 


125 14 


John Crittenden, 


. 62 


Richard Bristow, 


• 80 10 


Ebenezer Empson, - 


49 18 


Thomas Wright, 


37 


Joseph Clay or Cloy, 


- 39 


John Hodgke, 


- 35 


George Chatfield, (Heare,) 


10 13 


George Hubbard, 


144 


John Bowers, 


4 10 


Daniel Hubbard, 


- 95 


George Hibard, 


79 11 


Judah Everts, ■ 


56 10 


Isaac Cruttenden, 


- 67 


John Everts, 


- 49 9 


Nathan Bradley, 


79 5 


Daniell Everts, - 


59 


John Doude, 


- 29 10 


Richard Guttreg, 


- 02 10 


Thomas Chittenden, ■« 


116 9 


John Guttridge, 


31 


John Hall, 


- 58 8 


Abraham Crittenden, Sen., - 


- 100 16 


Joseph Hand, 


05 


William Johnson, 


69 17 


John Hill, Senior, 


- 54 7orl 


John Fowler, 


- 160 17 


John Hill, Jun., 


47 13 


John Parmaley, 


54 15 


James Hill, 


- 42 


John Hopson, 


- 167 


Wm. Dudley, - 


96 5 


Edward Morse ■? 


27 


John Jordan, 


- 48 


John Meigs, 


• 78 6 


Joseph Dudley, 


62 


Abraham Crittenden, 


82 13 


Thomas Robinson, Jun., • 


- 18 


Thomas Crittenden, - 


- 50 


John Stone, - 


87 


Samuel Stone, - 


42 


Thomas Cook, Jun., 


. 77 


Nathaniel Stone, 


- 38 


Ephraim Devin, 


18 


Thomas Stone, - 


29 


Thomas Scranton, 


- 74 02 


William Stone, Sen.. 


- 134 17 


Thomas ffrench, 


30 10 


William Stone, Jan., 


43 3 


John French, 


- 18 10 


Benaga Stone, 


- 32 


Thomas Wacklee ? - 


12 


John Johnson, - . - 


72 9 


Benjamin Wright, 


- 25 


.Mr. John Collins, 


- 68 4 


Stephen Bradley, 


51 10 


JohnSargant, 


18 


Thomas Dood, 


- 48 


Thomas Cook, Sen., - 


- 51 15 


Widow Dood, 


17 11 


John Bishop, 


91 15 


Nathaniell Chittenden, 


- 51 11 


Widow Bishop, 


- 25 


Thomas Robinson, Sen., 


11 10 


James Kingsnorth, 


55 


Deacon Curtis' estate, 


- 60 17 


Thomas Makock, 


- 105 5 


Widow Evarts, 


4 


John Baylee, 


13 


John Norton, 


- 11 10 


EkI ward Benton, 


. 72 1 


John Grave, - 


92 15 


William Stevens, 


38 12 


Samuel Huges, 


- 48 5 


Nicolas Mongers. 


5 16 


James Evarts, 


6 11 


Maior Thomson ? 


330 18 


Samuel Hall, 


- 40 12 


Widow Clarke, 


- 28 


Nicholas Huges, 


27 16 



580 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ford, and was in the list of those assessed there in 1642, at £116, 95. 
Also, Nathaniell Chittenden, at £51, lis. — (the last was perhaps a 
son of Thomas.) The Thomas Chittenden who is found at Guilford, 
is not the same Thomas Chittenden, aged 51, and his wife 40, who 
shipped for this country in 1635. 

Mr. Chittenden was a member at least thirteen sessions of the 
Colony Legislature of Connecticut, and Abraham Chittenden seven 
sessions. {Marks on Guilford Record.) John Chittenden, Jun., had 
an ear-mark at Guilford in 1708-9. Isaac Crittenden, Thomas Chit- 
tenden and Daniel Everts, agreed to take the oath of fidelity at 
Guilford. 

CHITTENDEN, THOMAS, a brother of Ebenezer, was born at 
Guilford, Conn., in 1730, a descendant of Thomas Chittenden, an 
original settler of Guilford. He removed to Salisbury, Conn., when 
young, where he remained several years, and was representative to 
the General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1764, and twelve sessions 
afterward — the last in 1772. His son, Hon. MARTIN, was born 
at Salisbuiy, March 12, 1766. When Martin was about twelve years 
old, his father removed with his family to Vermont, where he was 
a prosperous and respectable farmer. He had several children. 
His son Martin graduated at Dartmouth College in 1789. He loca- 
ted in Chittenden county, at Jericho, and the same year was appoint- 
ed justice of peace, and in 1790 made clerk of the county, and rep- 
resentative to the Legislature, and frequently afterward. He was 
elected one of the county judges in 1793, and three years after was 
made chief judge of the court, which he most faithfully and ably 
performed for about seven years. In 1803, he was elected a dele- 
gate to Congress, and continued there ten years, an efficient and 
faithful member. The year after he left Congress he was made 
governor of the state of Vermont, during the war of 1812, viz., in 



Widow Miegs, 


- £7 Os 


Widow HaU, - 


Widow Benton, 


41 13 


Henry Grains, 


Samuel Relfe ? 


2 5 


Jacob Doude, 


Denis Scranton, 


16 2 


Javes Evarts, 


Aaron Bishop, 


■ 126 9 


Jonathan Hoite, 



£8 


Oi 


30 





18 





73 





31 






Tliis is a true copy, taken out of the list of estates, in 1642, drawn out and compared by us, 
the Committee appointed by the Town for that worke, John Fowler, 

William Seward, 
William Jonson. 

Guilford was one of the early settled towns in the New Haven Colony, (1639,) and incorpo- 
rated in 1643. The Indian name of the place was Mcnmikatuck. 
A few names are not deciphered in the above copy. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 581 

1814. His refusal to Gen. Macomb, an officer at Plattsburg, to send 
the Vermont militia to his assistance into a neighboring state, while 
Vermont was equally exposed to the depredations of the British 
troops, I'endered him peculiarly conspicuous with the politicians, and 
he was not re-elected after 1816. He married Miss Anna Bently, 
March 12, 1796, and had two sons and two daughters. She d. Sept. 
25, 1827. He d. Sept. 5, 1840, aged over 74 years. He became 
the most prominent public man of the Guilford family of Chittendens. 
Timothy Chittenden, Jun., of Salisbury, represented Salisbury at the 
General Assembly four sessions, first in 1803. Others of the name 
have been prominent, wealthy and respectable citizens in Guilford, 
from its early settlement. Nathaniel Chittenden, of Guilford, was 
nominated for a freeman in October, 1667, and Thomas, John, Na- 
thaniel, Abraham and Abraham Chittenden, Jun., were in the list of 
freemen at Guilford, Sept. 24, 1669. 

Thomas Chittingden, (Scituate,) in his will, calls himseU weaver, 
Oct. 7, 1668; sons Isaac and Henry. (Gen. Reg.) This must 
have been the Thomas Chittingden, with wife and sons Isaac and 
Henry, who came to N. England in 1635. Isaac assisted in taking 
the inventory of Samuel House's estate in Scituate, Sept., 1661 ; 
also the inventory of John Pickles, deceased of Scituate, Dec. 4, 
1664, and in Sept. of the same year, witnessed the will of Timothy 
Hatherly, of Scituate. (See His. Gen. Reg.) This Isaac was prob- 
ably the son of Thomas, the weaver, who came from England with 
his father and his family mentioned above. 

Farmer notes Thomas Chittenden, of Scituate, 1638, where he 
lived and died. 

CHITWOOD, Sir RICHARD, was the father of Grace, the sec- 
ond wife of Rev. Peter Bulkley, of Concord, Mass., and the mother 
of Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of N. London, Wethersfield and Glasten- 
bury, and the maternal ancestor of all the Bulkleys of those places; 
also I,of Hartford, Colchester, New York, and Wilkesbarre, Penn. 
(See BULKLEY.) 

Grace Bulkley, (Chit wood,) after the death of her husband, in 
1659, went to New London, where she purchased the homestead of 
William Hough, and remained there with her son, Rev. Gershom, 
while he continued there. {Caulk., p. 132.) Whether his mother 
went with Rev. Gershom to Wethersfield, after he left New Lon- 
don, is not said. 

CHOCK, PETER, at an early period, acknowledged a deed of 
land at Stratford, before Joseph Curtis, J. P. Petter (Peter) Chock, 
49* 



682 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

of Newtown, L. I., in 1689 or '90, purchased of Thomas Jeffery and 
Mary, his wife, of Stratford, one acre of meadow in ye Great Neck, 
for £7. Also a right in the common meadow that had formerly be- 
longed to Richard Harrison, &c., signed by Tho's Jeffery and Mary, 
and recorded at Stratford, April, 1690. 

CHRISTY, CHRISTIE, JAMES, of Flushing, L. I., was accept- 
ed a freeman of Connecticut by the Gen. Court, in May, 1664. (See 
JOHN BURROWS, ante.) 

James Christie was warmly engaged with Capt. John Coe and 
others, of Middleburg, (Newtown,) L. I., in shaking from their necks 
the galling yoke of tlie Dutch government, and placing themselves 
under the government of Connecticut ; and Christie being a warm 
advocate for the change, he was selected as a safe and efficient per- 
son to carry the letter of those of Middleburg, favorable to the pro- 
ject, to the Gen. Court at Hartford — who, on his return to the island, 
found Director Stuyvesant absent at Boston, kindled a fire in Hemp- 
stead, Jamaica, Flushing, &c., on the island, which lodged him in 
Fort Amsterdam, and thence before the council for examination, 
&c. (See Col. Rec, Annals of Newtown, Panton.) 

Christie has six coats of arms ; Chrystie has one, and Christy one. 

CHRISTOPHERS, CHRISTOPHER and JEFFERY, brothers, 
were the first of the name in Connecticut, at New London, about 
1665. 

CHRISTOPHERS, JOHANNA, daughter of Jeffery Christo- 
phers, married John Mayhew, of Devonshire, England, Dec. 26, 
1676. 

CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, of New London, son of Christo- 
pher Christophers, married Lucretia, daughter of Daniel Bradley, 
Jan. 26, 1684, and had issue, Christopher, b. Dec. 2, 1683, m. Sa- 
rah Prout, of New Haven, Jan. 22, 1711-12 ; Richard, b. Aug. 18, 
1685, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall; Peter, 
b. July 18, 1687 ; John, b. March 15, 1689-90. Lucretia, wife of 
Richard, died Jan. 7, 1690-1. Richard m. for second wife, Grace 
Turner, Sept. 3, 1691, and had Joseph, b. July 14, 1692 ; Mary, b. 
Sept. 18, 1694 ; Jonathan, b. Sept. 19, 1696, d. Oct., 1696 ; Grace, 
b. Oct. 14, 1698, m. John Coit, May, 1721 ; Ruth, b. Sept. 26, 1705, 
and Joanna, b. March 19, 1706-7. 

CHRISTOPHERS, JOHN, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Hal- 
ford, of Long Island, July 28, 1696. Children, Samuel, b. July 24, 
1697 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 15, 1698, m. Joshua Raymond, Aug. 31, 
1719 ; John, b. May, 1701 ; Hester, b. June 20, 1703, m. Thomas 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 583 

Manvvaring, April 6, 1723. Lieut. John d. in Barbadoes, Feb. 3, 
1702-3. 

Mr. RICHARD, son of Ricliard Christophers, m. Elizabeth Sal- 
toustall, Aug. 14, 1710, and had issue, Richard, Jun., b. July 29, 
1712, m. Mary, daughter of Mr. John Pickett, 1734 : Elizabeth, b. 
Sept. 13, 1714; Mary, b. Dec. 17, 1716 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1719; 
Joseph, b. Nov. 30, 1722 ; Catherine, b. Jan. 5, 1724-5. Richard, 
the father, died June 0, 1726. 

CHRISTOPHERS, RICHARD, Jun., and MARY, his wife, of 
N. London, had children, Mary, b. May 23, 1734 ; Elizabeth, b. 
Dec. 24, 1735, m. Capt. Joseph Hurlbut, and died March 11, 1798. 
Richard, the father, died Sept. 28, 1736. 

This family was one of the best families at New London, and 
married into some of the most noted families of that day, though not 
as early settlers in the colony as many others. 

Coats of arms. Christopher, (London,) has one ; Christophers, 
one, and two others. 

Christopher Christophers was one of the citizens of New London 
in 1671-2, who was informed against by Mr. Mathew Griswold and 
others of Lyme to the County Court in Hartford, March 12, 1671-2, 
for attempts by violence to drive them off their land, resistance to au- 
thority, and assault. It was in fact a quarrel between New London 
and Lyme, as to the ownership of a tract of land. (See 2d vol. 
Col. Rec, AjJj^endix, pp. ool, 558.) Christopher Christophers died 
July 23, 1687. Miss Caulkins says, in the Hist, of New London, 
that two brothers of this name, both mariners, came to New London 
about 1665, and were engaged in the exchange trade with Barba- 
does. JefFery aged 55 in 1676, and "Christopher aged 56 in 1687, at 
his death. Jeffery, in 1700, lived at Southold, L. I., with one of 
his daughters, as he had no sons then living. (See Miss Caulkins" 
interesting account of the family, in her Hist, of N. London, pp. 
316-18.) 

CHURCH, RICHARD, was rated £1,1 16 at Plymouth in 1632-3. 
He was born in 1608, and came to New England in 1630, a car- 
penter by trade, was made free 1632, in Plymouth Colony. He m. 
Elizabeth Warren, 1636, {Guide to Plymouth, p. 349,) and is said 
by Bradford to have been the father of Col. Benjamin Church, who 
was noted as famous in the Indian wars. Richard proved his skill 
in the trade of a carpenter, in building the first church at Plymouth. 
He lived at Eel River, at Eastham, at Hingham and Dedham. He 
died at the last place, Dec, 1668. His wife Elizabeth died at Hing- 



584 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ham, March 4, 1670. (His. Duxbury.) He was the same Richard 
Church who sold his " house, houseing and land, with all the meadow 
ground, &c.," he had of Goodman Kempton, at the Eel River ; and 
his wife Elizabeth gave her free approbation to said sale. (See 
Note, Gen. Reg., vol. ii., No. 3, 1848.) Yet the life of Church, in 
his memoirs, calls Joseph, of Duxbury, the father of Col. Benjamin. 
Farmer names Benjamin Church, of Little Compton, the celebrated 
warrior, " son of Joseph Church," and born at Duxbury, 1639 ; m. 
Alice Southworth, and had children, Thomas, Constant, Edward, 
Benjamin, Charles and one daughter. (Col. Church died Jan. 17, 
1718, aged 77.) Richard requested freedom October 19, 1630, and 
Farmer says, he probably was the same who afterward was at Hing. 
ham, and possibly the Richard Church, a first settler at Duxbury, 
whom Mr. Bradford makes the father of the great warrior. (See 
Farmer and Gen. Reg.) "Richard Church shall speedily build the 
carriage for another piece of ordnance," when finishing the fortifica- 
tion on Fort Hill in 1642. {Guide to Plymouth, p. 205.) Richard 
was a sergeant in the Pequod war, and had children by Elizabeth 
Warren, viz.: Elizabeth ; Benjamin, b. at Plymouth, 1639 ; Rich- 
ard, d. young ; Nathaniel, Hingham and Little Compton, m. Sarah 
Barstow, and died before 1700. (See Winsor^s Hist, of Duxbury, 
p. 245.) This could not have been the Richard Church who settled 
at Hartford, 1636. 

CHURCH, JOSEPH, of Duxbury, 1639, (Farmer says,) had sons 
Joseph, Caleb and Benjamin, and perhaps others. That Caleb lived at 
Watertown, and his brother Joseph and Benjamin at Little Compton, 
cites the life of Church in his memoirs, p. 159. Caleb Church m. 
Joanna Sprague, Dec, 1667, at Hingham. Abigail Church m. Sam- 
uel Haxter, at Hingham, Dec, 1666. {His. Reg.) Caleb in the 
list of freemen in Watertown, March 22, 1689-90. {His. Reg.) 

CHURCH, GARRET, free in Mass., in 1649. John, son of Gar- 
ret and Sarah, b. at Boston, 1637 ; Samuel, b. 1640 ; Sarah, b. 
1642. 

CHURCH, JOHN,b. 1641, received an inhabitant of Dover, New 
Hampshire, 19th day, 1st mo., 1665-6 ; taxed atCocheco, 1662-1672 ; 
killed May 7, 1696. John, b. 1668; killed, 1711. {His. Reg.) 
Nathaniel Warren, Sen., (of Plymouth,) in a supplement to his will, 
names his sister Elizabeth Church, (probably wife of Richard,) da- 
ted July 15, 1667. (See His. Reg.) John, of N. H., also had a 
son Jonathan, b. April 12, 1666, and Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1672. 
{His. Reg.) Nathan Folger m. Sarah Church, the 29th day of 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 565 

Dec, 1699, and Thomas Clark m. Mary Church, the 13th day of 
Dec, on Nantucket. {His. Beg.) 

CHURCH, CHARLES, Esq., sheritT of the co. of Bristol, was 
one of those noble subscribers for Prince's Chronology. 

CHURCH, SAMUEL, of Hadley, took the oath of allegiance " by 
order from our Gin'll Cort," Feb. 8, 1678. {His. Reg.) Samuel, 
in Connecticut, took the oath of freeman, 16.57— same man. 

CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, of Hartford, Conn., ap. 
peared at Norwalk in the early settlement of the plantation. If he 
settled there, he did not long remain. In a list of accounts in 1654, 
the name of Edward Church is found there. He owned land there 
which he sold to Thomas Fitch, yet his name is not found in Hall's 
Hats of early landholders in Norwalk. Mr. Roger Ludlow, of Fair- 
field, purchased of the Norwalk Indians, the town of Norwalk, i. e., 
the grounds •' betweene the twoe Rivers, the one called Norwalke, 
the other Soakatuck, to the middle of sayed Rivers, from the sea a 
days walke into the country." Deed dated Feb. 26, 1640. June 
19, 1650, an agreement was made between said Ludlow and Nath'l 
Eli, Ritchard Olmested, with the " rest," for settling and planting 
Norwalke ; Edward Church is named as one of the grantees. Anoth- 
er indenture dated February 15, 1651, made between a body of In- 
dians, Piamikin and fifteen other Indians, and Richard Webb, Nath'l 
Eli, Edward Church and others, " Planters of Norwake, conveying 
to them all their lands," known by the name of Bunckinheage, Roo- 
atan," and which was " Recorded Feb. y^ 24th, 1708-9, Per John 
Copp, Record"." Edward Church early disappeared. Edward 
Church was at Hartford before he went to Norwalk. He had a dau'r 
Mary, b. at New Haven, 1656, but was not an original proprietor at 
New Haven. Edward Church and his wife Mary, were at Hadley 
in 1662, and his son Samuel died there May 6, 1662. He was taxed 
at Hatfield in 1682. His son John died at Hatfield, 1676. The 
same Edward, who was at Norwalk, son of Richard, Sen. (See 
below.) 

CHURCH, RICHARD, was an early settler at Hartford ; proba- 
bly came there with Mr. Hooker's company in 1636. He drew 
twelve acres of land in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639, 
and sixty acres in the division of land in East Hartford, 1666. He 
had land at the cow-pasture in Hartford, in 1640, and had a house 
and land in Burr Street in 1640. Viewer of chimneys in 1647. He 
was freed from watching, warding and training at Hartford, by the 
Gen. Court, March 7, 1654-5. He was one of the sixty persons 



586 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

who " At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April 18, 
1659," signed an engagement to remove themselves and families out 
of Connecticut into Massachusetts, for the purpose of forming the 
town of Hadley. (See p.. 97 of this book.) He accordingly re- 
moved, with Ann his wife, as he had stipulated. He was made free 
in Conn., 1658. 

When Richard removed to Hadley, he left personal and real es- 
tate at Hartford. Who was the father of Richard Church, who came 
to Hartford, is not found, or from what place he came to Hartford. 

Richard Church, Sen., of Hartford, and afterward of Hadley, died 
at Hadley Dec. 16, 1667. His wife Ann died in Hatfield, March 10, 
1684. They had three sons and one daughter, viz.: 

1. Edward, of Hartford, Norwalk, New Haven and Hadley. 

2. John, remained and died at Hartford. 

3. Samuel, removed to Hadley. 

\ 4. Mary, m. Isaac Graves, of Hatfield, Mass. 

These children were probably born before Richard came to Hart- 
ford, as none of them were recorded as born there. 

CHURCH, EDWARD, son of Richard, Sen., the proprietor of 

Norwalk in 1651-2, m. Mary , and had a daughter Mary born 

at New Haven, 1656, 9th mo., 17th day, and perhaps others born 
there. His children as far as known, were : 

1. Rebecca, m. Joseph Selden, 1677, and settled at E. Haddam, Conn. 

2. Mary,b. 1656, 9th mo., 17th; m. Philip Russell in 1679. 

3. Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1663. 

4. Naomi, b. May 12, 1666 ; m. Joseph Rodman, 1687. 

5. Sarah, b. May 18, 1670; m. William Porter, 1697. 

6. John, was slfyin by the Indians, May 19, 1676. 

7. Richard, b. January IS, 1675 ; lived at Hatfield. 

8. Hepzibah, b. Dec. 24, 1678; m. Samuel Spencer, of Hartford, ancestor of 
Hon. Ambrose Spencer. 

9. Hannah, b. ; m. Ebenezer Billings in 1690., 

If John, who settled at E. Haddam, was of this family, he was b, 
after the death of the above John. 

Edward, the father, settled at last in Hatfield, Mass., where he 
died Sept. 19, 1704, aged 76, and his wife Mary died there in 1690 
or 1691. As his estate was not settled by the court of probate, he 
may have had children not recorded. 

CHURCH, JOHN, son of Richard and Ann Church, of Hartford 
and Hadley, settled at Hartford, and m. Sarah, daughter of Richard 
Beckley, of New Haven, in 1657. His children are found on the 
probate record at Hartford, viz.: 

1. Richard, went first to Westfield, and then to Colchester, and d. in 1730. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 587 

2. John, (Jun.,) lived in Hartford. 

3. Samuel, lived in Hartlbrd. 

1. Joseph, aged 15, probably, counting to the time of his father's death. 

5. Deliverance, 12 years old. 

6. Sarah Knight. 

7. Mary Standige. 
S. Ruth Church, 
y. Ann Church. 

10. Elizabeth Church. 

John, Sen., above, had his fixUier's hinds in Hartford. He d. at 
Hartford in 1691. He was made free, May, 16.58. 

CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Richard, Sen., and Ann, m. Mary 
Churchill, of Wethersfield, daughter of Josias, and she is noticed in 
her father's will. She d. in 1690, and he d. April 13, 1684. He 
probably removed to Hadley with his father Richard and his family, 
about 1659 or '60. Their children were : 

1. Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1665; m. Samuel Smith. 

2. Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1667; lived in Hadley. 

3. Richard, b. Dec. 9, 1669 ; killed by the Indians, Oct. 5, 1696. 
-k Mehetabel, b. Jan. 11, 1671 or '2 ; m. Nehemiah Dickinson. 

5. Josiah, b. April 10, 1673. Had a family at Hadley, but removed. 

6. Joseph, b. May 26, 167S ; d. single in 1721. 

7. Benjamin, b. Sept. 1, 1680; resided in Hadley. 

S. John, b. Dec. 24, 16S2. This was probably the John who settled at East 
Haddam. 

CHURCH, RICHARD, son of John, of Hartford, and grandson 
of Richard, of Hartford and Hadley, left Hartford, and for several 
years was located in Westfield, Mass., where several of his children 
were born. He m, Elizabeth Noble, of Westfield, March 3, 1692, 
and had Hannah, John, Rachel, James, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel 
and Elizabeth. From Westfield, he removed to Colchester, Conn,, 
where he died in 1730. 

CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of John, of Hartford, settled in Hart- 
ford ; m. , and had sons and daughters. Among his 

sons I only mention Samuel, Jun., and Ebenezer. The latter was 
by trade a hatter, and settled in Norwalk. He m. Susannah Fitch, 
Jan., 1746, and iiad children, 1. Daniel, (m. Sarah Pickitt, 1768, and 
had four sons and three daughters,) b. 1746 ; 2. Richard, b. Oct., 

1747. His wife d. Oct. 7, 1747, and he m. 2. Ruth , Nov., 

1755, and had 3. Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1756 ; 4. Ebenezer, b. July 31, 
1758 ; 5. Ruth, b. Jan. 29, 1760 ; 6. Esther, b. March 23, 1762 ; 
7. Samuel, b. Nov. 25, 1763 ; 8. Grace, b. Aug. 7, 1765 ; 9. Jo- 
siah, b. Jan. 10, 1767 ; 10. John, b. Jan. 12, 1769 ; 11. Elizabeth, 



588 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN'S. 

b. Oct. 10, 1770; 12. Isaac, b. May 3, 1772. (Hall.) Of the 
above family are the Churches of Fairfield county. 

CHURCH, SAMUEL, son of Samuel, Jun., was by trade a sad- 
dler. He m. Mary Porter, of Farmington, and removed to Bethlem, 
then a part of Woodbury, and pursued his trade. He died there in 
the great sickness, which nearly desolated that parish, and left nine 
children. His sons were, Joshua, Samuel, Ebenezer and Nathan- 
iel. 

CHURCH, JOSHUA, son of Samuel above, was many years a 
merchant at Bethlem, where his children were born, among whom 
was Samuel Church, many years town-clerk of Bethlem, who left a 
family in his old age ; also, Rollin Church, who resided in Beth- 
lem, son of Joshua. He also had several children, among whom is 
now living, Leonard H. Church, Esq., of the city of New YorW 
He m. Sarah Sophia Morris, daughter of Harvey Morris, Esq., of 
Woodbury, Conn., and has two children, Roderick Henry and Ellen 
Morris. This L. H. Church is the present popular cashier of the 
Empire City Bank, in New York, Avho by his industry, integrity and 
strict attention to business, was lately honored and rewarded for it, 
by the directors of the Empire City Bank, who presented to him as 
a reward of merit, an elegant service of silver plate, worth $1,000, 
for his unremitting efforts as cashier to the interests of the bank. 

CHURCH, NATHANIEL, youngest son of Samuel, Sen., of 
Bethlem ; by the death of his father, he was left an orphan, only 
three years of age. He learned the trade of a weaver, and at the 
age of eighteen years, he absconded from the severe usage of a hard 
master, and enlisted a private soldier in Col. Silliman's regiment in 
the Continental army, where he was severely wounded by a grape- 
shot at the battle of White Plains, (which grape-shot was extracted, 
and is now in possession of his son. Judge Church, of Litchfield, Ct.) 
He was a long time in the hospital at Danbury. After his recovery 
he went to Canaan, in Litchfield county, and followed his trade as a . 
weaver, and became a man of wealth. He m. Lois Ensign, the • 
second daughter of Capt. John Ensign, of Canaan, Ct., a descendant i 
of James, Sen., the Puritan, of Hartford, in 1636. Soon after hem. 
he removed to Salisbury, where he resided until he died, in Nov., i 
1837, and left a noble family. His sons were, Ensign, Judge Sam- ,i 
uel, Leman, Esq., John, Nathaniel, Jun., Frederick and William. [ 

CHURCH, Hon. SAMUEL, m. when young, and has a family of j 
most promising sons. (See Note.) 

CHURCH, LEMAN, Esq., was a lawyer by profession, and set 



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tied in his profession at Canaan, Ct,, and by his industry and talents, 
with a ^ew years' practice, ranked with the three first of his profes- 
sion in Litchfield county. He died in middle life, and left a large 
estate to his widow and children, which he had accumulated by a 
short life of industry in his practice. 

Jolm Church m. Anne Curtis, of Wethersfield, Dec. 11, 1735, and 
had children born in Wethersfield, John, b. 1736 ; Hepzebah, b. 
Feb. 20, 1738 ; Anne, b. Feb. 20, 1740 ; Christian, b. 1642 ; Eli- 
sha, b. 1747 ; Daniel, b. Aug. 17, 1750. Samuel Church m. Phebe 
Fuller, at Colchester, June 24, 1744. Rebecca Church m. Joseph 
Selding, of Hadley, 1676. Sergeant Samuel, ofHadley, died April 
13, 1684. Richard was one of the number in Massachusetts, who 
desired to renew his oath of a freeman, under the act of the General 
Court at Boston, May 14, 1634. 

John Church, of Colchester, had his wife Thankful, and children 
Ruth, Ezra, John and Abigail, bap. Jan. 20, 1734. John Church, 
son of John, of Hartford, m. Abigail Cadwell, 1699 ; he died 1735. 
Mary, Joseph, Daniel, b. 1710, at Hartford, and others. James 
Church was an original settler at Litchfield. Samuel Church m. 
Elizabeth Clark, Aug. 17, 1710. James m. Abigail Stanly, Dec. 
10, 1712. James and Abigail had Joseph, b. April 21, 1724 ; Abi- 
gail, b. Feb. 11, 1727-9 ; Jerusha, b. 1729-30, m. Wm. Pitkin. 

CHURCH, GEORGE, a servant of Stephen Kent, with others, 
passengers intended for New England, in the good ship Confidence, 
of London, John Jobson, master, by virtue of the Lord Treasurer's 
warrant, of the 11th of April, 1638. Dated, Southampton, 24th 
April, 1633. {Stevens.) 

CHURCH, MARTIN, sixteen years old, passenger for Virginia, 
in the Safety, August, 1635, from England. 

Coats of arms. — Church or Churche, (Earls Colne, co. Essex,) 
has 1 ; Church, (as borne by Henry Church, Esq., R. N., and by 
the Rev. William Church, of Hampton, co. Middlesex,) 1 ; Churche, 
(Essex,) 1 ; and one other for Churche. 



Note. As so much has lately been published of the Church family in Connecticut, I with- 
hold a large share of the facts collected on this family. 

Note. Hon. Samuel Church, the son of Nathaniel, of Salisbury, Conn., graduated at Yale 
College in 1803. He read law in the office of Judge Reeve, at Litchfield, and settled in his pro- 
fession at Salisbury, when quite young, and soon became prominent in his profession at the 
Litchfield bar, which at that time was one of the most prominent bars in the state, viz., (Jould, 
Mien, Tracy, Bacon, Benedict, Boardman, &c. In 1818 he was elected a member of the 

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590 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CHURCHILL, CHURCHIL, CHURCHEL, JOSIAS,(JOSIAH,) 
was an early settler at Wethersfield, and perhaps came to Wethers- 
field, (then called Watertown,) from VVatertovvn, Mass., where most 
of the first settlers were from. There was also John Churchill,* 



Gen. Assembly, and six sessions afterward. He was state senator, elected 1825 and '27, by 
general ticket. In 1833 he was elected one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Connecticut, 
and in 1847, was appointed Chief Justice, which office he now holds — all which places of trust 
he has most faithfully filled, to the perfect satisfaction of the public. He married, when young^ 
and has a small family of promising children. One of his sons, Albert E., is now a professor at 
the Military Academy at West Point, and another, Dr. Samuel P., at Derby. Judge Church has 
probably become more celebrated than any of the descendants of Richard, Sen., of Hartford. 

* CHURCHILL, JOHN, who is not found to have been a. relative of Josiah, who was an early 
settler at Wethersfield, Conn., came from England, and stopped at Plymouth — the year not 
known — but at an early period of the settlement of New Plymouth; married Hannah Pontus, of 
Plymouth, Dec, 18, 1644, and died there between Dec. 24 andFeb. 11, 1662. The will of John 
Churchill was exhibited in court at Plymouth, May 3, 1662, and proved. He gave his sons 
"Joseph and Eleazer, lands at Plymouth," and sons John and William, other property, &c. In. 
ventory, je74, 14s. 6d. (Oen. Reg., 1842.) In August, 1643, the names of the males able to 
bear arms, from sixteen years old to sixty, were taken in the several townships, and with the 
148 names thus enrolled, is found that of John Churchill, vol. 5, p. 259. 

The children of John and his wife Hannah, were : 

Joseph, m. Sarah . Birth or death of either not known. 

Eleazer. 

John. 

William. 

Hannah. These children are found in the will of their father, John, of Plymouth. 

JOSEPH, son of John, m. Sarah ; had children, Margaret, Barnabas, b. July 3, 1686, 

Joseph, and perhaps John. 

BARNABAS, son of Joseph, ni. Lidiah ; childien, William, Ichabod, Joseph, b. May 19, 

1721, Samuel, Isaac, Thomas, Ebenezer, Lydia, John, (Mariah Ryder, b. Dec. 2, 1724.) 
JOSEPH, son of Barnabas, m. Mariah Ryder, at Plymouth, Sept. 23, 1745, daughter of Sam- 
uel Ryder, son of John and Hannah, b. 1698, and Mary Sylvester, who were m. at P., Nov. 2, 

1722. Joseph d. in P.soon after his daughter Lucy was born. His widow ra. Arehippus Fuller, 
and with all their children they moved to Woodstock, Vt., and lived to be aged. His children 
were, Ichabod, b. Aug. 9, 1746 ; Joseph, b. July 14, 1748; Lucy, b. Aug. 22, 1750, and Con- 
sider Fuller, Seth, Samuel, Polly and Mariah Fuller. 

JOSEPH, son of Joseph, b. 1748, m. Sarah Cobb, daughter of Gersham Cobb and Miriam 
Thomas ; m. at Middleborough, Mass., March 3, 1739. Joseph and Sarah m. in M., March 21, 
1771, and continued in M. until 1777, when they removed with three children to Woodstock, 
Vt., and continued there until 1819, when they removed to Stowe, and Joseph d. in 1823, and 
his wife Sarah in 1836. All his children survived them. Children, Levi, b. April 24, 1772 ; 
Miriam, b. Aug. 16, 1774 ; Sarah, b. April 13, 1777 ; Lucy, b. March, 1779 ; Joseph, b. July 7, 
1781 ; Sijlvester, b.Aug. 2, 1783; Isaac, b.Feb. 19, 1787, and Susan, b. July 17, 1794. 

SYLVESTER, b. 1783, m. Lucy Hunter at Windsor, Vt., Aug. 30, 1812. He being an officer 
in the army, had no fixed residence, but was stationed at different military posts. His wife was 
a daughter of Wm. Hunter, who was b. in Sharon, Ct., Jan. 3, 1754. His parents were David 
Hunter and Rebeckah Marvin. Gen. Sylvester Churchill is now Inspector General in the United 
States army. Two of his sons were educated at West Point, and have since done signal ser- 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 591 

early at Plymouth, whose will was exhibited in court there, May 3 
1662 ; but there is no evidence found that he was of the family of 
Josias. Josiah drew eighteen acres in the land division in Wethers- 
field in 1670. He was a juror from Wethersfield at the particular 
court in June, 1643, and in June, 1649 ; and held other responsible 
places of trust in the town. He was a gentleman of more than a 
medium estate, for the time in which he lived, and of reputation in 
the colony. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Foot, of 
Wethersfield, in 1638, and had children : 

1 . Mary, b. March 24, 1G39. Her fatlier, in his will, calls her " my daughter 
Church." 

2. Elizabeth, b. May 15, 1G42; she m. Henry Buck in IGGO, and had eight 
children. (See BUCK.) 

3. Hannah, b. Nov. 1, 1644 ; not named in his will dated Nov. 17, 16S3 ; not 
found that she ever married. Hannah Churchwood, of Wethersfield, daughter 
of Josiah, m. Samuel Royce, of N. London, Jan. 9, 1666-7. This perhaps 
should have been recorded Churchill. 

4. Ann, b. 1647; she m. Rice, as her father calls her in his will. 

5. Joseph, b. Dec. 2, 1649. He m. Mary , May 13, 1674, and d. at the 

age of 49, in 1699 ; had a large family. 

6. Benjamin, b. May 16, 1652; m. Mary , in 167S, and had a small 

family. 

7. Sarah, b. Nov. 11, 1657; she m. Thomas Wickham, June, 1673. 
The record also says, a son b. 1653 ; probably d. young. 

Mr. Josiah Churchill made his will, dated Nov. 17, 1683, which 
was proved in court at Hartford, in 1686-7. Inventory, £618, 125. 
6d. His wife Elizabeth survived him. He gave her the use of all 
his property for her life, and then to his children, viz., Joseph, Ben- 
jamin, Mary Church, Elizabeth Buck, Ann Rice, and Sarah Wick- 
ham. Will proved March 5, 1686-7. His wife Elizabeth sole ex- 
ecutrix. He does not mention his daughter Hannah in his will, who 



Helen Susan, b. May 29, 1817 ; d. Sept. 27, 1818 ; b. and d. in Fort Columbus, and buried on 
Governor's Island. N. Y. 

Capt. VVm. Hunter, b. July 8, 1819 ; d. Oct 19, 1847 ; b. at Fort Wool, Bedlow'a Island. 

Mary Helen, b. Aug. 30, 1821 ; b. in Windsor, Vt. 

Franklin H., b. April 22, 1823 ; b. at Fort Hamilton, L. I. 

Charles C, b. July 18, 1825 ; b. at Alleghany Arsenal, near Pittsburg. 

W.M. HUNTER, son of Gen. S. Churchill, b. in Fort Wool, Bedlow's Island. He m. Elizabeth 
M. Cuyler, daughter of Richard R., of Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 17, 1844, and d. at Point Isabel, 
Texas, but buried at Savannah, and left one son, Richard Cuyler Churchill. 

M.\RY HELEN, daughter of Gen. Churchill, b. in Windsor, Vt., while her mother was there 
on a visit. She m. Spencer Fullerton Baird, son of Samuel Baird, at Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 8, 1846. 

FRANKLIN H., son of the general, was born at Fort Hamilton, L. I. 

CHARLES C, another son, b, at Alleghany Arsenal, near Pittsburg, Penn. Their names and 
births are recorded at Windsor, Vt. 



592 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

probably died single, before her father. Mr. Churchill died in 1686, 
as his wife made oath to the will in March, 1686-7. His widow, 
Elizabeth, died Sept. 8, 1700, an old lady, over eighty years of age. 
(Will, Probate and Wethersfield Record.) He gave his son Joseph 
his land at Newington. 

The coats of arms of the Churchills have been, Churchill, (Duke 
of Marlborough.) 1 ; Churchill, Baron, 1 ; Churchill, (Churchill, 
Henbury, co. Dorset and Somersetshire,) 1 ; and one other. 

CHURCHILL, .JOSEPH, b. 1649, son of Josias, Sen. He m. 

Mary, , May 13, 1674, and had issue : Mary, b. April 6, 1675 ; 

Nathaniel, b. July 9, 1677. Joseph, above, of Wethersfield, died 
about Dec. 2, 1701, and left a widow and children, Nathaniel, Sam- 
uel, Joseph, Jonathan, Mary Edwards, Elizabeth, wife of Richard 
Butler, and Dinah Churchill. Ensign Samuel Churchill d. July 21, 
1767, and Martha, his widow, d. Dec. 14, 1780. 

CHURCHILL, BENJAMIN, b. 1652, son of Josias, Sen., m. 

Mary , July 8, 1676, and had issue: 1. Josiah, b. Jan. 28, 

1676-7 ; 2. Prudence, b. July 2, 1678 ; Abigail, b. Feb. 18, 1680. 
Mary, the mother, d. Oct. 30, 1712, aged about 60. 

CHURCHILL, JOSIAH, son of Benjamin, b. Jan. 28, 1676-7, 
m. Elizabeth Towsey, daughter of Thomas, of Wethersfield, May 8, 
1706, (the ancestor of Hon. Isaac Toucey, late governor of Conn., 
and now a U. S. Senator from Conn.,) and had children, Arminell, 
(d'r,) b. Feb. 20, 1709; 2. Prudence, b. Dec. 20, 1710; Hezekiah, 
b. Aug. 20, 1712, d. June 24, 1714; Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1715 ; Sarah, 
b. June 11, 1716 ; Josiah, b. June 28, 1720. The father, Josiah, 
d. Aug. 22, 1751, and his wife d. Oct. 28, 1751. Arminell m. Dan- 
iel Butler, of Wethersfield. 

CHURCHILL, NATHANIEL, son of Joseph, b. July, 1677, m. 
Mary, dau'r of John Hurlbut, of Middletown, Oct. 9, 1701, and had 
children, Nath'l, Jun., b. Oct. 29, 1703 ; John, b. Jan. 19, 1706. This 
John removed to Middletown, with his brother, and settled in Chat- 
ham ; Daniel, b. Nov. 3, 1710; Josiah, Stephen and Solomon, and 
perhaps Charles. Nathaniel, Sen., removed and settled at Middle- 
town about 1719. Some of his sons and grandsons settled at Berlin, 
(New Britain and Meriden.) Churchill's ship-yard or landing, where 
several armed vessels have been built since 1794 — two by the name 
of Holker, Macedonian, Boxer and others. These owners are de- 
scendants of John of Chatham and Josiah of Wethersfield. 

CHURCHILL, NATHANIEL, Jun., son of Nathaniel, b. 1703> 
m. Rebecca Griswold, and had issue, viz.: 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 593 

1. Abigail, b. Sept. 2S, 1727. 

2. Mary, b. Aug. 22, 1729. 

3. Nathaniel, b. June 25, 1731; had children, Nathaniel, John, Stephen, 
Solomon and others. Solomon .«ettled at Berlin. 

4. Rebecca, b. Feb. 10, 1734. 

5. Lucy, b. May 3, 1736. 

6. Jannah, b. Feb. 20, 173S ; moved to Hubbardston and then to Georgia, 
Vermont. He had a son Josiali and other children. 

7. Josiah, moved to Hubbardston, Vt., and having no children, he adopted his 
brother Jannah's son Josiah. After his adopted Josiah had grown to manhood, 
he settled in Genessee county, N. Y.,and was several sessions a member of the 
New York Legislature. His son, "William R., settled in Michigan; had other 
children. 

S. AMOS, b. March 5, 1743 ; settled first at Middletown, from Wethersfield, 
where he was born. After most of his children were born at Middletown, he 
removed with his faniilyto Bioadalban, Montgomery county, N. Y. He early 
m. Lydia Cowles, of Meriden, Conn., and was a justice of the peace at Middle- 
town, and a deacon in the church at Middletown in 1779. He changed his re- 
ligious views as to baptism, and united with the Baptists, and removed to 
Broadalban, as above stated. His children were : 

1. Lydia, m. Elijah Roberts, of Middletown, and removed to Mayfield, N. Y., 
and there died. 

2. Huldah, m. Elijah Bacon, of Middletown, and moved to Mayfield, N. Y. 

3. Amos, Jun., m. Olive Wilcox, of Middletown, and moved to Broadalban, 
Montgomery CO., N. Y., and had children, Olive, Dr. Amos, Harriet, Charles, 
Giles and Elijah. 

4. Roswell, m. Abigail Roberts, of Middletown, July, 1S02, and had a dau'r 
Lorane, b. at Middletown. He then removed to;Mayfield, N. Y., and had Car- 
oline, Emelino and Abigail by his first wife. She d. ISll, and he m. for his 
second wife, Abigail Covel, and had issue, Alansing, Erastmust D., William 
H., Reanselaer E., Charles R., and James E. Roswell is now living in New 
York. 

5. Lucy, m. Isaac Cornwall, of Middletown ; removed to Mayfield, N. Y. 
and had two children, Isaac and Lucy. 

6. JESSE CHURCHILL, son of Amos and Lydia, of Middletown, m. Cath- 
erine Smith, of Middletown, Upper Houses. He d. March 29, 1842. They had 
eig"ht children, viz.; 

1. Wm. Eliot, b. Feb. 22, at Middletown, 1S05 ; m. first, Sarah E. Cowles, 
of Meriden, Conn.; second, Louisa Terry. 

2. Henry, b. at Middletown ; m. Selina Burr. 

3. Timothy Gridley, b. April 2S, 1S09, at Broadalban, N. Y. 

4. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 8, 1512, at Broadalban, N. Y.; m. S. H. Smith, of 
Johnstown, where they resided. 

5. Lucy Maria, b. July 16, IS13; m. Peter M. Reynolds, of Johnstown, 
N. Y. 

6. Jane Eliza, single. 

7. AUen Cowles, b. July 17, 1820, at Broadalban, N. Y. He m. Caroline C. 
Warner, at Gloversville, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1840, who was b. Dec. 29, 1S20, and 
had four children, viz.: 1. Sarah Louisa, b. July 9, 1843, d. Dec. 5, 1843; 2. 

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594 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Emily Louisa, b. Nov. 3, 1S44 ; 3. Wm. Eliot, b. Feb. 5, 1S48 ; 4. Clara Bella, 
b. April 13, 1852. 

8. Charles Brockway Churchill, b. Feb. 26, 1828 ; m. Caroline Smith, dau'r 
of Leonard K. Smith, of the city of New York. No issue. 

1. CHURCHILL, WM. ELIOT, a merchant in New York, 
son of Jesse, m. 1. a dau'r of Major E. A. Cowles, of Meriden, Ct.; 
had children, 1. John C, d. young ; 2. Catherine R.; 3. Sarah C; 
4. Lucy Maria. His wife died, and he m. second, Louisa, daughter 
of Eliphalet Terry, Esq., deceased, late of Hartford, Conn., by 
whom he has no issue. 

2. CHURCHILL, HENRY, son of Jesse, b. Feb. 17, 1807, at 
Middletown, Conn. He m. Selina Burr, at Gloversville, Fulton co., 
N. Y. She was b. March 15, 1808, and d. March 13, 1851, aged 
43, by whom he had children, viz.: 

1. Wm. Scott, b. March 28, 1S31 ; d. aged 4, April 12, 1835. 

2. Helen, b. Jan. 12, 1S37. 

3. Alice, b. Feb. 8,1839. 

4. Caroline, b. July 10, 1841. 

5. Henry, Jun., b. June 15, 1844. 

He married for his second wife, Sybil E. Roberts, June 1, 1852, 
at Albany, N. Y. He now resides at Gloversville, N. Y. 

3. *CHURCHILL, TIMOTHY GRIDLEY, son of Jesse and 



* John Lawrence, a descendant of Abraham " Rycken," and Margaret, the daughter of Hen- 
drick Hannensen, and from Sir Robert Laurens, of Ashton Hall, in Lancastershire, in England, 
though Abraham might have been " an armorer in the Dutch service," and forged " tomahawks" 
for the Indians about him. He was descended, says one of his descendants, of an ancient fam- 
ily in Lower Saxony, being a Dutchman, and perhaps the friend of Govs. Kiefl and Stuyvesant, 
his countrymen ; yet, from his life and character, was a '' Yonker" (ji gentleman) of fortune and 
character, as many of his descendants have been, and continue to sustain their Dutch ancestor 
in his reputation by their own. 

Mrs. Timothy G. Churchill, of New York, daughter of John Lawrence, dec'd, of New York, 
is a descendant of the Rikers, by her mother, who was a Riker, and a descendant of Abraham 
Rycker. She also descended by her father, John Lawrence, (" familiarly called the commodore," 
from his having been an officer on board the American frigate Confederacy, Capt. Harding,) 
from Sir Robert Laurens. John, and his brother Isaac Lawrence, were large wholesale dealers 
and importers of silks and china ware from the East Indies to New York, when few if any oth- 
ers in New York, were as large importers of these articles. Mr. John Lawrence was twice m.; 
1. m. Elizabeth, widow of Nath'l Lawrence, and a daughter of Judge John Berrien ; and -. a 
daughter of Samuel Riker, Esq. His children were : Madison, Samuel Riker, Louisa, Jane Ri- 
ker, Julia and Patience. The last m. Timothy G. Churchill, of N. York, where she now resides. 
The ill health of John Lawrence, her father, compelled him to retire from the mercantile and 
importing business in which himself and brother had been largely engaged for years. He died 
in New York, Aug. 29, 1817, aged 5!l years, 

John Lawrence (.says Riker, in his History of Newtown, L I.,) was a descendant of "Sir 
Robert Laurens, of Ashton Hall, in Lancastershire, England." That Sir Robert accompanied 
Eichard Cceur de Lion, in his famous expedition to Palestine, and signalized himself in the 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 595 

Catherine, b. 1809, m. Patience Lawrence, of N. Y., (dau'r of John 
L. and Patience Riker,) June 15, 1836. His wife b. Oct. 2, 1814. 
Their children were : 

1. Anna P., b. May 9, 1S37. 

2. Jane Lawrence, b. June 9, 1S39. 

3. John Lawrence, b. Nov, 14, 1842. 

4. Wm. Eliot, b. July 15, 1845; d. May 12, 1S47. 

5. Emily Virginia, b. Dec. 13, 1S4S. 

4. CHURCFIILL, MARY ANN, b. Sept. 8, 1812, at Broadalban, 
N. Y., m. at Hartford, Feb. 19, 1850, to H. S. Smith, of Glovers- 
ville, N. Y., who was b. Oct. 14, 1814. 

CHURCHILL, JOSIAH, son of Nathaniel, Sen., had a son Jo- 
siah, b. at Middletown, and other children. This son Josiah born 
about 1711 or '12, in 1737 m. Abigail White, and removed to the 
state of New York, after some of his children were born. Daniel, 
his fifth child, b. at Chatham, Conn. His children were : 

1. Ruth, m. White, of Cherry Valley, N. Y. 

2. Elisha, d. during the Revolution, without issue. 

memorable siegeof St. Jean dWcre, in 1191, by being the first to plant the banner of the cross 
on the battlements of that town, for which he received the honors of knighthood from King 
Ricliard, and a coat of arms ; after which the family became eminent in England. Faulkner, 
in his History of Chelsea, says : " The Lawrences were allied to nil that was great and illustri. 
ous — cousins to the ambitious Dudley, Duke of Northumberland ; to the Earl of Warwick I to 
Lord Guilford Dudley, who expiated on the scaffold the short-lived royalty of Lady Jane Grey ; 
to the brilliant Leicester, who set two queens at variance; also to Sir Philip Sidney, who refu- 
sed a throne." Mr. Riker, in his history, states that a large number of families of this name in 
the United States, descended from three brothers, viz., Jolm, William and Thomas Lawrence, 
who emigrated from Great St. Albans, in Hertfordshire, during the political troubles which led 
to the dethronement and death of Charles L — (and in confirmation, Riker says,) "In corrobora- 
tion of their descent from Sir Robert Laurens, we find on the seals appended to some of their 
wills now on file at New York, and on old plate still possessed by their descendants, the same 
coat of arms as were granted to that knight." (See Hiker's Hist, of JVewtown, pp. 181, 182, 187; 
also, see Bolton's Hist, of IVestchcster.) The Lawrences of New York city, and first of Long 
Island, have generally been either merchants or connected with one of the learned professions, 
and many of them have retired upon ample fortunes. They have held important offices under 
the government of the city, colony and Gen. Gov't. John held ofiices under the Dutch and 
English at New Amsterdam. Under the English in N. York city, he was alderman in 1665, and 
afterward mayor and member of the council. In 1692, judge of the sup. court until liis death in 
1699, over 80 years of age. His daughter Mary m. Wm. Whittingham, and became the mother 
of Mary, the wife of Gov. Saltonstall, of New London, Ct. Tliey were connected by marriage 
with the Saltonstalls, Stevensons, L. I. Smiths, Sir Phillip Cartaret, governor of New Jersey, by 
bis marriage with the widow of Wm. Lawrence, Sir John T. Jones, Bart., Winslows, Le Bross. 
Saunders, Edsalls, Woodhulls, Wiltsees, Alsops, Sacketts, Livingstons, Berriens, Moors, Rikers, 
Brinkerhoffs, Palmers, Lents, Luysters, Suydanis, Beach's, Hillhouses, Pools, McVickars, Wclles's, 
Kips, Whitneys, Campbells, Lees, Churchills, Fish's, Van Sinderers, Remsens, Lindsleys, Irelands 
Mullers, Rogers's, Schlossons, Whittemores, Walsh's, and many others of the best families in the 
country. Few, if any, better or more prosperous families early came to this country, than the 
Lawrence brothers, and their descendants are now scattered through the country. 



596 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

3. Benjamin ; had seven children. 

4. Sarah ; m. Benjamin Hodge, of Buffalo, N. Y. 

5. Dsmiel, b. Oct., 1750, at Chatham, Conn.; m. Eunice Saxton, 1779; re- 
moved to Richfield, N. Y., April, 1795; d. Dec, 1S12; had four children. 

The seven children of the above Benjamin were : 1. Elisha, no 
children; 2. Betsey; 3. Ebenezer — had son Ebenezer ; 4. Sarah; 

5. Charles, had three children, viz., Elizabeth, Cornelia and Cha's ; 

6. Sophia, m. Peck ; 7. Benjamin, d. young. 

The four children of the above Daniel were: 1. Nancy, m. An- 

drus Martin ; 2. Selden, m. , had children, viz.: 1. Alonzo, 

eh., Charlotte J. and Emma D.; 2. Nancy; 3. Daniel, ch., Selden 
A.; 4. Lucretia ; 5. Malvina; 6. Adelaide. 3. Philemon, d. un- 
married ; 4. Alfred, m. Emma Derbyshire, three children — 1. Al- 
fred Derbyshire ; 2. George Clarence ; 3. Charlotte Derbyshire ; 
died Feb. 26, 1834. 

CHURCHILL, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield, son of Joseph, m. Lydia 
Dickinson, of Hatfield, Mass., in 1713. 

CHURCHILL, JOHN, son of Nathaniel, Sen., of Wethersfield 
and Middletown, m. Bethia Stocking, of Middletown, June 8, 1727, 
and had a daughter Mary, b. at Middletown, March 18, 1727-8. He 
removed to Chatham, and became the progenitor of the Churchills of 
Chatham. The captain of the steamer Prometheus is of the Chat- 
ham line of the descendants of Josiah, Sen., of Wethersfield. 

F. de Courcy, claimed as ancestor of the Churchills, " who (ac- 
cording to Leliard,) were of the best blood of France, and renowned 
long before the Norman conquest." "John, son of Sir Winston 
Churchill, was one of the ablest generals England ever had, and at- 
tained its greatest honors as Duke of Marlborough," Prince of the 
Empire, &c. The late Earl Spencer was descended from the duke 
in the female line. (See Note, His, Gen. Reg., No. 5, Jan., 1848. 

The direct line from Josiali to Timothy Gridley Churchill, is, Jo- 
sias, Joseph, Nathaniel, Sen., Nathaniel, Jun., Amos, Jesse and 
Timothy G., of New York. 

CIRKAM, THOMAS, in the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 
1669, (see KIRKHAM,) also spelled Kircum and Kirkman. The 
particular court, Oct. 29, 1646, ordered Kircum and Carrington to pay 
20s. to the administrators of Vere, for corn. 

Thomas Kirkeman was noticed in the will of Ed: Vere, of Weth- 
ersfield, and provided for John Carrington and Tho: Kirkman to have 
20s. for making his coffin, and gave also 205. to provide " wyne, 
bear, caks and such like of what may be had for my buriall." 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 597 

CIRTLAND, KORTLAND, KIRKLAND, KIRTLAND, CORT- 
LAND, (the name is tl)us spelled on the records,) NATHANIEL, 
of Lynn, Mass., in the contract in the note below, signs his name 
*' Nathaniel Kortland." (See KIRTLAND, 16G7.) Quere ? was 
not the name of this family originally Cortlandt or Courtland ? It 
is now generally spelled Kirtland, though a few yet write it Kirk- 
land. It has proved an excellent family in New England, and in 
the state of New York.* Curtland has one coat of arms. 

CITRON. BENJAMIN, m. Sarah Bush, and settled in Enfield as 
early as 1718, and had two sons b, in Enfield, viz., Benjamin, b. 
1721, and Daniel, b. 1723. 

CINKER, CYNKER, JOHN, 1663. 

CLAPPUM, PETER, was warned to attend town meetings in Nor- 
walk about 1679, and the town, Oct. 4, 1679, voted, that if the se- 



* Note. Cirtland, Nathaniel, of Lynn, Mass., the father of John Cortland, of Saybrook, Ct., 
resigns his son John to John Wastall, a wealthy farmer, without children of his own, by will 
and contract, will dated July 15, 1672 ; contract dated July 15, 1674. Mrs. Wastall appears 
to have been a Kirtland before marriage. (See KIRTLAND and note.) 

Note. "The will of John Wastall, (of Saybrook,) as to John Cortland, [Kirtland], being his 
ayr, Jully the 15, 1672. 

" There was this agreement made between Mr. John Wastall of Saybrook in the Collony of 
Conanicut and Mr. Nathaniell Cortland of lin in the Collony of the Massachusets, to say, that the 
said Nathaniell Cortland doth resighn up his son John Cortland to the dispose of the said Was- 
tall, that is to say, the said Wastall doth promise to take the said John as his own, to bring him 
up under good edication, in the nurtor and admonition of the lord and to do his best indevor to 
instruct hime in all things pertaining to life and godlyness, as also at the decease of the said 
Wastall that then the said John Cortland shall suksead in the estate of the said Wastall as his 
own proper ayr, provided that the said Wastall be allowed liberty to give and grant legasyes to 
other of his kindred or such as shall deserve the same, and that this is the true meaning of this 

agreement two partys abovesaid, have put to their hands — that is to say, that after the 

death of the above said John Wastall and Sueanah his wife, the whoU estate shall be and Re- 
main to the abovesaid John Cortland as their ayr and sucksessor as abovesaid, that is accord- 
ing to the tenor of what is above written, and unto this we do both interchangably set our 
hands this 15th of Jully 1674 in the presence of witness 

Robert Capman The mark I \\ of John Wastall 

John Davis Nathaniel Kortland." 

Ordered to be recorded in the Records of Saybrook. 

It appears that Mrs. Wastall had a brother John Kirtland, who lived in Saybrook, who sold his 
house and home-lot to Mr. Wastall in 1631, probably to save it (page 37, vol. i.) for Mrs. Was- 
tall as widow, (legatee.) She gave this house and home-lot to her kinsman, John Kirtland, (viz., 
the above John, the heir of Mr. Wastall,) provided he kept it in repair, and allowed Barbara, 
relict of her brother, John Kirtland, to occupy during her Ufe ; (page 122.) The brother, John, 
had no children. 

The nephew, John, the heir, married Lydia, daughter of Wm. Pratt, of Saybrook, and was the 
progenitor of the Kirtlanda of Connecticut. 



598 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

lectmen were necessitated to send to said Clappum, to warn him to 
attend meetings, to allow the person sent, one shilling for so warning 
him. In January, 1687, he was in the list of estates of commonage 
in Norwalk, £100. (See HalVs Nonoalk.) Cabot, Rev. Martin, 
settled at Killingly in 1730, and died in 1756. 

CLAP, CLAPP, Capt. Roger, of Dorchester, Mass., born at Sa- 
lom, Devon, England, in 1609, came in the Mary and John from 
England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, where he had lands as 
early as 1633, and was much employed from 1637 for most of his 
life, in public offices. Rater of property there in 1638; selectman, 
1641, '48, '53, '54, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, <Szc.; one of a 
committee to build a meeting-house in Dorchester, 1645; he was 
a commissioner to try small causes with Foster and Wm. Sumner, 
1663, and had power to marry persons; deputy to the Gen. Court of 
Massachusetts. Rev. John Elliot laid out to Lieut. Roger Clap, 500 
acres, and 1,000 acres for the school of Dorchester in 1657. He 
was also townsman, deputy and commissioner for small causes, in 
1664 ; also, '65. In 1665, he was appointed to that most trustwor- 
thy and responsible office of captain of the Castle in Dorchester, in 
the place of Capt. Davenport, who had been killed by lightning. 
He resigned this office at the Castle in 1686, unwilling to aid Gov. 
Andros, and soon after removed to Boston, and died there in 1691, 
aged 82 years. He m. Joan, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Dorches- 
ter, who removed to Windsor, Conn., and had by her four sons and 
two daughters, viz., Samuel, William, Waitstill, Preserved, Hope- 
still and Desire. Many of the Claps of Connecticut are descend- 
ants of the branch of his son Preserved, who m. Sarah Newbury, 
daughter of Capt. Benjamin, of Windsor, Conn., June 4, 1668. He 
lived in Northampton, where he raised a family. Capt. Roger was 
one of the first and enterprising settlers of Dorchester. The oldest 
allotment of land there was the salt marsh, to twenty-one persons, 
April 3, 1633, of which he was one. {Hist, of Dorchester ; Rec- of 
Windsor and Dorchester.) 

CLAP, Deacon EDWARD and ROGER, were brothers, and 
both of Dorchester, Mass., in 1637, and townsmen, and one of the 
building committee of the new meeting-house in Dorchester in 1645. 
He was selectman in 1646, 1657, &c. He died the 8th of the 11th 
month, 1664. 

CLAP, Rev. THOMAS, graduated at Harvard College in 1725, 
and settled in the ministry at Windham, Conn., in 1726, and became 
popular as a preacher, a ripe scholar, and an able divine. He m. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 599 

at Windham, Mary Whiting, Nov. 23, 1727, and had children born 
at Windham, viz.: Mary, b. April 25, 1729 ; Temperance, b. April, 
1731, d. June 4, 1731 ; 2d Temperance, b. April 29, 1732; Anne, 
b. May 13, 1734, d. April, 1735. His wife died Aug. 9, 1736. He 
m. for his second wife, Mary, (relict of Capt. Rosewell Saltonstall, 
son of Gov. Saltonstall,) daughter of John Haynes, of Hartford, and 
relict of Elisha Lord. Rosewell resided at Branford, though he 
died at New London, Oct. 1, 1738, on a visit. 

In 1739, Rev. Mr. Thomas Clap, of Windham, was chosen Presi- 
dent of Yale College, which he accepted, and continued in that re- 
sponsible office until 1766, about twenty-seven years, and performed 
its duties to the satisfaction of the public. His last wife, Mary, was 
the daughter of Hon. John Haynes, son of Rev. Joseph Haynes, and 
Sarah Lord, of Hartford, and grandson of Gov. Haynes. She was 
the daughter of Hon. John, who was an assistant in Conn., and Mary 
Glover. All his children, except Mary, died without issue. His 
daughter Mary first m. Elisha Lord, of Hartford, May 4, 1723, and 
had one son, John Haynes Lord, b. Jan. 13, 1724, of Hartford. 
After Mr. Lord died, April 16, 1725, Mary, his relict, m. Capt. 
Rosewell Saltonstall, the eldest son of Gov. Saltonstall, of New Lon- 
don, and by him had one son, Roswell Saltonstall, of Branford, and 
daughters Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Katherine. Her daughter 
Mary m. Col. Whiting, of New Haven; Sarah m. Jonathan Fitch, 
Esq.; her daughter Elizabeth died single ; Katherine m. Jonathan 
Welles, of Glastenbury. Mary, wife of President Clap, died his 
widow, Sept. 23, 1769, aged about 65 years. 

Capt. Roger, was father of Nehemiah, who died 1681, and of 
Edward of Sudbury, of Preserved of Northampton, and futher-in-law 
of Elder Blake, of Dorchester, &c. 

Thomas Clapp had a son Oliver, born at Hartford July 7, 1718. 
Hannah Clap, daughter of Nicholas, of Dorchester, m. Ebenczer 
Strong, of Northampton, Oct. 14, 1668. 

Preserved Clap m. Sarah Newbury, daughter of Capt. Benjamin, 
of Windsor, June 11, 1668. Preserved Clap m. Mehitabel Warner, 
at Hatfield, 1712-13, (perhaps son of Preserved.) Most of this 
name in Connecticut are descendants from Preserved Clap, of North- 
.impton, Mass. 

Nicholas Clap, of Dorchester, 1636 ; Thomas, his brother, 1638, 
removed to Hingham and Scituate, d. 1684. His son Thomas born 
at Weymouth, 1639. (See Farmer.) 

Four by the name of Clap, and two by the name of Clapp, grad- 



600 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

uated at Yale College before 1843. Nine by the name of Clap and 
two spelled Clapp, graduated at Harvard College before 1838. 

CLARK, NICHOLAS,* was the first of the name in Connecticut. 
He was by trade a joiner and carpenter, and in 1635 was sent to 
Hartford by John Talcot to build him a house, &c., at Hartford, that it 
might be ready for him when he should go to Hartford. Clark 
built a part of the house in 1635, and finished it in 1636. {Manu- 
script of Talcoti's son.) To confirm the manuscript, Clark is found 
at Hartford a first settler, a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. He 
drew twelve acres in the first division of land in Hartford in 1639, 
and thirty-nine acres in the land division in East Hartford, June 
12, 1666. He was a defendant in Court Sept. 4, 1643, and in Oct., 
1648, was fined twelve pence for not exposing Wm. Vincent for neg- 
lecting his ward. The Gen. Court in May, 1663, empowered Mr. 
Toppin, &;c., to hear and consider the business respecting " Hamo- 
nassett," and report ; also the case of the horse in the possession of 
Nicholas Clark, &c. He left a family of children. His will, dated 
Jan. 28, 1679, in which he provided for his children, viz.: Thomas, 



* The following is extracted from a manuscript journal or scrap book, which was kept by a 
son of the first John Talcott, of Hartford, which shows the first house built in Hartford in 1635, 
and that John Talcott moved to Hartford in 1636, and that some English settlers were in Hart- 
ford in 1635, and that Nicholas Clark was the first English settler there known, Tiz.: 

" The kitchen that now stands on the north side of the house that I live in, that was the first 
house that my father built in Hartford in Connecticut Colony, and was done by Nicholas Clark 
the first winter that any Englishmen wrought or built in Hartford, which was in the year 
1635. 

" My father and mother and his family came to Hartford in the year 1636, and lived first in 
said kitchen, which was first on the west side of the chimney. 

"The great barn was built in the year 1636, and underpinJ in the year 1637, and was the 
first barn that was raised in this Colony. The east end of this house that we live in, and was 
my father Talcott's, deceased, was built with the porch that is in the yeaf 1638. And the chim- 
neys were built in the year 1638. 

" The Cow House on the north side of the Cow yard, now part improved for a Corn House 
was finished and built in the year 1640. 

"The house and barn that was in partnership between my father and my uncle Wadsworth 
atFarmington, was finished in the year 1642. 

"The Hay Barn, standing on the north end of the great Barn next Capt. Allyn's Garden vi'as 
built in the year 1644. 

" The west end of that house we live in which was belonging to my honoured deceased 
father Talcott, was built in the year 1645. 

" My uncle, Mr. Mott, sold my Hon ^ father Talcott his house that he lived in in Brantry, in 
Old England, (y order) [something I can not decipher or understand,] in the year 1644. My 
father Talcott then living in this House in Hartford." (Furnished by a descendant.) 

This kitchen stood upon a part of the ground where Dr. Bushnell's church now stands in 
Hartford. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 601 

>on-in-law Alexander Douglass, son-in-law Lester, of New London ; 
noticed his grandson Daniel, son of his son Thomas ; also, Joseph, 
Thomas, Jun., sons of his son Thomas, who was sole executor of his 
will, on which ho made his mark. His will proved at Hartford, 
Dec. 2, 1G30. Inventory, £2A3,2s. Nicholas Clark, aged 31, was 
a passenger in the Paule, of London, Leonard Betts, master, bound 
for Virginia July 0, 1635. {Somerhy.) 

CLARKE, JOSEPH, of Windsor, Conn., was an early settler 
at Windsor. His son Joseph and daughter Mary were bap, at 
Windsor, Sept. 30, 163S. Joseph Clark died at Windsor in 1641. 
His wife died in 1639. His sister died at Windsor in 1640 ; anoth- 
er Joseph died there in 1659. 

CLARK, JOSEPH, of Saybrook, made his will at Milford, Aug. 
27, 1658, being bound for a voyage to the West Indies. He gave 
his father Clark £15, to purchase a servant. He gave his brother 
John his clothes he left at home, and his cloak, left at Milford, for 
the use of said John's eldest son. He gave his brother Pratt's son 
Samuel, £5. His brother Huntington's dau'r Sarah, £5 ; to Mr. 
(Rev.) Fitch, £4. He desired his father Clark to take care of his 
wife, and gave her his house and land if he never returned. In- 
ventory taken Aug. 27, 1663, .£143, 19s. 6(1. Will and inventory 
accepted by the court, Oct. 14, 1663. John Clark, Sen., and Joseph 
Peck, adm'rs. There was a Joseph Clark died in 1659. 

CLARK, JOHN and JAMES, were original settlers of New Ha- 
ven, and signed the fundamental agreement there in 1639, with 107 
other settlers. John had a family of three persons, and an estate of 
£240 at N. H. in 1643. A John Clark of New Haven m. Sarah 
Smith, Feb. 1, 1661, and had children b. at N. H., Sarah, b. Dec. 
•24, 1662 ; John, b. Nov. 23, 1663 ; Samuel, b. Aug. 20, 1666 ; Jo- 
seph, b. Oct. 27, 1668 ; second Sarah, b. Oct. 21, 1671. Sarah, 
wife of John, died July 25, 1674 ; and a dau'r died Sept. 22, 1675. 

CLARK, JAMES, an original settler at Ne^v Haven as above, 
ni. Widow Wakefield, Oct. 17, 1661, probably his second wife, as 
he had Ebenezer, b. Nov. 29, 1651, and had a family of four per- 
sons in N. H. in 1643, and £50 estate. 

CLARK, SAMUEL, of New Haven, had a dau'r Rebecca, died 
Dec. 29, 1696. Samuel's wife Hannah d. Dec. 21, 1708. Joseph, 
son of Joseph Clark, of N. H., d. July 17, 1711, and Lidiah, his 
dau'r, died at N. H. April 18, 1712, and Mr. John Clark died there 
March 22, 1718-19. Samuel Clark m. Hanna Tuttle, of New Ha- 
ven, Nov. 7, 1672. John Clarke m. Mary Walker, May 28, 1675. 
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Joseph Clark m. Elizabeth Lane, May, 1693. Stephen Clark m. 
Sarah Hill, Nov. 26, 1702. Joseph Clarke, of New Haven, m. Ma- 
rah Parker, of Wallingford, Nov. 27, 1707. The last above are the 
New Haven Clarks; but as few births are found on the N. H. rec- 
ords, of births previous to 1649-50, it is difficult to trace their rela- 
tion or family connexion. John and James were freemen in New 
Haven in 1669. 

CLARKE, JOSEPH, and Bray Clark were grantees of land at 
Dorchester, Mass., before Jan., 1636. {Hist. Dorchester.) Also 
John Goite or Goyt, now spelled Coit. 

CLARK, Mr. DANIELL, of Windsor, was early at Windsor. 
He was by profession a lawyer. He m. Mary Newbury, of Wind- 
sor, June 15, 1644, and had children born at Windsor, viz.: 

1. Mary, b. April 24, 1645. 

2. Josias, b. Jan. 21, 1648. 

3. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 28, 1651. 

4. Daniell,b. Aug. 4, 1654. 

5. John, b. April 10, 1656. 

6. Mary, b. Sept. 22 or 8, 1658. 

7. Samuell, b. July 6, 1661. 
S. Sara, b. Aug. 7, 1663. 

9. Hanna, b. Aug. 29, 1665 ; died. 
10. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 8, 1666. 

Mr. Clark became one of the leading men of Connecticut, before 
and after the union of the two colonies. He was often placed upon 
important committees by the Gen. Court. He was a magistrate and 
frequently a member of both branches of the Gen. Assembly, and 
secretary of state or of the colony several years. In 1644, David 
Wilton with Daniell Clark, were executors of the will of Rev. Eph'm 
Huit, dec'd, of Windsor. In 1646, acted as a juror. In 1656, one 
of a committee to give safe advice to the Indians. Same year ap- 
pointed to write letters to the elders in the Bay, and the former coun- 
cil, regarding the difficulty in the Church at Hartford. In 1657, 
was appointed by the Gen. Court to write to the magistrates of South- 
ampton, to inform them of the mind of the commissioners, and anoth- 
er letter to the Indians. In 1657-8, appointed lieut. of the first troop 
of horse raised in the colony. Aug. 18, 1658, was sworn " according 
to ye forme of the Secretaries oath approved by this court, and or- 
dered to be recorded." Oct. 3, 1661, " SeC^ Dan" Clark" was 
ordered to be put to election for a magistrate. March 13, 1662, four 
hundred acres of land were granted vnto ye Secy, Daniel Clarke, 
and John Moor, eighty acres of it to be meadow ; also land at " Ha- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN8. 603 

manaset," July 22, 1G02. May session of the Gen. Assembly, 1GG3, 
VVm. Edwards, of Hartford, " chargeth Mr. Daniell Clark, for breach 
of his oatli, unfaithfullnesse in ye great trust committed to him by 
the freemen of this corporation, to the dishonour of God, infringmcnt 
of ye royall prerogatiue of our Soueraign Lord the King, contempt 
of ye authority established in this corporation, and abuse of the mem- 
bers of ye same, &c. The Gen. Court, on the complaint of Mr. 
Edwards, found Mr. Clark "so far falty," and removed him from 
the office of secretary " until the next election court." May 12, 
1664, the Gen. Court confirmed Mr. Daniel Clark, Captain of the 
troop. Oct. 13, 1664, Mr. Daniell Clark refused to take the place 
of an assistant, and Mr. James Richards was chosen assistant. May, 
1660, Mr. Clark was appointed clerk of the county court at Hart- 
ford. July 26, 1666, Capt. Daniel Clark was appointed on a com- 
mittee by the Gen. Court, with Gov. Winthrop, Mr. Mathew Allyn, 
Mr. Samuel Willys, Capt. Talcot, Mr. Henry Wolcott, Lieut. John 
Allyn, Capt. Nubery, Mr. VVadsworth, Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Fitch. 
In case there was danger of invasion by the approach of an enemy, 
and it appeared necessary to send force to oppose them, before the 
Gen. Assembly could convene, such committee was impowered to 
order the militia, and to commission officers how to act and to pre. 
vent the designs of the enemy, &c. May 11, 1676, Capt. Daniel Clark 
was appointed by the Gen. Court, with the governor and deputy gov- 
ernor and assistants, with Capt. Benj. Newbury, in his absence, Capt. 
Daniel Clark, Mr. Richard Lord, Mr. John Wadsworth, Mr. Sam- 
uel Tallcott, Mr. Jehu Burr and Mr. John Bankes, for a standing 
council, to order, manage and dispose of all such affairs as should 
be necessarily attended in the interval of the sessions of the Gen. 
Court ; impowered to act on all such occasions, and their acts or 
any three of them should be in as full force as if acted or determined 
by the Gen. Court, the governor or deputy-governor being one of the 
three. (See Col. Rec.) 

Mr. Clarke and Mr. Allyn, of Windsor, in 1658, were voted " to 
put to sale the town barn in Windsor." He was at Windsor as early 
as 1641. He joined the church at Windsor in June, 1643. {Row- 
land.) He, in behalf of the church of Windsor, complained of Ja's 
Eno and Michael Humphrey, for the violation of an established law 
of the colony, and withdrew it in 1663. He was confirmed captain 
of the troop in May, 1664. He, with Mr. AUin, Mr. Steel, Mr. 
Lord, Mr. Wadsworth, Mr. Hollister, John Deming and Robert Web- 
ster, were appointed, with the magistrates, a committee, by the Gen. 



604 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Court, Feb. 26, 1656, lo give their best advice to the Indians, if they 
agree to meet, and being met, crave the same of them. March 26, 
1656, the Gen. Court ordered Mr. Wolcott to assist Mr. Clark as to 
all defects of training in Windsor, as far as two magistrates had 
power. In May, 1655, Mr. Clarke, the gov'r and dep. gov'r, were 
appointed by the Gen. Court to hold a court at Fairfield or Stratford. 
In Oct., 1663, Mr. Mathew AUyn, Capt. Ta[lcott,] Lieut. Clark, 
were appointed by the Gen. Court, a committee to treat with the 
gentleman who had come from M[anhatoes] on the controversy be- 
tween the corporation and the Dutch at Manhatoes, &c. (Col. Rec.) 
He was recorder in May, 1658. In 1662, he was chosen as a re- 
serve as commissioner. Hon. Worshipful Daniel Clarke made his 
will Aug. 31, 1709, and a codicil in July, 1710. He notices his 
wife and children, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, John, Samuel, Daniel 
and Josia. His son John and son-in-law Roger Wolcott, Ex's, &c. 
Will proved April 8, 1710. 

Capt. Daniell Clark lost his first wife, and m. second. Widow 
Martha Wolcott, who had been the wife of Simon Wolcott, son of 
Henry, Sen. She m. him Oct. 17, 1661, and Simon d. Sept. 11, 
1687. She was a sister of Hon. Wm. Pitkin, of Hartford. She 
survived Mr. Clark. His son, Nath'l Clark, about to enter the ser- 
vice of his country in 1690, made his will, and gave his property to 
his brothers and sisters. He was propounded in Windsor for a 
magistrate in 1649. {See CoL Rec, Wmdsor Rec.) Robert and Ja's 
Clark, Nicholas and Thomas, of Hartford, Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, 
John, of Farmington, John, of Saybrook, John and James, of New 
Haven, Mr. John, George, Sen., George, Jun., and Thomas Clark, 
of Milford, were freemen in their respective towns in 1669. 

CLARK, DANIEL, Jun., son of Hon. Daniel Clark, of Wind- 
sor, at a meeting of the council in Hartford, March 10, 1675-6, was 
convicted for notorious, reproachful, contemptuous speeches, and 
threatening Mayor Treat ; fined him £20, and committed him to prison 
during the pleasure of the council. And at a meeting of the council, 
Jan. 2, 1676(7,) Capt. Daniel Clark appeared and requested " that 
his son's fine" might be remitted, and stated it would be a great en- 
couragement for him to settle " here," in the improvement of his 
trade and art, for the benefit of the country, &c. Mayor Treat also 
interceded for him, and stated Daniel's confession, reformation, &c. 
The council remitted the fine, expecting his return and settlement in 
attendance of his art and trade. (See Meeting of the Council.) Jan. 
, 2, 1676, and March 10, 1675-6.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 605 

CLARK, WM., of Wethersfield, m. Susannah , and had 

Mary, b. June 18, 1669 ; Susannah, b. Dec. 25, 1671 ; Wm., b. 
Jan. 29, 1673 ; Matthias, b. Feb. 9, 1677 ; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 

1679. His wife died, and he m. Margaret , and had Abigail, 

b. Feb. 4, 1707 ; William, was drowned April 8, 1708, aged about 
33 years. The father died Dec, 1711. 

CLARK, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Dorothy, daughter of 
Stephen Hurlbut, Dec. 9, 1710, and had Phebe, b. Aug. 25, 1711, 
died 1712 ; Wm., b. June 19, 1713 ; Martin, b. May 9, 1715 ; 
Elisha, b. March 23, 1718 ; second Phebe, b. Jan. 27, 1720 ; Han- 
i^ah, b. Jan. 23, 1722 ; Mary, b. June 9, 1724 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 
25, 1728. The father died April 3, 1767. 

CLARK, THOMAS, Jun., of Wethersfield, m. Lois Brooks, June 
17, 1756, and had Martin, b. July 20, 1757, d. 1762. Roger, b. 
Dec. 1, 1759 ; Wm., b. May 30, 1762 ; Rufus, b. Sept. 2, 1764 ; 
George, b. Dec. 1, 1766, d. 1775 ; Moses, b. Jan. 4, 1769 ; Mary, 
b. Feb. 15-\7, 1771; Olive, b. Oct. 23, 1774; George, b. Jan., 
1778. 

The Clarks, of Wethersfield, might have been from some other 
town in the colony. There was a Thomas Clark, freeman in Hart, 
ford in 1669. There was also " Thomas Clerk," freeman at Mil- 
ford, 1669. 

Clarke, Mr. John, George, Sen. and Jun., and Thomas, wore all 
freemen in Milford in 1669. (Spelled Clarke, Gierke.) 

CLARK, GEORGE, Sen., called the farmer, was one of the first 
planters of Milford, and in the list of free planters in Nov., 1639, 
and died there in 1690, one of its most respectable citizens. His 
wife Sarah also died there, July 19, 1689. Farmer George Clark 
was taxed there in 1686 on £156, 16^. Deacon George Clark taxed 
there on £173, same year, and George, Jun., taxed on £131, and 
Samuel taxed on ,£140, and Mr. Thomas Clark, same year, taxed at 
Milford on £246. George and George, Jun., Nicholas Camp, Hen- 
ry Botsford, Nath'l Brisco and others, in 1640, before the town was 
named Milford, were made free planters of the town, with liberty to 
vote for public officers, to carry on public affairs in the plantation. 
George, Sen. and Jun., were original proprietors of Milford in 1639. 
George Clark was often a deputy to the Gen. Court of Connecticut 
and New Haven. To Gen. Court of Connecticut, April, 1665, May. 
'06, Oct., '68. Deacon George, 1669 ; George, Oct., '69, May, 
"72, '74, '75, Oct., '75, absent. Deacon George, 1670, and other 
sessions. George, the farmer, deeded land to Vincent Stilson, of 
51* 



606 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Milford, April 7, 1685. Samuel and George Clark, commissioners 
for Milford, May, 1669. 

CLARK, GEORGE, Jun., an original proprietor and settler at 
Milford with George, Sen. He was by trade a carpenter. His wife 
was Mary, who died in 1689. Their children were Abigail, b. Jan. 
9, 1653-4 ; Thomas. His daughter Hester died Oct. 19, 1661, and 
others. George, Jun., purchased ten acres of land at Mill Neck of 
Jasper Gunn, in 1647. Mr. Thomas Clark, (son of George, Sen.,) 
of Milford, Ensign George Clark, Col. Robert and Ensign Joseph 
Treat, &c., received an Indian deed of the town of Wiantinoque, 
(New Milford,) from Papetopo, Wempetoo and other Indians, in 
consideration of £60, current money, £20 in goods, at money prices, 
in behalf of the Milford purchasers, signed Feb. 8, 1702-3, by four- 
teen Indians, and witnessed by John Minor, (Interpreter, allowed by 
"bothe ye English and ye Indians,") and by John Durand and two 
Indians. Recorded by Richard Bryan, Register, Feb. 10, 1702-3, 
at Milford. George, the carpenter, died in 1690. The Clarks, of 
Milford, were of the best families of Milford ; some branch of this 
family settled at Washington and New Milford. 

CLARK, DANIEL, of Milford, was ordered to have a house-lot 
next to Thomas Camfield's, in 1648, in Milford. 

CLARK, Deacon JOHN, of Milford, represented Milford in the 
Gen. Court of Conn., in Oct., 1676, &c. He with Tho's Welch, 
were impowered to hold a court at Milford, 1665, with the assistant 
in Milford. He was a commissioner for Milford in 1666. 

CLARK, Mr. THOMAS, son of George, Sen., of Milford, m. 
Hannah Gilbert, dau'r of Wm., of New Haven, then deceased, May 
20, 1663. 

CLARK, WM., a servant of Mr. John Crow, was fined forty shil- 
lings, and corporal punishment, for drinking — the corporal punish- 
ment remitted upon his promise of care for the future to avoid " such 
occations," Jan. 3, 1639. Wm. Clark forfeited his recognizance in 
court, of £10, in May, 1649, at Hartford. He resided in Hartford 
in 1659, and quite reduced in property. 

CLARK, WM., was an original first settler of Haddam. The 
inventory of his estate, he being deceased, was in court at Hartford, 
Sept. 3, 1681, £412, 18*. He left issue, Thomas, William, John, 
Joseph, and dau'rs Jennor, Spencer, Hannah, and an adopted son or 
son-in-law, Daniel Hubbard. His son Thomas sole ex'r ; a very 
reputable family. 

CLARK, WM., owned a tract of swamp land in Hartford, in 1642 ; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 607 

also had land there in 1660 ; perhaps the same who settled at Had- 
dam. 

CLARK, WM., was brought before the Gen. Court, and they con- 
sidered the low estate of his family; Nov., 1659, ordered that the 
fine imposed upon him for trading liquors contrary to law, should be 
to the public treasury, 405. per year for four years. He was in 
court again in 1660, and the Gen. Court, May, 1661, remitted £4 of 
the £8 fine before inflicted upon him. Probably the Wm. above, 
servant of John Crow. 

CLARK, WM., of Colchester, (his father not found,) probably m. 
a, Parsons. Had children born in Colchester, viz.: Russell, bap. 
1749, was a merchant in New Haven, where he died in old age, and 
left Content and other children ; William, Jun., bap. 1750, settled 
and died at New Milford ; Parsons, bap. 1752, lived at Derby and 
New Haven; John, bap. 1753; Mary Parsons, bap. Nov., 1758; 
Ransom, bap. 1759, supposed lived in New Haven. Parnel, bap. 
Sept., 1762. 

CLARK, WM., son of Wm., of Colchester, settled at New Mil- 
ford, Conn., where he m. Miss Bostwick, a sister of the father of 
Charles Bostwick, dec'd, of New Haven, and had children, viz.: 

1. Walter, d. in early life, unmarried, aged about 28 years. 

2. Sally, who m. Gerardus or Garry Booth, of New Milford, and had chil- 
dren. She is yet living ; her husband deceased. 

3. Williain, d. a young man, unmarried. 

4. Parsons, formerly a merchant in New York, now resides in N. Milford, 
where he has a family. 

5. Gerardus, graduated at Yale College in 1S04, with John C. Calhoun, Dr. 
Chester, Henry R . Storrs, and others of that noted class. He settled in the city 
of New York as a lawyer, in early life, soon after he graduated, where he sus- 
tains a good reputation in his profession, and where he married, and now has 
a family. 

6. Heneretta, the youngest child of William, of New Milford, m. Maj. Beebee 
Hine, then of New Milfoid, now of New Haven ; a most excellent and accom- 
plished lady ; no issue. 

CLARK, JAMES, was an early settler at Staflx)rd, Conn. 

CLARK, NATH'L, son of Hon. Daniel, of Windsor, in 1690, en- 
tered the service against the Indians, and before leaving his friends, 
he made his will, and gave his property to his brothers and sisters. 

CLARK, WM. At a meeting of the townsmen of Windsor, the 
above Wm. " was appointed to sitt in the great pew" in the meeting- 
house. May 5, 1651. 

CLARK, JOSEPH, of West Hartford, had issue, bap. there, viz.: 
Abijah, May 4, 1729 ; xMary, Aug. 15, 1731 ; Sarah, Oct. 8, 1749. 



608 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CLARK, MARY, of Farmington, was a sister of John Ward, of 
Newark, N. J. She had lived at Milford, and removed to Farming- 
ton, where she died. Her will, dated at Farmington, Nov. 28, 
1677. She notices in her will her dau'r Mary Stevens, dau'r Re- 
beccah Warner, dau'r " Chittington," son-in-law Elnathan " Boch- 
ford," granddaughter Elizabeth Bochford, grandchild Rebecca Ste- 
vens, grandchild Mary Warner ; also, Abigail Standly ; also, Eliz'h 
,Chittingdon ; also, Eliz'th Standley ; her son-in-law, John Standly, 
and Sarah, his wife ; her dau'r, Abigail Fletcher, and four other 
daughters, Rebeccah, Mary, Sarah and Hannah. She also notices 
the Rev. pastor, Mr. Roger Newton, and her brother, John Warde, 
of Newark, N. J. Nath'l Farrand had leased her land in Milford, 
or a part of it, which she provided for, and appointed her dau'r, Ab- 
igail Fletcher, sole ex'x; made her mark. Inventory of Mary 
Clark's estate, " sometime living in Milford, deceased, prized by 
vs," &c., Feb. 26, 1678, at " Milford," £273, 5*. 6d. Inventory 
at Farmington, Feb. 14, 1678, £32, Ids. She appears to have been 
twice married. Will proved 1678-9, at Hartford. 

CLARK, DAVID, of Sheffield, Mass., m. Mercy Adams, of Suf- 
field, Ct., 1735-6. 

CLARK, NATH'L, of Lyme, in 1726, (says Otis,) was a grand- 
son of Thomas Clark, of Plymouth, mate of the Mayflower. 

CLARK, ROBERT, settled in Stratford about 1652, and free 
there, 1669. 

CLARK, JOSEPH, will dated 1655 ; died same year. 

CLARK, Hon. HENRY, of Windsor, was an early, active and 
useful settler there. He was a juror at Hartford, 1641, '45 ; grand- 
juror in 1643, '45 and '47 ; deputy to the Gen. Court in April, 1642, 
March, 1643 ; a member of the court of magistrates in May, 1659, 
four sessions in 1660 and in May, 1661. He was one of the grantees 
of the old charter of Connecticut in 1662, named in it by KingCha's; 
also, deputy, Aug., 1642, Sept., '44, Nov., '44. Henry Clark, with 
Mr. Whiting, Capt. Mason and Mr. Phen, were desired by the court, 
Jan., 1641, to procure some pieces of ordnance from Pisquataqua, 
or elsev/here, and erect some fortifications, where they thought ad- 
visable. {Col. Rec.) Mr. Henry Clark, and the secretary, (of 
Conn.,) Mr. Allyn and Mr. Phelps, were appointed by the Gen. 
Court, Aug. 18, 1658, " to write and indite" letters in behalf of the 
court to the elders, &c., to come to Hartford and assist in settling 
the difficulties between the church and the withdrawers at Hartford. 
At the same Gen. Court, Mr. Matthew Allyn was appointed a com- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. • 609 

mittee with Mr. Henry Clark, of Windsor, to act in the disposition 
of land at Massacoe, according to a previous order. He was an as- 
sistant, deputy, and magistrate in the colony of Conn., and one of the 
few important petitioners to the king for the charter of Connecticut, 
and one of the grantees named in said charter in 1662, and lived to 
act under the charter as an assistant, and otherwise serve the pub- 
lic. Mr. Clark was one of the two important and useful settlers of 
Windsor by the name of Clark. No person, it appears, was allow- 
ed to sign the petition to Charles II. for the charter, but the M'ell- 
known and most influential men in the colony; and of the nineteen 
signers to that instrument, Henry Clark, Daniell Clarke and John 
Clarke, were signers and grantees named in the charter, in behalf of 
the people of Connecticut, (spelled Clerke,) which effectually proves 
the high standing of the name in the colony, in its early settlement. 

CLARK, SAMUEL and JOHN, were legatees of Joshua, sachem, 
(or so styled,) of Saybrook, who signed an instrument with other leg- 
atees, to " give unto the trustees of ye Collegiate Schoole in Conect- 
icocott for ye use of said schoole the quantity of a two thousand acre 
right in ye lands given by said Joshua," &c., if the house should be 
erected at Saybrooke, (for Yale College,) Feb. 10, 1701-2. 

CLARK, SAMUEL, was a first settler of Stamford, and one of 
the first company of settlers there in 1651, from Wethersfield ; an 
original proprietor with Seaman, Weeks, &c. 

CLARK, THOMAS, was interested in the iron works at East 
Haven before 1668, and principal in the establishment in 1669. He 
appears to have come from Boston, as Dr. Dodds says, for a time 
he resided at Boston after his purchase ; that he sold his interest in 
it in 1680 ; that he was a gentleman of wealth and good standing in 
the colony. 

'^-. CLARK, Me. JOHN, of Saybrook, was an early settler at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., as early as 1632 ; noted by Winthrop in his journal, 
perhaps from Braintree, near Chelmsford, Essex county, England. 
He came from Cambridge to Hartford, Conn., about 1636, perhaps 
with Rev. T. Hooker's company. He was in the first division of 
lots at Hartford in 1639, and had twenty-two acres, and one of the 
committee to apportion the land. He was a juror at Hartford in 
1641, and was a soldier in the battle against the Pequot Indians in 
1637. He was deputy to the Gen. Court at Hartford, Sept., 1641, 
Aug., 1642, Sept., 1642, and juror. Deputy, Nov., 1644, and Feb., 
1644 ; in 1649, '51, May, '52, May, '53, July, '54, and two other 
sessions in 1654, '55, '56 ; four sessions in 1657 ; three in 1658 ; 



610 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

two sessions in 1659 ; two in 1661 ; two in 1662 ; also in 1663 and 
1665, &c. Nominated commissioner for Saybrook, May, 1664. 

He with Major Mason and Hon. Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, 
were appointed by the Gen. Court in 1654, for the town to press 
men for an expedition then on foot against Ninigret, at Narraganset. 
The exact time he left Hartford and removed to Saybrook, is uncer- 
tain. He remained at Flartford several years ; in 1640 he was lo- 
cated in the west part of the village of Hartford, on a lot bounded 
north on Robert Birchard, (spelled "Birchwood,) east on the road 
from Seth Grant's to Centinel Hill, south on Wm. Parker and Wm. 
Ruscoe, and west on Allyn, in the West Field. He and Birchard 
both settled from Hartford in Saybrook. He and Birchard, both of 
" Seabrook," were appointed by the bourt to go to Pequett and view' 
the lands there given Capt. Mason's soldiers, which had been taken 
by Pequet settlers, and then go to Nianticut and lay out land there 
to the soldiers, to make it equivalent to their land taken at Pequet. 
In 1647, John Clai'ke, of Seabrooke, and Capt. Mason, were desired 
by the Gen. Court to carry on the building of the fort at Seabrook, 
by hiring men, carts and other necessaries, and use the last rate paid, 
by Seabrooke, (Sept. 9, 1647.) In May, 1651, the Gov'r, Mr. Cul- 
lick and Mr. Clark, were desired by the Gen. Court to go to Strat- 
ford, to hold a court and try Goody Bassitt for her life, (witchcraft,) 
and if the governor could not go, directed Mr. (Thomas) Welles to 
supply his place. In Sept., 1654, " Maior Mason & Capt. Cullick, 
(if his occasions can permitt him, if not,) Mr. Clarke, are desired to 
goe to Pequott, with Mr. Winthrop to keepe a perticuler Courte, be- 
fore winter," &c. John Clarke and Ensign Waller, of Seabrooke, 
adm'rs on Joseph Clark's estate, according to his will, Oct., 1664. 
He was the first of the name at Saybrook. His or his son John's 
house stood upon a back road near a school-house on the point at 
Saybrook. He was a large landholder in and about Saybrook. 

John Clark was one of the most influential settlers in the colony, 
during his life, and was appointed magistrate, commissioner, judge 
and frequently a deputy to the Gen. Court of Connecticut. 

CLARK, JOHN, was married to Rebeka Parker (or Barker,) 
Oct. 16, 1650. Children, Rebeka, b. Jan. 26, 1652 ; John, b. Nov. 
17, '55; James, b. Sept. 29, '57, departed this life in August, '59. 
John Clark died Sept. 21, 1677, being killed by a cart overturned 
upon him. Rebekah Spencer, sometime the wife of John Clark, de- 
parted this life Jan. 9, 1682. (Nash, and Saybrook Record.) Sam- 
uel Clark, who m. Mary Kirtland, Dec, 1699, and Wm., who m. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 611 

Hannah Griswold, March 7, 1677-8, at Saybrook, were perhaps the 
same family. As John, Sen., drew his twenty-two acres of land at 
Hartford in 1639, and was in the Pequot battle in 1637, and a deputy 
to the Gen. Court in 1641, he must have been in middle life when 
he came to Hartford, where he remained several years before he 
went to Saybrook. From his age and standing in society, it is prob- 
able he was m. and had children before he settled at Saybrook, and 
if this John m. Rebeka Parker, 1650, that she was his second wife, 
and this was John, son of the first John. And John, who married 
Rebeckah Beamont, Dec. 17, 1684, (she was sister of the wife of 
first John Tully,) was the son of John, Jun. Also is found on that 
record, John Clark, of Saybrook, m. Rebeka, and had Abigail, b. 
Sept. 23, 1685 ; Rebekah, b. May 25, 167-. Abigail, his daughter, 
died Feb. 6, 1688-9; John, b. June 11, 1689; Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 
1690-1, and died March 12, 1691-2; second Joseph, b. Jan. 23, 
1691-2 ; Nath'l, b. July 19, 1694 ; Temperance, b. July 20, 1698 ; 
Samuel, b. June 26, 1702. This was Major John, who m. Rebeka 
Beamont. A Scotchman by the name of Clarke, settled at Saybrook 
many years later, who now has descendants there and in New 
York. 

CLARK, MARY, in 1692, " had a base born child," and accused 
Lieut. Hollister of being the father; " slie having been constant in 
the charge in time of travail, and at all times." The court judged 
him the reputed father ; and ordered him to pay two shillings per 
week from its birth, for the term of four years; and ordered Mary 
to pay a fine of forty shillings, and to be whipt. A portion of the 
present law upon this subject, originated in the Puritan law of 1092 ; 
the same evidence of being constant in the charge, and in time of 
travail, is now required in this state. 

CLARK, FRANCIS, aged 28, embarked for Virginia, 1635, in 
the Transport, of London, Edward Walker, master. Mary Clark, 
aged 10, embarked for New England, in the Hopewell, Tho's Babb, 
master, Sept. 4, 1635. Syialle Clark, aged 16, embarked in the 
Planter, April 6, 1635, Nic Frarice, master. Margaret Clark, aged 
21, and Wm. Clark, aged 1, passengers for Virginia, in the Prim- 
rose, July 27, 1635. Daniel Clark, aged 33, and Wm. Clark, aged 
27, embarked in the Plain Joan, May 15, 1635. John Clark, aged 
19, embarked for Virginia in the Merchant Bonaventure, in 1634—5. 
Wm. and Thomas Clark, embarked for Virginia, Jan. 6, 1635, in 
the Thomas and John. Edmond Clark, 16, also in the Speedwell, 
of London, May 28, 1635, for Virginia. Nicholas Clarke, aged 31, 



612 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in the Paule, of London, for Virginia, July 6, 1635. This name 
was in Hartford in 1635. (Somcrby.) 

This name is nearly as numerous as the Smiths and Browns, and 
occupies too much space in a work like this ; so much so that I must 
omit giving any genealogy of most of the first settlers by this name. 

CLARK, JOHN, d. at Colchester, Oct. 27, 1749, aged 63. Dan- 
iel d. there Sept. 4, 1762, aged 82. Widow Elizabeth Clarke d. there, 
1763, aged 77. 

CLARK, Sergt. JOHN, and his wife Elizabeth, of Middletown, 
an early settler there, had issue, Nath'l, b, April 18, 1676 ; John, 
b. June 14, 1678 j Daniel, b. Aug. 30, 1680; Eliz'th, b. April 3, 
1685; Mary, b. April 3, 1691, d.; Sarah, b. Sept,. 8, 1692; White, 
a dau'r, b. Nov. 4, 1693 ; second Mary, b. May 4, 1695. Serg't 
John d. July 26, 1731 ; Elizabeth, his wife, d. Dec. 25, 1711. 

CLARK, JOHN, of Farmington, an early family there, appears 
to have been twice married. He m. Widow Mary Fletcher ; she 
d. in '1677, and he d. Nov. 22, 1712. He had children, Eliz'th, d. 
1696 ; she. had m. Thomas Gridley, Dec. 25, 1679 ; John, d. Oct. 
6, 1709; Rebeca, m. Samuel Woodruft", 1686, d. 1737; Mercy, m. 
Samuel Huntington, of Lebanon; Mathew, m. Ruth Judd, and died 
Sept. 24, 1751 ; Sarah, m. Tho's Root, of Lebanon ; Martha, m. 
Tho"s Clark; Abigail, m. Joseph Pixley, of Milford; Hannah, born 
1680, m. Joseph Woodruff, Dec. 27, 1722 ; Rachel, ni. Caleb Jones, 
of Hebron ; Ebenezer, b. 1690 ; Mercy, m. at Milford. 

CLARK, DANIEL, of Colchester, m. Eliz'th Butler, Dec. 14, 
1704. Issue, Hannah, b. June 30, 1706 I Elizabeth, b. June 29, 
1708; Daniel, Jun., b. July 17, 1710, d. same day; second Daniel, 
b. Sept. 28, 1711; Jonah, b. Dec. 19, 1713; Roger, b. Dec. 24, 
1715, m. Hannah Bigelow, 1746; Alexander, b. Nov. 6, 1717; 
Zuruiah, b. March 14, 1719; Mabel, b. Oct. 7, 1721. 

CLARK, NOAH, of Colchester, m. Sarah Taintor, Jan. 10, 1719. 
Issue, Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1719-20, d.; second Sarah, b. March 9, 
1721 ; Noah, b. Aug. 24, 1722 ; Jerusha, b. Feb. 28, 1723-4 ; 
Ezra, b. Nov. 8, 1725 ; Elihu, b. Nov. 8, 1727, m. Eliz'th Kellogg, 
1750, and Esther, b. Oct. 14, 1729. {Colchester Rec, by Otis.) 

Clark, Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Jones, 1657 ; Daniel, m. Jones, 
and had twelve children. Daniel, son of Thomas Clark, m. Mary 
Burr, June, 1693. Alexander Clark, m. Eliz'th Williams, 1747. 
Noah Clark, m. Eunice Quitterffeld, of Colchester, 1751. Lemuel 
Clark, of Colchester, m. Mercy Briggs, 1752. Asa, m. Sarah Hop- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 613 

son, of Colchester, 1755, and Nathan Clark, m. Elizabeth Jones, 
1757. 

CLARKE, Widow, assessed in Guilford £28, in 1642. 

CLARK, EBENEZER, of Mansfield, deeds to father Timothy 
Dimock, of Mansfield, lands in Stafford, in 174L 

(Clarks of Windham and Hampton, see Note.) 
^ Farmer enumerates many of this very common name, who were 
early in Mass., viz.: Arthur, 1640 ; Daniel, of Ipswich, 1635 ; Ed- 
ward, of Lynn, 1636 ; Hugh, of Watertown, 1640 ; Jeremiah, Pres- 
ident R. L colony, 1648 ; John, Cambridge, 1632, (afterward at 
Hartford and Saybrook ;) Dr. John, R. L; John, of Newbury, 1638 ; 
John, free, 1635 ; Joseph, of Dedham, 1635 ; Joseph, of Newport, 
1644 ; Nicholas, of Cambridge, 1634 ; Richard, of Plymouth, d. in 
1621 ; Thomas, of Boston, 1638 ; Thomas, blacksmith, of Boston, 
1639; Cornelius and Jacob, sons of Thomas, b. 1639 and 1642; 
Thomas, of Dorchester, 1636 ; Thomas, of Ipswich, 1648 ; Thomas, 
of Lynn, 1640; Thomas, of Newport, before 1644; Thomas, of 
Plymouth, d. 1697, aged 98; Walter, of R. I., governor of R. I., 
1676, '86, '96 and '97— one of Andros' council, 1687 ; William, of 
Ipswich, 1633, perhaps free, 1631 ; William, of Watertown, 1631 ; 
William, of Dorchester, 1636; William, of Salem, 1647, and many 
other early settlers of the name of Clark, in Mass. and R. I. 

Nineteen by the name of Clark, and twenty-one by the name of 
Clarke, had graduated at Harvard before 1848 ; and forty-five by 
the name of Clark, and eighteen by the name of Clarke, had gradua- 
ted at Yale, before 1850. 



Note. CLARK, EDMOXD, came from England and settled at Lynn, Mass., about the year 
1636. He removed from thence to Sandwich, then to Gloucester, Mass., 1651, where he was 
town-clerk from 1656 until his death in Feb., 1666. He left a widow Agnes, who m. Thomas 
Penny. She d. Feb. 23, 1082. His children were, Abigail, b. 1636; John, b. 1640, d. 1680; 
Joseph, Sep., b. Nov. 16, 1650, and m. Hannah Davis, March 27, 1682. He died Nov. 29. 
1696, aged 46. 

CLARK, JOSEPH, Sen., (son of Edmond,) and wife Hannah, had issue, Joseph, Jun., b. Sept, 
10, 1684, m. Rachel Rickworth ; Edmond, Jun., b. April 1, 1086, d. young; .\bigail, b. Dec. 20, 
1687, d. April 24, 1088 ; Mary, b. March 9, 1689, d. 1709 ; John, b. March 6, 1692, m. Ruth 
Haskell, Nov. 17, 1718, (grandparents of Johathan Clark, Esq., now living in Hampton, nearly 
80 years old.) Second Edmond, b. Dec. 3, 1695, m. Elizabeth Pierce, Nov. 24, 1718. 

CLARK, JOSEPH, Jus., son of Joseph, Sen., b. 1684, m. Rachel Rickworth, and had issue, 
Rachel, Joseph, Benjamin, John, 2d Rachel, 2d Benjamin, .Vbigail and Samuel. 

CLARK, EDMOND, Jun., fourth son of Joseph, Sen., m. Eliz'h Pierce, and had issue, Ed- 
mond, Eliz'h, Lydia, Hannah, Benj'n, Eunice, Ruth, Sarah, 2d Lydia. 

CLARK, JOHN, b. 1092, son of Joseph, Sen., and Ruth Haskell, of Gloucester, west parish, 
Mass., the fifth dau'r of John Haskell, of Gloucester, m. Nov. 17, 1718, and the next year, in 

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614 GENEALOGY OF THE PUKITANS. 

" CLAY, MILES, of Brautery, in England, dec'd," in 1678 had an 
interest in the estate of Zachary Sanford, " lateof Saybrook." The 
court granted John Durant and John Loomis, of Hadley, in right of 



May, removed to the second parish of Windham, (Hampton,) Ct. August 29, 1718, he pur- 
chased a 100 acre lot of wild land, of Joseph Jennings, of Windham, then co. of Hartford, in the 
north-westerly part of said second society, two and a quarter miles from the centre of the societyi 
being the fourth settler in the parish, and chosen deacon Aug. 17, 1737. He was one of the 
first incorporators and formers of the first church in Windham village, June 5, 1723. The day 
on which Rev. Wm. Billings was ordained their first pastor, Mr. Clark being chosen deacon, is 
full proof of his high standing in the church and town. In those days the minister ranked first, 
the deacons next, and the constable next. He was grandfather of Jonathan Clark, Esq., of 
Hampton, now living. His children were, John, Jun., b. Aug. 14, 1719, d. June 19, 1771, 
aged 71 years ; Stephen, b. May 16, 1721, d. Feb. 27, 1786, aged 64 ; Daniel, b. Nov. 27, 1722, 
d. about 1745, aged 23; David, b. July 14, 1724, d, July, 1755, aged 31; Jeremiah, or Jerushai 
b. March 26, 1726, d. May 31, 1798, aged 72 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 14, 1727, d. May 6, 1760, aged 
32; Amos, b. Sept. 19, 1729, d. Sept. 12, 1807, aged 77 y., 11 m., 23 d.; Mary, b. Aug. 18 
1731, d. July 29, 1753, aged 21 y., 11 m., 11 d.; Jonathan, b. Sept. 12, 1734, d. Oct. 22, 1797. 
aged 63 ; Isaac, b. June 18, 1736, d. Sept., 1788, aged 52 years. Deacon John, the father, died 
Nov. 9, 1782, aged 90 y., 8 m., 3 d. Ruth, his wife, d. July, 1770, aged about 82 years. 

CLARK, STEPHEN, son of John and Ruth, m. Hannah Durkee, Feb. 1, 1743 ; had five dau's 
and five sons. 

CLARK, JOHN, Jun., son of John and Ruth, m. Eliz'th Parker, 1747, and had four sons and 
one daughter. 

CLARK, JEREMIAH, b. 1726, son of Deacon John and Ruth Clark, Sen., at the age of 24 
years m. Hannah Gould, of Ipswich, Mass., dau'r of Henry, 2d, May 3, 1760. She was b. May 
20, 1728. Issue, Jeremiah, b. March 25, 1751, d. Aug. 28, 1820, aged 69 ; Mary, b. June 30, 
1752, d. May 14, 1826, aged 73 ; Eunice, b. Feb. 17, 1754, d. Nov. 15, 1844, aged 9U ; Susan- 
nah, b. March 22, 1756, d. May 27, 1825, aged 69 ; Hannah, b. Dec. 29, 1757, d. April 14. 1827, 
aged 69 ; Elizabeth, b. March 3, 1760, d. March 6, 1760 ; Elizabeth, b. April 7, 1762, d. June 
23, 1844, aged 82 ; Amasa, b. Aug. 11, 1764, d, July 12, 1847, aged 82 y., 11 ni., 1 d.; Jona- 
than, Esq., now living in Hampton, b. Sept. 17, 1773, the only one living of this large family. 
Jeremiah, the father, d. May 31, 1798, aged 72 years. His wife Hannah, the mother, d. Sept- 
10,1807, aged 79 years. 

CLARK, JEREMIAH, son of Jeremiah and Hannah, b 1751, m. Hannah Flint, dau'r of Sam- 
uel and Mary, b. Aug. 10, 1756, m. Feb. 18, 1773, and had issue, Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1774 ; 
Jeremiah, b, Nov. 15, 1776, d. Feb. 14, 1813, aged 36 ; Polly, b. May 26, 1779 ; David, b. April 
26, 1781 ; Sally, b. Feb. 2, 1783, d. 1799, aged 16 ; Henry, b. March 31, 1785 ; Betsey, b. April 
4, 1787 ; Samuel, b. Oct. 31, 1789, d.; Chester, b. Sept. 13, 1792. Capt. Jeremiah, the father, 
d. Aug. 28, 1820,atBrookfield, Vt., of lung fever, aged 69. Hannah, the mother, killed by being 
thrown from a wagon, Aug. 25, 1822, aged 66 years. 

CLARK, MARY, dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1752, ni. Isaac Parish, Nov. 14, 1770 ; he 
was b. 1753, son of Capt. Zebulon and Hannah. Soon after he m. he removed with his family, 
his wife and son Isaac, to Lacawany district, Wyoming. Capt. P. was chosen fence viewer and 
Isaac tythingman, a short time before the battle, July 3, 1778. Isaac and his wife fled, and re- 
turned to her father in Hampton, and afterward removed to Goshen, N. Y., v\Jiere Capt. Parish 
also hved. Isaac d. there Feb. 17, 1795, aged about 47 years. Widow Mary removed to Ran- 
dolph, Vt., in 1796, and d. there May 14, 1826, aged nearly 74 years. Their children were, 
Elisha, b. May 2, 1772 ; Wm. Phipps, b. 1774 ; Hannah, Irene, Mary, Sarah, Mason C, Fanny, 
Eunice and Isaac, Jun. 

CLARK, EUNICE, second dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1754, m. Eliphalet Martin, son 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 615 

their wives, (wiio were grandchildren of said Clay,) administration on 
said estate, being next of kin ; at a court held at Hartford, Dec. 5, 
1678. 



of John and Sarah, May 15, 1777. He was b. Sept. 12, 1754. Issue, Eunice, second Eunice, 
Hannah, AIniira, Aseneth, EliphaleU Martin, the father, d. April 11, 1801, aged 46. Hie widow 
Eunice d. Nov. 15, 1844, aged nearly 91. 

CLARK, SUSANNAH, third daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1756, ra. Abel Hall, of 
Mansfield, son of James and Mary, Dec. 3, 1778. He was b. Dec. 29, 1753. Issue, Abel, b. 
Dec. 9, 1779; Susannah, Jeremiah, d. .\pril 16, 1849, aged 64. Abel, the father, d. May 23, 
1785, aged 31. Susannah, his widow, m. Ebenezer Jennings, of Mansfield, son of Manoah,and 
had issue by him ; Abi, b. Sept. 6, 1792 ; Ebenezer, Wm., Edmond, U Jan. 10, 1799. They re- 
moved about this time to Randolph, Vt., where he resided. He entered the service in the last 
war with England, and after he was discharged, died at the French Mills, in the state of New 
York, Jan. 20, 1814. His widow d. at Randolph. Vt., May 27, 1825. 

CLARK, HANN.\H, 4th dau'rof Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1757, m. Phinehas Flint, son of 
Nath'l and Mary. He was b. Feb. 23, 1757, and m. Feb. 24, 1780, and remained in Conn, until 
Jan. 25, 1796, when they removed to Randolph, Vt. From thence, after a few years, purchas- 
ed a farm in Brainteee, Vt., and removed and d. there. Issue, Patience, Phinehas, Jeremiah, 
John, second Patience, Eliphalet, Hannah, Rcbeckah, Sally, Clark, Seymour. The father died 
June 25, 1810, aged 53. Hannah, his widow, died April 14, 1827, aged 69. 

CL.VRK, ELIZABETH, fifth dau'rof Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1760, died single. 
CLARK, ELIZABETH, sixth dau'r of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1762,m. Asa Walcott, son of 
Moses, Nov. 25, 1784. Lived and died on the road to Windham, in Hampton. Issue, Polly» 
Wm., Elisha, Hannah, Eleanor, Anna, Bet.sey and Elmira. Asa Walcott, the father, died Feb. 
23, 1841, aged 76 years. Elizabeth, his widow, diedJune 23, 1844, aged 82 years. 

CLARK, AMASA, 2d, son of Jeremiah and Hannah, b. 1764, m. Eleanor Fuller, daughter of 
Thomas and Sarah, Jone 25, 1788. She was born Aug. 6, 1768. She lived at Bigelow, at the 
east part of Hampton. Issue, Eunice, b. April 25, 1789; lion. Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1791, the 
late treasurer of Conn.; Amanda, b. March 31, 1793; Jeremiah, b. Sept. 23, 1795, d. April 18, 
1833, aged 37 ; Harvey, b. Sept. 18, 1797; Sally, b. Aug. 21, 1799, d. Dec. 2, 1746, aged 47 ; 
Griffin, b. Nov. 28, 1801 ; Wm., b. May 4, 1804; David, Esq., a gentleman of fortune, and a 
large grocery merchant in Hartford, b. Oct. 12, 1806 ; Lester, b. Oct. 31, 1808, died Oct. 13, 
1829, aged over 20 years. Eleanor, wife of Amasa, died Nov. 1^, 1833, aged 65. Amasa Clark 
m. for his second wife, HannahClark, widow of Capt. John Clark, of Ashford, Dec. 3, 1834. She 
was a dau'r of Ebenezer Moseley, 2d, of Hampton. He was 69 and she 45 years old, when m. 
She was b. May 14. 1789. He died July 12, 1847, aged nearly 83 years. His widow m. for 
her third husband, Augustus O. A. Stowel, of New Boston, in Windham, Sept. 3, 1848. 

CLARK, JONATHAN, Esq., third son and ninth child of Jeremiah and Hannah Clark, of 
Hampton. He was b. Sept. 17, 1773. Mr.Qark has been probably for over forty years, one of 
the most accurate surveyors in Conn., and is now engaged in surveying his native town for the 
purpose of making a map of the town in early times. Though he is 79 years old, he possesses 
the activity and vigor of a man of 50 years. The family, from the fourth settler of the town to 
this time, have held a high standing in Hampton for integrity and intelligence. When 27 years 
of age, he m. Hannah Blackman, the only daughter of Aaron and Mary Blackman, of Windham, 
(of the Dorchester family,) Jan. 15, 1801. She was born in Andover, Conn., Aug. 28, 1776. 
They had children, viz.: " Jonathan Gould, b. Thursday, 10 o'clock, A. M., Feb. 18, 1802, weight 
91b. 8oz.; Newton, born Sat., 8 o'clock, P. M., Oct. 1, 1803, wt. 81b. 14oz.; Hannah Wood, born 
Wed., at 3o'clock, P. SI., .\pril 1, 1807, wt. 9jlb.; Calvin Haskell, born Fri., } after 5 clock, A. 
M., Dec. 4, 1818, wt. 91b. lloz.," and died July 20, 1822, at half past 2 o'clock, P. M., of dysen- 
tery, after six days sickness, aged 3 y., 7 mo. and 16 d. 



616 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CLAY, HUMPHREY, was attorney for Richard Eliot in 1663. 

CLAY, or CLOY,. JOSEPH, was assessed at Guilford in 1642, at 
£39. 

CLAY, HUMPHREY, was inn-keeper at N. L. Mrs. Katharine 
Clay was informed against in 1664, for keeping an inmate contrary 
to order, and Thomas Marshall informed against for abiding at 
Clay's house, contrary to order, and was fined 5s. for remaining at 
Clay's house. 

Catherine Clay, presented for selling liquors at her house, and 
selling lead to Indians, for profanation of Sabbath, card playing, en- 
tertaining strange men, &c. He was bound over to the court of as- 
sistants, to answer for the offenses of his wife. They were both 
convicted for keeping a disorderly house, and fined £40, or to leave 
the colony within six months ; in such case the fine was remitted. 
He sold his land and two dwelling-houses, (on Foxen's Hill,) about 
1664. He probably had kept an ordinary for several years, per- 
haps as early as 1655. Miss Caulkins, p. 88, says the inn of Mr. 
Clay continued to be a place of notoriety until 1664, when it was 
broken up and its landlord banished from the place for breaches of 
law and order. {Caulk, and Rec.) (Not relatives of Hon. Henry 
Clay, as he says in his letter.) 

Coats of arms. Clay, (London,) one, and two others ; Claye or 
Cley, two. 

Cassius M. Clay graduated at Yale, 1832, and two at Harvard 
College, before 1850. 

CLEAVER, CLEVER, TOBIAS, was of Litchfield during or 
soon after the Revolutionary War. It is not an early name in Conn. 
Thomas Clever, aged 16, was passenger in the Merchant's Hope, 
bound for Virginia, in 1635. Cleaver has two coats of arms. 

CLEMENTS, CLEMENS, CLEMONS, CLEMENT, JASPER, 
was an early settler at Middletown, and was a householder there in 
1660. 



CLARK, JONATHAN GOULD, eldest son of Jonathan and Mary, b. 1802. At the age of 37 
years he m. Susan Hall Lawton, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Lawton, of North Kingston, \.\. 
She was born Jan. 21, 1807, and m. Oct. 1, 1839. Issue, Mary Elizabeth, b. June 11, 1S40 ; 
Jonathan Lawton, b. April 14, 1843, d. June 27, 1848, aged 5, of scarlet fever. 

NEW^TON, son of Jonathan, b. 1803, never has married. 

CLARK, HANNAH WOOD, dau'r of Jonathan and Mary, b. 1807, m. Charles W. Trumbull. 
of Mansfield Centre. He was born Jan. 3, 1807. Issue, Hannah Clark, b. June 23, 1839 ; John 
Newton, b. Aug. 29, 1840. 

This is the last of this respectable name in Conn., in the early settlement, I can afford to pub- 
lish. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 617 

The court discovered that Jasper Clements was about to marry 
Ellin or Elenor Brown, of Middletown, and at' the May session of 
the Gen. Court of Conn., IGGO, he confessed he had a wife in En- 
gland, The court ordered that said Jasper and Ellen should be 
forthwith separated, until evidence should be offered to demonstrate 
that the marriage covenant had been dissolved between said Clem- 
ents and his former wife. And the selectmen of Middletown were 
directed to execute the order of the court. Her maiden name was 
Watts. She had probably m. a Brown ; and from his will and the 
disposition of his property, he resided with her afterward. He died 
Oct. 16, 1077. Inventory proved in court at Hartford, Feb., 1677, 
£243, 4s. Will dated Oct. 13, 1677, aged, at his death, 64 years. 
Elenor, his relict, presented the will as executrix. He had no chil- 
dren. He gave most of his estate to John, Benoni and Nathaniel 
Browne, and his "cousin," Hannah Lane, and his wife Elenor ; and 
his division of land the east side of the great river at Middletown, 
which was to have been divided in 1674, by list of 1673, he gave for 
the support of a school at Middletown. Quere — were they married ? 
No evidence found. The legatees were probably Elenor's children 
by a previous marriage to Brown. The colony record spells her 
name Ellin, and on the probate record, Ellenor. He made his mark 
to his will, March 7, 1677-8. Inventory taken by Wm. Cheeny, 
Nath'l Bacon and John Hall, Sen. 

Jasper, propounded for a freeman in 1667. 

CLEMMONS, JOHN, m. Mary Roe, of Suffield, July 15, 1723 
or '24. Issue, John, b. Sept. 26, 1724 ; Sebrina, b. Nov. 6, 1726, 
d. 1727; Mary, b. Aug. 29, 1723; Joel, b. at Brookfield, Nov. 14, 
1730 ; second Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1733 ; Lurina, b. April 8, 1737, 
d. in 1737; Desire, b. April 28, 1738; second Mary d. Feb. 14, 
1739-40. 

CLEMMONS, WM., of Stamford, 1675, had a dau'r Elizabeth, 
m. John Bolt, of Norwalk, Nov. 20, 1694, and had four sons and two 
daur's. Wm. was not a first settler at Stamford. 

CLEMExNS, JOHN and WILLIAM, were proprietors and first 
settlers of the town of Stafford, Ct. 

ROBERT, of Haverhill, as early as 1657, had sons Robert, John, 
Abr'm and Daniel. DANIEL, of Exeter, took the oath of allegi- 
ance in Mass., 1677. JAMES m. Martha Deane, at Marshfield, 
Mass., Dec. 28, 1674. WM., in the expedition against Quebec, 
1775, and enlisted in the king's service. AUGUSTUS, freeman at 
52* 



618 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Dorchester, 1636. Wm. of Cambridge, in 1636. (Far. and His. 
Reg.) 

Clement has nine coats of arms, and Clements has one. 

Jasper Clements was householder and proprietor in Middletown in 
1670, with an estate of £98, 10s. in the list of estates there, (by Dr. 
Field.) Jasper Clements, Nath'l White, and Mr. Samuel Stow ; each 
made a bequest for common schools in Middletown. The name of 
Clement has been borne by several popes, as Clement XIV., who 
suppressed the order of the Jesuits. Jaques Clement assassinated 
Henry III., of France. Cleomenes was the name borne by three 
kings of Sparta. 

Rufus Hargrove Clements graduated at Harvard, 1847 ; Peabody 
Clement graduated at Yale in 1774. Augustine Clement, of Dor- 
chester, 1636 ; John, of Haverhill, 1647 ; Robert, from London, 
1642, settled in Haverhill, and d. 1658; Wm. of Cambridge, 1636. 
(See Farjner.) 

CLEVELAND, CLEAVLAND. The family of Cleveland prob- 
ably derived the name from the town of Cleveland, in Durham co., 
in England. The principal branch was seated in the county of 
York, early in the thirteenth century. Sir Guy de Cleveland was 
present at the siege of the city of Boulogne, in France, in 1349. 
Afterward, at the battle of Poictiers, when he commanded the spear- 
men ; and a branch of this family went into Devonshire, and contin- 
ued until the male line of the family became extinct. 

Coat of arms. — Per-chevron, sable, (black,) and ermine a chevron 
engrailed. Counter changed. (The colors reversed.) Crest. — A 
demi old man habited, azure, (blue,) having on his head a cap gules, 
(red,) turned up with^fur, holding in his dexter (right) hand a spear 
proper, (of its true colors,) having from the blade a golden cord 
passing behind, and coiled in the left hand. Motto. — Pro Deo et 
Patria — (for God and my country.) 

CLEVELAND, " MOYSES," of Ipswich, in England, came to 
New England, and .settled in Mass., probably at Woburn, in the 16th 
century. He m. Ann, in England, in 1648, and had children, viz.: 

1 . Moses, b. 1st of 7th mo., 1G51. 

2. Hannah. 

3. Aaron, b. Jan. 10, 1654. (An Aaron d. at Woburn, Sept. 14, 1716, ae. 62 ) 

4. Samuel, probably went to Canterbury, Conn. 

5. Miriam. 

6. Johanna, d 

7. Edward, (supposed the son ol" Moses and Ann,) went to R. I. ar.d Canter- 
bury, Conn. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 619 

8. Josiah ; wife Mary. 

9. Isaac. 

10. Second Johanna. 

11. Enoch, b. IstofGth mo., 1671. 

SAMUEL, above, was the fiither of Col. Aaron Cleveland, of 
Canterbury, whose son, Gen. Moses, named the city of Cleveland, 
in Ohio. 

CLEVELAND, Col. AARON, son of Samuel, m. Dorcas Wil- 
son, Sept. 26, IGT.'i, and had issue, Dorcas, Ilanna, d., Aaron, b. 
1680, July 9, second Hannah, Moses, Miriam, Sarah, Isabel, and 
Benjamin. The last found at Windham. 

CLEVELAND, AARON, b. 1680, son of Samuel, m. Abigail 
Waters, and had issue, Aaron, b. Oct. 20, 1702, d.; Samuel, Abi- 
gail, John, Josiah ; second Aaron, b. Oct. 29, 1715 ; second John, 
b.; Moses and Mary. This is supposed to have been Capt. Aaron, 
who is called, on East Haddam record, "Aaron Cleveland, gentle- 
man.*' An estate of £3,000. (The above Josiah and John were 
ministers.) 

CLEVELAND, Rev. AARON, graduated at Harvard College 
in 1735, born in Medford, Mass., settled in the ministry at Haddam, 
Conn., in 1739, and dismissed from his society in 1746. After his 
dismission, he preached at Maiden, Mass., Halifax, in Nova Scotia, 
and at Lcwiston, in Delaware. He changed his views as to the Con- 
gregational faith or discipline, and became an Episcopal preacher, 
and went to England for orders, and returned to this country, and 
either on his return from England, or from his preaching in Dela- 
ware, to visit his family in New England. While in Philadelphia, 
on his way, at the house of his friend, Benjamin Franklin, he sick- 
ened and died, and his bod}- was interred at Lewiston. (See Dr. 
Field.) He had three sons and five daughters, viz.: 

1. William, had no issue found. 

2. Aaron, m. Abiah Hyde. 

3. Stephen. 

4. Susan, m. Stephen Higginson, of Boston. 

5. Margarett, m. Joseph Hiller, of Salem, Mass. 

6. Abby, in. Deacon Hartson, Salem, Mass.; no issue. 

7. Betsey, m. W. Ropes, of Danvers ; no issue. 

8. Lucy, m. Blylhe, of Salem, Mass. 

CLEVELAND, AARON, son of Rev. Aaron, was b. at Haddam, 
Ct., Feb. 3, 1744; (m. Abiah Hyde, who was b. at Norwich, Ct., 
Jan. 9, 1749, April 12, 1768.) Issue, viz.: 

1. George, b. at Norwich, Conn., Jan. 9, 1769; m. Caty Caldwell, both liv- 
ing in 1849; lives in Middlebury, Vt. 



G20 * GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

2. William, b. Dec. 20, 1770 ; d. about eighteen years since, at Black Rock, 

N. Y. 

3. Charles, b. June 21, 1772 ; a minister, and has resided in Boston. 

4. Francis, b. March 9, 1774 ; d. Sept. 25, 1796, aged about 22. 

5. Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1775 ; d. Nov. 27, 1779, aged about four years. 

6. Aaron Porter, b. July 11, 1778 ; d. aged about two years. 

7. Second Sarah, b. at Norwich, Nov., 17S0 ; wife of D. L. Dodge, of New 

York. 

8. Second Aaron Porter, b. Sept. 24, 17S2; lived in Boston, and d. there. 

9. Susanna, b. Sept. 26, 17S4; m. Harry Pratt, Esq., and lives in Rochester, 

N. Y. 

10. Lucy, b. June 17, 1787 ; m. a Smith, and d. about five years since, at 
the residence of her son-in-law at Albany, N. Y. 

Abiah, (Hyde,) wife of Aaron Cleveland, d. Aug. 23, 1788, aged 38. Aaron 
m. for his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of David Breed, Oct. 23, 1788, the 
dau'r of Jeremiah Clement, and b. June 10, 1755. She had three children when 
she m. said Aaron, viz., Betsey Breed, b. April 13, 1778; Dolly, b. July 16, 
1781, and David Breed, b. Nov. 29, 17S3. By second marriage : 

11. Anthony B. Cleveland, b. Oct. 22, 1789; lives at Dedham, Mass. 

12. Stephen, b. Feb. 15, 1792 : supposed d. in Boston some years since. 

13. Jeremiah C, b. June 14, 1794 ; nothing is known of him. 

14. Abiah H., b. April 24, 179G; nothing known of her. 

15. Francis, b. March 22, 179S ; m. Rev. Dr. Cox, and resides in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. (See old Cleveland Bible.) 

Aaron, the father, d. in New Haven, where he was buried. His 
first wife d. in New York, and is supposed to have been buried in 
Trinity Church yard ; (not positive.) He was a member of the 
Le^^islature, a man of wit, humor and talent. 

WILLIAM, the second above, d. at Black Rock, N. Y., at the 
residence of his son-in-law, Lewis B. Allen. His widow, Marga- 
rett, also d. at her son-in-law's, L. B. Allen's, at Black Rock, Aug. 
18, 1850, aged 84 years. Relict of Deacon Wm. Cleavland, for- 
merly of Norwich, Conn. 

SUSANNA, the ninth child of said Aaron, by his first wife, m. 
Harry Pratt, Esq., of Hartford, Conn., where he resided for a time, 
and removed to New York, where he was a merchant, and then re- 
moved to Roche.ster, N. Y., where he has died the present winter, 
aged over eighty years. His widow is yet living there. John M. 
Pratt and an older brother, extensive book merchants and publishers 
in New York, are sons of said Harry and Susanna. (See PRATT.) 

CLEVELAND, JOSIAH, supposed son of Moses, Sen., emigrated 
from Chelmsford, Mass., to Canterbury, Conn., in 1694, " when 
there was but one English family in the town." — (So said his grand- 
son.) In 1699, he purchased 176 acres of land of Owaneco, "then 
being of Peagscommeck." Josiah d. April 26, 1709. After his 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 621 

death, his widow Mary m. Robert Buswell, in 1722. His children 
found were : 

1. Josiah, Jun., b. at Chelmsford, in 1690. 

2. Josejih, had a family at Canterbury. 

3. Henry, do. do. do. 

4. Mary, m. Richard Smith in 171G. 

5. John, d. without issue in 1718. 

G. Rachel, m. Jonas Spalding in 1722. 
Tlie following born in Canterbury, viz.: 

7. Lydia,b. 1704; m. Obediah Johnson, Jun., 1723. 

8. Deliverance, b. 1707 ; m. and had a family. 

9. Abiel, b. 1708 ; m. Jedediah Smith in 1727. 

JOSIAH, Jun., m. Abigail Paine, and had a large family. Among 
them were Ebenezer and John, who were ministers in Mass.; also, 
Aaron, the father of Gen. Moses, of Canterbury, a conspicuous man ; 
also, the father of W. Pitt Cleveland, Sen., deceased, of N. London, a 
lawyer of reputation. It was one of this family who gave the name 
to Cleveland, in Ohio. 

CLEVELAND, SAMUEL, often called Serg't, was another 
early settler in Canterbury. He was one who aided to form the 
church in Canterbury in 1711. He probably died in 1736. He 

was twice m.; 1. m. Persis ; she d, 1698. He m. 2. Widow 

Margaret Fish, in 1699. His children, as far as found, were : 

1. Ephraim, his son, d. in 1711, at Canterbury. 

2. Samuel, Jun. 

3. Joseph; Elizabeth, m. John Ensworth. 

4. Margaret, m. Gideon Cable in 1717. 

5. Mary, b. 1696 ; m. Joseph Ensworth, 1719. 
By his second wife, 

6. Abigail, b. 1700; d. 1718. 

7. Timothy, b. 1702, and had a family. 

These sons of the Serg't fulfilled nature's trust, in filling the town 
with their name. 

CLEVELAND, EDWARD, " late of Kingstown, R. I.," pur- 
chased land in Canterbury in 1716, and his wife Deliverance d. at 
Canterbury in 1717. He m. for his second wife, L. Church, in 1722, 
and had children born in Canterbury, viz.: 

1. Isaac. 

2. Edward, Jun., m. Rebecca Paine, and had children; one son .Silas, born 
1756. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Mary, m. Richard Adams and Samuel Butt. 

5. Elizabeth, perhaps m. Christopher Huntington, of Norwalk, 1733. 

CLEAVELAND, SILAS, son of Edw., Jun., settled in Hampton 



622 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

or in Canterbury, near Hampton line, and his son, Silas, Jun. m. 
Lois Carpenter, March 22, 1793, and had children, viz.: 

1. Hon. Mason, b. Feb. 25, 1795. 

2. John, b. Sept. 5, 1797 ; d. Aug. 15, 1826. 

3. Hon. Chauncey Fitch, b. Feb. 16, 1799. 

Capt. Silas, the father, died Sept. 24, 1840, aged 84. 

CLEVELAND, Hon. MASON, was late Comptroller of Public 
Accounts in Conn., and now Commissioner of the School Fund of 
the State ; m. Eliza M. Perkins, and had children, viz.: 

1. Abijah P., attorney at law, and editor of a newspaper at Quincey, 111. 

2. Edward Spier, m. Miss BoUes ; has two sons; engrossing clerk at Wash- 
ington. 

3. Henry Mason; these three bap. at Hampton, April 3, 1831. 

4. George Lee, bap. Sept. 2, 1836. 

CLEVELAND, Hon. CHAUNCEY F., son of Silas 3d, m. . 

Few men in Conn., by their own exertions and industry, and with 
as much opposition, have risen as high into public favor as Gen. 
Cleveland. As a military officer, he had the entire support of the 
militia of the state, and was rapidly promoted to the offices of Gen. 
and Maj. Gen. Being a lawyer by profession, he located himself 
in his native place, and has risen in his practice to the head of the 
bar in Windham county. He has repeatedly been honored with a 
seat in both branches of the state legislature, of which he has filled 
the place of clerk of the house, and one of its most efficient and pop- 
ular speakers of the lower house, and afterward governor of the 
state, and four years member of congress ; all which, with several 
minor offices, he executed to the satisfaction of the party who elected 
him to the many places of public trust to which he has been exalted. 
He married in early life. He had but two children : 

1. John, Esq., who d. unmarried. 

2. Delia M. married A. A. Burnham, Esq. 

JOHN received a collegiate education at Trinity, and prepared 
himself for the practice of law, and located at New Haven for the 
pursuit of his profession, and soon after was appointed clerk of the 
District Court of the U. S. in the District of Conn., which he accept- 
ed, and acceptably performed for a few )'ears only, when that fell 
destroyer, the consumption, seized upon his vitals ; he resigned his 
office, and returned to the tender care of a kind mother, in hopes of 
relief; but recovery was impossible, and he soon after died in early 
manhood, unmarried, in 1852, in his father's family, lamented by his 
numerous friends. 

DELIA M., his only daughter, married Mr. Burnham, a respect- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 683 

able lawyer, settled at Danbury ; but finding the health of his wife 
declining, he removed to Hampton, that she might have the tender care 
of her parents, where she, after the birth of a child, also died of the 
same disease, which deprived Gen. Cleveland of all hia children. 

EDWARD, JuN., son of Edward, resided in the north-west part of 
the town of Canterbury. 

Besides the three distinct families of Clevelands, in Canterbury, 
viz., Josiah, Samuel and Edward, there were BENJAMIN and Anna 
Cleveland, his wife, found in Canterbury about 1725. 

Benjamin and Ann, (Church,) his wife, are described as of Can- 
terbury, in their deed of land in Hartford, with Elizabeth Church, of 
Hartford, to James Harrison, of Hartford, Feb. 13, 1723-4. Ann 
was a sister of Elizabeth. Benjamin perhaps had children born at 
Canterbury. This family appear on the Hampton record first in 
1733, and their son Benjamin, by Windham record, b. Aug. 30, 
1733 ; Moses, b. July 20, 1736 ; Chloe, b. May 30, 1744. Ann, 
his wife, d. Oct. 21, 1754. {Windham Rec.) It is probable that 
two of the above families who settled at Canterbury, Moses and Ben- 
jamin, were the sons of Aaron, of Woburn, Mass. 

CLEVELAND, EPHRAIM, of Hampton, and his wife Mary, had 
issue recorded at Hampton, viz.: Mary, b. March 30, 1768; Frank- 
lyn, b. Aug. 13, 1779. (Hamp. Rec.) DoUee, his dau'r, bap. Nov. 
18, 1770 ; also, Mary ; Ephraim, Jun., bap. Oct. 10, 1773 ; Grif- 
fin, bap. Oct. 6, 1776, and Franklyn, bap. Feb. 6, 1780. Mary, wife 
of Ephraim, admitted to the church in Hampton, Nov. 18, 1770. 
Solomon Cleveland also admitted to the same church, March 4, 1744, 
and Rebecca Cleveland admitted also, March 7, 1742. The forego- 
ing are the different families of this name who congregated together 
in the towns of Canterbury and Hampton, in the early settlement of 
each. They married into most of the old and respectable families 
of Canterbury, viz,, with the Bradfords, Paines, Adams's, &;c., and 
were several of them men of influence and distinction, the noblesse 
of the town. And now not a name of these several original families 
is found in Canterbury, to point to its present population, or the in- 
quiring stranger, the resting-places of their own immediate ances- 
tors ; the cemetery is left alone to do this duty. 

CLEVELAND, BENJ'N, Jun., m. Mary Elderkin, Feb. 20, 
1754. Issue, Ann, b. May 9, 1755 ; Roulenia ; Martin Luther, b. 
1759; Mary, b. 1761 ; Olive, b. 1763, &c. 

CLEVELAND, Gen. MOSES, of Canterbury, m. Tabitha Spen- 



624 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

cer, May 31, 1759. Issue, Eliphaz, b. 1761 ; Asa, b. 1763 ; Easter, 
b. 1765 ; Clark, b. 1768 ; Abel, b. 1770 ; Dyer, b. 1772, and Ja's, 
b. Dec. 14, 1775. 

Moses Cleveland and Asa Witter were members of the Conn. Con- 
vention in 1788, to ratify the Constitution of the U. S., and voted for 
its adoption. 

Joseph Cleveland received in full communion in the church at 
Canterbury, in 1715 ; Samuel, in 1736 ; Abigail, wife of Joseph, 
Sen., in 1724 ; Josiah, 1744 ; Samuel, Jun., 1727 ; Moses, 1748 ; 
Benjamin, 1749 ; Zeruiah, wife of Edward, Sen., 1738 ; Mary, wife 
of Wm. Bradford ; Benjamin, 1753, and his wife Rachel ; John, 
1744, &c. [Learned. His. Notices.) 

Eight of the name of Cleaveland, graduated at Yale before 1850, 
and three by the name of Cleveland, had graduated at Harvard, in 
1825. 

CLIFFORD, BRIDGET, died at Suffield, May 8, 1695. Clif- 
ford has 19 coats of arms, and Clifford 1 ; Clifton has 25 coats of 
arms; Cliffe, 4; ClyfF, 1 ; ClyfTe has 1. Clifford, Oliver, aged 18, 
passenger for Virginia in the Primrose, July 27, 1635. Cliford, 
Geo., Mass., ar. co. 1644. John, of Lynn, 1698, aged 67. (See 
Farmer.) 
CLINTON, CLENTON, JOHN, 1663. 

CLINTON, JOSEPH, m. Phebe Benedict, of Norwalk, Sept. 1, 
1757, and had children b. in Norwalk, viz.: Levi, b. March 26, 
1758 ; Esther, Joseph, Allen, Salmon, Simeon, Martha, Isaac and 
Phebe, b. Aug. 9, 1777. (See Hal/, p. 297.) , 
Clinton has 13 coats of arms. 

CLOFTS, MOSES, d. at Wethersfield, Dec. 30, 1718. 
CLOSE, THOMAS, Angell Huisted, Sen., John Mead, John Hob- 
ble, John Reynolds, Sen., James Ferris, Sen., Joseph Ferriss, Sen., 
Samuel Peck, Jonathan Reynolds, Sen., Joshua Knapp, Joseph, son 
of Joseph Mead, were proprietors in Greenwich in the early settle- 
ment of the town, the title of which was confirmed to them and oth- 
ers by Gov. R. Treat, in 1697. Thomas Close was early settled at 
Greenwich, with John Bower, Gershom and Jonathan Lockwood, 
Jeremiah and S. Peck, &c. The name of Close has 4 coats of 
arms. This name is yet found in Fairfield County. He held land 
in Greenwich in 1672. 

Four of this name graduated at Yale Col., before 1843. 
CLASSAN, CLASSON, CLAWSON, CLASON, STEPHEN, 
of Stamford, was propounded for a freeman in May, 1670. Jona- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PfRITANS. 625 

than Closson, of Stamford, died July ye 14, 1747, aged 55. Clason 
or Classon (Scotland) has 1 coat of arms. 

CLOISON, DAVID, of Stamford, had children, Mary, b. Aug. 
17, 1669 ; Deborah, b. Nov. 2, 1695 ; Hepzebah, b. Nov. 4, 1698. 

CLASON, FRANCIS ; Daniel and Elizabeth were bap. Nov. 19, 
1685, at Stamford. These appear to have been the same family and 
name. 

CLOTHIER, JOHN, Sen., was early at Colchester, and had 
children born there, viz.: Abigail, b. Nov. 3, 1704 ; John, Jun., b. 
July 3, 1707 ; Sarah, b. March 13, 1709 ; Barbara, b. Dec. 3, 1714 ; 
Elizabeth, b. Nov. 29, 1716; Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1717; Ann, b. 
March 8, 1719; Lucrese, b. June 20, 1720. {Colchester Rec.) 

CLOTHIER, JOHN, Jun., of Colchester, had John and Ruth, 
bap. April 14, 1734, and Delight, bap. July 20, 1735. 

CLOUGH, CLOW, JOHN, had land in VVethersfield, in May, 
1665. Made a freeman of Hartford in May, 1654. John Clough, 
Jun., had three lots of land which he sold to Bartholomew Barnard. 
John, Jun., presented a petition to settle " Hamonosatt," Aug., 1663 ; 
also had an appeal tried with Mr. Rogers, the same court. John, 
Sen. and Jun., were entered by the committee as settlers of Hammo- 
nassett, in 1663. 

CLOUGH, JOHN, a carpenter, of Salisbury, Mass., 1662, and 
took the oath of allegiance there in Dec, 1677. THOMAS, also of 
Salisbury, one of a military company, took the oath of allegiance, 
Dec, 1677. {His. Reg.) 

Clough (Wales) has one coat of arms and three others. Clow 
has one. 

John Clough, constable, of Hartford, 1663. 

CLOUGH, WM., graduated at H. College, 1816. Isaac Clough, 
Mass.. free, 1642. John, freeman, Mass., proprietor of Salisbury, 
1642. 

=^CLOW, CLOUGH, JOHN, Jux., petitioned the Gen. Court for 
"planting of Homonoscitt,'* 1663. 



* In Oct., 1663, the committee appointed to forni rules for the settlement of " Homonassett,"' 
(Killingworth.) It was determined that thirty families should settle on the east side of Ham- 
monassett, at least. Committee were Samuel Wyllys, Henry Wolcott and Wm. VVadsworth. 
Those who wnre entered as planters by the committee in 1CG3, and found on Killingworth 
town record, were Brj-an Rossiter, VVm. Hayden, Edward Griswold, (from Windsor,) John Miegs, 
Sen., *Jobn Skinner, Josias Hull, Simon Mills, Wm. Kelsey, *John Stedman, Wm. Wellman, (of 
N.Ij.,)*John Clow, Sen., *JoIin Clow, Jun.,*Josias Ellsworth, Samuel Buell, "Robert Howard, Jonas 
We«tover Josiah Gilbert, Wm. Barber. Mathew Beckwith — (those witii stars never came or 

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626 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COAKEIl, COKER, COAKE, RICHARD, was plaintiff against 
Cable, defendant at Hartford, July 2, 1640 ; also, defendant in court, 
Richard Fellowes, plaintiff, Dec. 23, 1648. Richard Coaker, plain- 
tiff at Hartford, vs. John Cable, July 2, 1640. Coake, Richard, 
1648. 

Jos. Coker embarked for Virginia in the Plain Joan, Mav 15, 
1635. Wm. Potter, of Roxbur}-, Mass., in his \vi\\ in 1653, names 
Annes, wife of John Coking. {His. Reg.) Robert Coker, New. 
bury, 1638, b. 1606 ; son Joseph, b. 1640 ; son Benjamin b. 1650. 
{Far7ner.) 

COBB, COB, GIDEON, and Margaret, his wife, admitted to the 
church in Hampton, Ct., July 31, 1726, and afterward removed from 
Hampton. 

COBB, DAVID, died at Suffield, Nov. 8, 1824, aged 64. 

COBB, WM., of Windham, m. Huldah Norton, Dec. 22, 1768. 
Issue, Wm., b. Sept. 18, 1769; Sarah, b, Oct. 30,1772. Dr. Kob, 
a German, of Hartford, says the name is uniformly in Germany 
spelled with a K. This is not an early name in Connecticut. 

Cobb (Bedfordshire) has one coat of arras ; Cobbes has one, and 
eleven others. 

COBB, FIENRY, (Barnstable,) had sons Samuel and Jonathan, 
noticed in the will of Samuel Flinckley, Sen., and the inventory made 
by Henry Cobb and Wm. Crocker. The inventory of the estate of 
Tho's Lumbert, (Barnstable,) was taken by Henry Cobb, John Go- 
rum and Nath'l Bacon, Feb. 8, 1664. Mary Cobb, noticed in the 
early will of Nicholas Miller, alias Hodgis, 1665. Mr. Tho's Cobb, 
a subscriber to Prince's Chronology. Gen. David Cobb, of Taun- 
ton. (His. Reg.) 

COBBIT, Mr. MICHAIL, Mr. Danforth, and for a reserve, Mr. 
Browne and Mr. Street, "for a reserue to y" y' ye withdrawers 
chose, (who were Mr. Dauenport, Mr. Norton, Mr. Fitch.") The 
above gentlemen were appointed by the Gen. Court, on the question 



soon left.) (Hon. Matthew AUyn had lands laid out to him, but never resided at Killingworth.) 
Added to the above list, 13. Thomas Smith ; 14. Henry Farman ; 13. John Rossiter ; 16. Jona- 
than Dimnin; 17. Thomas Stevens ; 1 8. William Stevens ; 19. Geo.Chatfield ; 20. JobnKelsey ; 
21. Henry Crane ; 22. Eleazer Isbell ; 23. Benjamin Wright ; 24. Joseph Hand; 25. Robert 
Williams ; 20. John Nettleton ; 27. John Hodge ; 28. Josiah Hull, Sen. {KilUngworth Town 
Rec.) Descendants of Rossiters, Griswolds, Hulls, Kelseys, Williams's, Buells, Farmans, Stevens's, 
Chatfields, Cranes, Isbells, Wrights, are now at Killingworth, but few, if any, of the descendants 
of the original settlers are new found there, the numerous graves showing where they were 
laid. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 627 

between the church at Hartford, and the withdrawers, (who went to 
Hadley.) The latter were willing to elect them according to the 
3d article, but the church at Hartford refused. 

Me. COBBIT had a right of commonage at Ipswich, Mass., in 
1678. Rev. THOMAS COBBIT, of Ipswich, 1677. 

CORBITT, WM., defendant in court at Hartford in two causes, 
Dec, 1647. Pedell Corbitt, plaintiir, at Hartford, in 1649. Wm. 
Corbitt, of Farmington, propounded for a freeman, Oct., 1664. Cor- 
bet, Wm., a ship carpenter, deeded land to Edward Braughton, mer- 
chant, of Farmington, in Dec, 1729. John Corbet m. Martha Corn- 
stock, Feb. 12, 1724, and had John, b. Sept. 20, 1724, and Samuel, 
b. March 4, 1727, at Saybrook. John Corbet, of Lebanon, settled in 
Sharon in 1743. Wm. made free May, 1665. 

CORBET has 32 coats of arms; CARBOTT, 6 ; COBBETT, 1. 
COBBETT, JAMES, aged 23, Josiah, aged 21, embarked for N. 
England in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, master, in April, 
1633. 

COBBETT, JOSIAH, Cambridge, 1636, freeman, 1640. Same 
name at Hingham in 1635. Thomas, the fourthminister of Ipswich, 
b. at Newbury, in England, 1608 ; student, Oxford ; arrived in N. 
E., June 26, 1637 ; settled in Ipswich, 1656, and died there Nov. 5, 
1635, aged 77. Left sons Samuel, Thomas, (taken by Indians in 
1676) John, and dau'r Elizabeth. (See Farmer.) Tho's Cobbit, 
freeman in Mass., 1638. Josias Cobitt, freeman in ^[ass. Oct. 7> 
1650. Mr. Samuel Cobbet, of Ipswich, free 1673-4. Mr. Jo])n, of 
Ipswich, freeman, 1683. (See His. Reg.) 

COBURN, SAMUEL, of Windham, Ct., m. Elizabeth Holt, Nov. 
16, 1727. Issue, Samuel, Jun., b. Sept. 29, 1728 ; Edward, b. 
April 5, 1730 ; Zebadiah, b. Feb. 26, 1731-2 j Cornelius, b. Jan. 1, 
1733-4 ; Sarah, b. April 17, 1736; George, b. Sept. 5, 1737 ; Mary, 
b. April, 1740; (Eliz'h, b. Aug. 27, 1743; Lydia, Dinah and Pris- 
cilia;) Hezekiah, bap. April 15, 1750; Ebenezer, June 28, 1752; 
Stephen, bap. July 20, 1755 ; all bap. at Hampton, Ct. 

COBURN, EDWARD, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, of Wind- 
ham and Hampton, m. Prudence Weckley, Oct. 17, 1751. Chil- 
dren, Priscilla, b. Sept. 1, 1752; Abigail, b. 1754 ; Wm., b. and d. 
1756 ; Edward, Jun., b. Oct. 9, 1757; Prudence, b. April, 1760 ; 
Samuel, b. Oct. 25, 1762 ; Lucy, b. Oct. 9, 1763 ; Susannah, b. 
Jan. 27, 1767 ; Lydia, b. 1769. 

COBURN, ZEBADIAH, son of Samuel, m. Elizabeth Durkee, 
Jan. 22, 1754, of Hampton. Children, Eliz'th, b. Nov. 12, 1754; 



628 - GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Zebediah, Jun., b. 1756 ; Olive, b. 175S ; Chloe, b. 1760 ; Nath'l, 
b. 1762; Stephen, b. 1764; Amaziah, b. Jan. 14, 1768. 

COBURN, SAMUEL, Jun., m. Judith Webster, Jan. 23, 1751, 
and had Judith, b. Nov. 17, 1751, perhaps others. 

COBURN, ROBERT, of Windham, (perhaps brother of Samuel, 
Sen.,) m. Hannah Canada, Nov. 9, 1726, and had Robert, Jun., b. 
April 15, 1728 ; perhaps others. 

COBURN, ROBERT, Jun., of Hampton, m. Mary Jennings, Nov. 
7, 1749, and had issue, Hannah, b. 1750 ; Mary, 1752 ; Betty, 
,1754; Sylvanus, b. July 23, 1757; Daniel, b. May 19, 1759 ; Try- 
phena, 1761 ; Robert, b. April 17, 1763 ; Jonathan, b. March 22, 
1765 ; Ithamer, b. May 1, 1768. His wife Mary d. Dec. 27, 1769. 

Sarah, wife of Edward Coburn, Jun., from Dudle}^, Mass., united 
with Hampton church in 1776. Serg't Edward Coburn, Sen., and 
his wife Mercy, united with the church in Hampton, July 3, 1730. 
Samuel, Sen., united in Dec, 1724 ; albo, Robert, Sen., and Eliz'th, 
April 17, 1728. Many of this name were at Hampton in the early 
settlement of the town. 

COBRON, WM., (perhaps Coburn,) one of the Mass. company. 
Wm. Colbron, aged 16, embarked in the James, for New England, 
John May, master. Robert Colburn, aged 28, Edward Colburne, 
aged 17, embarked also in the James, for New England, John May, 
master. 

COCKERRYLL, John, defendant in court at Hartford in 1640. 
Gov. John Haynes was plaintiff in court July, 1640, vs. Cockerryll. 
Cockerill, William, of Hingham, Mass., d. at Salem, 1661. (Fann.) 

COCKRAN, WM., a native of Ireland, settled at Saybrook with 
his wife. He was for some time the only merchant in Saybrook. 
He had no issue. He had a brother in Ireland, a clergyman, who 
had a son John. He sent to Ireland for John to come to Saybrook, 
and Wm. left him a large property. He was a militia captain, and 
represented the town in the Gen. Court. John became intemperate, 
and left his family destitute of property at his decease. 

Cockran has eight coats of arms, and Cochrane 1. 

COCKSHOT, JAMES, of Haddam. The inventory of his estate 
was offered in court at Hartford, in 1692-3. The court ordered one- 
third of his estate to be given to his widow, and the other two-thirds 
to be paid to his creditors, being insolvent. Inventory, £36, 165. 
Eliza Cockshot, a widow, of Haddam, d. in 1699. 

CODNAM, CODMAN, CODNUM, ROBERT, of Saybrook, was 
concerned in an affair of bonds and estate with Edward Lay, in 



GEXEALOGY OF THE PURITAXS. 629 

1657. The jury at Hartford, in the case of Rose vs. Robins, June 
5, 1646, found six bushels of corn forfeited by Codman ; Jo. Lord, 
two bushels; Mr. Eauens, forty-eight bushels, &c.; probably the 
same name and man. Codman, at Hartford, 1646. 

CODNER, EDWARD, is first found in New London, in 1651, a 
grantee of land there. It also appears by Miss Caulkins, p. 145, he 
was in N. L. in 1664, and applied to remain there. In 1691 there 
was a path in N. L. called the " Codner highway," or " old path- 
way from the meeting-house to the mill." Lawrence Codner was 
of N. L. in 1704, and was there as early as 1664. Edward came 
first to Saybrook, a mariner, thence to N. London, and returned and 
died at Saybrook. His first wife, Priscilla, came with him. She d. 
and hem. Alice, who was his widow. Also, left a son Laurence or 
Laurent, who administered on his estate which he had, and he also 
had a daughter. Laurence had a wife Sarah, by whom he had three 
children, two of them sons, who died young, and dau'r Sarah, who 
m. Thomas Bennct, of Mystic — the only dau'r. Codner's place was 
the original home-lot of Jarvis Mudge. (See Caulk. His. N. L.) 

Tliis name is found only in Saybrook and N. London. There was 
a John Codner in Marblehead, in 1673. 

COE, Hon. ROBERT, Sen., b. at Suffolkshire, England, in 1596. 
His wife Anna;, born in England 1591. They sailed from Ipswich, 
Suffolk, Eng., April 10, 1634, in the Francis, John Cutting, master 
with eighty-four others, and landed at Boston in June. He had chil- 
dren, viz.: 

1. John, b. in 1G20, 

■2. Robert, Jun., b. 1627. 

■{. Benjamin, b. 1629. (See Note.) 

COE, Hon. JOHN, eldest sonof Robert Coe, Sen., of Watertown, 
Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Newtown and Jamaica, b. 1626 ; 
his sons were Robert, John, Jonathan, Samuel, David. His son 
John was a judge of Queen's county. Neither John or David, his 
brother, left issue. Samuel, above, was an elder of the Presbyte- 
rian church, trustee of the town, and in 1712, m. Margaret Van 
Zandt, daughter of John, and in 1734, removed to New Hempstead, 
Rockland co., and d. there, aged 70, in 1742. His children were 
Samuel, John, Benjamin, Wm., Isaac, Matthew, Daniel, Margaret, 
Sarah and Abigail. Margaret m. Benjamin Skillman ; Sarah m. 
Moore Woodward. Isaac and Benjamin left no issue. John be- 
came the father of Rev. Dr. Jonas Coe, late of Troy, N. Y. 

COE, Capt. ROBERT, d. 1734, aged 75. He had sons : 
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630 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1. John, b. 1702, d. 174S; sons John, Samuel, Benjamin and William. 

2. Robert, b. 1707, d. 1777; had sons Robert, John, Elnathan and James. 

3. Samuel, b. 1712, probably d. at Salem, N. Y., Westchester co., 176S; had 
John, &c. (See iVbfc, p 400, Riker^s Newtown.) 

COE, BENJ'N, b. 1629, son of the first Robert, m. Abigail Car- 
man, dau'r of John, and had children, who are the New Jersey Goes 
by descent. When the N. York committee called upon the friends 
of liberty in Newtown, L. I., in 1775, to elect a delegate to send to 
N. Y. city, to choose delegates to the second General Congress, we 
find in the noble band of 100 in Newtown, the names of Benjamin 
Coe, Benj'n, Jun., John, Jonathan, Robert and Samuel Coe, who 
proved themselves true whigs of 1775. (See Riker, p. 180.) The 
Goes of L. I. took an active and laudable stand for the country dur- 
ing the war of the Revolution, several of them being officers in the 
service. 

COE, ROBERT, Jun., of Stratford, wife Susanna, had children, 
Susanna, Sarah and John. Robert, Jun., d. at Stratford in 1659, 
aged 32. His widow m. second, N. Elsey, of New Haven. 

COE, JOHN, only son of Robert, Jun., of Stratford, b. May 10, 
1658, m. Mary Hawley, of Stratford, Dec. 20, 1682. She d. April 
19, 1741, aged 83. His children, viz.: 

1. Robert, b. Sept. 21, 1GS4; m. Barbara Parmele, 170S; lived in Middle- 
town ; d. Feb. 4, 1762, aged 7S. 

2. Joseph, b. Feb. 2, 16S6 ; m. Abigail Robinson, 170S, Durham ; d. July 15, 

1754, aged 69. 

3. Hannah, b. April 14, 16S9 ; m. James Curtis, Sept. G, 1709, Durham; d. 

1755, aged 69. 

4. Mary, b. Aug. 11, 1691 ; m. Samuel Picket, Nov. 27, 1712, Durham; d. 
Feb. 19,1763, aged 72. 

5. John, Jun.,b. Dec. 5, 1693 ; m. Hannah Parsons, 17J5,Haddam ; d. Sept. 
23, 1757, aged 58. 

6. Sarah, b. March 26, 1696; m. Israel Bnrritt, March 4, 1719; d. Feb. 0, 
1731, aged 35. 

7. Ephraim, b. Dec. IS, 169S ; m. Hannah Miller, Nov. 29, 1723, Durham; 
b. Nov. 10, 1765, aged 69. 

S. Katherhie, b. Sept. 23, 1700; m. Joseph Fairchild, Nov. 11, 1725, Fair- 
field; d. 

9, Abigail, b. Nov. 11, 1702; m. John Guthry, June 1, 1727, Durham; d. 
1747, aged 45, 

10. Ebenezer, b. Aug. IS, 1704; m. Mary Blackman, Junel, 1727, Stratford; 
d. 1766, aged 63. 

GOE, EPH'M, son of John, of Stratford, m. Hannah Miller, of 
Middletown, Nov. 28, 1723, and had issue, Eph'm, b. July 25, 1724; 
Samuel, b. Aug. 5, 1726 ; Timothy, b. Oct. 15, 1728, d. 1733 ; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 631 

Aaron, b. Feb. 10, 1730-1; Daniel, b. Dec. 20, 1732, d. 1733; 
Seth, b. Dec. 31, 1734. {Middkloion Rec.) 

COE, ELI and ELISHA, were justices of the peace in Middlesex 
county. Conn., as was Charles Coe, of Durham. 

COE, SAMUEL, AARON and ENOCH, removed from Durham, 
Ct., to Granville, Mass. Robert and Joseph Coe, with Samuel Fair- 
child, James Curtiss, &c., from Stratford, removed to Durham, Ct. 

COE, ROBERT, son of John, of Stratford, and great-grandson of 
Robert, Sen., of Jamaica, L. L, m. Barbara, and had children at 
Middletown, viz.: Robert, b. Sept. 20, 1721, d. Oct., 1721 ; Jede- 
diah, b. Aug. 4, 1725 ; Thon)as, b. May 18, 1727 ; Reuben, b. Nov. 
17, 1728 ; Wm., b. April 29, 1730 ; Rachel, b. Sept. G, 1732. Mr. 
Robert, the father, d. Feb. 2, 1762. 

COE, M ATHEW, and his wife Eliz'th, were of Gloucester, Mass., 
and had children b. there, viz.: Abigail, b. June .5, 1058 ; Mathew, 
Jun., b. June 3, 1660, d. soon after. (Sec Gen. Reg.) 

COE, JANE, aged 30, came to New England in the Susan and 
Ellyn, Edward Payne, master, in 1635. Mathew Coe, an early set- 
tler at E:-sex as early as 1647. Capt. Mark Cooe, in 1656, was no- 
ticed in the codicil of the will of Ann Hibbins, of Boston, as her 
cousin, and the sum of 40*. given as a legacy. {His. Reg.) 

COE, or COO, (Norfolk,) has four coats of arms, and Coets, 1. 

There were 51 persons in Stamford, the first year. They pur- 
chased the Indian title before they purchased of the New Haven com- 
pany. 



Note. — COE, ROB'T, was born in Suflolkshire, England, in 1596. His wife Anna was Lorn in 
1591, in England. Their children named were John, b. in 1620 ; Robert, b. in 16'.i7 ; Benj'n, 
b. in 1629. They sailed from Ipswich, Sullblkshire, England, April 10, 1634, in the Francis, 
John Cutting, master, (in company with 84 others,) and arrived in Boston in June after. Rob- 
ert Coe and others of the crew, firstly settled in VVatertown, Mass., where he remained about 
two years. At the first court held in Conn., at " Newton," (Hartford,) April 36, 1636, "Andrew 
Warde, Jo: Sherman, Jo: Stickland, Rob'te Coo, Rob'te Reynold and Jonas Weede," appeared 
before the court and produced their certificate of dismission granted by the church of Water- 
town, Mass., dated 29 ofMa[ ] last, to form anew in a church covenant "on this River of Con- 
ectecott," which certificate was receiTedand approved by the court, and the before named per- 
sons settled at Wethersfield, Conn., where si.\ parcels of land stood recorded to Robert Coe in 
1641, where they continued about four years, during which time a trouble arose in the church, 
which it was found difficult to settle, even under the council of Mr. Davenport ; he therefore 
advised one of the contending parties to make a new settlement. Accordingly, the leaving party 
purchased Rippowams, (Stamford,) Oct. 30, 1640, of the New Haven colony, and removed to 
Rippowams in 1641 ; (see JVofc, p. 232, ante.) and the first vote upon the purchase of the plant- 
ation by the proprietors, was at a town-meeting held at Stamford in 1641, when the following 
vote was passed to pay N. Haven, at le.ist in part, for the purchase of the town, viz.: " Whereas 



632 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COFFUR? SEABORN, is noticed by Rowland, of [Windsor, in 
his list of the number of children in each faip.ily in Windsor, between 
1639 and 1681, as having one child, and no other account is found 
concerning him. (Perhaps Cotton.) 



the purchase of the place and viewing of it, was first done by our friends of New Haven, and 
we stand indebted to them for it. It is ordered, that one hundred bushels of corn, at three shil- 
lings a bushel, be paid towards it, when raised, and sent them as foUoweth, by Mathew Mitchell, 
viz." Here follow the names of the proprietors, one of which is the name of Robert Coe, and 
twenty others, which can be read upon the record of Stamford. However, nine of the names 
of the thirty can not be deciphered, being lost, and to each name is attached his proportion of 
corn to be paid. Coe's share was four bushels and one peck. Mr. Coe continued at Stamford until 
Rev. Richard Denton removed to Hempstead, L.I. in 1644. He then with his sons Robert, John 
and Benjamin, went to Hempstead. At this time Robert, Sen., was about 48 years old, his eldest 
son John about 18 years, Robert, Jun., about 17, and Benjamin about 15 years old. Mr. Rob't 
Coe and Capt. John Coe, the first of Jamaica and John from Newtown, L. I., were appointed by 
their lespective towns to attend the court at Hartford, (see Col. Rec. of Conn., printed vol., p- 
425.) May 12, 1664. Same session, the Gen. Court appointed Mr. Robert Coe a commissioner 
for " Jamaicoe," L. I., and Capt. John Coe a commissioner for Newtown, L. I. 

At the Gen. Court of Conn., May 11, 1065, it was ordered by said court that the villages of 
Hastings and Rye should be " for the future, conioyned and make one plantation, and that it 
shall be called by the appellation of Rye." The lands of this township were purchased of the 
proprietors, by Peter Disbrow, John Coe, Thomas Studwell, and John Budd, in ICGO, '61 and '62, 
and by them conveyed to Samuel Allen, Rich'd Lowe and five other planters. (See Col. Rec, 
and j^'ote, vol. 2, pp. 15, 16 ; also, Bolton's Hist. Tf'estckcater Co.) 

At the Gen. Court of Conn., Oct. 14, 1669, the court was informed that the people of Rye had 
no orthodox minister, and did not take due care to procure one, to carry on "the workeof the 
Lord on the Sabbath and instruct them," &c., but seemed to rest satisfied without " in the im- 
proueraent of John Coe and Marmaduke Smith," who had been represented to the court " as per- 
sons unsownd and heterodo.x in their judgments," &c.; therefore the court impowered Jlr. Na- 
than Gold and any three of the Commiss'rs of that county, to require said Coe and Smith, or 
" any others of that towne to appear before them," and if the facts should appear to them, as 
had been represented to the court, to give them no opportunity " to sowe the seeds of error 
among the people there." Also to inform the people of Rye, that the court were resolved, if the 
said people's prudent consideration did not move them to provide " a suitable person, sownd 
and orthodox in his principles, and apt to teach," and approved by Mr. Bishop, of Stamford, Mr- 
Hanford, of Norwalk, Mr. Eliphalet Joanes, of Fairfield, and Mr. VVakeman, that the court would 
procure and settle a minister among them, and take sufficient order that he should be maintained 
by them. It appears by these facts that John Coe resided at Rye in 1669, and being a leading 
man there, was selected by the court to whip into their traces, e.xpecting the other inhabitants 
of Rye would follow Coe and Smith's example. 

John Coe was rated 12s. among the 55 persons taxed at Middlebury, L. I., in 1656, four years 
after the first settlement there " on Indian rate." Robert Coe was taxed £i, on the same rate, 
land rated at Is. an acre. (,Riker's Annals of J^ewtown, p. 43.) John Coe had a flouring mill, 
at the mouth of Horse Brook in 1653. Edward Jessup applied to the council in 1657 for land 
to build another mill, not however to the injury of Mr. Coe's mill. In 1660, Capt. Coe indicted 
a man for taking corn from his mill ; the culprit after being made to make amends to Capt. 
Coe, was sentenced " to walk from Mr. Doughty's house, with two rods under each arm, and 
the drum beating before him, until he comes to Mr. Jessup's house, and then he is to have his 
liberty," &c., (p. 48.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PLUITAXS. 633 

COGGIN, JOHN, a defendant in court at Hartford, in favor of 
Mathew Allen, in Sept., 1641 ; £'20 damages and costs. He was 
also plaintiff against Allen, 1641. He was in Hartford in 1640. 



In 1055, Mr. Coe was a magistrate. Capt. Jolin was a warm advocate for an alliance of the 
people of Middleburg with Connecticut, and sent a letter upon the subject to the Gen. Court of 
Conn., by James Christie, &.c. Capt. Talcott, when he arrived in Hartford, engaged Christie to 
visit Flusliing, Hempstead and Jamaica, " to try if the inhabitants were favorably inclined to- 
wards the gov'r of Hartford." Christie returned to Middleburg, and in the absence of Director 
Stuyvesant, who had gone to Boston, Christie went with two others to Gravesend, with a " sim- 
ple commission signed Coe," and a copy of Capt. Talcott's letter. The people being called to- 
gether, Christie produced his letters and informed the people they were no longer subject to the 
Dutch gov't, but to that of Hartford. Nicholas Siillwell doubted the fact, and arrested Christie 
and his papers, and informed the council, who dispatched a serg't and eight men to convey 
Chri.«tie to Fort .Vnasterdam, &c. (Rilccr, pp. 556, 557, &c.) 

Coe, Christie, Panton, Waters and others, Richard Mills, the school-master, aided the revolt at 
Westchester, where Mills was a magistrate. The affair of Stuyvesant with Conn., Westchester 
and on Long Island, is rich in the history of the first settlement of Long Island and Westchester. 
James Christie and others were made freemen in Conn. John Coe and Richard Betts repre- 
sented Hastings to attend the convention at Hempstead, L. I., Feb. 28, 1665. In 1666, "67, new 
style, a patent was granted by Gov. Richard NicoU to John Coe, Capt. Thomas LawTcnce, and 
the other inhabitants of Newtown, L. I., as patentees of said Newtown, in confirmation of their 
previous title. John Coe was also named as one of the patentees and inhabitants of Newtown 
by Thomas Dongan, in his confirmation of the title of Newtown, Nov. 25, 1686. (Rj'A-er.) John 
Coe was chosen sheriff of Queen's co., L. I. and commissioned by Leisler. {Riker, p. 117.) 
John Coe was one of Leisler's council. Leisler and Milborne, with all their loyalty, were con- 
demned and executed. Coe was imprisoned, but escaped. (Rec. Hist, of JV.) John, Roberti 
Jonathan and David Coe were all signers of the petition to his excellency, Edward Viscount 
Combury, her majesty's captain-general and governor-in-chief of the province of New-York, &c. 
in behalf of the freeholders of Newtown, in Queen's co., on the island of Nassau. John Coe 
also held the office of judge, and was one of the leading men on Long Island. 

Benjamin Coe, the youngest son of Robert, Sen., was a farmer ; while Robert, Sen., and his 
son John were important men, and most of their lives while upon Long Island, in some impor- 
tant public employment. Robert, Sen , left " Heemstede" after a few years'residence there ; he 
became a pioneer in the settlement of Middleburg, about 1051-2. 

At the first meeting of the first English settlers at Sliddleburg, Robert Coe and Richard Gilder- 
sleeve, both of whom had resided at Wethersfield and Stamford, were confirmed, with Hazard? 
in the oifice of first magistrates of the town. Robert Coe and Edward Jessup, w-ere sent from 
Middleburg, and a delegation from Hempstead, to propound to " the Honorable Commissioners" 
then in session at Boston, questions which agitated the public mind, (Rikcr, p. 31, 32,) and re- 
quested protection from N. England. Robert Coe and Tho's Hazard were delegates from Mid- 
dleburg. and met the burgomasters of New Amsterdam at the City Hall, Nov. 25, 1653. Robert 
Coe held the otfice of ensign of a company of soldiers under Capt. Titus, to sustain Lieut. Gov. 
Leisler in the military force of the province, and v.ere by him commissioned in their new o.'fi- 
ces. {Rikcr, p. 118.) Robert signed the petition with his son John to his e.xcellency, E. Vis- 
count Cornbury, Capt. Gen. and Gov. of the province of New Vork in 1703. Aug. 20, 1730, 
Robert Coe was appointed with others, a committee to examine the accounts for eight years 
preceding, of the trustees of the place, &c. 

Few of the original settlers of Conn., who removed to Long Island, held a more exalted rank 
with the first English settlers upon the island, than Hon Robert and his son John Coe. 

Mr. .John Hicks of Hempstead, Mr. Robert Coe of Jamaica, Capt. John Coe of Newtown, and 



634 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COGGENS, RICHARD, m. Mary Chalker, dau'r of Alexander, 
of Saybrook, in 1677-8. 

COGGAN, JOHN, Boston, freeman, 1633, member of the ar. co. 
1638. He m. Martha, widow of Gov. Winthrop, March 10, 1651, 
and d. 1658. His son Joshua b. 1652 ; son John, of Boston, freeman, 
1642. {Farmer.) Thomas Coggin, of Taunton, able to bear arms 
in 1643, d. March 4, 1653. Sarah Coggin, aged 20, embarked for 
Virginia, in the Assurance de Lo, Isaac Bromwell and Geo. Pewsie, 
master, 1635. 

COGGIN, HENRY, of Barnstable, 1640. John Coggan, of Bos- 
ton, dau'r Annah, b. 7° (9°) 1636. John Phinney, of Barnstable, 
m. Abigail Croggin, widow, June 10, 1650 ; she d. 1653. John, 
son of John and Elizabeth Coggen, of Woburn, March 10, 1693 ; 
also, Henry, their son, d. 1694. (See His. Res.) This name is 
not now in Conn. 

John Cogan was an early settler in Dorchester, and probably came 
to Windsor in the first settlement of the town, or soon after, as he was 
in court at Hartford in 1641 and 1646, though he either left Wind- 
sor within a few years, or died. In 1635, John Cogan, Wolcott, 
Telley and Pinney, had a case of some importance referred to arbi- 
tration at Dorchester. He was probably the John Coggin first 
named above, and grantee of Dorchester. 



Mr. Hallett of Flushing, in May, 1664, were appointed by their, respective towns on L. I., to at- 
tend the court in Conn. The same session of said Gen. Court, Mr. Roliert Coe and Mr. Thomas 
Benedict were appointed commissioners for Jamaica, L. I., and Capt. John Coe and Richard 
Betts, commissioners for Newtown. 

While Benjamin, the second son of Robert, Sen., b. 16:i9, was quietly seated upon his farm 
at Jamaica, L. I., his father and his brother John were figuring in the aifairs of government in 
public life. Robert Coe, Jun., the third son of Robert, Sen., b. 1627, removed from L. I. about 
1654, to Stratford, Conn., where he was a farmer, and neighbor of Mr. Sherman, who had re- 
moved there from Stamford. He m. Susanna, and by her had three children, who were Uving 
at his decease, at Stratford, in 1659, aged 32 years. After his decease his relict m. Nicholas 
Elsy, or Ellery, of New Haven. His three children, John, Susannah and Sarah, are named in 
the settlement of his estate on the probate record of Fairfield, From this branch are descended 
most of the Coes of Conn. Some of the descendants of Benjamin Coe settled in New Jersey, 
where the name is yet found. Susannah, the widow of Robert, of Stratford, presented the in- 
ventory of the estate of her late husband, Oct. 20, 1659, being £179, 1S«-. distributed to his son 
John, Susanna and Sarah, each £35, and the remainder to his widow. Josua and Jcremie Jud- 
son, Henry Wakley and Richard Boothe, appraisers. 

Robert, Sen., of Wethersfield, was one of the thirty families who settled Stamford, and is one 
of the twenty names now found there recorded of the thirty who first purchased Rippowams, 
Oct. 30, 1640, and removed there in 1641, on condition that Rev. Richard Denton was to re- 
move there by March, 1641-2, and the settlers by Nov., 1641. 

COE, COOE, ROBERT, had six tracts of land recorded at Wethersfield in 1641. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 635 

COGSWELL, COGGSWELL, COGSWEL, ROBERT or 
JOHN, was an original settler of New Haven, and a signer of the 
fundamental agreement made there in 1639; and in 1643, he is 
found in Lambert's list of families and estates in Now Haven, with 
four persons in his family, and an estate of £60. Whether Mr. Sam- 
uel Coggswell, of Saybrook, was one of the four of this family, in 
1643, 1 have no evidence. 

COGSWELL, Mr. SAMUEL, was a farmer at Saybrook about 
1665. Who was his father, or whence he came, the record does ncA 
show. He was unm. when he came to Saybrook, and m. Susan- 

nali , Oct. 27, 166S. Her name is so badly written and blotted, 

it is impossible to decipher her entire name. (Mr. Nash says Hearn.) 
Slie was probably a Wastall. John Wastall, a first settler there. 
On a page or two after the Coggswell family, is found the will of John 
Wastall, and Susannali, his wife; they being advanced in years and 
childless, he made Jolin Cortland [Kirtland] sole heir to his estate. 
Mr. Coggswell calls one of his sons Wastall. By iiis calling his 
first son Wastall, perhaj)s, for it is only conjecture, he n)ight have 
m. Wastall's sister; who she was is in doubt. They had chil- 
dren born at Saybrook, viz.: 

1. Hannah, b. June 4,1070; ui. ^■^<r,h i'l.i,;-. ir, .|-: r.. i !■,.•■ - rhi'' ' •>ri. 
there. 

2. Susannah, b. Nov. 23, 1G72. 

3. Wastall, b. Feb. 17, 16^74. 

4. Samuel, b. Aug. 3, 1G77. 

5. Roland, b. July 7, 1679. 
0. Jo.seph, b. April 10, 16S2. 
7. Xath'l, b. Dec. 16, 16S4. 
S. John, b. Aug. 7, IGSS. 

COGGSWELL, SAMUEL, Se.\., v. as presenied to tijc Gen. Court 
for a freeman from Saybrook, in May, 1669, and at tiie same ses- 
sion was appointed commissioner for that town. 

COGGSWELL, JOSEPH, b. 1682, son of Samuel, Sen., of Say- 
brook. settled at Southington, where he m. Anna Orvis, Aug. 25, 
1710, and had children, viz., Joseph, Jun., b. May 24, 1711, m. 
Joanna Andrews, May 3, 1732 ; Samuel, b. May 23, 1713, m. ■\Iary 
Langdon, Nov. 28, 1734 ; Nathan, b. May 20, 1716, m. Susanna 
Warner, Nov. 24, 1737 ; Susanna, b. Aug. 18, 1718, m. Jcdediah 
Smith, 1740; Martha, b. Aug. 24, 1721; David, b. March 20, 
1725, d. 1806 ; Mary, b. May 21, 1728, m. Oct., 1750; Deborah, 
b. April 23, 1731 ; Anna, b. March 6, 1732-3, d. 1736; Elizabctli, 
b. March 31, 1735. m. Ebenezer Hurlbut, Aug. 20, 1752. 



636 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

JOSEPH, son of Joseph Cogswell, m. Joanna Andrews, and had 
issue, Isaac, b. 174- ; Nathan, b. 1741, m. Bulah Scott, 1760; Sam- 
uel, b. 174- ; Rachel, b. 174- ; Bulah Scott, 1760. ,\_ 

SAMUEL, son of Joseph, m. Wary Langdon, and had issue, an 
infant, d. 1736 ; Lucerna and Joseph, b. July 13, 1737 ; Mary, b. 
April 1, 1739, m. Joseph Barnett, Oct. 6, 1756 ; Asahel, b. April 
18, 1741 ; Rhoda, b. 1743 ; Isaac, b. 1745 ; Samuel, Jun., b. 1747, 
d.; Rachel, b. 1749; Lydia, b. 1752; second Samuel, b. Sept. 17, 
1754 ; Reuben, b. March, 1756 ; Lucy, b. 1746 ; Simeon and Levi, 
b. Sept. 6, 1759; Jerusha, b. 1761. 

NATHAN, son of Joseph Cogswell, of Southington, m. Susanna 
Warner, and had issue, Anna, b. Jy 24, 1738 ; Solomon, b. March 
20, 1743 ; Asahel, b. 1744, 

DAVID, son of Joseph, Sen., m. and had issue, Ruth, b. Dec. 6, 
1749, m. Wm. Barrett, 1762; Huldah, b. Sept. 22, 1751; Phebe, 
b. 1754; David, Jun., b. 1757, d. 1823; Noah, b. Sept. 27, 1761, 
m. Lydia Woodruff, 1798; Salmon, b. March 18, 1768, m. Sarah 
Smith. 

The Coggswells of Washington, Conn., are supposed descendants 
of this family. 

COGSWELL, NATH'L, b. 1684, son of Samuel, Sen., of Say- 
brook, settled in Lyme. Joseph, his brother, settled in that part of 
Farmington called Southington. Joseph Cogswell, of Farmington, 
deeds to his "brother, Nathaniel Cogswell, of Lyme, all his right" 
in the ninth part of a 2,000 acre right in the town of Hebron, that 
accrued from his honored father, dated April 10, 1710. (Vol. 2, p. 
276, Say. Rec.) Same page, John, another brother, of Saybrook, 
gives a similar deed, dated April 21, 1710. 

COGSWELL, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Samuel, Sen., of Saybrook, 
b. 1677 ; m. Anne Denison, " each to the other, the 3d day of March, 
1700-1." " Their son Samuel was born ye 25th of Dec, 1701; 
their dau'r Anne Avas born ye — of Dec, 1703 ; their son Hezekiah 
was born ye first day of ffeb^ 1705-8." (Entered July ye 9th, 
1707, vol, 2, p. 124.) 

The funeral sermon at the decease of Dr. James Cogswell, a son 
of Samuel and Anne, says he (James) was also born at Saybrook in 
January, 1720, but his birth is not found at Saybrook ; but it was 
probably as stated. Samuel, Jun., and his wife Anne, removed with 
their family from Saybrook to Lebanon, where they remained until |; 
himself and his wife had become aged, and their children left them |, 
and settled in separate families, when lue father and mother, by age, [ 



GENEALOGY OF TEIE PURITANS. 637 

needed the fostering care of a dutiful and affectionate son to comfort 
them after they had arrived to the helpless state of threescore years 
and ten. They removed to Scotland society in the town of Wind- 
ham, to the hospitable house of their son, Rev. James Cogswell, 
D. D., of that place, where they both died in the care of their son. 
The father d. (Samuel, Jun.) in 1152, and his wife about two years 
after. 

COGSWELL, Rev. JAMES, son of Samuel, Jun. and Anne, b. 
at Saybrook in 1720, removed with his parents to Lebanon, probably 
when quite young. He became a youth of great promise, and grad- 
uated at Yale College in 1742. After his graduation he immediately 
turned his attention to the study of divinity, and Dr. Trumbull says 
was ordained in the ministry at Canterbury, Dec. 28, 1744, where 
he continued their able and faithful pastor until 1771, when he was 
dismissed from the charge of that church, and the next year he was 
installed over the church in the parish of Scotland, in Windham. 
While in this place, he was honored by Yale College with tlie title 
of D. D., which few more justly merited. He continued his minis- 
terial services at Scotland, until Dec, 1804, when he by a life of 
industry and usefulness and being far advanced in life, had become 
enfeebled and unable to pursue his pastoral charge. Thus aged 
and infirm, by an invitation from his affectionate son to reside with 
him, he removed into the kind family of his son, Dr. Mason F. Cogs- 
well, at Hartford, where he was kindly cared for and tenderly nour- 
ished, as he had previously done by his own aged parents. He died 
at the house of his son, Dr. Cogswell, Jan. 2, 1807, nearly 87 years 
old. He was three times married ; first, m. Alice Fitch, dau'r of 
Jabez, Esq., of Canterbury. She was the mother of all his chil- 
dren, and died April, 1772, aged 47 years. He m. second, Martha 
Devotion, the widow of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, dec'd, of Scotland 
in Windham. He m. for his third wife, Mrs. Hibbard, of said Scot- 
land. His children were : 

1. James, Jun., b. July, J 746; d. Nov. 20, 1792. • 

2. Alice, b. Dec, 1749; d. May 9, 1772. 

3. Samuel, b. May, 1754 ; d. Aug. 24, 1790. 

4. Dr. Mason Fitch, b. Sept., 1761 ; d. at Hartford, Dec. 17, 1830. 

5. Septimius, b. Aug., 17G9; d. Oct., 1773. 

Their mother, Alice, d. 1772, having lost no children by death at 
her decease, while Rev. James lived to inter his three wives and all 
his children, except Dr. M. F. Cogswell, of Hartford. 

COGSWELL, Dr. MASON F., son of Rev. James and Alice 
54 



GKNEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Fitcli, of Canterbury, graduated at Yale College in 1780, and soon 
after located himself as physician and surgeon in the city of- Hart- 
ford, Conn., where his talents, education and skill in his profession, 
within a few years elevated him to the head of his profession, not only 
in the city, but in a large extent of country in Conn. He married 
Mary Ledyard, of Hartford, one of the noted Ledyard family of Conn. 
(The widow of Austen Ledyard m. Butler for second husband.) 
His children were : 

1. Mary A. She in. Rev. Lewiri Weld, son of Rev. Ludovicus Weld, dec'd, 
of Hampton, Conn., May, 1S23, a finished seholar, wlio for many years has 
been the principal of the deaf and dumb institntion at Hartford, where he died 
the past year, soon after his return from a visit to Europe, hoping to improve 
his previous declining health. (See WELD.) 

2. Elizabeth, m. Hon. John T. Norton, of Fannington, Conn. 

3. Alice, a deaf mute and a most interesting, intelligent and lovely girl. She 
died single, Dec, 1830, aged 25. (See Note.) 

4. Dr. Mason Fitch, of Albany, graduated at Yale College in 1S29, and set- 
tled in Albany as physician and surgeon, where he has proved himself a ripe 
scholar in the profession his father had so much honored. He m. Lydia, dau'r 
of Rev. John Bradford, D. D., who was an eloquent pulpit orator. 

5. Catherine Ledyard, m. Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., of Burling- 
ton, N. J., son of the former patroon, of Albany, N. Y. 

Mrs. Dixon, the wife of Hon. James Dixon^ of Hartford, and dau'r 
of Rev. Dr. Cogswell, of N. Jersey, is a descendant of the Cogswell 
family of Mass. 

Five persons by the name of Cogswell, had graduated at Harvard 
College before 1817, and eight at Yale before 1848. 

COGSWELL, JOHN, freeman in Mass., March 3, 1635-6. Rev. 
Wm. Cogswell, D. D., dec'd, at Gilmanton, N. H., who died 1850, 
aged 62, son of Rev. Wm., of Atkinson, N. H., was the author of 
many published discourses, and aided in several periodical publica- 
tions, a member of many literary societies, and for a time connected 
with the publication of the N. E. His. Gen. Register, also with the 
American Quarterly Register, and proprietor and editor of the New 
Hampshire Repository ; was a descendant of John, of London, who 
afterward settled in Ipswich, Mass , about 1035. Wife Elizabeth d. 
June 2, 1676, and he d. Nov. 29, 1669. Had children, Wm., John, 
Edward, Mary, Hannah, Abigail and Sarah. (See His. Reg.) These 
are the first branches of John Cogswell, of Ipswich, Mass. The 
Cogswells were connected by marriage with the Uphams, Went- 
worths. Badgers, Otis's, and many others of the best families in New 
England. 

William, son of John, Sen., of Ipswich, in 1648. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 639 

John Cogswell has the title of Mr. on the Ipswich record. 

Mr. Wm. Cogswell is in the list of those who had a right of com- 
monage in Ipswich, Feb., 1678, as was Mr. Jno. Cogswell. 

JOHN, Sen., of Ipswich, had no son Samuel in his list of children. 
Farmer notices John, of Ipswich ; came to N. E. in 1635 ; admit- 
ted freeman, 1636 ; that he was wrecked on his passage at Pema- 
quid, and names his three sons, John, b. 1623, d. 1653, and left three 
children ; William, of Ipswich, 1648, and Edward, b. about 1629. 

Samuel, Sen., of Saybrook, was probably not a descendant of the 
Ipswicli family. 

COIT, JOHN, (and wife, Mary Jenners,) is found at Dorchester, 
Mass., in 1635, and a grantee of land there before 1636, where the 
name is spelled Goite and Govt. He is also claimed to have been 
at Salem, and a grantee of land there in 1638. He was selectman 
in Gloucester in 1649. When he came to N. England is not known. 
He was probably from England, as the name of Coit is found there. 



Note. Epitaph of Dr. J^Tath'l Lrdyard. In memory of Poet. Xathaniel Ledyard, who de 
parted this life June y« Jst, A. D. 1766, in the 26th year of his age. 

Just when deUv'd from her boding fears, 

My chcarful country wiped away her tears, 

Materials wrought the public joys to aid. 

With dire explosion snapp'd my vital thread, 

And lif 's rich zest, the bliss of being free, 

Pov'd the sad cause of bitter death to me. 
(Blown up in the school house.) Father of the wife of Doct. M. F. Cogswell. (Seep. 414, 
ante.) 

Note. Dr. Mason Fitch Cogswell, who died at Hartford, was not only a skillful and learned 
physician, but one of the kindest and most affectionate of fathers, and his affections for his fam- 
ily were most kindly reciprocated by all his children. His daughter Alice, who possessed all the 
good qualities of her father, was unfortunately a deaf mute, yet as intellectual as any of his 
children, and most affectionately loved her father. It was her misibrtune in being a mute, which 
was the great first cause of establishing the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford. Dr. 
Cogswell's energies were all bent upon this subject, to relieve his distressed child from her sit- 
uation as far as his exertions and means could be put forth. And by the aid of Mr. Gallaudet 
and some few others, an act of incorporation was obtained from the Legislature of Connecticut, 
and Mr. Gallaudet went to France to procure an experienced teacher, and soon after opened a 
school for deaf mutes at Hartford. The great success of the school is known through the coun- 
try, and the immense pleasure it has afforded this unfortunate class of the community. Dr. 
Cogswell lived to see his exertions crowned with success, and bis darling daughter attending the 
school, and fast learning to converse with her school mates and her own atTectionate father 
and family. But in the midst of joys, he was taken sick with a severe cold, which closed his 
earthly career on the fifth day of bis illness. This so affected his daughter Alice, for she loved 
her father most tenderly, that it entirely unnerved her, and the night after his decease, she wag 
taken with spasms, and died thirteen days after the death of her father, lamented by the whole 
city, which was allrlbuled entirely to her grief at the death of her father. 



640 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

The original name was probably Coit, though the name on the rec- 
ord at Dorchester, and upon the probate record at Hartford, where 
his will was proved, is spelled Goite and Goyt, but not spelled by 
himself. He came to New London about the time Mr. Blynman 
came there, or soon after followed him to N. L. from Gloucester 
about 1651. His son, .John, Jun., held land in N. London, and per- 
haps came there, but he finally settled at Gloucester, and had chil- 
dren there, viz.: John, Mary, Abigail, Nathaniel and Job, of whom 
the three last married and had children. But the name of Coit was 
soon lost in Gloucester, nor is it known that there lives a descendant 
of John, Jun., by the name of Coit. 

Coit, John, Sen., d. in N. London, Aug. 29, 1659. His widow, 
Mary, survived him until Jan. 2, 1676, when she died, aged 80.* 
His will, dated Aug. 1, 1659, is on file in Hartford. In the inven- 
tory of his estate, the name reads Coite, and so in the copy of the 
will found on the town records at New London. In this will men- 
tion is made of his two sons and two daughters, absent, besides his 
son Joseph and daughters Mary and Martha, then with him in New 
London. 

MARTHA, m. Hugh Mould, from Barnstable, June 11, 1662. 

MARY, m. John Stevens, (says Miss Caulkins.) 

JOSEPH, m. Martha Harris, daughter of Wm., of Wethersfield, 



*The Last will and Testaman of JohnGoit of Newlondonn August the first 1659 — 

Impf I give unto my wife and my son Joseph, the house and houshold stuf wli the orchard 
and all lands about my house. As also all my great catle — as also half my meadows. And they 
shall enjoy itt togather as long as my wife lives, except they both agree to the contrary. And 
also I give to y™ my ground on ye other side of ye river, that is the lot of 22 acres, as also half 
my land in the neck. 

I give unto my two daughters Mary and Martha my farm up Mohegin river, as also two-thirds 
of the sheepe, as also my other lot of thirty acres upon the other side of the river, as also half 
my meadow, as also the other half of my land in y neck. 

Also I give to my tvpo sons and two daughters twenty shillings a piece I mean thos absent 
from me in case they bae living — to bee payd out of the whole. I give to my son Joseph one- 
third of ray sheep. Also after all my debts bee pay'd, I give the remaynder to my wife, son and 
two daughters w'' me. 

Also 1 leave my loving friends, Mr. Thomson and James Avery and Wm. Nickols to bee my 
Exequtors to look after y" dispose of my children w"' my wife And if any of the children dye be. 
fore mariage their estate shall be divided by the other now at home. 

The Mark / of John Goit. 

In the prsensof 

William Younglove 
Gabriell Harres 

(An exact copy of John Goil's will on file in probate oflice, Hartford.) Inventory dated 
1600, (June 25, I6G1, £103.) 



KENEALOGY OF THE PURLTAN8. 641 

July 15, 1667. He was the first deacon of the church there. He 
was a partner of his brother-in-law, Mould, in ship building, at New- 
London. He d. March 27, 1704. His widow d. July 14, 1713. 
His estate £312, 17*. 4rf. He and his wife were confirmed in the 
church, April 3, 1680. His property was divided between his widow 
and his sons John, Joseph and Solomon, and the heirs of his son VVm., 
deceased. His sons Daniel and Samuel, probably died young, and 
unmarried, before their father, as they are not known in settling his 
estate. Inventory of estate May 3, 1704, ^312, 17^. Ad. Joseph, 
Sen., and Martha's children were: 

1. John, b. Dec. 1, 1070; ni. Melietubel Chandler, of Woodstock, June 25, 
1695. 

2. Joseph, (Rev.,) b. April 4, li".73. 

3. William, b. Jan. 25, 1(575. 

4. Danyell, b. Dec. 8, 1G77, probably d. young. 

5. Solomon, b. Nov. 29, 1679. 

G. Samuel, bap. Aug. 14, 1682, probably d. young. 

Joseph was presented for a freeman at Hartford, Oct., 1669. 

COIT, JOHN, son of Joseph and Martha, is supposed to have fol- 
lowed his father's business in New London. He m. Mehitabel, (dau'r 
of John and Elizabeth Chandler, of Woodstock, a most amiable lady,) 
June 25, 169.5, and had children, viz.: 

1. John, b. May 25, 16'JG ; m. Grace Christophers, 1719, and raised a family 
in New London. 

2. Joseph, b. Nov. 15, 169S; m. Lydia Lathrop, 171S, and was father of 
Hon. Joshua, and grandfather of Rev. Mr. Learned, of Canterbury, Ice, &c. 

3. Samuel, b. Feb. IS, 1700, supposed died young. 

4. Thomas, b. June 1, 1702; m. Mary Prentiss, 1723; groat-great-grand- 
father of Rev. Dr. T. W. Coit, of Hartford. 

5. Elizabeth, b. March 22, 1704 ; m. Samuel Gardiner in 1720. 

6. Martha, b. April 1, 1706; m. Daniel Hubbard, 1731, and m. 2d, Thomas 
Green, 1744. 

John Coit, the father, d. Oct. 22, 1744, aged 74, and Mehitabel, 
his widow, d. Nov. 3, 1759, aged 86. 

COIT, Rev. JOSEPH,* (son of Joseph and Martha,) b. 1673, 
graduated at Harvard College in 1697, and afterward took a degree 
with the first class at Yale in 1702. He preached a while at Glou- 



* In the absence of all cburcb records, it is difficult, at this late period, to gather the fruits of 
Rev. Mr. Coit's ministerial labors. His memory at Plainfit-ld is cherished with respect and ven- 
eration by the older descendants of those to whom he ministered for nearly half a century. He 
held a good standing with the clergy of liis day, and was often called to preside at their meet- 
ings, and was one of the excellent men of his generation, and a blessing to the people among 
whom he settled in the infancy of the town and the church, to the improvement and prosperity 
uf which he seems to have contributed a large share. 

54* 



642 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

cester and at Norwich, after Rev. James Fitch (the father of the 
Fitches of Conn.) had beconne disabled, and they gave him a call to 
settle, which he declined, for the reason that he disagreed with the 
church at Norwich. June 12, 1699, Plainfield voted to give him a 
call, for one quarter of a year. The town being in want of means, 
continued to engage him in short periods from three to six months 
and a year, until January 7, 1705, (O. S.,) when he was ordained 
over the church and society at Plainfield, (Dr. Trumbull says in 
Jan., 1703, which is an error,) and continued their pastor about 
forty-four years, and was dismissed at the time of settling a suc- 
cessor, and died July 1, 1750, aged 77 years. He m. Experience 
Wheeler, daughter of Isaac, of Stonington, Sept. 18, 1705. She d. 
Jan. 8, 1759, and had ten children, viz.: 

1. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 19, 1706-7, (O. S.,) probably d. young. 

2. Samuel, b. 170S ; settled in North Preston, and was the ancestor of all the 
Preston Coits. He m. Sarah Spalding, daughter of Benjamin, of Plainfield, in 
1730, and removed to Preston, (now Griswold,) where he was colonel of mili- 
tia, and principal man of the town. He died Oct. 4, 1792, aged 84 years. 

3. Joseph, Jan., b. about 1711 ; he d. young, though he m. Mary Spalding, 
of Preston, removed to Griswold and had two dau'rs, Elizabeth and Mary, and 
d. July 21, 1741, and his widow m. Gen. John Tyler, of Griswold, for second 
husband. 

4. Martha, b. about 1713, (uncertain.) She m. 1. Lemuel Smith, of Volun- 
town ; had several children, one of whom was the late Luther S., of P. After 
the death of Mr. Smith, she m. 2. Humphrey Avery, of Norwich. 

5. Isaac, b. Dec. 26, 1714. Hem. Ruth Spalding, of Plainfield, and settled 
at Plainfield. After his wife d., 1773, lie m. Mrs. Elizabeth "Webb, widow of 
E-ev. Mr. W., of Uxbridge, Mass.; had children by neither, and d. April 23, 
1776, aged 61 years ; was one of the principal men of Plainfield. He left a leg- 
acy of £250 for the education of indigent youth at the academy in P. His 
widow m. Rev. Mr. Jones, of Weston, Mass., Nov. 30, 1779. Isaac and his 
wife, members of the church in Plainfield, 176S. 

6. Abigail, b. about 1716, (uncertain.) She m. Thomas Gates, of Plainfield. 

7. Mary, b. about 171S, (uncertain;) m. Nathaniel Stanton, of Preston or 
Groton. 

8. William, b. Nov. 27, 1720 ; name of his wife not known. He removed 
to Sheffield, Mass., before 1750, and his line lost track of. He d. in 1776. 

9. Experience, b. about 1722, (uncertain.) She m. John Stevens, of Plain- 
field. 

10. Daniel, b. in 1731. He m. Tamasore Kimball, of Methucn, Mass., and 
settled in Plainfield, and d. there April 23, 1762, and left a dau'r Experience, 
who d. young. His widow m. (about 1764) Dr. Elisha Lord, of Abington, 
(Pomfret.) She had children by Dr. Lord, a son Elisha, and five dau'rs, viz.: 
Experience, wife of Dr. Nehemiah Cleveland, of Topsfield, Mass.; Alathea, w. 
of Rev. Asahel Huntington, of Topsfield, Mass.; Sarah, wife of Gen. James 
Danielson, of Killingly ; Mary, wife of Dr. Josiah Fuller, of Plainfield; Pamela, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 643 

wife of Major Jolin Douglass, of Plainlield, and afterward wife of Judge Joseph 
Eaton, of Plainfield. (This is a digression to name some excellent ladies.) 

COIT, JOHN, b. 1670, son of Deacon Joseph, and grandson of 
John, Sen., and Mary Jenners, of N. London,) m. Mehelibel Chand- 
ler, (dau'r of John, of Woodstock,) June 25, 1695. They had chil- 
dren, viz.: 

1. John, b. May 25, IGyO ; ni. Grace Christophers, b. Nov. 11, lO'JS, (dau'r 
of Ricliaid and Grace,) in. July 2, 1719. 

2. Joseph, b. Nov. 15, 1098; ni. Lydia, dau'r of Thomas Lathrop, 1739. 

3. Samuel, b. Feb. IS, 1700. 

4. Thomas, b. June 1, 1702; in. Mary Prentiss, dau'r of Thomas, of N. L., 
1723. 

5. Elizabeth, b. March 22, 1701; in. Samuel Gardiner, Nov. S, 1720. 

6. Martha, b. April 1, 170G; m. Daniel Hubbard, Aug. 13, 1731, and Tho's 
Green, 1744. 

John, the father, d. Oct. 22, 1744, aged 74, and his widow Me- 
hitabel, d. Nov. 3, 1759, aged 86. 

COIT, JOSEPH, b. 1698, (son of John and Mehitabel,) m. Lidia 
Lathrop, (dau'r of Tho's and Lydia, of Norwich,) Jan., 1739-40. 
Issue : 

1. Lydia, b. June 17, 1741 ; in. Wm. Hubbard, of Boston, Aug. 2S, 1764. 

2. Elizabeth, b. April 5, 1743; m. Christopher LefRngwell, Aug. 28, 1764. 

3. Lucy, b. July 2, 1746; m. And'w Huntington, Nov. 26, 1766. 

4. Lucretia,b. April 15, 174S ; d. unmarried. 

5. .Joseph, b. Sept. 23, 1750; m. Elizabeth Palmes, of Preston, Feb. 10, 
1773. 

G. Thomas, b. July 17, 1752; m. Sarah Chester, of Wethersfield, Oct., 17S2. 

7. Daniel L , b. Sept. 20, 1754; m. Eliz'thBill, of Nor'h, Nov. 23, 1786. 
S. Jerusha, b. June 21, 1756; d. single. 

9. Joshua, b. Oct. 7, 175S ; m. Ann Barradil Hallam, Jan. 2, 1785. 
JOSEPH, above, b. 1698, m. for his first wife, Mary Hunting, of 
E. Hampton, L. I., and had a .son Jonatimn, b. Marcli 25, 1723, d. 
aged ten days. His wife Mary d. Lydia, his second wife, d. Jan. 
10, 1794. Joseph, the father, was received into the church as early 
as March 16, 1717-18, and his second wife received Aug. 21, 1763. 
He d. at Norwich. He had ten children. Most of the Coits in- 
creased and multiplied. 

COIT, THOMAS, (son of John and Mehitabel,) b. 1702, m. Mary 
Prentiss, (daughter of TJio's and M*i:y,) Nov. 5th, 1723. They had 
an only son, (great-grandfather of Dr. T. W. Coit, of Hartford,) 
Thomas, b. Aug. 15, 1725, and Thomas, his father, d. March 10, 
1724, aged 22 years. His widow, Mary, m. Dr. E. Gray, of Wind- 
ham, (then of Lebanon,) Feb. 20, 1727-8. His estate, £145, 2s. 9d. 
distributed to his widow Mary and only sod, Tho's Coit. " Thomas 



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644 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Coit, son of John Coit," received to the church May 17, 1719. 
" Wid"' Mary received Feb. 18," 1727-8. 

COIT, THOMAS, Jun., (only son of Thomas and Mary,) b. 1725, 
m. 1. Abigail Richards, liis cousin, dau'r of John, May 23, 1756, and 
hiid children : 

1. Abigail, b. March 5, 1757 ; d. June 21, 1757. 

2. Thomas, b. Aug. 5, 1758 ; d. Sept. 16, 1758. 

3. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 16, 1759 ; m. Nathaniel Richards. 

4. Second Abigail, b. Aug. 10, 1761 ; m. George Hallam, Nov- 3, 1784. 

Abigail, wife of Tho's, the father, d. Aug. 19, 1761, and Tho's 
m. for his second wife, Mary, dau'r of David and Eliz'th Gardiner, 
Jan. 12, 1764, (of the family of Gardiner's Island,) and had ch., viz.: 

5. Thomas, b. April 2, 1707 ; m. Mary Wanton Saltonstall, dau'r of W. and 
Anne, Nov. 29, 1789. 

6. David, b. May 3, 1769; m. Betsey Caulkins, dau'r of Pember, April 28^ 
1797. 

7. Jonathan, b. Aug. 6, 1771. 

8. Mary, b. Oct. 13, 1773, d. 1771. 

9. Charles, b. Feb. 9, 1776. 

10. Mary, b. May 9, 1778; m. Benj'n Richards, Dec. 20, 1795. 

11. Henry, b. Oct. 21, 1750; m. Ann Tolman. 

12. Susannah, b. July 11, 1783. 

13. James, b. Jan. 31, 1786 ; m. Frances Tabor, dau'r of Pardon. 

COIT, THOMAS, b. 1767, (sou of Thomas and Mary, his second 
wife,) m. Mary Wanton Saltonstall, of N. L., Nov. 29, 1789, and 
had children, viz.: 

1. AnnW., b. Sept. 11, 1790; d. Aug. 30, 1794. 

2. Mary Gardiner Coit, b. April 28, 1792. 

3. Hannah Saltonstall, b. June 18, 1795; d. Aug. 23, 1796. 

4. Augusta Dudley, b. March 31, 1797; d. 1822. 

5. Martha, b. March 13, 1802; d. March 17, 1802. 

6. Dr. Thomas Winthrop, b. June 28, 1803; in. Eleaner Forrester. 

7. Elizabeth Richards, b. May 25, 180G ; m. Edward Coit, of Norwich, and 
d. Feb. 25, 1837. 

8. Gurdon Saltonstall Coit, b. Oct. 28, 1808 ; m. Eleaner F. Carlile. 

This is the branch of Rev. T. W. Coit, D. D., of Hartford. Sur- 
rounded by the blood of the Saltonstalls, Prentiss's, Richards's, 
Chandlers and Gardiners, we might well expect of him what we find, 
a ripe scholar, and one of the most literary men in New England, 
as well as one of the most liberal. He graduated at Yale College in 
1821 ; M. A., 1831 ; and now Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 
Trinity College, and Lecturer on Chemistry and Natural Science. 
A lineal descendant of Martin Luther. 

COIT, JOHN, b. 1696, (son of John and Mehitabel Chandler,) m. 
Grace Christophers, b. 1698, (dau'r of Richard and Grace,) July 2^ 
1719, and had issue : 



GENEALOGY UF THE PURITANS. 645 

1. John, b. Apiil 7, 17-20; m. Pierce, June 13, 1742, daughter of Robert and 
Ann. 

2. Richard, b July S, 1722; in. Abigail, daughter of Capt. John and Mary 
Bradick, of L. I., Oct. 12, 1743. 

3. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 31, 1721 or 1725, d. same year. 

4. Samuel, b. Oct. 14,1750; m. Elizabeth Richards, b. Feb. 'J, 1733,m. Feb. 
18, 1753. 

0. Joseph, b. Oct. 3, 172S; ni. Mosior, of MontviUe. 

Grace, wife of John, d. Nov. 9, 1745, and Juliii m. for his second 
wife, Hannah Potter, of Newport, R. I., widow of Tliomas Potter, 
anddau'r of Henry Gardiner, June 20, 174R, and had three children, 
viz.: 

6. Desire, b. Oct. 15, 1749; d. at Newport. 

7. John, b. Oct. 30, 1752. 

8. Mehitabel, b. June 10, 1755. 

COIT, RICHARD, b. 1722, son of John and Grace, m. Abigail 
Bradick, of Southold, L. I., Oct. 12, 1743. He had an only dau'r 
Martha, b. Oct. 9, 1744. She m. John Holt. Her father, Richard, 
d. Oct. 3, 1745, and Abigail, his widow, m. James Chapman, June 
7, 1767. 

COIT, SAMUEL, b. 1726, son of John and Grace, m. Elizabeth 
Richards, (dau'r of David,) b. Feb. 9, 1733, m. 1753. Had issue : 

1. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 25, 1753 ; m. Joseph Fox, Jan. 16, 1772. 

2. Samuel, b. Feb. 22, 1755; d. Sept. 10, 1756. 

3. Rhoda, b. April 1, 1757 ; m. Benj'n Rogers. 

4. Lydia, m. Joshua Potter, of Rhode Island. 

5. Grace, m. Walter Gracie. 

G. Lucretia, m. 1. Henry Yotmg, and John Carroll, Sept., 1813. 

7. Second Samuel, m. Silvia Lewis, Nov. 28, 17S2. 

8. David. 

9. Second John, m. Lucy Smith, dau'r of James, Dec. 3, 1789. 
10. Richard, d. young. 

Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Coit, received to the church, 1790. 

COJT, JOHN, (son of John and Grace, of N. L.,) b. 1720, m. 
Mary Pierce, dau'r of Robert and Ann, June 13, 1742. They had 
a dau'r Grace, b. Aug. 27, 1744. She m. Daniel Shaw or Starr. 
John, her father, was drowned March 26, 1744-5. 

COIT, JOSEPH, JuN., son of Rev. Joseph, b. 1711, m. Mary 
Spalding, of Plainfield, and removed to Griswold, where he had 
dau'rs, viz. : 

1. Elizabeth, m. E. Lord, of Preston, March 21, 1754, and Daniel Kelly, of 
Xorwich, June 4, 1707. 

2. Mary, b. 1739, d. July 21, 1741, or ni. Amos Clift, Feb. 12, 1701. 
Elizabeth and Mary were bap. as the children of Mar)' Coit, 



646 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

widow, Nov. 1, 1741. His widow, Mary, m. Gen. John Tyler, of 
Preston, Dec. 14, 1742, for second husband. 

COIT, ISAAC, son of Rev. Joseph Coit, b. Dec. 26, 1714 ; he m. 
Ruth Spalding, of Plainfield, where he settled. His wife d. about 
1770, and about 1773 he m. Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, widow of Rev. 
Mr. Webb, of Uxbridge, Mass. He d. without leaving children, 
April 23, 1776, aged 61. His widow m. Rev. Mr. Jones, of Weston, 
Mass., Nov. 30, 1779. 

COIT, DANYELL, b. in 1731, son of Rev. Joseph, of Plainfield, 
m. Tamasore Kimball, of Methuen, Mass., and settled in'Plainfield, 
where he d. April 23, 1762, and left one daughter, Experience, who 
d. at Pomfret about 1765, and no sons. His widow, as before stated, 
m. Dr. Elisha Lord, of Pomfret, about 1764. (See ante.) Joseph, 
Isaac and Daniel, sons of Rev. Joseph Coit, left no sons. 

Daniel d. at Plainfield, April 23, 1762. Estate, £64.0. ^His 
widow administratrix, 1762. 

COIT, WM., son of Rev. Joseph, b. Nov. 27, 1720 ; not known 
who he m. He removed before 1750 to Sheffield, Mass., and died 
1776. I have searched for no children. He had -a son Isaac and 
others. 

COIT, Col. SAMUEL, b. about 1708, appears to have been the 
only son of Rev. Joseph, who has left sons to keep up his worthy 
name in Preston. 

Col. Samuel m. Sarah Spalding, dau'r of Benj'n, of Plainfield, in 
1730. He removed from Plainfield, and settled at Preston, (now 
Griswold,) where he became a colonel of militia, judge of the county 
court and principal influential leader in Griswold. He died Oct. 4, 
1792, aged 84 years. Most of the name in Griswold, Norwich, &c., 
are descendants of Col. Coit and his wife Sarah. Children : 

1. Benj'n, b. March 2S, 1731 ; m. Abigail, dau'r of Roger Billings, of Pres- 
ton, Jan. 30, 1753. 

2. Samuel, b. July 23, 1733; m. Mercy Clark, of Preston, May 7, 1754. 

3. William, b. Feb. 13, 1735; m. Sarah Lathrop, dau'r of Ebenezer, of Nor- 
vtrich, March 21, 1759. 

4. Oliver, b. Feb. 23, 1736-7; m. Zipporah Morgan, Nov. 21, 1758. 

5. "Wheeler, b. Feb. 24, 173S-9; m. Mehetabel Lester, dau'r of Timothy, of 
P., Dec. 26, 1765. 

6. John, b. June 4, 1741 ; m. Mehitabol Tyler, dau'r of Gen. John, Feb. 6, 

1766. 

7. Joseph, bap. May 2, 1746; d. aged 20. 

8. Isaac, d. aged three years, April 10, 1757. 

Sarah, wife of Col. Samuel, d. July 11, 1776, aged 65, and Col. 



GENEALOGY OF THE I'URITANS. 647 

Coitm. Mrs. Jemima Hall, for second wife, March 22, 1779. He d 
1792.* 

COIT, WILLIAM, b. Jan. 25, 1675, (son of Deacon Joseph, of 
N. L., and Martha Harris, of VVetliersfield, his wife,) m. Sarah 
Chandler, (sister of his brother John Coit's wife,) June 9, 1697, and 
d. at N. L. May 7, 1703, aged 27 years. Hi.s widow, Sarah, m. 
John Gardiner for her second husband. William left three cliildren : 

1. Daniel, b. Oct. 25, 169S. He became a business man in N. London, town- 
clerk, ike; had three wives and several children ; but no male descendants of 
his are now found there. ' 

2. Elizabeth, b. in 1700, d. yoimg. . 

3. William, b. 1701-2 ; also d. young. 

COIT, SOLOMON, b. Nov. 29, 1679, son of Deacon Joseph and 
grandson of John, Sen., of N. L., m. Mary Stow, Dec. 24, 1706, and 
had issue : 

1. Solomon, b. 1710, probnbiy died young. 

2. Mary, b. June 30, 1713; m. G. Lucas, Aug. 18, 17J3. 

3. Nathaniel, birth not certain; had a large family in N. L., of whom there 
are now few descendants of the name. 

Mary, wife of Solomon, d, July 7, 1713. 

Solomon m. second, Elizabeth Short, Aug. 18, 1714, and after- 



• NoTK. Several of this family were conspicuous whigs during tbe War of the Revolution. 
One of the Capt. Coitt distinguished himself at the battle of Bunker Hill, with Knowlton and 
many others from Connecticut. Capt. William Coit was appointed captain of the ship of war 
Oliver Cromwell, which was built at Saybrook by Connecticut in 1776. He was appointed cap- 
tain of said ship of war then building, July 11, 1776, and on Ju'y 31, the governor and council 
appointed Azariah Whittlesey, master of the colony ship under Cept. Coit, and allowed X250 to 
enlist his men ; and Capt. Coit continued her captain until April 11, 1777, when Seth Hard- 
ing, Esq., was appointed captain of the Oliver Cromwell, and Capt. Coit considered discharged, 
after the 14th of April, 1777. This ship did good service during that war. (See The doings of 
the Governor and Council of Connecticut in 1776, '77, and pp. 578, '79. '80, '81, .Ipptndix Hin- 
man'a Hist, of lievolulion.) 

Col. Samuel Coit held an e.xaltcd rank in Connecticut for many years before, during and after 
the war, as a man of e.xcelleni judgment, on the bench of the court, in society, or in the battle- 
field. He had become somewhat aged when tho war commenced, but in 1776 was colonel of 
a regiment of the militia of Connecticut, and the committee of war, Sept. 6, 1770, directed that 
the vacancy made in Col. Wolcott's regiment should be supplied by men from Col. Coit's and 
Saltonstall's regiments of militia. Col. Samuel Coit, by his age and infirmity, (not his good will 
for the cause,) was excused from service in the expedition to New Vork, by the governor and 
council of Connecticut, Sept. 18, 177G. 

, An interesting coincidence is related by Judge N. Shipman, late of Norwich, viz.: " Samuel 
Coit, of Preston, was Lieut. Col. and Judge of the County Court, at the same time Hezekiah 
Huntington, of Norwich, was Lieut Col. and Judge of the County. Each wa.s the father of 
nine children, who arrived at the age of maturity. In 1835, all that remained of the blood of 
Col. Huntington was contained in the veins of the five children of Hon. Frederick Wolcott, of 
Litchfield, while tbe descendants of Col. Coit numbered over five hundred." 



648 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ward supposed to have m. Margaret , The history of this 

household needs further investigation. Elizabeth, second wife of 
Solomon, d. March 25, 1715. 

COIT, JOSEPH, b. 1728, son of John and Grace, m. Miss Mosier 
of Montville, and perhaps had sons Joseph and Richard. 

COIT, NATH'L, son of Solomon, m. Margaret Douglass, dau'r 
of Richard, Nov. 6, 1735, and had issue: 

1. Sarah, b. July 18, 1736 ; m. Samuel Belden, June 17, 1759. 

2. Nath'l, Jan., b. Dec. 1,173S; m. Baradil Latimer, dau'r of" Juo., July 5, 
17G4. ♦ 

3. Mary, b. Nov. 10, 1740; d. 174'2-3. 

4. Margaret, b. Feb. S, 1742-3; d. 1746. 

5. Solomon, b. Feb. 15, 1744-5; m. Hannah Jordan, Feb. 26, 1775. 

6. Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1747 ; d. May 2S, 1S32. 

7. Samuel, b. July 1, 1752 ; d. at Boston : 
S. Win., b. July 1, 1752; d. July 9, 1752. 

Margaret, wife of Nathaniel, d. July 17, 1752, and Nathaniel m. 
for his second wife, Mary Braddick, (widow,) and dau'r of Richard 
Christophers, July 13, 1754 ; had a dau'r Katherine, who d. young, 
and Mary, her mother, d. Nath'l m. for his third wife, Love, the 
widow of Lemuel Rogers, and dau'r of George Richards, Nov. 18, 
1759, and had children, John, Benjamin, William, Russell and 
Love. 

COIT, RUSSELL, (son of Nath'l and Love,) m. Lucretia Wolf, 
Nov. 19, 1791, and had children, viz. : 

1. Nath'l, b. Aug. 13, 1792; m. Nancy Neil. 

2. Love, b. Nov. 2, 1794; d. 1795. 

3. Mary, b. Sept. 4, 1796. 

4. Second Love, b. Nov. 19, 1798; m. Dr. West, of Tolland. 

5. Nancy, b. Feb. 21, 1804; m. John Miller. 

6. John Wolf, b. Jan. 29, 1803. 

7. Wm. Avery, b. Oct. 30, 1806. 

Lucretia, wife of Russell, d. 1832, and Russell d. Feb. 22, 1850. 

COIT, NATH'L, son of Nath'l and Margaret, (Douglass,) b. 
1738, m. Baradil Latimer, (dau'r of Jona.,) July 5, 1764, and had 
issue, viz.: 

1. Nathaniel, b. April 11, 1765 ; d. single at sea. 

2. Margaret, b. Aug. 21, 1767; d. 1814. 

3. Barradill,b. Aug. 9, 1769; m. Stephen G. Thatcher, Oct. 27, 1798. 

4. Anne, b. April 10, 1771. 

5. Catherine, b. April 13, 1775; m. Richard Chappell, Feb. 5, 1797; d. 
March 13, 1S49. 

6. Richard, b. March 26, 1777; d, at sea. 

7. Jonathan, b. Sept. 14, 1779 ; drowned about 1785. ' 
S. Sarah, b. July 28, 17S1 ; d. Aug. 7, 1751. 



GENKALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 649 

Nathaniel, the father, d, of the " prison and ship fever," April 24, 
17S3, and his widow Baradil d. March 4, 1817, aged 63 years. 

COIT, SOLOMON, Capt., b. 1741-5; son of Nathaniel and 
Margaret (D.) m. Hannah Jordan, Feb. 26, 1775, of Saco, and had 
issue, viz.: 

1. Marjraret, \ , ^ __,| . ^ m, Nicholas Scammon, a tanner, March 5, ISOS. 

"2. Hannali, 3 ' '" ( Hannali resides at Saco. 
g3. Mehetabel, b. 1781 ; m. 1. Wenlworth, and 2. Paltersoti. 

4. Nath'l, d., aged 14 years. 

5. Mary, d., aged 7. 

0. Solomon, b. 1093 ; d 

Capt. Solomon, the father, d. in the West Indies about 1793. 
Hannah, his widow, m. Capt. Jos. Perkins, of Arundel, (now Ken- 
nebunkport,) in 1797. 

Solomon, Jun., son of Solomon and Hannah, sailed from Ports- 
mouth about 1814. He was master of the privateer Mars, and was 
never heard from. 

COIT, BENJAMIN, (son of Col. Samuel and Sarah,) of Gris- 
wold, had two wives : first, Abigail, dau'r of Roger Billings, of Pres- 
ton, m. Jan. 30,]1753, and had children, viz.: 

1. Isaac, b. Oct, 2S, 1753 ; m. Ruama Hall, dau'r of John, of Preston. 

2. Roger, b. March 28, 1755; m. Olive Brewster, daughter of Simeon, of 
Preston. 

3. Daniel, b. Jan. 2S, 1757 ; m. Olive Tyler, dau'r of Gen. John, of Preston, 

4. Benjamin, Jun., b. Dec. 21, 1759; m. Sarah, dau'r of Wm. and Sarah 
Coit, of Norwich. 

Abigail, the mother of the above children, d. Jan. 27, 1760^ aged 
38. He m. for his second wife, Widow Mary Boardman, a daugh- 
ter of Captain Tyler, May 28, 1760, and had other children, 
vi^.: 

5. Henry, b. Dec. 11, 17G1 ; d. single, 1790. 

6. George, b. Sept. 19, 17G4; d. in London, England, Sept. 2S, 1787. 

7. William, b. August 21, 1706 ; m. Miss Cornell ; merchant in N, York. 

8. Abigail, b. Aug. 20, 176S ; m. Nathaniel Shipman, of Norwich, Oct. 14, 
1704, 

:■. Martha, b, Oct. 10, 1770 ; m. Dwight Ripley, of Norwich, April 24, 1794. 

10. Betsey, b. Oct. 29, 1772; m. Rev, Jona. Pomeroy, of Northampton, Mass., 
Dec, 24, 1795; d. 1834. 

11. Thomas, b. Feb. 7, 1775 ; was lost at sea. 

Mary, second wife of Benjamin, d. June 15, 1800, aged 70. Ben- 
jamin, the father, d. April 21, 1812, aged 81. '< Benj'n Coit, Esq." 
received to communion at 2d church in Preston, July 6, 1806. He 
; and his wife Abigail, owned the covenant at Preston, Oct^O, 1754. 
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650 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COIT, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Col. Samuel, of Preston, m. Mercy 
Clark, of Preston, May 7, 1754, and had issue : 

1. Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1755 ; d. Feb. 1, 1820, aged 72. 

2. Mercy, b. May 13, 1756 ; d. Feb. 2, 1790. 

3. Solomon, b. Jan. 21, 1759 ; d. in the army, Aug. 17, 1776. 

4. Bethany, b. Nov. 23, 1760 ; m. Jno. Wingate, of Plainfield, N. H., Jan. 
28, 1790. 

5. Samuel, b. Oct. 23, 1762 ; in. Mary Burton, of Preston, June 25, 1765. 

6. Joseph, b. Sept. 20, 1764. 

7. James, b. Feb. 3, 1768 ; m. Lovitt, of Lisbon, Nov. 27, ISOO. 

8. Polly, b. June 3, 1770 ; m. Turner. 

9. Clark, b. May 7, 1772 ; d. at his brother James', in Hastings, N. Y., July 
25, 1S44. 

Mercy, the mother, d. Nov. 12, 1800, aged 73. Samuel, the 
father, d. at Preston, March 13, 1806, aged 73. Mr. Samuel was re- 
ceived to the second church in Preston, in 1801. 

COIT, OLIVER, son of Col. Samuel, m. Zipporah Morgan, of 
Preston, Nov. 21, 1758. Children : 

1. Farewell, b. Dec. 24, 1758. 

2. Huldah,b. Feb. 20, 1760 ; d. Aug. 3, 1790. 

3. Experience, b. March 12, 1763 ; d. Feb. 13, 1550, aged 86. 

4. Elizabeth, b. March 21, 1765; d. Feb. 10, 1850, aged 84. 

5. Olive, b. April 2, 1766 ; d. July 8, 1772. 

6. Elisha, b. Dec. 10, 1769. 

7. Oliver, b. June 9, 1771 ; d. Dec. 17, 1843, aged 72. 

8. Second Olive, b. Dec. 7, 1773 ; d. 1839, aged 65. 

9. Daniel, b. July 7, 1776 ; d. 1801, aged 28. 

10. Samuel, b. July 6, 1778; d. of yellow fever in Ciiba, July 10, 1799, 
aged 21. 

11. Benjamin S., b. July 1, 17S2 ; d. Oct. 28, 1822, aged 40. 

Capt. Oliver Coit d. in Preston, Oct. 3, 1809, aged 72. Zippo- 
rah, his widow, d. Aug. 11, 1827, aged 90. (See Nole of Oliver.) 

COIT, WHEELER, son of Samuel and Sarah, b. Feb. 29, 17.38, 
m. Mehetibel Lester, dau'r of Timothy, of Preston, Dec. 26, 1765. 
Issue : 

1. Lucy, b. Oct. 18, 1766 ; m. Eb. Ledyard, Jan., of Groton, Oct. 14, 1789, 
and m. second, Thomas Fanning. 

2. Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1767 ; d. Dec. 27, 1788, aged 21. 

Mehitabel, wife of Wheeler, d. March 3, 1774, aged 28, and he 
m. Sibil Tracy, of Norwich, second wife, Dec. 8, 1774. Issue : 

3. An infant, d. July. 

4. Daniel, b. Aug. 12, 1777 ; m. Hezekiah Lord, Oct. 3, 1S04, d. May, 1S05. 

5. Betsey, b. Dec. 11, 1780; m. John Coit, of New York, Dec. 14, 1802. 

6. Mehitabel, b. Nov. 5, 1784; rn. John L. Boswell, of Norwich. 

7. Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 1786 ; m. Hon. Tho's Day, of Hartford. 

8. Lydia, b. Sept., 1788; m. Eliphalet Terry, Esq., of Hartford. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 651 

9. Samuel Tracy, b. May 0, 1790; m. Penelope M. Abbott. 

Sybil, second wife, d. Feb. 27, 1793, and he m. for his third wife, 
Hannah, a widow, and a granddaughter of Rev. 13. Lord, of Norwich, 
Nov. 14, 1793, and by her had issue : 

10. Hannah Aimi, b. Oct 21, 1797; d. May 20, ISlG.agcd 21. 

11. Joj'jph Lord, b. June 14, 1790, d. 1830. 

Wheeler, the father, d. in Preston, Oct. 1, 1796, aged 57. 
COIT, JOHN, son of Samuel and Sarah, m. Mchitabel Tyler, 
daughter of Gen. John, of Preston, Feb. 6, 1766, and had issue: 

1. Lydia, b. Dec. 13,1760; ni. .Tames Lord. 

2. Nathaniel, b. May 5, 176S; m. Betsey Morgan, of P., March 14, 1792, 

3. Sarah, b. May 1, 1770; m. James Rogers, of Norwich, Jan. 10,1799. 

4. Olive, b. Fob. 22, 1772 ; m. Col. Moses Tyler, May 29, 1793, and 2. Rev. 
G. Dorman, in 1S35. 

5. John.b. Dec. 20, 1773; ni. Betj-ey Coit, his cousin, daughter of Wheeler, 
1S02. 

6. Sophia, b. Oct. 14, 177.:) ; m. Roland Burbank, of W. Springfield. 

7. James Tyler, b. Oct. 1, 177S ; drowned at St. Mary's, Georgia. 

8. Hon. Roger, b. Jan. 25, 17S6 ; m. 1. Frances Coit,dau'r of D'l and Mercy, 
Nov. 15, ISOS. 

9. Rebecca, b. Feb. 2, 1783 ; m. D. T. Coil, March 27, 1805. 

John, the father, d. at Preston, March 7, 1808, aged 67. Hie 
widow, Mchitabel, d. Jan. 3, 1806, aged 73 years, 

COIT, WILLIAM, son of Samuel and Sarah, (b. 1735,) m. Sarah, 
dau'r of Ebenezer Lathrop, of Norwich, March 21, 1759. His wife 
Sarah d. Feb. 21, 1780, aged 45. He d. Nov. 16, 1821, aged 86 
years. Hem. a second wife, Elizabeth, (Palmes,) widow of Joseph 
Coit. She d. Aug. 28, 1803. Issue : 

1. Abigail, b. Jan. 26, 1700 ; m. Gen. Joseph Williams, of Norwich. 

2. Win., Jun., b. April 27, 1701 ; d. aged 24, April 25, 17S5. 

3. Elisha, b. Dec. 22, 1762; m. R. Manwaring. 

4. Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1705; m. Benj'n Coit, of Norwich, Oct., 17SS. 

5. Lydia, b. Sept. 4, 1760; m. Thomas Fanning, June, 17S9 ; d. Nov. 1, 
1759. 

G. Daniel, b. April 2, 1768 ; d. at Port auPrince, 1790. 

7. Levi, b. April 24, 1770; m. Lydia Howland, of Norwich. 

8. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, 1772; m. Dwight Ripley, of Norwich, Feb. 24, 
1796. 

9. Lucy, b. Sept. 9, 1773 ; d. May 1, 1844, aged 70; single. 

COIT, Hon. ROGER, b. Jan. 25, 1786, son of John and Mchita- 
bel; he resided many years at Plainfield, and while there was six 
years high sheriff of Windham county, and sustained that high rep- 
utation which men of his deportment and good common sense, with 
a gentlemanly ease of manner, always will, in all good society. He 
held several places of trust in the town and state, in which he was 



652 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ever careful to honor his office, rather than have the office honor 
him. Fie lias resided also at Norwich, and in his old age has re- 
moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. He m. first, Frances Coit, daughter of 
Daniel and Mercy, of Preston, Nov. 15, 1808, and had children, 
viz.: 

1. John.b. Aug. 2S, 1S09 ; m. Cainela L. Fuller, of Plainfield, March 10, 
1836. 

2. Susan, b. Oct. 8, 1810; m. Daniel Packer, Jun., Sept. 21, 18.31 : d, 

3. Catherine, b. Dec. 4, 1811 ; m. Elisha Morgan. 

4. James Mason, b. Feb. 15, 1813; m. Mary Ann Latlirop, of Norwich. 

5. Lydia Lord, b. Aug. 9, 1814 ; m. P. Spooner. 

6. Frances, b. June 9, 1816; m. G. Webb. 

7. Jane, b. Jan. 6, 1818 ; d. March 12, 1844, aged 26. 

b. Samuel, b. Feb. 17,1819; m. Mary, daughter of Joseph Gladding, of P.; 
many years in a bank ; now of New York city. 

9. Henry R., b. Oct. 5, 1820; m. Fanny, dau'r of O. Olmsted, of Hartford; 
now Cashier of the bank in Litchfield. 

10. Ruth Harwood, b. Jan. IS, 1S22 ; m. Rev. Andrew Dunning, Aug. 14; 
d. aged 26. 

11. Olive Tyler, b. Nov. 17, 1S23 ; d. aged 22. 

12. Harriet G., b. Oct. 12, 1825 ; d. aged 20. 

13. Betsey P., b. Jan. 30, 1827 ; a noble girl ; unmarried in Ohio. 

14. Daniel Roger, Esq., b. Aug. 23, 1829 ; a lawyer in Ohio. 

Mrs. Frances, wife of Hon. Roger, and mother of the above fam- 
ily, d. Sept. 26, 1843, aged 53. Mr. Coit removed to Cincinnati, 
where he m. for his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Cogswell, (maiden 
name Rowland, of Ct.,) and where he now resides, and has a dau'r, 
Mary Rebecca, by his second marriage, being fifteen children by 
two wives. 

COIT, ELISHA, (son of Wm. and Sarah, above,) was a mer- 
chant in the city of New York. He m. Rebecca Manwaring, of 
N. L., Jan. 20, 1793, and had children born in New York, viz.: 

1. Martha M., m. Hon. Thomas S. Williams, of Hartford, late chief justice 
of the supreme court of Conn., his second wife ; no issue by either. 

2. Mary Ann, m. first. Rev. Henry Blatchford, and second, Hon. Samuel 
Hubbard, LL. D., of Boston, late judge of the superior court in Mass., now 
deceased. 

3. William D., unmarried. 

4. Susanna M., m. Thomas Adams, of Castine, a merchant at Boston. 

5. Sarah L.,m. Charles Scudder, merchant, of Boston. 

6. Gurdon Saltonstall, m. Mary Ann Burbige, of N. York. 

7. Rebecca M., d. in infancy. 

COIT, NATH'L, son of John and Mary, m. Eliz'th Davis, Feb. 
16, 1687. Issue : 

1. Mary, b. March 9, 1688. 



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2. John, b. March 0, 16<)1. 

3. Daughter, b. May 31, 1093. 

4. Abigail, b. April 20, 1G05 ; d. 1G9S. 

5. Joshua, b. July 5, 1G97; d. 1697. 

6. Martha, b. July 14, 1G98. 

7. Abigail, b. Jan. 13, 1703. 

8. Steven, b. Nov. 1, 1704 ; d, 170."). 

His wife, Elizabeth, d. Feb. 11, 1700, and Nath'l Coit m. Abigail 
Stevens, Feb. 17, 1702, and had issue above. Abigail, second wife, 
d. Jan. 8, 1710, and Nath"! m. Widow Hannah Sargent, for third 
wife, Nov. 30, 1711. Niith'l, the father, d. Jan. 10, 1743, aged 84. 
He had been selectman, representative, &c. 

March 11, 1650-1. — John Coite, " the younger, hath given him by 
the townsmen of Pequot, one acre of meadow lying in its length, by 
Wm. Welman, towards the weast, and will mea. towards the east, 
land laid out by the measurers in Quaganapauxet." It appears by 
this, John, Jun., was at N. L. for a time. 

"John Coite, Sen., hath given to him 20 acres, Feb. 19, 16r)4." 

COIT, JOHN, of Gloucester, son of John and Mary Jenners, m. 
Mary Stevens, dau'r of Wm., May 21, 1652, and had issue in Mass.: 

1. John, b. Aug. 14, 1G53. 

2. Mary, b. June 4, 1655. 

3. Abigail, b. March 29, 1G57 ; m. Isaac Eveleth, Nov. 13, 1G77. 

4. Nath'l, b, April 13, 1659. 

5. Job, b. Aug. 26, 1061. 

John, the father, d. April 25, 1675. 

COIT, JOB, son of John and Mary, m. Hannah — — , and had a 
dau'r Mary, who d. young ; perhaps others. Job d. Sept. 15, 1690. 
There is a certificate of the marriage of Mary Coyt with Joseph 
Whitne, from Charleston, S. Carolina, certified by A. Garden, min- 
ister, Aug. 2, 1736, recorded at Norwalk, Ct. 

Joseph, John and Joshua Coit, had graduated at Harvard College, 
before 1776, and fifteen at Yale College, before 1851. 

Dr. Lsaac, of Southwick, d. 1813. 

This informal, extended list of the family of Coits, containing many 

facts, is far from a full list of that worthy family. For many of the 

facts, (not the form,) I am indebted to Rev. Mr. Learned, of Canter. 

bury, (a descendant of the family,) and others; though I should not 

have published it in its present informal shape, except by the earnest 

solicitation of one of the family. 

COKE, PENFIELD, was refused a settlement in Hartford, in 1664. 

COLE, JAMES, was an original settler at Hartford, and in the 

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654 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

first land division there in 1639, and drew ten acres. He was lo- 
cated on the eighth tier of lots, west of Trumbull Street, in Hartford, 
numbered 35 to 43, from Burr Street to the river. {Porter.) He 
had a lot of land in Wethersfield, in 1645. He was a weaver by- 
trade, and not a man of much wealth or particular notice in the col- 
ony. He m. in London, before he came to this country, Ann Ed- 
wards, said to have been the widow of Rev. Richard Edwards, of 
London, who died there. She had one child by Mr. Edwards, a son, 
about twelve years old, by the name of William Edwards who came 
with her and his father-in-law, to Hartford. This boy became the 
ancestor of Rev. Timothy Edwards, J. Edwards, D. D., Jonathan, 
President of a college in N. Jersey, and Jonathan, President of the 
college at Schenectady ; of Gov. Edwards, of Hon. Daniel Edwards, 
of Hon. Pierpont, of Judge Edwards, of N. York, Rev. Timothy 
Dwight, D. D., late president of Yale College, of Hon. Theodore, 
and many others of the great men of this country, probably more 
than have descended from any other English ancestor who settled in 
Connecticut. (See EDWARDS.) Ann, the wife of James Cole, d. 
Feb. 20, 1678-9, and by her will, gave her house and lot to her son, 
Wm. Edwards, during his and his wife's lives ; at their decease, to 
vest in her grandson, Richard, son of Wm., and his heirs forever; 
Richard, administrator. Estate, £103. James and Ann Cole had 
a son John, and other children by her second husband. There was 
also a John Cole, an early settler at Hartford. The relation be- 
tween James and John is not found, if any existed. James d. 1652. 
COLE, JOHN, early removed to Farmington, and belonged to the 
first church organized there as early as 1651 or '52 He had two 
sons, Samuel and John. Soon after the settlement of the town of 
Hadley, in 165U, John Cole, Sen., removed there with his son John, 
while Samuel, his other son, was located in Farmington, and re- 
mained there. John, Jun., of Hadley, had sons Jonathan and Sam. 
uel, and their descendants are now numerous in and about Hadley, 
particularly Jonathan's. Samuel, son of John, Sen., of Farmington, 
wife Abigail, had sons Samuel, Jun., Timothy, John, Nath'l, Isaac, 
Joseph and Caleb. Samuel's descendants settled in Southington, New 
Britain, Meriden, &c. Timothy Cowles m. into the family of Hon. 
Wm. Pitkin, of East Hartford, where Timothy settled and became 
a deacon in the church there. John left no posterity. Porter says, 
the sons of Nathaniel settled in Canaan, except the oldest Nathaniel, 
who lived with his uncle John, and d. young, soon after he married, 
but left a son Nathaniel, whose family settled in Bethlem, Ct. Isaac 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 655 

became the ancestor of most of tlie wealthy Cowles's, of Farming, 
ton. Joseph, another brother, settled at Meriden, where he m. Mis 
Royce, and became a deacon of the church there. This has proved 
a good branch of tlie descendants of John, Sen.; and Caleb, the 
other brotiier, who located his family at Kensington, was the most 
unfortunate branch of these seven sons. The descendants of Sam- 
uel, Sen., of Farmington, uniformly spell the name Cowles, while 
the descendants of John, Jun., spell it Cowls, and the ancestor, John, 
spelt his name Cole. Joshua, of Colchester, 1731. 

COLE, CALEB, of Norwalk, settled in Sharon, 1748 ; his sons 
were Matthew, Zebulon and David. He d. 1780. (Sedg.) 

COLES, SUSAN, of Hartford, for her rebellious carriage to her 
mistress, was sent to the house of correction, kept to hard labor and 
coarse diet, brought forth the next lecture day and publicly corrected, 
and so weekly corrected, until an order should be given to the con- 
trary, March 5, 1644. [Col. Rec.) She was often adjudged to be 
whipped afterward. Mathew Williams' debt for wages in the hands 
of Belding, ordered detained by him, until an order was had as to 
Susan Cole's child layed to his charge, 1645. 

COLES, HENRY, and wife Sarah, of Middletown, (record by 
his wife,) had issue, Henry, b. Sept. 20, 1647 ; James, b. Feb. 8, 
1649; John, b. Feb. 14, 1652 ; Wm., b. April 25, 1653 ; Sarah, b. 
Oct, 22, 16.54 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1656 ; Mary, b. June 11, 1658 ; 
Joanna, b. Aug. 1, 1661 ; Abigail, h. 1664, and Rebecca, b. April 
5, 1667 — ten children. 

COLE, ICHABOD and SARAH, of Middletown, had issue born 
there : Stephen, b. July 17, 1708, d.; Rachel, b. Jan. 23, 1709-10. 
Ichabod, the father, d. April 4, 1711. (Stearns.) 

COLLS, TOBIAS, of Saybrook, notices in his will, John Corn- 
stock, H. Champion, W. Waller, R. Marvin, Rich'd Smith, W. 
Brock way, J. Borden, P. Lay, John Prentice, Mr. Lay and his chil- 
dren. He gave his property to the Lay family, principally, though 
he left one child. John Lay, executor. Will dated Sept. 2, 1064. 
Inventory presented Oct. 15, 1664. 

COLE, JAMES, settled at Harwinton as early as 1740. Cole, 
Robert, Adam Goodwin, Wm. Carpenter, John Green, John Field, 
John Clark, John Coggshall, Wm. Dyer, and Richards, are some of 
the early settlers of Rhode Island. 

COAL, JOHN, plow-maker, New London, in 1651. Mary Gal- 
lop, daughter of John, of New London, m. John Cole, of Boston. 

COLE, HENRY, fined 105. 8d. for sleeping when on watch, 



■656 GENEALOGY OF THK PURITANS. 

1649. Hem. Sarah Rusco, Dec. 10, 1646. He was proposed for a 
freeman in 1667. 

COLE, SAMUEL, m. Lidiah , Sept. 25, 1679. Issue b in 

Wethersfield, Joseph, b. Sept. 12, 1681 ; Lidiah, b Jan. 18, 1684. 
His son Joseph m. Abigail Riley, dau'r of Jonathan, Jan. 13, 1709, 
and had a son John b. at Wethersfield, June 13, 1710. 

COLE, JOHN. Deputy in H., 16-53 and '54. In 1676, the town of 
Hartford voted him an enlargement of his lot for his son to build upon, 
so much as Maj. Talcott, Mr. Richards, Mr. Nichols and Thomas 
Bunce should see reason to lay out for him. John m. Eliz'h Good- 
win, Sept., 1713. 

COLE, SAMUEL, of Hartford, had a son b. Feb. 9, 1698; Dan- 
iel, b. Aug. 18, 1701 ; Selah ? b. Feb. 8, 1703 ; Sarah, b, Feb, 18, 
1705, d. in Sept.; Abigail, b. Sept. 18, 1706. {Har. Rec.) 

COLE, JOHN, of Farmington, elected commissioner from Farm- 
ington, May, 1669, and constable of Farmington, Nov. 30, 1657, and 
'68. John Coal was deputy, Oct., 1653 ; also. May, 1654, Nov., 
1653; freeman, May, 1657. John Cole in the list of freemen at 
Hartford, Oct., 1()69. Samuel Cole in the list at Farmington, 1669. 
John Coale proposed for freeman by Farmington, May, 1669. Mr. 
John Cole and others appointed commissioners for the town of Wick- 
ford, invested with the power of magistrates in 1670. (See p. 553, 
printed Col. Rec, vol. 2.) John Coles, in 1661, occupied the farm 
in Hartford which had been owned by Gov. Hopkins. 

COLE, JOSHUA, of Colchester, and Mary, his wife, had Mary, 
b. Nov. 5, 1732 ; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 31, 1734-5, perhaps others. 
COLE, NATH'L, of Hartford, d. April 20, 1734-5. 
COLE has 22 coats of arms, and COLES has 6. 
COLE, SAM'L, of Hartford, m. Mary, dau'r of James Kingsbury, 
of Plainfield, in 1693. 

Edward Coles embarked in the Thomas and John^ for Virginia, 
Jan. 6, 1635. Thomas Coles, aged 32, shipped in the transport, for 
Virginia, July 4, 1635. John Cole, aged 40, embarked in the ship 
Confidence, of London, for New England, in 1638, from Southamp- 
ton, April 24. Clement Cole, aged 30, came to New England in 
the Susan and Ellen, in 1635. Isaac Cole, a carpenter, and Joan, 
his wife, came to N. England in the Hercules, of Sandwich, in 1634, 
with two children. 

This was an early name at Duxbury, Mass. Farmer names 
George Cole, of Lynn, 1637, removed to Sandwich, and died about 
1653. Isaac, of Charlestown, free in 1638, d. June 10, 1674. John, 



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of Boston, mem. ar. co., 1042 ; son John, b. 1643, and Samuel, b. 
1046. Rice, or Rise, of Charlestown, free, 1633, d. 1646. Robert, 
of Salem, free, 1031. Samuel, of Boston, came over 1630. Wm., 
of Boston, 1653. 

Three by the name of Cole had graduated at Harvard College, be- 
fore 1826, and one spelled Cowles, in 1843 ; and three by the name 
of Cole, at Yale Coll., before 1S35 ; and nineteen by the name of 
Cowles, before 1848 ; two of the name of Cole at Brown University, 
and four Cowles at Williams College. 

There have been several distinct families in Connecticut in its 
early settlement. 

COLFAX, JOHN, at New London, not early. Geo. Colfax, at a 
still later period, was common-council-man and alderman at New 
London, several years. John Colfax was one who opened Hill St. 
at N. L. in 17.52. (See Caulk.) 

COLEFOXE, COLFAX, COLEFAX, WM. We first found him 
fined 20*. at court in Hartford, Sept. 4, 1645, for a misdemeanor. 
He is next found in 1647 or '48, before the court at Hartford, for la- 
boring to inveigle the affections of Write, his dau'r, and fined j£5- 
Next defendant in court for a debtof £16, in favor of Jervis IMudge, 
in Dec, 1648. In Dec, 1649, he is plaintiff in court at Hartford, 
against John Sadler, and recovered £^. (See Court Record.) 

WM. COLEFOX or COLEFEX, had four parcels of land in 
Wethersfield, he purchased of Samuel " Willas," Nov. 15, 1649. 
William was at Wethersfield, m Alsie, his wife, and had children 
born there, viz.: Elizabeth, b. April, 1653 ; John, b. Feb., 1655 ; 
Mary, b. Feb., 1657 ; Jonathan, b. Feb., 1659. His estate distrib- 
uted to his children in 1661. 

COLEFAX, JONATHAN, son of Wm., of Wethersfield, m. 
Mary, May 28, 1696, and had Sarah, b. March 3, 1697, and perhaps 
others. Jonathan, d. Dec. 17, aged about 53 years, and his property 
distributed to his children, John, Jonathan, Sarah, Elizabeth, m. 
Henry Arnold, and Mary. 

John, of Wethersfield, d. at Wethersfield, 1681. 

John Colefox's inventory taken Dec, 1676, £30 ; d. in Windsor, 
1676; no issue. Colcfox has four coats of arms. 

COLEGROVE, ISAAC, died at Suffield, of palsy, Dec. 20, aged 
85 years. This name is found in New York. 

COLDGROVE, NATHAN, of the second society of Colchester. 
His son John bap. July 27, 1783. 

One by this name graduated at Yale College, 1849. 



658 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COLEMAN, THOMAS, was an early settler at Wethersfield, 
Conn.; appointed by the particular court, with Francis Norton, to 
appraise damage done in a field of corn, 1639 ; juror, Oct., 1644 ; 
defendant in court, 1643. In 1645, he with Nath'l Dickinson, were 
appointed by the P. court to take the particulars of the estate of Mr. 
Parksman, then deceased, and return the same to the court. Defend, 
ant in court May 19, 1647. In 1654, was appointed by the Gen. 
Court, with Edward Stebbing, to draw rules for sealing leather, and 
deputy the same session. At the Gen. Court, March, 1657-8, he 
was freed from watching, warding and training, if he proved he was 
over sixty years of age. He was juror Dec, 1641 ; Sept., 1645; 
Oct., 1645 ; Dec, 1647 ; four sessions in 1648 j representative to 
the Gen. Court four sessions in 1650 ; in May, 1651 ; May, 1652 ; 
also in June, Sept., Oct. and Feb., 1652; April, August and Sept., 
1653, and repeatedly afterward. Few if any gentleman in the col- 
ony was as frequently a member of the Gen. Court as Mr. Coleman; 
few sustained a higher reputation in the colony. Oct. 3, 1654, he 
and Mr. Hollister and Nath'l Dickinson, of Wethersfield, were ap- 
pointed to join with the Dep. Gov., to see to the pressing of men and 
procuring necessaries in Wethersfield, to attend the expedition to Nar- 
ragansett in the Ninigret war. Thomas Coleman, of Marlborough, 
England, farmer, embarked at Hampton, in the James, of London, 
for N. E., about April, 1635. He took charge of Ab'm Easton's 
estate until the court settled the administration, March, 1647. He 
was much given to litigation, as many of the early settlers were* 
He was appraiser of John Cattell's estate, dec'd, of Wethersfield, 
July 17, 1644. 

Notwithstanding the popularity of Mr. Coleman, at Wethersfield, 
he was one of the signers at Goodman Ward's house in Hartford, 
April 18, 1659, to remove, with their families, out of the jurisdiction 
of Conn, into Mass., (see p. 97, ante,) for the purpose of settling the 
town of Hadley, and he with many others did remove and settled the 
town in 1659 and .'60, headed by Gov. Webster, who being in poor 
health, stopped at Northampton for a time. 

Mr. Coleman was probably married and his children born before 
he came to Wethersfield, if he was over 60 years old in 1657-8. 
Tho's Coleman died at Hadley, in 1674. The births of his children 
are not found upon the record at Weth'fd. Noah and John are sup- 
posed to have been his sons. John, defendant in court at Hartford, 
1648 ; free, 1658. Coleman. Noah, of Hadley, m. Mary Crow, Dec. 
27, 1660, and Mary Coleman m. Peter Montague, at Hadley, in 1680. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 659 

Noah, Sen., d. ul Iladley, July 20, 1676. Mary, duu'r of Noah, ci. 
at Hadley, Sept., 1671. 

COLEMAN, NOAH, of Hadley, (supposed son of Noah, Sen.,) 
appears to have removed to Colchester, Conn., after the death of 
Noah, Sen.; liad a son Joseph, b. June 28, 1706, d. 1770 ; an early 
settler at Colchester. Hannah Coleman, ^vido\v, at Colchester, Sept. 

23, 1727 ; d. 1765. Noah Coleman, of Colchester, (supposed son of 
Noah, Jun.,) had a dau'r Pybell, bap. Nov. 11, 1733; Noah, bap. 
Jan. 11, 1736: Ozias, bap. Dec. 24, 1733, perhaps others. 

COLEMAN, JOHN, of Hadley, m. Mary , in Sept., 1667. 

He owned a share in mill swamp lots in Hadley, in 1669 ; his dau'r 
Mary was b. at Wethersfield, Nov- 29, 1672; Eliz'th, b. Jan. 14, 
1677. John Coleman ni. Hannah, dau'r of James Wright, April 

24, 1095, and had Mary, b. Dec. 13, 1695; John, b. May 12, 1698 ; 
Thomas, b. June 0, 1701 ; Hannah, b. Sept. 25, 1704 ; Elisha, b. 
Oct. 8, \707. Mrs. H. Coleman d. Aug., 1741. His son John m. 
Comfort R-obbius, of Wethersfield, and had Comfort, b. Aug. 29, 
1727 ; John, b. July 27, 1729; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 24, 1731 ; Han- 
nah, b. Sept. 19, 1734 ; Thomas, b. May 28, 1737. ELISHA, 
son of John, Sen., m. Anne Rose, and had a son Peleg, b. Aug. 19, 
1738; Anne, b. Dec. 22, 1739; Zadock, b. Aug. 27, 1746, perhaps 
others. 

COLEMAN, NATHAN'L, ra. Ruth i^eadlc, Jan. 19, 1744, and 
had issue, Mary, b. 1745; Benjamin, b. April 21, 1747; Sarah, b. 
1749, d. in infancy ; Apphia, b. 1751. His wife, Ruth, d. Feb. 20, 
1751, and he m. second wife. Comfort Loveman, Nov. 23, 1752, and 
had a son Nath'l, b. Dec. 30, 1755. ZADOCK, son of Elisha, m. 
Hannah Goodrich, Sept. 28, 1774, and Zadock b. 1776, and the 
father d. soon after. PELEG, son of Elisha, of Wethersfield, m. 
Rebecca Dickinson, and had Thomas, b. Feb. 10, 1761 ; Sarah, b. 
1763; Elisha, b. 1765; Anne, b. 1767; George, b. 1769, d.; sec- 
ond George, b. 1771, and John, b. July 10, 1773. 

Nathaniel was of Hatfield, in 1717. John in 1072. Thomas d. 
there 1674. Nath'l m. Mary Ely, 1705 ; both of Hatfield. 

COLEMAN, EBENEZER, of Colchester, m. Ruth Nichols, 
March 11, 1704-5, and had children : Niels, b. Feb. 20, 1706-7; 
Ruth, b. June 20, 1709; Mehitabel, b. July 14, 1713; Mary, b. 
1718. Ebenezer d. there, Nov. 30, 1740, aged 60. Joseph, d. 
there 1770, aged 64. Noah d. there 1770, aged 67. (Record by Otis.) 

COLEMAN, NOAH, of Colchester, had a son Josiah, who set- 
tled first at Hebron, and in 1771, removed and settled at Sharon, 



G60 GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. 

where he represented the town in the legislature in 1783, '84 and '88. 
Children : Josiah, d. in Milford in 1777 ; Dr. Aaron, settled at War- 
ren, Elihu, Jesse and Annasa. 

COLEMAN, RICHARD, m. Anne, widow of Thomas Wilcox, 
Sept. 2, 1728, and had issue, b. in Middletown : John, b. Aug. 3, 
1729; Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1731, d. 1732; second Mary,b. May 10, 
1733. 

COLEiAIAN, NIELS, son of Ebenezer and Ruth, of Colchester, 
b. 1706-7, had sons Ebenezer and Josiah, bap. at Colchester, Sept. 
16, 1733 ; Eliz'th, bap. April 20, 1735 ; Nathaniel, bap. May 22, 
1737 ; Daniel, 1741 ; Niles or Niels bap. May 17, 1741. 

Whether the family of Wetherafield and Hadley were relatives of 
William and Elizabeth, his wife, of Boston, the parents of Rev. Ben- 
jamin, D. D., who was b. at Boston, Oct. 19, 1673, and grandson of 
Mathew and Grace Coleman, of Salterly, in Suffolk county, England, 
is not known. 

William Coleman, aged 10, passenger in the Assurance de Lo. 
for Virginia, 1635. Joseph Coleman, of Sandwich, England, shoe- 
maker, and Sarah, his wife, with four children, took passage from 
Sandwich to America, certified under the seal of office of mayoralty, 
June 9, 1637. Farmer notes Edward Coleman, Boston, 1651 ; son 
Joseph, b. 1656; Joseph, of Scituate, 1638; Wm., Boston, b. in En- 
o-land, father of Benj'n, D. D.; also, Thomas Coleman, Newbury, 
1635, free, 1637 ; went to Nantucket and d. 1685 ; and sons Benj'n, 
b. 1640; Joseph, b. 1642; Isaac, b. 1647. 

This name yet is found at Glastenbury and other parts of Conn. 

Seven by the name of Coleman, had graduated at Yale College 
before 1845; and one Coleman and six by the name of Colman, at 
Harvard College. 

COLDICOTTS, COLLICOTTS, RICHARD, withdrew his ac 
count against Francis Styles, &c., June, 1646, at Hartford. Sept., 
1650, Mr. Gayler and John Bissell were chosen by the Gen. Court 
to arbitrate between Mr. Richard Collicott and Mr. Mathew Allyn, 
and bring it to an issue. 

Coldicotthas one coat of arms. 

Farmer notes Edward Collicott, Representative to the Gen. Court 
in Mass., 1642. Richard, of Dorchester, free, 1633, member of the 
ar. CO., 1637 ; rep. 1637 ; removed to Boston, and d. there, 1686. 
His wife, Joanna d. Aug. 5, 1660. Thomasen, another wife, had 
children. Experience, b. 1641, and Dependance, b.. July 5, 1643. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 661 

COLL, HONORY, a settler at Middletown before 1700— (per- 
haps intended for Henry Cole.) 

COLLIER, Wi\L, of Plymouth colony, came to N. England in 
1633 ; assistant in that colony from 1634 to 1665, except 1638, '52 
and '53, being twenty-eight years ; commissioner of the United Col- 
onies in 1643, (Far.;) one of the important and influential settlers 
in the colony. (Hon.) Wm. Collier, one of the first settlers of Plym- 
outh, had a dau'r Mary, who m. Gov. Thomas Prince, of Plymouth. 
He first m. Patience, dau'r of the noted Wm. Brewster, in 1624; she 
d. in 1634. He was elected governor in 1635, and then lived at 
Duxbury, and m. Mary Collier for second wife the same year. 
Gov. Prince removed to Eastham in 1644, where his second wife d. 
and he returned to Plymouth in 1663. I\Ir. John Loring, of Hull, 
Mass., born there about 1673, son of Deacon Benjamin, m. Eliz'th, 
daughter of John Collier, Feb. 10, 1709. (His. Reg.) Moses, of 
Hingham, made freeman, 1652. Thomas, free. May 6, 1646. 
Thomas, of Hingham, said to have died April 6, 1646. (See 
Farmer.) 

COLLIER, JOSEPH, was the first of the name in Conn.; he was 
probably from Salem or Hingham, about 1660. He lived at Pine- 
field, in Hartford, in 1663, and m. Eliz'th Sanford, of Hartford, a 
sister of Robert and Zach'h Sanford. Hed. Nov. 16, 1691, and his 
widow, Eliz'th, d. 1695-6, and her brothers Zechariah and Robert 
Sanford, were administrators. Her estate, £57, 125. 4(Z. Their 
children : 

1. Jose])h, aged 23 in 1691, (at the dentli of his faiiicr.) 

2. Mary Phelps, aged 22, orSiinsbury. 

3. Sarah, aged IS. 

4. Elizabeth, 10. 

5. Abel, aged 14. 

6. John, aged 12; m. Eliz'th Humphries, 1705. 

7. Abigail, aged 9, m. Samuel Peck, March 6, 1700-1. 
S. Susannah, aged 7. 

9. Ann, aged 4 years. 

His son John chose his uncle, Z. Sanford, for his guardian, in 
1697. 

Joseph, Sen., propounded for a freeman at Hartford, Oct., 1671. 

COLLIER, JOSEPH, Jun., son of Joseph, Sen., of Hartford, m. 
Sarah Forbes, April 15, 1695, and had children, viz.: 

1. Joseph, 3d, b. May 4, 1696. 

•2. Mary,b. Jan. 9,1098. 

3. Abel, b. Sept. 21, 1700 ; d. 1701. 

4. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1702. 

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662 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

5. Second Abel, b. Nov. 20, 1704. 

6. Hezekiah, b. March 22, 1707. 

7. Daniel, b. March 17, 1709-10. 

Joseph, the father, d. Sept. 25, 1738, aged 69. 

COLLIER, ABEL, son of Joseph, Sen., d. unmarried in 1697, 
and his property, £61, 16s. 2d. distributed to his brothers and 
sisters. 

COLLIER, JOHN, Sen., son of Joseph, Sen., m. Eliz'th Hum- 
phries, July 4, 1705, and had children, viz.: 

1. Eunice, b. Nov. 15, 1703. 

2. Elizabeth, b. April 14, 170G. 

3. John. 

4. Mary. 

5. Thankful. 

John d. Aug. 2, 1730. Inventory over £600. 

COLLIER, JOHN, Jun., d. about 1734. Inventory accepted, 
1736, about £300. Mary, his dau'r, aged 16, chose Wilterton Mer- 
rill for guardian in 1735-6 ; perhaps had other children. 

COLLIER, Capt. HEZEKIAH, b. 1707, son of Joseph, Jun., and 

Sarah (Forbes,) m. Hepzibah , who was his widow. He d. 

Dec. 15, 1763, aged 56. His will, dated 1761, presented by his son 
Hezekiah, 1763. Inventory, £1,436, 16^. 5d. He had lands in 
Hartford, in Windsor, Springfield, &c. He was noted for his good 
common sense. His children named were : 

1. Hezekiah, Jun. 

2. Grove, d. July 20, 1768, aged 29. 

3. John, d. aged 6, in 1740. 

4. Hepzibah, m. Ghenevard. 

5. Ann, d. (perhaps) May 7, 1754, aged IS. 

He gave Pompey, his negro boy, to his wife, and black boy, Dick, 
to his son Hezekiah. Hepzibah, his widow, d. Nov. 22, 1770, aged 
57 years. 

COLLIER, Capt. HEZEKIAH, Jun., m. Jennett Evens, of Va., 
who was his widow. He d. March, 1768, aged 37 years, and his 
will presented by his executors, George Smith and James Church, 
at Hartford, in 1768. Inventory, £1,365, 165. 4d. Children : 

1. Daniel, d. single, aged 29. 

2. Wm., m. Abigail Goodwin, dau'r of Ozias Goodwin. 

3. Martha, in. James Bull. 

4. Catherine, m. Hezekiah Merrill. 

5. Margaret, m. Maj. John Caldwell, (first wife.) 

Jennett, his widow, d. Oct. 28, 1806, aged 75 years. 
COLLIER, WILLIAM, son of Capt. Hezekiah, Jun., m. Abigail 
Goodwin, dau'r of Ozias, and had children: 



GENEALOCiY OF THE PURITANS. 663 

1. Hepzibah, b. May 8, 177S; d. single. 

2. Hezekiah, b. March 20, 17S0 ; m. in New York. 

3. Anna, b. Oct. 31,1731; d. 17S1. 

4. Daniel, b. May 2, 17S4 ; ni. in St. Kitts. 

5. Wm., b. Xov. 24, 1785; ui. Harriet Ward. 

G Patty, b. Sept. 5, 1790 ; m. John McAuchan, of Enfield. 

7. George, b. Jan. 14, 1793 ; m. Ileppy Steel, and moved to Ohio. 

COLLIER, WILLLVM, son of William, m. Harriet Ward, of N. 
Haven, a descendant of Andrew Ward, Sen., and had cliildren, viz.: 

1. Hezekiah, b. May 27, 1S07 ; d. at sea in 1832. 

2. George, b. Sept. 14, 1S09 ; d. single at N. H., Nov., 1S48. 

3. Martha M., b. Jan., ISIS. 

4. Jane, d, in infancy. 

5. Harriet A., b. Feb. 13, ISIO. 

6. Henry Ward, b. Feb. 9, 1S23 ; a sailor and single. 

7. John Caldwell, b. April 15, 1S25 ; m. Maria Burt. 
S. Ozias Goodwin, b. March 3, 1S29. 

9. William, b. March 23, 1831. 

COLLIER, JOSEPH, 3d, grandson of Joseph, Sen., settled in 
Windsor, where he died in 1767 ; left no issue ; wife Abiah. Wm. 
Manly, adm'r. Gave most of his estate t^ his wife for her life. 
After her death, he gave it all to Wm. Dart, a boy, who had lived 
with him. His second wife, Hannah, his widow, d. in 1750-1, and 
Charles Humphrey, of Simsbury, admin'r on her estate in 1751. 

COLLIER, ABEL, son of Joseph, Jun., m. Rachel, who was his 
relict. He d., and Stephen Hosmer, adm'r in 1746. Issue at his 
decease : 

1. Thomas, aged IG. 

2. Joseph, aged 11 ; Rachel, Sarah and Mary. 

His widow Rachel, d. in 1749. Her estate, £1,216, Ss. Sd. Her 
will dated Feb. 6, 1747-8. 

COLLIER, DANIEL, son of Joseph, Jun., of Hartford ; wife 
Thankful, who was his widow. He was supposed to have d., being 
absent. Inventory presented, ^1,184, Is. Id. He left children, 
Sarah Sheldon, aged 19 ; Thankful and Susannah ; no sons found. 
The widow d. Dec. 24, 1772, aged 85. 

COLLIER, Capt. THOMAS, son of Abel, m. Rutli , who 

was administratri.x, with Hezekiah Collier, on his estate, in 1763, 
Inventory, £288, 9.s. 9rf. He died Aug. 5, 1763, aged 54 or 34. 
Issue : 

1. Abel, bap. Jan. l'^, 1730. 

2. Sarah, bap. Jan. 30, 1732. 

3. Second Abel, bap. April 2^, 1734. 

4. Joseph, bap. July 17, 1737. 

5. Rachel, bap. June S, 1740. 



664 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COLLIER, RICHARD, supposed by some to have been a de- 
scendant of Joseph, Sen., of Hartford, by a different branch from 
Hezekiah, but claimed by his immediate descendants to have come 
to Litchfield from Hartford, about 1775, and from Boston to Hart- 
ford. His son Thomas was many years a printer at Litchfield, Ct., 
but removed with his family about 1810 to Owego, N- Y., and from 

thence to Binghampton, where he died since 1830. He m. 

Stockwell, in early life, and had children, viz.: Thomas G., who be- 
came a printer, and removed to the state of Georgia, where he died 
and left a large family. 

POLLY, dau'r of Tho's, Sen., m. Hon. John C. Wright, former 
member of Congress from Ohio. 

THO'S, Sen., also had a dau'r, who m. at Binghampton, N. Y., 
and a son Daniel, counselor and attorney at law at Steubenville, 
Ohio. Hon. John A. Collier, another son of Thomas, of Binghamp- 
ton, N. Y., read law in the office of Reeve & Gould, at Litchfield, 
about 1806, wliere his talents were fully developed to his fellow-stu- 
dents, and have since been as fully appraised by the freemen of the 
state of New York, as a lawyer and statesman, and have placed him 
in several of the most important oflices in their gift. He has had 
three wives, and has two sons, who are lawyers, and perhaps other 
children. 

Coats of Arms. Collyear has 1 ; Collyer has 4 ; Colyear, (Earl 
of Portmore,) 1. 

Two of this name had graduated at Harvard College in 1848, and 
one at Brown University. 

COLLINS, JOHN, of Branford, m. Mary, widow of Henry Kings- 
ton, or Kingsworth, one of the first twenty-five settlers of Guilford, 
Ct,; m. June 2, 1669. He lived at Guilford a part of his life, but 
died at Branford in 1704. He probably had been twice married. 
John Collins was oflfered to be made a freeman from Guilford, Oct., 
1669. Deputy, Oct., 1672. John Collins assessed at Guilford in 
1642 or "50, £68, As. Children : 

1. John, b. 1G65. 2. Robert, b. 

3. Maiy, m. Mr. Chapman. 

COLLINS, JOHN, son of John, (Lebanon,) born probably at 
Branford, 1665, m. Ann Leete, dau'r of John, son of Gov. Leete, 
July 23, 1691. Children: 

1. Ann, b. March 9, 1692; m. Daniel Bartlett, March 31, 1720. 

2. Mary, b. April 11, 1G94. 

3. John, b. Feb. 23, 1697 ; m. Rachel Mix, ofN. H., April 26, 1716. 

4. Timothy, b. Feb. 11, 169S, and d. same month. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 665 

5. Second Timothy, Rev., b. April 13, 1(30'.» ; graduated at Yale Coll., 171S; 
minister ol" Litchlield. 

G. Daniel, b. June 13, 1701 ; ni. Lois Cornwall, March 15, 17"2o ; d. 1701. 

7. Susannah, b. Oct. 5, 1703. 

S. Samuel, b. Nov. 2, 1704 ; m. IMargary Leete, Oct. 20, 1731'; he d. Dec. 6, 
17S4. 

9. Mercy, b. 170G ; in. Mr. Hobson : i-he d. Auj,'. 12, 17LK'.. 
jO. Avi.<, b. 170S; m. Peter Buell, of Litchfield. 

11. Oliver, b. Oct. IS, 1710 ; m. 1. Elizabeth Hull, 2. Ann Sinithson, and 3. 
Abigail Bartlett. 

12. Eunice, b. April 1, 1714. 

COLLINS, Rev. TLMOTHY, son of John, was the first settled 
minister of LitclifielJ. He probably went to Litchfield about 1721, 
from Lebanon or Guilford, on the first settlement of Litchfield. He 
was ordained there June 19, 1723, though he accepted his call to set- 
tle, Dec, 1721, and dismissed Oct., 1752. After his dismission, he 
was appointed justice of the peace, which he accepted, and remained 
there as a physician. He was extensively known as a physician, as 
many other clergymen were at that time. His wife was also much 
employed in one branch of surgery, and on the birth of Ursula Nor- 
ton, of Goshen, she (Mrs. Collins) was sent for, and drawn upon a 
hand-sled in Jan., 1780, a distance of four and a half miles. He d. 
1776. Rev. Timothy m. Eliz'th Hyde, of Lebanon, Jan. 16, 1723, 
and had children born in Litchfield, viz.; 

1. Oliver, b. March 7, 17-24 ; ni. Sarah Hyde, of Lebanon, June 22, 1746. 

2. Anne, b. Aug. 24, 172.'); m. Isaac Baldwin, Esq., clerk of the county 
ofL. 

3. Charles, b. Aug.'), 1727; m. Ann Huntington, of Lebanon, June IS, 1752; 
lived at Litchfield South Farms. 

4. Lewis, b. Aug. S, 1729. 

5. Ilhoda, b. May 3, 1731 ; had four husbands. 

6. Cyprian, b. March 4, 173- ; in. Azuba Gibbs, Jan. 9, 175G ; he settled in 
Goshen. 

7. Ambrose, b. March 30, 1737. 

S. John, b. June 1, 17.39; m. Sarah Tarmele, Jan. S, 17G9. He lived at 
Litchfield, in the Luke Lewis house, which he built. 

Rev. Timothy died 1776. 

OLIVER, son of Rev. T.Collins, of Litciifield, born 1724, m. 
Sarah Hyde, of Lebanon, 1740, and had one child recorded at Litch- 
field, viz.: 

1. Timothy, b. April IG, 174S. 

AMBROSE, son of Rev. Timothy, graduated at Yale College, 

1758, became a minister, and went among the Indians as missionary, 

by whom he was probably murdered, as he was never heard from 

afterward by his friends. 
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666 GENEALOGY OF THE PURl'J'ANS. 

CHARLES, son of Rev. Timothy, b. 1727, in. Ann Huntington, 
of Lebanon, June 18, 1752, and liad children at Litchfield : 

1. Lewis, b. Oct. 29, 1753. 

2. Elizabeth^ b. Sept. 25, 1755. 

3. Lois and Eunice, twins, b. Oct. 11, 1757. 

4. Anne, b. Oct. 10, 1759. 

5. Charles, Jun., Aug. 14, 17G1, 

6. Rhoda, b. Oct. 5, 1764. 

7. Lorain, b. May 1, 1767. 

8. Darius, b. Nov. 8, 1769. 

COLLINS, CYPRIAN, son of Rev. Timothy, of Litchfield, was 
born 1733. His father deeded to him fifty acres of land in Goshen, 
July 2, 1759. He settled in Goshen, and became the progenitor of 
the Goshen Collins's., He m. Azuba Gibbs, of Litchfield, Jan. 9, 
1756, and had issue : 

1. Ambrose, b. March 2^, 1750; m. Mary Baldwin. ' 

2. Tri])hfena, b. Aug. 21, 1757 ; m. Abraham Wadliams. 
3 Amanda, b. March 27, 1759 ; m. Joseph Brooks. 

4. Philo, b. Jan. 5, 1761 ; m. Olive Foot. 

5. Anna, b. Nov. 21, 1762 ; m. Moses Wadliams. 

6. Luranda, b. Aug. 28, 1764 ; m. Elijah Towner. 

7. Rhoda, b. June 30, 1766; m. Alexander Norton. 

8. Timothy, b. Jan. 11, 1769; m. Miriam Norton. 

9. Cyprian, Jun., b. Nov. 6, 1770 ; m. Huldah Norton. 

10. Phebe, b. Jan. 25, 1773 ; m. David Wadhams. 

11. Tyrannus, m. Eliza Goodwin. 

Cyprian i-esided for a time at Litchfield after he was married. 
His first child was born there. He died Jan. 8, 1809, aged 76. 
She died Aug. 24, 1823, aged 89 years. 

AMBROSE, son of Cyprian Collins, b. at Litchfield, 1756. He 
m. Mary Baldwin, dau'r of Samuel, and had children : 

1. Augustus, b. May 13, 17S0, and d. at Charleston, S. C, July 4, 1S07. 

2. Anne, Jan. 23, 1782; m. Ethan Walter. 

3. Calvin, b. Dec. IS, 1783; m. Mary Ann Wriglit. 

4. Ambrose, b. Aug. 26, 1786 ; m. EfRa Hicock, of Danbury. 

5. Cyprian, b. June 25, 1788; m. Jennett Scovell. 

6. Samuel Baldwin, b. April 17, 1790. 

7. Nervina, b. Sept. 6, 1792 ; d. 183S. 

«. John Hyde, b. Oct. 26, 1794 ; m. Eliza W. Washburn. 
9. George Lewis, b. Sept. 8, 1796 ; d. IS 17. 

10. Lauia, b. July 2, 1799. 

11. Clara Maria, b. Sept. 4, ISOl. 

12. Freelove, b. April 12, 1S04 ; m. Amasa N. Chapin. 

The father d. at Goshen, Sept. 1, 1809, aged 53. His wife died 
March 4, 1821, aged 61 years. 



GENEALOGY OF THE Pl'RITANS. G67 

COLLINS, PHILO, son of Cyprian, b. in Goshen, Jan. 5, 17G1, 
tn. Olive Foot, Nov. 3, 1782, and had children : 
1. Olive, b. Sept. 19, 17S3; m. Benjamin Sedgwick, Esq. 
"2. Martha, b. Sept. 1, 17SG. - 

3. Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1795; m. Julius Bell, of Cornwall. 

4. Harriet, b. March 9, 179S ; m. Wm. Miles. 

5. Emily, b. Sept. 13, ISOl ; m. Oalcey M. Hogeland ; no sous. 

Capt. TLMOTHY, son of Cyprian, b. Jan. 11, 17G9, m. Miriam 
Norton, dau'r of David Norton, Sept. 8, 1791, and liad children : 

1. Homer, b. Dec. 10, 1793; m. Anne Wadhams. 

2. Cicero, b. July 30, 179S ; m. Allitia Gaylord. 

3. Plato, b. Aug. 7, 1S03 ; d. Dec. 26, 1S34. 

4. Virgil Collins, b. March 4, ISIO; m. Jane Lucas. 

COLLINS, CYPRIAN, Jun., son of Cyprian, of East Bloomfield, 
b. at Goshen, Nov. 6, 1770, m Huldah Norton, dau'r of Aaron, 
May 7, 1793. Children : 

1. George W., b. Feb. S, 1797 ; m. Cynthia Newton. 

2. Hiram L., b. June 31, 1799; m. Ann H. Cooly. 

3. Betsey, b. Oct. 9, ISOl ; m. Philo Hamlin. 

4. Hasculine, b. July S, 1S03; m. Patty Boughton. 

5. Guy, b. May S, 1S03 ; m. Maria Ellis. 

6. Wm., d. Dec. 12, 1S07. 

7. Mary, b. March 26, 1S07 ; d. July 29, 1S09. 
S. Azubah, b. Aug. 22, ISOS; m. Horace Lee. 

9. Second William,'b. Dec. 2.5, ISIO ; m. Emily Stimpson. 

He d. at E. Bloomfield, Sept. 3, 1843, and his wife d. Dec. 17, 
1843. 

TYRANNUS, son of Cyprian, of E. Bloomfield, b. at Goshen, 
and m. Eliza Goodwin, and had children : 

1. Nelson, d. 

2. Virgil A.,d. 

3. Clara Eliza, b. Nov. 9, ISIO ; m. Ethan Walter. 

4. Montgomery. 
■5. Horatio G. 
■6. Lucius M., d. 

7. James G., d. 

5. James L., d. 

This is only the line of Rev. Timothy Collins. 



Note. — COLLINS, PETER, a planter at Pequot, (N. L.,) had a house-lot at N. L. in 1G51. 
He d. in 10.')5. Will dated May, 1G55. lie notices John Gager, of Say[brook,] as his full heir 
■and executor, but gave Richard Poole his house and home-lot, &c., and Josepli Waterhouse to 
have the land at the neck ; also a brindle cow and thirty shillings. He gave Robert Burrows, 
planter, at Pequet, a black cow and £\, Is. due him from Wm. Roberts, who was Thomas Stan- 
ton's man ; one-third of a bill of X4, James Tonge owed him ; also gave Gideon Harwood one- 
third of the jC4 due from Tonge ; also noticed John Harwood, planter, of Pequet, Mathew Be«k- 



668 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COLBURN, COLBORNE, WM., signed to embark for N. Eng- 
land if the charter and government should be transferred, came with 
Winthrop, and was deacon, ruling elder in Boston, representative, 
&c.; d. Aug. 1, 1662. {Colleclions, p. 96.) 



with. Tho's Hungerford, £i, 2«., James Tonge and Win. Morton. Inventory, £5~, Os. 8d. Ap- 
pears loft no family \ lived alone. He applied to remain in N. L. in 1054. He appears not to 
Iiave been a member of either of the other Collins families in Conn, in 1655. He was the first 
of the name in N. L. (See Caulk., p. 271.) 

COLLINS, EDWARD, 1640, of Cambridge, Mass., a deacon, representative sixteen years 
from 16.'i4 to '70, excepting 1G61. Mather says he lived to see " several most worthy sons be- 
come very famous persons in their generation." His children : 

1. Daniel, lived in Konigsberg, in Prussia, in 1658. 

2. John, graduated at H. College, 1649. 

3. Samuel, went to Scotland; lived there with liis wife and son Edward, in 1658. 

4. Martha. 

5. Nathaniel, graduated at tl. Coll., 1(300 ; settled at Middletown, Ct. Also, Abigail, Sybil and 
Edward. (See Far. and Muiher's Magnnlia.) 

COLLINS, Rev. NATHANIEL, of Middletown, was a son of Deacon Edward Collins, of 
Cambridge, Mass.; was born there in 1042, graduated at Cambridge College in 1660, and was 
ordained over the church at Middletown, Conn., Nov. 4, 1068, over a cliurch of ten male mem- 
bers. He m. Marie or Mary Whiting, dau'r of Mr. Wm. Whiting, .Vug. 3, 1664. He contin- 
ued until 1684. They had children, viz.; 

1. Mary, b. May 11, 1666, at Middletown ; m. Hon. John Hamhn, 1684, Jan. 11 ; d. 1722. 

2. John, b. Jan. 31, 1667; m. Mary, dau'r of Judge Di.\well, of New Haven, one of the En- 
glish regicide judges and Bathshua, his wife, Dec. 24, 1707. • 

3. Susanna, b. Nov. 26, 1669 ; m. VVni. Hamlin, brother of John, May 26, 169-', and son of 
Hon. Giles Hamlin, Sen.; d. Feb. 24, 1721-2. 

4. Sibbil.b Aug. 20, 1672. 

5. Martha, b. Dec. 26,1673; ni. Wm. Harris, Jan. 8, 1690. 

6. Nath'l, Jr., b. June 13, 1677 ; in. Alice Adams, Jan, 7, 1701, a sister of Rev. Eliphalet, of 
N. L., from Dedham, Mass. 

7. Abigail, b. July 13, 1682 ; ni. Serg't Wm. Ward, July 9, 1702, and perhaps S. Wolcott. 

8. Samuel, b. April 16, 1683 ; d. at Middletown, April 23, 1683. 

Rev. Nath'l d. at Middletown, Dec. 28, 1684. Mary, liis widow, d. at Middletown, Oct. 25, 
1709. Rev. Noadiah Russell, b. in New Haven, was his successor in Middletown in 1687. 

The estate of Mr. Collins appears not to have been closed until himself and wife were both 
deceased in 1712 ; estate, X679 ; when it was settled by his children ; signed by John Collins, 
John Hamlin and wife, Nath'l Collins, Wm. Hamlin, Thomas Hurlbut, Samuel Wolcott and his 
wife Abigail. Nath'l Collins calls Tho's Fitch, of Middletown, his brother-in-law, June 23, 1673, 
vol. 1, p. 102; also calls Susan Bryan his honored mother. (See JSIather'.'; Magnalia.) Rev. 
Nathaniel Collins propounded for a freeman in M67. 

COLLINS, Rev. NATH'L, Jun., b. 1677, was a son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, and 
grandson of Deacon Edward, of Cambridge ; graduated at Cambridge in 1697, and was the first 
settled minister at Enfield, Ct., as his father had been first at Middletown. He m. Alice Adams, 
daughter of Rev. Wm. Adams, and Alice, his wife, of Dedham, and was b. at Dedham, Mass., 
April 3, 1682. She d. at Enfield, Feb. 19, 1735, and was interred in the old yard at Enfield . 
Their children, born in Enfield, were ; 

1. Mary, b. Nov, 15, 1701. 

2. Ann, b. Dec. 20, 1702; ni. E.Terry, Sept. 13, 1723 ; d. Sept., 1778. 



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COLBURN, DANIEL, an original proprietor and settler ut Staf- 
ford, Conn., settled about 1719. He was from Dedham, Mass. 
Mercy Col burn admitted to the church in Hampton, Conn., Nov., 
17123. Hannah Canada in 1725. Samuel Colburn and his wife, 
and Elizabeth Colburn, admitted into the Hampton church in 1735. 



3. John, (Lieut.,) b. Jan. 7, 1705 ; m. Mary Meacham, 1728; he d. at Cape Breton, March 
26, 1746. 

4. Olive, I). Feb. 19, 1707 ; d. 1700. 

5. Xalh'l, (Rev.,)b Aug, 17, 17011: ni. Abigail Tease, July l7, 17 35 ; d. Dec. 5, 1787 ; left a 
son, Eliplialet and perliaps others. 

6. Win., b. June, 1711 , m. Ann Jones, or Collins, May 3, 1734 ; d. at Somers, 1799. 

7. Edward, (Deacon.) b. Xov. 20. 1713; m. Tabitha Gcer, Feb. 19, 1736; d. 1790; left 
children. 

8. Second Alice, b. March 14, 1716 ; ni.Nath'l Parsons, Jan. 15, 1736. 

(Rev. Wm. Adams, the lather of the wife of Rev. Nath'l Collins, of Enfield, was "called to 
the charge of the church at Dedham, by a vote made with white and red corns," instead of votes 
on paper.) 

COLLINS, JOHN, b. 1GG7, son of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, m. Mary Diiwell, of New 
Haven, daughter of Judge Diswell and Bathshua. his wife, Dec. 24, 1707. They had children 
born in Middletown, viz.: 

1. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 17, 1708. 

2. Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1710. 

3. John, b. March 1, 1712-13 ; d. 1714. 

4. Second John, b. Nov. 13, 1714; d. in infancy. 

5. Sibbel, b. Aug. 16, 1716. 

6. Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1718. 

Bathshua, the mother of Alary, the wife of John Collins, d. at Middletown, Dec. 27, 1729, 
aged — , and was buried there. 

COLLINS, SAMUEL, of Middletown, who had d. at Middletown. His widow Mary petitioned 
the court for the sale of land to pay debtt:, as administratrix on his estate. May 10, 1711 ; al- 
lowed. Samuel Collins, of Middletown, and wife Mary, had issue : 

1. Edward, b. June 18, 1664. 

2. Martha, b. March 3, 1666. 

3. Samuel, b. Oct. 21, 1668. 

4. Sibbila, b. Feb. 24, 1670. 

5. Mary, b. June 16, 1672. 

6. Abigail, b. June 2, 1673. 

7. Daniel, b. Oct. 5, 1675. 

Mary, the mother, d. March 5, 1714. {Middletown Record, by Stearns.) 
This Samuel Collins was perhaps a brother of Rev. Nathaniel, of Middletown, son of Edward 
of Cambridge, and was the son of Edward ; the same Samuel who went to Scotland in 1658, 
and was at Saybrook Oct. 14, 1664, named by Farmer. Mr. Samuel Collins, deputy to the Gen. 
Court from Middletown, Oct., 1672. Mr. Samuel Collins was an importer of goods. The Gen. 
Court of Conn., May, 1665, remitted the custome of Mr. Samuell Collins, on his goods, which he 
had then landed in the colony, on account of his late loss. lie was ofTered for a freeman of 
Middletown in May, 1067. 

Oct. 14, 1664, Samuel Collins, now residing at Seabrooke, in the corporation of Connecti- 
cut, mortgageth his grey horse, now in Middletown meadows, to his brother, Nathaniel Collins, 
of Middletown. This is strong evidence that Samuel, of Saybrook, was the son of Deacon Ed- 



670 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Edward, of Chelmsford, 1675, ancestor of the Dracut Colburns, 
orCoburns. {Hubbard's In. War.) Robert, of Ipswich, 1648, had 
a son Robert. Samuel, of Salem, 1637. (See Farmer.) 

COLLSON, or COLTSON, or COLAND, from Great Britain, 



ward, of Cambridge, in 1640, the same Samuel Collins, who was with his wife and son Edward 
in Scotland, in 1658, and the same Samuel Collins wlio was an importer at Saybrook, and after- 
ward lived and died in Middletown, and a brother of Rev. Nath'l, the first minister of Middle- 
town, Ct. Mary, widow of Samuel Collins, d. at Middletown, March 5, 1713-14. 

As I have not traced the descendants of Pobert Collins, 1 only mention, ROBERT COLLINS 
m. Eunice Foster, of Middletown, June 3, 1707, and had Mary, b. April 26, 1708 ; Robert, b. 
Feb. 17, 1709-10 ; Edward, b. Aug. 7, 1711, &c. Edward m. Susanna Peck, Aug. 29, 1738, 
and had Mole, b. Aug. 23, 1739. 

ROBERT COLLINS, b. 1709-10, m. Abigail Ebenetha, May 4, 1736, by Mr. Hall, and had a 
son Samuel, b. April 20, 1737 ; John, b. Jan. 12, 1740, &c. Lament, daughter of Robert, Sen.i 
-d. May 13,1732. 

Alexander Keith, of Middletown, son of \Vm. Kief, ni, a dau'r of John Collins and Mary Dix- 
■well, his wife — (no date.) 

COLLINS, DANIEL, (not known where from,) settled, one of the first, in the south part of 
the town of Enfield, and d. in May, 1690, aged 42 years. Left a son Nathan, b. May 31, 1683, 
who went to Brimfield, Mass., to settle ; Also, Sarah, b. July 31, 1086 ; also, Josiah and Thomas, 
twin sons of Daniel, d.in Sept., 1090, agedajjout three months. 

COLLINS, DANIEL, m. Ruth Wilkinson, of Milford, Dec. 7, 1699, and had a son Daniel, Jun., 
b. Dec. 9, 1700 ; Edward, b. Sept. 17, 1702, d. Feb., 1702-3. Daniel Collins m. Abigail Thomp- 
son, at N. Haven, Sept. 8, 1698. Wm. Collins m. Sarah Morrell, at N. Haven, Jan. 1, 1667. 

COLLINS, MARY, of Windsor, 1640. 

COLLINS, THOMAS, had his ear mark for cattle in Hartford, 1646. 

WKTHERSFIELD COLLINS'S. 

COLLINS, SAMUEL, of Wethersfield, m. Martha , Oct. 24, 1704, and had issue at 

Wethersfield, viz.: 

1. Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1705. 6. Hannah, b. June 7, 1717. 

2. Jonathan, b. Oct. 8, 1706. 7. Mary, b. April 1 1, 1720. 

3. Martha, b. July 9, 1709. 8. John, b. Jan. 8, 1723. 

4. David, b. May 13, 1712. 9. Benjamin, b. Nov. 13, 1724. 

5. Daniel, b. Aug. 27, 1714. 10. James, b. Oct. 30, 1727. 

COLLINS, JONATHAN, b. 1706, of Wethersfield, son of Samuel and Martha, m. Rebina 
Smith, June 21, 1731. Issue b at Wethersfield : 

1. Isaac, b. Feb. 27, 1732. 5. Prudence, b. Sept. 20, 1740. 

2. Robert, b. June 5, 1734. 6. Olive, b. March 13, 1743. 

3. Charles, b. Oct. 6, 1736; d. 7. Charles, b. Nov. 11, 1746. 

4. Anna, b. July 14, 1738. 8. Rachel, Rebina and Kezia, b. July 20, 1749 
COLLINS, JOHN, son of Samuel, b. 1723 ; ra. Lydia Allis, March 8, 1739, and had children 

b. at Wethersfield, viz.; 

1. .'^mos, b. June 4, 1746. 2. Kezia, b. 1747. 

COLLINS, DAVID, b. 1712, son of Samuel, of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Cole, Nov. 11, 1740, 
and had issue at Wethersfield : 

1. Abigail, b. Dec. 14, 1742. 3. .losiah, b. July 26, 1748, d. 1748. 

2. Lucy, b. Dec. 5, 1745. 4. 2d Josiah, b. Sept. 26, 1750. 
COLLINS, JAMES, b. 1727, son of Samuel, of Wethersfield, m. Eliz'th Riley, Nov. 5, 1747 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 671 

m. Marcy Shepaid, of Simsbury, Feb, 26, 1718-19. Me d. March 
12, 1719, less than three weeks after his marriage. 

COLLSON, MOSES, m. Sarah Silsby, April 10, 1766, of Wind- 
ham. Issue, VVm., b. July 26, 1766, d. Aug. 10, 1766; second 
Wm. b. and John. 

COLTMAN, COULTMAN, JOHN, was early at VVethersfield, 
in 1645, and had six tracts of land recorded there as early as 1647, 
and four acres in the land division there in 1670. Sued for slander 
by Matthias Trott, in 1649, and defendant in court, Sept!, 1649. 
For his improper treatment of Ruth Fish, and for disobeying the 

governor's command, was fined £5, July, 164.5. He m. Mary , 

of Wethersfield, Sept. 16, 1667, and had Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1672; 
Eliz'th, b. Jan, 14, 1677 ; Anna, b. March 11, 1681. He was in 
the list of freemen at Wethersfield in 1669. The inventory of his 
estate was proved in court at Hartford, by Mrs, Mary Sherman, the 
former wife of said Coltnian. She had again married. A previous 
inventory had been presented. She was .sole administratrix, and she 



and had Eliz'th.b. May 2, 1748 ; Paiience, b. Nov. 9, 1749 ; Lydia, b. June 5, 1752 ; Zebedee, 
b. July 10, J 755. 

COLLtXS, BENJ'.V, son of Samuel, b. 1724, m. Bathsheba Ditnock, Jan. 30. 1755, and had 
Moses, b. at Wethersfield. Jan. U, 1756. 

COLLINS, ISAAC, son of Samuel and Martha, m. Esther Beldin-;, Sept. 5, 1754, and had 
Simeon, b. Jan. 29, 1755. These are the Collins's of VVethersfield. 

COLLINS, GILES, aged 20, passenger in the Paule, of London, Leonard Belts, master, bound 
for Virginia, July 6, 1635. 

Win. Collins, aged 34, and Wm. Collin, aged 20, passengers in the Plain Joan, for Virginia, 
May 15, 1635. 

Henry Collins, aged 29, starch-maker, with his wife Ann, aged 30, and children, Henry, aged 
5, Jo, aged 3, and Margery, aged 2 years, and five servants, embarked in the Abigail, Hackwell, 
master, for New England. Certificate from the minister of Stepney Parish, July 2, 1635. 

Collins was an early name in Massachusetts and in Connecticut. John, in Massachusetts, 
aged 54, in 1658. John, Jun., aged 24. Christopher in 1654. Henry, aged 55, in 1662. 
James, aged 20, in 1664. John, aged 30, in 1665. Henry, Sen., of Lynn, 1662. Thomas, 
Sen., of Gloucester, 1666. Rev. Timothy, of Litchfield. Mr. Henry, of Newport, merchant, and 
Mr. Daniel Collings, of Charlestown, were subscribers for Prince's Chronology. John Collins 
and Mehitable, his wife, of Gloucester, Mass., had children b, there, yiz.: John, b. Dec. 12, and 
d. 20, 1659; John, 2d, b. 1662; Ezekiel, b. 1065 ; Ebenezer, b. 1667 ; Samuel, b. 1671 ; Amos, 
b. 1672 ; Benjamin, b. 1675. Farmer names Edward, of Cambridge, 1640, deacon, &.C.; Fran- 
cis, of Salem, 1665; Henry, freeman, of Lynn, 1637; John, of Gloucester, selectman, 1646, 
and mem. ar. co. 1044, and son Tho's, b. 1645. (Far. His. Reg. and Rec.) 

Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, before 1838 ; four at Harvard, before 
1748, and seven at Williams College, before 1846. 

Coals of arms. — Collens, or Collins, (Offwell, co. Dorset,) has 1 coat of arms ; Collens, or Col- 
lensworth, (Barnes Hill, co. Devo.n,) 1; Collens, (Upton, co. Hereford,) 1 ; Collins, 14; CoHis, 
1, and 10 others. 



672 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in 1697, asked the court for a distribution of the estate to herself 
and three daughters, he having left no sons. 

Coultnian has one coat of arms ; Coltman has two coats of arms. 

In 1659, John Coltman was a signer " at the meeting at Goodman 
Ward's house in Hartford, April 18, 1659," of the contract to re- 
move to Mass.; yet he did not remove as he had agreed, but re- 
mained in VVethersfield. 

COLT, JOHN, a peer of England, father of Sir John Colt, " the 
great," who was dispossessed of his estates for opposing popery. He 
fought in defense of his country until he had three horses killed under 
him, and broke his sword in the action ; replacing it, he gained the 
victory, at the head of his troops ; and from this was granted the coat 
of arms. He was the father of Peter Colt, a peer in England, who 
was father of John, who was father of John, the father of John, who 
was father of John, who was born in Colchester, in England, arid left 
there during the troubles of King Charles I., and came to Dorchester, 
near Boston, it is said, Xvhen about eleven years old, but left there, 
and removed to Hartford, Conn., about 163S. He m., perhaps, a 
dau'r of Joseph Fitch, then of Hartford, and this is conjecture only 
from the fact of their friendship, and that Mr. Fitch gave him land 
in 1679, " for love and good will." Mr. Fitch also removed from 
Hartford to Podunk, where he held a respectable rank and was a 
large landholder. The settlers of this part of Windsor, for some 
reason, do not appear much in probate records, or records of births 
and deaths, or on grave-stones, whicli renders it very difficult to find 
their children, and if found to know their fathers. John, Sen., was 
at Flartford, and had a dau'r Sarah bap. in Hartford, Feb. 7, 1646-7; 
also a son John. Joseph, of Windsor, Abraham, and Jonathan, were 
probably the children of John, Sen. The time he located at Podunk 
is uncertain. He was there in 1665, when he subscribed six shil- 
lings to raise the salary of the minister. In 1672, he was called out 
with others to cut brush. In 1675, he was taxed there for £67, in- 
cluding his poll at £18, and was there some years after. In 1691, 
in the valuation of property, John Colt had two persons under age, 
and Joseph and Abraham, his sons, (of age.) In 1713, these were 
signers to an East Windsor petition, viz., John, Joseph, Jabez and 
Benjamin Colt ; this makes John Colt and four persons, including 
Abraham Colt, who removed to Glastenbury. From the age of John, 
Sen., at this time, (he was probably deceased in 1713,) and this was 
John, Jun., his son, who removed to Lyme with his family. In a 
list of the taxable inhabitants of Windsor, in 1726, only two Colts, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 673 

Jabez and Ruth, appear on tliat list. Abraham had removed at this 
time to Glastenbury. Jonathan d. in 1711. John and his family- 
had removed to Lyme. Jabez Colt had a son John b. at Windsor, 
Oct. 29, 1703 (wliose son Jabez was, is not found ;) it was probably 
his son John, who settled in Harwinton in 1740. 

COLT, JOHN, JuN., (so called,) owned a house and lot of six 
acres at Podunk, he purchased of Samuel Olmsted, and other lands 
recorded as early as 1601, and Joseph Colt purchased the house and 
six acres of John, Jun., at Podunk. 

At a meeting of the council, at Hartford, Sept. 1, 1675.. John Colt 
declared before them that "lie was shot at yesterday by an Indian," 
and that another party of Indians were discovered near the north 
meadow in Hartford the last night. The council ordered the return 
of Major Treat and his troops forthwith to Hartford. This John Colt 
was in the list of freemen at Windsor, May 13, 1669. 

COLT, ABRAHAM, removed from Podunk to Glastenbury, in 
1691. He married Hannah Loomis, of Windsor, July 1, 1690. He 
had 98 acres of the 6,000 acre tract at Glastenbury, for £49, in 
1716, and 6 acres more Dec. 19, 1723, (says Dr. Ckapin.) Abra- 
ham d. at Glastenbury as early as 1730, as Abraham, Jun., a 
minor son of Abraham, dec'd, chose David Hills, of Hartford, for his 
guardian, in 1730. (Perhaps it was Abraham, Jun. that d.) See 
below. 

Abraham Sen's children were: 

1. Abraham, Jun., b. May 11, 1G9'2, at Ghistcnbuiy. 

2. Mary, b. Jan. 17, 1G96. 

3. Isaac, b. Sept. 15, 1702; d. Jan. 17, 1703. 

COLT, AB'M, Jun., (sonof Ab'm and Hannah,) b. 1692, m. Su- 
sanna Risley ? Dec. 10, 1713, and had a son Ab'm, b. Sept. 30, 1714. 
It was this son Ab'n), who chose his guardian in 1730, and not the 
son of Ab'm, Sen., who was of age. 

COLT, JOSEPH, of Windsor, m. Ruth Loomis, Oct. 29, 1691. 

COLT, JONATHAN, of Windsor, cordwainer, dec'd, and admin- 
istration granted to Mathew Grant, for which he gave bonds as adm'r, 
April 2, 1711. Joseph, "his brother," and other brothers, refused 
to admini.ster on his estate. 

COLT, JOHN, who removed from Windsor to Lyme, had several 
sons and dau'rs. None of his sons lived to have families except 
Samuel and Benjamin. One dau'r m. Sterling, of Niantic, in Lyme, 
and had an only dau'r, who m. Capt. Ezra Ely, and left issue. 
Another dau'r rn. Travers Ayres, ofSaybrook, and had several chil- 
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674 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

dreri. Tlie third dau'r m. Mr. Comstock, of Hadlynie, and had a 
largo family of children. 

COLT, SAMUEL, son of John, m. Miss Marven, and had issue : 

1. Martin, w.is killed in his youth by the fall of a tree. 

2. Samuel, Jun., m. Sarah Fowler, of Lebanon, dau'r of Dizali Fowler. 

3. One daughter. 

COLT, SAMUEL, Jun., son of Samuel, m. Miss Fowler, of Leh- 
anon, and had issue. His dau'r Taphenia m. Timothy Tiffany. 

COLT, BENJAMIN, son of John, Sen., of Lyme, m. Miriam 
Harris, of Saybrook, and had seven sons and three dau'rs, all of 
whom m. and had issue. He d. aged 56 years. 

1. JOHN, his first son, lived with his grandfather, (John,) while a 
minor. He m. Mary Lord, a maternal relative, and had several sons 
and one dau'r. His wife d. 1759, aged 29. He m. for his second 
wife, MaryMalson, and had a son. His eldest son d. single. Am- 
herst, his second son, settled as a physician in New Hampshire. His 
youngest sons settled in Lyme, and with Sam'l Colt possessed the 
old family estate. John's second wife Mary d. 1767, aged 25. 

2. COLT, JOSEPH, b. Feb. 27, 1727, son of Benj'n, m. Desire 
Pratt, b. 1729; in March 11, 1756, they had children, (five sons and 
three dau'rs,) viz.: 

1. Isaac or Isaiah, b. Sept. 5, 1757; d. when in college. 

2. Deborah, b. Oct. 27, .1759; m. Samuel Selden, son of Col. Samuel Selden. 

3. Judah, b. July 1,1761 ; m. 

4. Desire, b. April 11, 1763 ; m. Richard Ely Selden, Oct. 2, 17S3, son of Col. , 
Samuel. 

5. Asenath, b. Oct. 19, 1761. 

G. Joseph, Jun., b. April 17, 176G; m. 

7. Samuel, b. June 27, 1771 ; m. 

8. Jabcz, b. Jan. 19, 1778-9; did not marry. 

After the death of Joseph, the father, his sons Judah, Samuel, Josej^h 
and Jabez, sold their patrimonial estate, and settled in Geneseo, N. Y. 

3. COLT, MARY, dau'r of Benj'n, m.Tho's Giddings, of Lyme, 
and removed to Hartland, when it was a wilderness, and had a large 
family of sons and dau'rs, and acquired a good property by farming. 
His wife was living in 1799. Some of the sons settled in Hartland, 
one in Vermont, and two of the dau'rs in N. PL One dau'r m. 
Amherst Colt, her cousin, and one m. Dr. Judd. ' 

4. COLT, SARAH, dau'r of Benj'n, m. Joseph Harvey, of Lyme, 
and had sons and dau'rs. She d. before 1799. Her children set- 
tled in Lyme. 

5. TEMPERANCE, dau'r of Benj'n Colt, m. Capt. Abner Lord, 
a maternal relative and brother to the first wife of her brother, John 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 675 

Colt, and had two sons and one dau'r, viz., Thomas, Abner and 
Mary. Tliomas was a minister, and went to Marietta, Ohio. He 
m. a dau'r of Capt. Oliver, who moved there from Mass. Abner m. 
a dau'r of Col. Samuel Selden, of Lyme. After his father died, he 
removed to Ohio, near his brother. Mary, the dau'r, m. Rev. Mr. 
Ely, of Danbury, where her mother d. previous to 1799. 

6. COLT, HARRIS, third son of Benjamin, m. Elizabeth Turner, 
of New London, and had children, Elisha, Arnold, Lucretia, Eliza- 
beth, Harris, Anne, d. young, Peter, second Anna, Temperance, 
Polly and Sally. Hon. Elisha Colt settled in Hartford ; was many 
years a popular and an efficient comptroller of the state of Conn. 
Hed. at Hartford in 1827, and left a family of high standing there then 
and at this time. Arnold, a son of Harris, went to Wyoming, Penn., 
where he m. and left children, Harris and Peter, d. single ; Lucre- 
tia m. Hon. Isaac Spencer, son of Gen. Spencer, of E. Haddam* 
who was many years treasurer of Connecticut. Elizabeth m. Zach- 
ariah Seymour, who settled in Canadaigua, N. Y. Anna m. Capt. 
Job P. Tabor, moved to Louisiana, and d. in Baton Rouge, and left 
three dau'rs ; two m. there, the other m. and settled in Penn. 

7. TEMPERANCE. 

8. POLLY, m. Francis Brown, and d. in Florida; her child d. 
young. 

9. SALLY, m. Deodate J. Griswold, and d. in Penn'a, without 
issue. 

10. BENJAMIN, JuN., fourth son of Benj'n, Sen., b. 1733, m. 
Lucretia, daughter of Major Daniel Ely, of Lyme, in 1761 ; settled 
in Hadley, Mass., and d. in middle life, Aug. 30, 1781, aged 43. 
Lucretia, his widov/, m. John Wa,lker, and d. March 23, 1826. He 
was the youngest son of Benj'n, Sen., who moved from Windsor to 
Lyme, and was an ingenious blacksmith, and made scythes, axes 
and other edge tools. He had children, viz.: 

1. Benjamin, b. Sept. 30, 17G2; lived in Brookfield, Vt., Arc; m. Hopkins. 

2. Lucretia, b. 1764 : d. Sept. 12, 1767, aged 3 years and 9 mo. 

3. Daniel, b. July 7, 1767; was liberally educated; d. south in 1S16; had 
lived in. Hartford. 

4. Second Lucretia, b. 17iVj; d. Jan. 7, 1771. 

5. Ethalinda, b. July 23, 1771 ; m. J. Dudley Selden. 

6. Ame, or Amy, b. Feb. 7, 1773 ; m. Moses Porter, of Hadley. 

7. Betsey, b. Sept. 1, 1774 ; ) ^ P,^^^ .,,^^j p^j^^ 
N. Third Lucretia, b. Nov. 25, 1776; ) 

9. Elisha, b. June 12, 177S; d. in Hadley. 
10. Christopher, b. Aug. 31,1780; was a highly respectable merchant at Hart- 
'ord, (agent at Ware, &c.) He was twice m. All his children now living, 



676 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

were by his first wife. He was the father of Col. Samuel Colt, the ingenious 
inventor of Colt's revolver, a most useful fire-arm, and the father of Judge Colt, 
of St. Louis, Missouri. The father, Christopher, d. a kw years since. His 
second wife is yet living in Hartford. 

COLT, JAMES DANIELSON, m. a dau'r of Deacon Ely, of 
Lyme, and had two sons and a dau'r. His wife d. and he m. a dau'r 
of Col. Williams, of Pittsfield, Mass., and had ten children living 
there. 

COLT, JABEZ, of Lyme, m. Watrous, of Lyme. She d. 

and her children also in early life, and he m. a dau'r of Dr. Mix, of 
New Haven, where he then resided, and had four sons and one dau'r. 
About the close of the Revolutionary War, he sold his property at 
N. Haven, and removed to Richmond, Mass. His two oldest sons, 
Jabezand Samuel, m. and settled at Pittsfield. 

John and Joseph Colt were farmers. Harris, Benjamin, James 
and Jabez Colt were axe and scythe makers in connection with hus- 
bandry. 

COLT, Hon. PETER, the youngest son of one of the Benja- 
min's, graduated at Yale College in 1764. When the war of the 
Revolution broke out, he engaged in the civil department of the army 
as deputy quarter-master-general for the eastern department ; then 
as assistant commissary-general with the rank of colonel, and was 
attached to the French army. His nephew, Hon. Elisha Colt, (who 
was afterward comptroller of the state,) served with him as assistant, 
while he was attached to the French army in Rhode Island. Dur- 
ingthe war, Hon. Peter and Elisha Colt were important and efficient 
pillars in the great strife for liberty in this country. Peter was sev- 
eral years treasurer of the state. He afterward, in 1793, removed 
to Paterson, N. Jersey, and from thence to Rome, N. Y., where he 
died. While he lived in N. Haven, he m. a dau'r of Daniel Lyman, 
by whom he had children, viz.: Roswell L., Sally, Catherine, John, 
Mary and Richard. Roswell L. and John settled at Paterson, N. J. 

Most of the facts regarding the Colts, of Lyme, are collected from 
an aged man of that branch. The following are the descendants of 
the branch of Jabez, by his son John, born at Windsor in 1703, and 
settled in Harwinton in 1740. 

COLT, JOHN, son of Jabez, b. ViOS, removed and settled at 
Harwinton as early as 1740, (perhaps m. a Higley,) and had issue, 
Anne, b. June 24, 1734, d.; Jonathan Higley Colt, b. Oct. 13, 1735; 
second Anne, b. May 6, 1737. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 677 

COLT, LEVI, had a dau'r Mary T., b. March 22, 1741. Noth- 
ing more is found of Levi ; perhaps d. 

COLT, JONATHAN H., m. Mary Tuttle, Oct. 13, 1761. Issue, 
John, b. Sept. 9, 1762 ; Eliphalet, b. Feb. 12, 1764 ; Anson, b. 
July 19, 1766; Abel, b. March 4, 1769; Truman, b. Jan. 13, 
1771 ; Millicent, b. Jan. 1, 1773 ; Rhoda, b. Jan. 11, 1775; Sally, 
b. Oct. 3, 1776 ; Polly, b. Dec. 20, 1778 ; Huldah, b. Aug. 7, 1780 ; 
Electa, b. April 15, 1785, b. at Ilarwinton. 

COLT, JOHN, son of Jonathan, ni. Ruth Gilbert, and had issue, 
Belinda, John, Jr., Gilbert, Lyman, Riley, Wolcott, Elias, second 
Elias. 

COLT, ELIPHALET, son of Jonathan, b. 1764, was a doctor. 
He m. Huldah Adams, and had children. 

COLT, ANSON, b. 1766, son of Jonathan, m. Cloe Gillett, and 
had children, Nancy, Anson, Jun., Cloe, Charlotte and Henry. 

COLT, ABEL, or ALLEN, b. 1769, m. Mary Webster, and had 
children, Cloe, Abel, Jun., and Amos. 

COLT, TRUMAN, son of Jonathan, b. 1771, m. 1. Ann Forbes. 
Issue, Willis F., Anson and Truman. After the death of his wife 
he m. Widow Anna Pardee, of New Haven, and resided at East 
Haven a few years. 

COLT, MILLICENT, dau'rof Jonathan, b. 1773, m. Ruel Grid- 
ley, and had Clarissa, Fanny, Amos, Ann, Rhoda, Betsey and Ruel. 

COLT, RHODA, b. 1775, dau'r of Jonathan, m. Benj'n Hopkins 
and had Joel, Polly, Malissa, Rebecca, Chester and Maria. 

COLT, SALLY, b. 1776, m. Darias W^ilson, and had Darius, Jun., 
and other children by a second husband. 

COLT, POLLY, b. 1778, m. Mr. Williamson, and had issue, 
James, Riley and one other. 

COLT, HULDAH, dau'r of Jonathan, b. 1780, m. Silas Gridley, 
Jun., and had issue, Eliza, Sally, Belinda, Silas R. and Mary. 
Electa, b. 1785, m. Mr. Crane, and had no children. 

These are the descendants of John Colt, who went from Windsor 
and settled in Harwinton, where some of his descendants are yet found, 
(as far as collected.) 

Coats of arms. — COLT, (Westminster ; since of Leominster, co. 
Hereford, Bart.) 1 ; ar. a fesse, betw. three colts in full speed sa. 
Crest, a colt as in the arms. Motto, Vincit qui patitur. ^>^-^ 

COLT, or Cault, (Canterbury, 1613,) 1; Colt, (Essex,) 1; Colt 
(Colt Hall, CO. Suffolk, 1587,) 1 ; Colt, (as borne by John Hamilton 
Colt, of Garthshire, co. Lanark, Esq., son of the late Robert Colt, 
Esq.,) one. 

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678 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Two of this name graduated at Yale College before 1834. Dan- 
iel Colt, at Harvard, 1786 ; four at Williams College. 

Thomas Adkins had a son Josias. This Josias m. Joanna , 

and soon after d. His widow, Joanna, m. for her second husband, 
Benj'n Colt, of East Hartford, and had a dau'r Lucy. This Lucy 
Colt m. Josiah Oilman. She d. April 29, 1793, aged 74, at East 
Hartford. 

COLT, HENRY, m. Sara Rusco, Dec. 10, 1646 ? who was he? 

COLT, WILLL\M, and his wife Alice, had children, viz.: Eliz- 
abeth, b. April, 1653 ; John, b. Feb., 1654 ; Mary, b. Feb., 1656, 
and Jonathan, b. Feb., 1658. Whose son was this Wm.? or should 
the births and other dates be in the 17th century ? or was he the 
William Colt, admitted freeman at Salem in 1648, mentioned by 
Farmer ? 

COLTON, GEORGE, (called quarter-master on the Suffield rec- 
ord,) was at Springfield, Mass., as early as 1644. He was the first 
of the name known to the writer in N. England, and the ancestor of 
the Coltons of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was located at 
(Masacksick) Longmeadow, in Springfield, soon after 1644, and a 
worthy, respectable settler. He represented the town at the Gen. 
Court in 1669. In 1670, he, with Capt. John Pynchon, Benjamin 
Cooley, Lieut. Thomas Cooper, Rowland Thomas and Capt. Elizur 
Holyoke, were appointed a committee to lay out lots, organize and 
sell the lands in the new plantation, (of Suffield,) by the Gen. Court 
of Mass. March 20, 1671-2, the general committee appointed Lieut. 
Thomas Cooper, and Quarter-master George Colton, to lay out and 
establish the bounds of Suffield ; and Charles Ffery, Joseph Leonard, 
Samuel and Joseph Harmon, were appointed to attend the committee 
in establishing the bounds. In the year 1722, fifty acres of land 
were laid out in Suffield to the assigns of said George, then de- 
ceased. Quarter-master Geo. Colton d. 1699, and his wife d. Sept., 
1689. His wife was Deborah Gardiner, by whom he had children, 
viz.: Isaac, Ephraim, Mary, Thomas, Sarah, Deborah, Hepsibah, 
John and Benjamin. 

COLTON, THOMAS, son of Quarter master George, was b. May 
11, 1651; m. Sarah Griswold, of Lyme, Sept. II, 1677, and settled 
at Springfield, (Longmeadow,) Mass., where he d. September, 1728, 
aged 77 years. His wife, Sarah, d. Sept. 12, 1690. The town of 
Springfield voted, Nov. 30, 1693, to send Capt. Thomas Colton and 
Serg't Luke Hitchcock, to the Bay, to procure a minister to preach 
the word of God to the town, &c. They had children, Sarah, b. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 679 

Sept. "JS, 1678, Anna, Thomas, Jun., Bcnj'n, Eliz'h and Mathew 
Thomas, Sen., m. for second wife, Hannah Bliss, dau'r of L. Bliss, 
of Springfield, Dec. 17, 1G91, and had children, Ilepzibah, William, 
Ebenezer, Joseph, Isaac, Hannah, Dinah and Abner. 

COLTON, ISAAC, son of George, Sen., m. Mary Cooper, of 
Springfield, and hud children, viz.: George, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary, 
b. March 30, 1671; Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 1673; Rebeckah, Deborah 
and Hannah. 

COLTON, EPH'M, 2d, son of Quartcr-master George, m. Miss 
Drake, and had sons Eph'm, Jun., Samuel and Job. His wife d., 
and he m. for his second wife, Esther Marshall, and had children, 
Joseph, Benj'n, Daniel, Isaac, Nathaniel, Noah, Thomas, Esther, 
Sarah, Margaret and Mary. 

COLTON, EPH'M, Jun., son of Eph'm, m. Margaret Noble, 
of VVestfield, Mass.; and children, Eph'm 3d, m. Sarah Burt; Job, 
d. young ; Mary, d. single ; Samuel, m. Mary Store ; Deborah, m. 
Store ; Jerusha, m. David Burt ; Damaris, never m.; Hannah, m. 
Stephen Keep. 

COLTON, WM., son of Thomas and Hannah, was b. July 7, 
1694; m. Mary Merrick, of Springfield, Jan. 24, 1717; lived at 
Longmeadow. He d. Dec. 4, 1770, aged 76 years. Mary, his 
wife, d. June 5, 1767, aged 73. Children, Aaron, Ann, Mary, 
Ruth, Abigail, Loice, Eunice, Mariam and Israel. 

COLTON, AARON, (son of Wm. and Mary,) was b. June 13, 
1718; m. Mary, dau'r of Jonathan and Lydia Ely, Nov. 17, 1746; 
lived at Longmeadow. Aaron d. June 28, 1778, aged 60. Mary, 
his wife, d. Nov. 21, 1797, aged 78 years; had children, Israel, 
Lovisa, Mary, Wm., Mary, Aaron, second Mar)' and Walter. 

COLTON, ISRAEL, (son of Aaron and Mary,) b. Sept. 12, 
1747, m. Martha Wright, dau'r of Elnathan and Mary, of North- 
ampton, Nov. 29, 1775; lived at Longmeadow; he d. May 20, 
1818, aged 71. Martha, his wife, d. April 14, 1829, aged 82 years. 
Issue : Martha, Miranda, Israel, Aaron, Horace, Nancy, Warham 
and Sylvia. 

COLTON, LOVISA, (dau'r of Aaron and Mary,) b. Nov. 26, 
1749, m. Tilly Merrick, of West Springfield, and settled there. She 
d. March 18, 1828, in her 79th year. Her husband d. Aug. 31, 
1835, aged 92. Children, Parnel, Luciuda, Aaron, Daniel, Tilly 
and Lovisa. 

COLTON, WM., son of Aaron and Mary, was b. Jan. G, 1754 ; 
m. Hannah, dau'r of Ebenezer Colton, Oct. 7, 1777 ; settled at 



6S0 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Longmeadow, in Springfield. He d. May 0, 1825, in his 72d year. 
Wife Hannah d. Oct. 9, 1808, in her 58th year. Issue : Wm. Mer- 
rick, Adolphus, Hannah, Rodolphus, Sophronia and Jeduthan. 

COLTON, AARON, Jun., (son of Aaron and Mary,) b. Dec. 5, 
1758, m. Elizabeth Olmsted, dau'r of Ashbel and Hannah, of East 
Hartford, Conn., April 5, 1787, and settled in Hartford, Conn. He 
d. June 4, 1840, in his 82d year. Elizabeth, his wife, d. Nov. 16, 
1831, aged 69 years. Children, Laura, Elizabeth, Anson and Na- 
than. Some of this family now reside at Hartford. Anson is a 
bachelor, and Nathan has an only child, a daughter, of Hartford. 

COLTON, MARY, dau'r of Aaron and Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1761, 
m. Simeon Smith, of W. Springfield, Mass., and settled there; d. 
May 16, 1832, aged 71. Children : Polly, Rodolphus, Preston, Al- 
mira, Lucinda, Olive, Simeon, second Simeon, Safiah and William. 

COLTON, WALTER, son of Aaron and Mary, b. Aug. 25, 
1764, m. Thankful Cobb, dau'r of John and Susannah Cobb, of Ben- 
nington, Vt., 1793, and settled in Georgia, Vt. Thankful, his wife, 
d. June 7, 1843, aged 72. Children, Harvey, Susannah, Walter, 
Jun., was chaplain in the navy, Quintus Curtius, Wm., Addison E., 
Hannah, John, Aaron M., Luther Calvin, Quincy Gardiner. 

* COLTON, Rev. BENJAMIN, of W. Hartford, was the fifth 
son of Ephraim, and grandson of Quarter-master George, of Spring- 
field, Mass. He graduated at Yale College, with John Bliss, the 
only graduates of Yale in 1710. He d. in 1759, aged 69, and Bliss 
d. 1741. (See Catalogue of Y. C.) Mr. Colton settled the first 
minister at West Hartford, Feb. 24, 1713, and d. there March 1. 
He continued their minister about forty-four years. He m. Ruth 



* Rev. Benjamin Colton, the first ordained pastor at West Hartford, was ordained Feb. 24, 
1713. The elders who assisted were Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, Tho's Buckingham, of Hart- 
ford, Rev. Samuel Wliitman, of Farmington, and Timothy Woodbridge, of Sirasbury. Rev. 
Nath'l Hooker, Jun., was the second ordained minister at W. Hartford, Dec. 21, 1757. The 
elders who assisted were Rev. Elnathan Whitman, Edward Dorr and Eliphalet Williams, of Hart- 
ford, Rev. Ebenezer Booge and Timothy Pitkin, of Farmington, Hezekiah Bissell, of Wintonbury, 
and Joshua Belding, ofNewington. He d. of consumption, June 11, 1770, aged 32. Rev.Na- 
than Perkins, D. D., was the third ordained minister at West Hartford, ordained Oct. 14, 1772. 
The elders who assisted were Rev. Elnathan Whitman, Hezekiah Bissel, Eliphalet Williams. 
Joseph Perry, Wm. Russell, Timothy Pitkin, Joshua Belding, George Colton, John Staples and 
Andrew Lee. Fourth, Rev. Caleb S. Henry vv.is installed colleague pastor with Nathan Perkins, 
D. D., June 12, 1833. Fifth, Edward W. Andrews, ordained as colleague pastor with Nathan 
Perkins, D. D., Nov. 15, 1837. Rev. George T. Wood, installed pastor of the church at W. H. 
Nov. 9, 1841. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 68J 

Taylor, dau'r of Rev. Edward Taylor, of Westfield, Mass., Dec. 3* 
nu. Children: 

1. Eli, b. Aug. 2, 1716. 

2. Ruth, b. Nov. 5, 1718; bap. Nov. 9, 1718. 

3. Theodosia, b. July 13, 1721 ; bap. July 16, 1721. 

4. Benjamin, b. June 7, 1724; bap. June 7, 1724. 

His wife, Rutli, d. 

5. Lucina, (by Ceiij'n and Eli/.'tli, iiis wile,) b. March S, 1726-7 ; bap. March 
12, 1727. 

6. Eliz'th, b. Nov. 2S, 172S ; bap. Dec. 1, 172S. 

7. (Abijah,bap. April 4, 1731 ;) m. Mary Gaylor, April 21, 1774 ; had Polly, 
Eliz'th, George, Horace, Chester and Roderic. 

8. Esther, bap. July 15, 1733. 

9. George, bup. July 11, 1730. 

Widow Elizabeth d. Oct. 11, 1760, aged 71. 

COLTON, Rev. GEORGE, b. 1736, graduated at Yale College 
in 1756, and was settled at Bolton in 1763 ; d. in 1812. His por- 
trait is at the historical room in Hartford. He was particularly ec- 
centric, in words and actions. I have not his family of children, if 
he had any, and only know that he married, by his publishing his 
own intention of marriage in church. 

COLTON, ELT, son of Rev. Benj'n and Ruth, m. Eunice Smith, 
ofSimsbury, and had children: 

1. Eleazer, bap. Oct. 17, 1742, at W. Hartford. 

2. Ithamer, m. 1. Alinda Welles; 2. Andrus ; 3. Miriam Benton. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Eliakim, m. Betsey Viets, ofSimsbury. 

5. Eunice, m. Joseph Higley for second husband. 

He appears to have graduated at Yale Col., 1737, and settled in the 
ministry at Stafford, Conn. His children there named are Eunice 
Higley, alias Colton, one-third of his real estate for life ; Eleazer, 
his oldest son ; Eliakim, Ithamer, Lemuel and Samuel Colton, 1765. 
His dau'r Eunice m. Higley for second husband. He d. 1756. (See 
Yale Catalogue.) 

COLTON, BENJAMIN, second son of Rev. Benj'n and Ruth, of 
W. H., m. Anna Whiting, and had children, viz.: 

1. Benjamin, d. young; bap. Sept. 15, 1751. 

2. Joseph, m. Esther Belden, ofW. H., and had a .son Joseph, d. 1837, &c. 

3. Anna, d. young ; bap. Dec. 28, 1755. 

4. Ruth, bap. Nov. 2, 17G0; m. Amos Sedgwick, of W. H.; removed to Ash- 
ford, and had a son and two dau'rs. He d. at Ashford. Widow m. Daniel 
Hosmer, and had dau'r Mariah. 

5. Benjamin, d. young. 

COLTON, JOSEPH, son of Benj'n and Esther, hud children, 



682 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Joseph, d. at Hartford, 1837, Anna, Ruth, Esther, Benj'n, d. young, 
Laura, Alma, Sarah, d. in youth, Whiting, d. in Indiana in 1842, 
and second Benjamin Colton, son of Joseph, above, m. Sabrina Howe, 
and had issue : 

1. Mary, m. Edward Brace, and had a son, John G. Brace. 

2. Melancton H. 

3. Charles A., in. Mary Grant, of Asliford ; no issue; ni. 2. PLiuh Winship, 
and had Clarence, Henry and a son. 

4. Neheuiiah H. 

5. .Joseph F., d. in youth. 

COLTON, LAURA, dau'r of Joseph, m. Samuel Steel, of VV. H., 
and removed to Woodbury. Had Laura^Sophia, Mary, Mariah, died 
young. 

ALMA, a dau'r of Joseph, m. Jolin De Forest, of Woodbury, and 
had a dau'r Abigail. ESTHER, dau'r of Joseph, m. John Perkins, 
of Ashford, and had Lucy Ann, d., and Laura. 

COLTON, BENJ'N, son of Joseph, m. Jerusha Porter, of Hadley, 
Mass. Issue: Julia, Harriet, Augustin and Frederick P. His wife 
d. in ^artford, soon after 1825. He d. in Woodbury, 1850. 

COLTON, RUTH, dau'r of Benj'n, Jun., and granddaughter of 
Rev. Benj'n, of W. H., m. Timothy Skinner, and had issue : Ruth, 
Ann, Timothy, d. young, Abigail, d., second Abigail, d., and James* 
Dau'r Ruth m. first, Rev. Nath'l Hooker, of W. H., and had Ruth 
and Eunice. Ruth m. Col. Nathan Haynes Whiting, and had a son 
Nath'l H. Whiting, of W. Hartford. Her second husband was 
Fisher Gay, of Farmington. Her third husband, Thomas Goodman, 
of W. Hartford. This branch of the Coltons are connected by mar- 
riage to Hon. Noah Webster, Goodriches and Ellsworths. These 
facts are gathered from all sources, and with few dates, and probably 
some errors. 

This family have produced many clergymen, some deacons and 
some poets. 

Twenty-one had graduated at Yale College before 1851. One at 
Brown University in 1834. 

COMSTOCK, COMBSTOKE, KOMSTO(T\, WILLIAM and 
SAMUEL, were both early at Hartford. Wm. was in court at 
Hartford in August, 1644, and again in 1649. Samuel was in court 
at Hartford, and gave a bond in March, ]648, and in April, 1649, 
was freed from his recognizance. Soon after this, both William and 
Samuel disappeared. Samuel probably went to Rhode Island, 
There was a Welchman by this name who early settled in R. Island* 
and as Samuel, of Hartford, is not found in Conn, afterward, it is 



GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS.. 683 

probable being a brother of William, and thr latter going to New 
London to settle, that Samuel went with him and settled in R. 1., 
near by his brother Wm. at N. L. 

Comstock, Samuel, at an early period, had the following children 
b. in R. I., viz., Samuel, Jun., Hazadiah, Thomas, Daniel, Eliza- 
beth, John, Ichabod and Job. 

COMSTOCK, HAZADIAH, Samuel's second son, had fifteen chil- 
dren, ten by his first and five by his second wife, viz.: Susannah, 
Wm., Gideon, Rachel, Catherine, Hazadiah, Jun., Penelope, An- 
thony, Andrew, John, Amy, Ezekiei, Phebe, Rufus and Martha. 

COMSTOCK, GIDEON, second son of Hazadiah, Sen., was the 
father of Col. Adam Comstock, who was the grandfather of Andrew 
Komstok, of Philadelphia, Penn. Col. Adam had seventeen children, 
viz.: Ruth, Wm., Susannah, Gideon, John and Mary, twins, also 
twins not named, Freelove, Samuel, Amy, Catherine, Sally, Oliver 
Cromwell, Alpha, James McGregore, and Alexander McGregore 
Comstock. 

COMSTOCK, Col. ADAM, removed with his family, about 1780, 
to Saratoga county, N, Y., where he d., in 1819, an aged man. 
Gideon, liis fourth son, was the father of Andrew Komstock, of Phil- 
adelphia. Gideon also had a dau'r Mary. Rev. Oliver C. Com- 
stock was son of Col. Adam ; he was chaplain for Congr*ess in 1837. 
He was a physician and Baptist minister. He was member of Con- 
gress from Tompkins county, N. Y., six years, and baptized and 
ordained at Washington, at the close of his congressional life. He 
had held other places of high trust before he went to Congress. 

Thus much for Sanmel, of Hartford and Rhode Island. 

COMSTOCK, CHRISTOPHER, of Fairfield and Norwalk, his 
descendants say, came from England about 1652, and settled at 
Fairfield about 1654, where he remained until 1661 or '62. Jan. 
27, 1661, he was of Fairfield, when he purchased the house and 
home-lot of Tho's Betts, of Norwalk, which had previously been 
owned by Nath'l Eli. He probably moved on to his new purchased 
property soon after, at Norwalk, where he was a reputable man and 
useful settler. No evidence is found which shows that he was a 
relative either of John, of Lyme, Wm., of N. London, or Samuel, of 
Rhode Island. He m. Hannah, dau'r of Richard Plait, of Milford, 
Oct. 6, 1663. After he located at Norwalk, about 1671, he was ap- 
pointed at Norwalk to keep an ordinary, (hotel,) to entertain stran- 
gers. Jan. 16, 1694, he was one of a committee of ten of the inhab- 
itants of Norwalk, and commissioned for the town " to look out for 



684 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

and obtain a faithful minister for the town," &;c. In 1687, his estate 
of commonage in Norwalk, accepted by the town, was j£201, 10s. 
He is sometimes called Serg't Comstock. He had children, viz.: 

1. Daniel Comestocke, b. July 21, 16G4; m. Eliz'th, dau'rofJohn Wheeler, 
of Fairfield, Jan. 13, 1092. 

2. Hannah, b. July 1.5, 1666. 

3. Abigail, b. Jan. 27, 1669 ; d. Feb. 9, 16S9. 

4. Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1671. 

5. Eliz'th, b. Oct. 7, 1674. 

6. Mercie, b. Nov. 12, 1676. 

7. Samuell, b. Feb. 6, 1679. 

8. Moses, b. 16S5; d. 1766, aged 81. 
Christopher d. Dec. 28, 1702. 

COMSTOCK, DANIEL, son of Christopher, m. Eliz'th, dau'rof 
John Wheeler, "of Ffaierfield," Black Rock, June 13, 1692. No 
issue found. 

COMSTOCK, SAMUEL, son of Christopher, b. 1679-80, m. 
Sarah, dau'r of Rev. Tho's Hanford, of Norwalk, Dec. 27, 170-5, 
and had children : 

1. Sarah, b. March 25, 1707. 

2. Samuell, b. Nov. 12, 1708. 

3. Mary, b. Aug. 5, 1710 ; perhaps others. 

In 1718, Ensign Samuel Comstock was a committee, with five 
others, to lay before the committee " the surcomstances of ye town 
in their present differences," as to repairing and making an addition 
to the meeting house in Norwalk. Daniel Comstock, with £60, is 
found in the list of estates of commonage at Norwalk in 1687. 

COMSTOCK, MOSES, son of Christopher, m. Abigail Brins- 
maid, dau'r of Mr. Daniel, dec'd, of Hartford, Feb. 23, 1709-10. 
He died Jan. IS, 1766, aged 81. His wife Abigail died Nov. 16 
same year, aged 74. Moses had children : ]\Ioses, Jun., Abigail, 
Hannah, Sarah and Phebe; (perhaps David and others.) 

COMSTOCK, DAVID, m. Sarah Leeds, 1774, and had children, 
Elisha, Abijah, Sarah, David, Jun., and Eliz'th. His wife Sarah d. 
May 8, 1790, and he m. Deborah Weed, Feb. 5, 1795, and had 
children : John, Samuel and Mar}^ 

COMSTOCK, CALEB, m. Lucy Mead, Nov. 10, 1786, and had 
i.ssue : Moses, Matthew, Molly, Caleb, Joshua. Abigail, Betty, Xen- 
ophon, Anna and Elie, b. in 1805. 

COMSTOCK. Strong, who m. Abigail Westcoat, July 20, 1773, 
had two wives. By Abigail he had Jabez, Catherine, Philip and 
Samuel. His wife Abigail d. Nov, 28, 1782, and he m. second^ 
Betty Belts, Nov. 2, 1783, and had children : Catherine, Edward, 
Wm., Susanna, Mary, Nathan and Julia, b. 1797. 



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COMSTOCK, NATHAN, (father of Strong dec'd, of Wilton, 
Conn.,) m. and had children, (no dates) viz, : Eunice m. General 
Hicock, and had children. Strong, (see the preceding page,) lived 
and d. in Norwalk. Samuel, (Major,) m. Mercy Mead, lived and d. 
in Wilton. His son Samuel now lives in the same domicile his 
father occupied. Major Samuel was an officer in the war of the 
Revolution. Mary, ni. Mr. Sturges, who lived in Fairfield County, 
Conn., and in the city of New York, where she d. Sarah, m. Mr. 
Hanford, of Norwalk, who was a descendant of the first minister of 
Norwalk. 

COMSTOCK, JABEZ, son of Strong and Abigail Westcoat, (his 
first wife,) m. Amelia Willett, dau'r of Rev. George Oglevie, of Rye, 
N. Y., and had several prominent sons and daughters. Some of the 
sons are merchants in New York. Jabez, in early life, settled in the 
city of New York, where he died, and where his widow and most of 
his family yet reside. 

COMSTOCK, ABIJAH, son of David, m. Deborah Benedict, of 
Norwalk, May 20, 1745, and had children : Thomas, David, Enoch, 
b. 1750, Deborah, Ruth and Samuel, all born before 1767 : the father 
d. in 1807, aged 86 years. ENOCH, b. July 24, 1750, son of 
Abijah, m. Ann Weed, of Stamford, Dec. 3, 1772, and had children: 
Abraham, d., RUTH, d., Nancy, Alice, Cephas, LINUS, d., Watts 
and John. * WATTS, son of Enoch, m. Nancy Hoyt, of New 
Canaan, October 20, 1819, and had seven sons and two daughters, 
two sons farmers in California, a son and dau'r in the State of New 
York. Watts if living is about 64 years old. 

COMSTOCK, THOMAS, son of Abijah, of Norwalk, m. first 
Rebeckah Rockwell, Feb. 22, ]771, and had children : Abijah and 
Stephen. His wife d. July 3, 1774, and he m. Phebe Sellick, Feb. 
1, 1776, and had issue, Nathan, 2d Abijah, Catharine, Phebe, Han- 
nah and Deborah C, 1799. 

COMSTOCK, AARON, m. Anne Hanford, 1774 : children, Thad- 
deus, Aaron, Jr., 2d Thaddeus, Lucretia, Hannah, Daniel, Anne, b. 
Feb. 12, 17 — , (probably 1791.) These are the Comstocks of Nor- 
walk in detached families, as far as recorded, descendants of Chris- 

•In a letter written by Watts Comstock, of New Canaan, in 1851, to Peter Comstock, of New 
London County, as to the descendants of Christopher Comstock, he adds : 

"P. S. The pen with which this letter is written and wliich I have used in common for forty 
years past, was taken from the wing of an eagle, which my father shot eighty -five years ago, 
and is not half used up now. It was made, and usually repaired, with a Barlowe knife of the 
same age : so much for antiquity." 

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fi86 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

toplicr. The descendants of Daniel, are mostly in Danbury,and the 
northerly part of Fairfield County. Those of Samuel in and about 
Wilton. Those of Moses, in Norwalk, New Canaan, and that 
vicinity. {Hall, and Norwalk, Fairfield and Milford Records.) 
Some of the descendants of Christopher sen'r, (who is supposed to 
have been a Welchman,) removed to the State of New York, and 
more of their descendants, of a different branch from Jabez, now 
reside in New York. Christopher sen'r, brought with him from 
England, his family coat of arms, engraved upon a silver tankard, 
which descended to Major Samuel, before Samuel d. He gave the 
pitcher, for preservation, to the church in Wilton, to be used as a 
part of the articles for communion service, where he supposed, it 
would be retained as he left it. But the spirit of young America, 
full of reforms, entered the Wilton church, and the tankard was sent 
to New York, melted and wrought into a more comely fashion of the 
day, and the design of the grantor defeated, the coat of arms of the 
family destroyed and lost, and a rich and beautiful treasure, greatly 
prized by the descendants, forever lost to the family. 

COMSTOCK, WILLIAM, had land in Wethersfield, in 164L 
This is the first found of him in Conn. He and John Sadler, deft, 
for slandering Richard Myles of Windsor, in court at Hartford, in 
1644 and 1649, after which he disappeared on the records of Weth- 
ersfield and Hartford. He is again found (by Miss Caulkins,) at 
New London, in Nov., 1650', voting upon the subject of co-operating 
with Mr. Winthrop, to establish a corn mill, and applied for a house 
lot at New London as early as 1650—1, with John Gallop and 
others. In 1651, he appears to have become a settled citizen of New 
London, and wrought at the mill dam, with Tabor and the other 
inhabitants of New London. He must have passed middle life 
before he came to Hartford and Wethersfield, for his children were 
neither of them born there or at N. L. ; and his son Daniel had m. 
the dau'r of John Elderkin and purchased a farm at N. L, as early 
as 1664, which his descendants yet occupy. When William had 
become somewhat advanced in life, Feb. 25, 1661-2, "Old Good- 
man Comstock," was elected sexton, " to order youth in the meeting- 
house, sweep the meeting-house and beat out dogs," at 40s. a year; 
dig all graves, and have 45. for a grave for a man or woman, and 
'2s. for children, to be paid by the survivors. (See Caulkins, p. 111.) 
As early as this, she says, Daniel was at his maturity and received 
with others, by the men, among the fathers, (p. 143.) In Feb. 
1665-6, William's other son, John Comstock, was appointed one of 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 687 

the committee of six, to divide the town ofSaybrook, and form the town 
of Lyme, Sept., 1738. Thomas, supposed grandson of William, was 
mate of a sloop lost at Nevis, under Capt. John Mumford, upset in a 
hurricane and all perished, (p. 244.) Daniel Comstock was an inhab- 
itant of New London, Oct. 14, 1704, when the patent of New Lon- 
don was sanctioned by the Governor and company. Miss Caulkins 
states, that William Comstock was of New London, as early as 1649, 
and lived to old age in his house upon Post Hill. That his wife 
Elizabeth, was aged 55 in 1663, of course b. in 1608, and a for- 
eigner ; his lands at New London, were inherited by his son Daniel 
of New London, and William son of his son John dec'd of Lyme. 
John d. before 1680, as Abigail the widow of John had at this time 
become the wife of Moses Huntley, of Lyme. As no other children 
of William sen'r of New London, are found, he probably had no 
others than Daniel and John unless Elizabeth. John settled at Lyme, 
and as stated was one of a committee to set otY Lyme from Saybrook. 

DANIEL COMSTOCK m. Paltiah, dau'r of John Elderkin, and 
had three sons, Daniel, Jr., and eight daughters, who were all baptized 
by Mr. Bradstreet, in April and Nov., 1671, and Kingsland in 1673, 
and Samuel in 1677, also Mary, b. April 4, 1685, Ann, b. March, 
13, 1686-7. John is supposed the ancestor of the Comstocks of 
Lyme, and Daniel of those at Montville. Daniel's dau'r Bethia m- 
Daniel Stebbins. Abigail Comstock, of Lyme, m. William Peak, {sic,) 
June 24, 1679, who settled in Lyme. I am indebted to the industry 
of Miss Caulkins for many of the above facts. Daniel settled at 
Montville, and d. in 1683. John, Jr., William and Samuel, Jr., 
and John Comstock 3d, had their ear marks at Lyme, in 1738. 
Daniel sen'r, presented for a freeman of New London, in Oct., 1669. 
John Comstock sold land to John Larel, in May, 1675. John had 
land in Lyme, April 2, 1674, and an ear mark the same year, and 
had children b. in Lyme, viz. : Abigail, b. April 12, 1662 ; Elizabeth, 
b. June 9, 1665 ; William, b. Jan. 9, 1669 ; Christian, b. Dec. 11, 
1671; Hannah, b. Feb. 22, 1673; John, b. Sept. 21, 1676, and 
Samuel, b. July 6, 1678. The death of John, sen'r, is not found, but 
hi^ widow Abigail in 1680, was the wife of Moses Huntly of Lyme. 

COMSTOCK, SAMUEL, b. 1678, son of John of Lyme, m. 
Martha Pratt, July 5, 1705, and settled in Saybrook, and had issue 
born there, viz., Martha, b. June 2, 1706 ; Samuel, b. Oct. 14, 1709, 
d. 1709; 2d Samuel, b. March 4, 1711 ; Daniel, b. Sept. 10, 1713; 
Abigail, b. March 11, 1718. 

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Canfield of Saybrook, Feb. 20, 1755 ; children, John, b. Nov. 2, 
1756 ; Hezekiah, b. Feb. 7, 1759 ; Esther, b. May 20, 1762 ; 
Curtis, Jr., b. Oct. 25, 1764 ; Giles, b. Jan. 3, 1767, and Sarah, b. 
Feb. 20, 1769. 

COMSTOCK, JAMES, of Lyme, m. Thankful Crosby of East 
Haddam, May 9, 1763, and had issue Ruth, b. April 4, 1766 ; Joab, 
b. April 4, 1768 ; Elizabeth, b. April 5, 1770. James the father d. 
July 23, 1773. The name of Samuel Comstock was early at Mont- 
ville, supposed son of Daniel sen'r. But as the records of New 
London were many of them destroyed when New London was burned 
and the evidence of the line of ancestry in a measure impeded as to 
Daniel's descendants at New London and Montville, I will add a 
few facts that were noted by an aged man many years since of the 
Comstocks of Montville. He says, Samuel from New London, son 
of Daniel, lived in the north part of Montville, — does not give his sons, 
but gives his grandson Nathaniel, who was an elder there, when 
called the north parish. He had four sons, viz., Nathaniel, Jr., Jared, 
Zebulon, and Eliphalet. The last joined the Quakers. The other 
three I'emained there. Nathaniel, Jr., had one son Perez, settled in 
Hartford. Jared had five sons, viz., Samuel and Jared removed to 
the State of New York, David, Joseph, and one other remained at 
Montville. John 2d, remained on the old estate, and left sons, James, 
John 3d, Benjamin, Peter and Daniel. James was killed at the storm- 
ing Fort Griswold, when about 80 years old, and left three sons, 
William, James and Jason. His son William settled on Cooper's 
patent. State of New York, James and Jason remained at Montville. 
John 3d, m. Polly Lee, sister of Benjamin of Lyme, and had sons, 
John 4th and Nathan. John 4th, was a Lieutenant in the Revolution 
and was killed on Long Island, at the orchard fight ; he left three 
sons — Oliver; Joshua settled in the State of New York ; Elkany, went 
missionary to Michigan, and settled there soon after the war of 1812, 
at Pontiac. Oliver son of John 2d of Montville, remained at Mont- 
ville, and was representative to the legislature, justice, and deacon. 
Nathan, brother of John, d. young but left sons, Nathan and Asa. 
Nathan inherited the estate left by his grandfather John. Benjamin 
left sons, Benjamin and Daniel ; last Benjamin left no issue, but 
Daniel left sons, Elisha and Daniel, who settled in Montville. Elisha 
had sons Ebenezer, Alpheus, Jeremiah and Peregrine, all of whom 
were drowned. Daniel left no sons. Peter died at sea Capt. of a 
vessel when about 30 years old ; he m. Elizabeth Avery, and left 
sons, Peter, Ransford, Daniel, and Thomas. Peter who gave these 
facts, son of Capt. Peter, settled on his father's farm and became a 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 689 

Capt. of a company in Lattimer's Regiment, and was stationed at 
Fort Trumbull, when New London was burned. He left sons, viz., 
George, Fitch, Peter, Jonathan, Elisha M., and Jeremiah. George 
and Fitch settled at Independence, Cayuga County, Ohio, Peter 
and Elisha .M. settled in Lyme. Jonathan and Jeremiah settled at 
Waterford. The last Peter had four sons, Moses W., Peter A., William 
H. H., and John G. Jonathan had two sons, Maro M., and Isaac. 
Elisha 1\I. d. and left one son Elisha. Jeremiah d. and left one son 
Jeremiah A. E. Ransford went to the State of New York, and left 
sons, Charles, Jesse, Ransford, and Gay. Daniel settled at Shel- 
burn, in Vermont, had sons, Elisha and Zulure. Thomas went to 
Vermont and was killed at the battle of Bennington ; he left a son 
Thomas. I publish these facts as they may aid some one of the 
name in tracing their ancestry. Dr. J. L. Comstock,* was proba- 

• Dr. John Lee Comstock, of Hartford, whose hkeness ornaments No. 3 of this work, is the 
fourth son of the late J?amuel Comstock, Esq., of Lyme, Connecticut ; who was a respectable 
farmer, and somewhat noted by his neighbors for his information and strength of mind. The sub- 
ject of this notice had no other instruction than what lie received at a common school in hie 
native town, which at that lime consisted in reading, wiiting and DaboU's Arithmetic. When 
about 20 years of age, he began the study of medicine with his brother, Joseph Comstock, 
M. D., of Lebanon, afterwards attending a course of medical lectures at Brown University, R. I. 
Soon after this he received an appointment of Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, 
in the war of 1812, and with his appointment an order to report himself for duty, to the Comman- 
der of the 25th Regiment of Infantry at Plattsburgh, New York. Now he found himself in a 
situation to obtain experience in his profession, for it is well known that Plattsburgh was the 
scene of one of the most bloody battles of that war, and became the deposit of all the sick and 
wounded of the frontier Regiments Often have I heard him describe the heart-rending scenes 
he passed through. Three hospitals, each containing from twenty to thirty patients, being bis 
share of duty. Perhaps no regiment during that war suffered more than the 25th of Infantry to 
which he was attached. He served during the war and received his six months extra pay as a 
disbanded officer. Sufficient evidence in the eye of the Government, that his duty had been faith- 
fully performed. Dr. Comstock after the close of the war, settled as a medical practitioner in the 
city of Hartford, where he still resides, and where he married the grand-daughter of Col. Thomas 
Seymour, whose wife was sister of the lamented Col. Ledyard, so well known in history as the 
murdered commander of Groton Fort in 1781. About 1828, Dr. Comstock received an honorary 
degree from Middlebury Col. in Vermont, and during the same year he received a patent from the 
Govetninent for the solution of and application of India Rubber, for the purpose of making cloth 
and leather water proof, the first patent granted for that purpose in the United States. Daniel 
Webster in his speech in the great Goodyear case, alludes to this fact. In 1830, he relinquished 
his practice of medicine, and became an author by profession. His education was only such 
as a farmer's eon can obtain at the cotnmon schools of Connecticut, and yet his works have been 
almost exclusively on the sciences. We see from the following large list of his popular works, 
that few authors in any country have ventured to write, and fewer booksellers have ventured to 
print, so great a variety of treatises as have emanated from the pen of this farmer's son. Em • 
bracing as they do nearly the whole circle of human sciences Too great credit can not be 
given to the author of all these valuable publications. The world is indebted to him for the efficient 
aid he has rendered the common schuols in this country, and also In England and Prussia, where 
some of them are used in their high and common schools, particularly his Philosophy, of which 

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690 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

bly descended from the line of Daniel, son of the first William, of 
New London, by Daniel's son who settled at Montville, as his grand- 

_ ; - 

over half a million of copies have been sold in this country ; and yet these works have been 
written by a man who never had an hour's instruction or explanation from any of the learned 
professors of the country. What an example to the young men of this country to follow, and 
how much better for Dr. Comstock himself, than to have rusted out his life in indolence, and 
died forgotten in an hour, while now his name will live in the future, while the word science 
is known. How much better for him to have been born with moderate means, than to have 
been the heir of great wealth, which so often buries the brightest talents by dampening all 
ambition for any employment which requires exertion, and their ambition gratified only by a 
full moustaches, imitating the monkey more than the noblest work of God. The following hst 
was furnished by the Author, some years since, at the request of George P. Putnam, Esq., of 
New York, in answer to a circular addressed to American Authors, desiring a list of the names 
and sizes of their publications, and has been preserved. I here mention some of the useful and 
important books published by Dr. Comstock of Hartford. In 1825, he published his Grammar of 
Chemistry, 12 mo. pp. 300, S. G. Goodrich. In 1827, Elements of Mineralogy, pp. 300, S. G. 
Goodrich. In 1829, iVatural History of Quadrupeds, pp. 250, D. F. Robinson. In 1830, Nat- 
ural History of Birds, 12 mo. pp. 270 each. It has a Quarto Atlas, containing the figures of 
the Animals. In 1831, Natural Philosophy, pp. 390, D. F. Robinson, publisher. In 1833, Intro- 
duction to Botany, 12 mo. pp. 455, D. F. Robinson. In 1833, Elements of Chemistry, 12 mo. 
pp. 420, D. F. Robinson. In 1832, Outlines of Geology, 12 mo. 284, D. F. Robinson. In 1835, 
Youth's Book of Natural Philosophy, 18 mo. pp. 140. In 1835, Youth's Book of Astronomy, 18 
mo. pp. 140, Peirce of Boston. In 1835, Young Chemist, 12 mo. pp. 227, D. F. Robinson. In 
1836, Young Botanist, 12 mo. pp. 243, Robinson and Pratt, New York. In 1836, Outlines of 
Physiology, 12 mo. pp. 313, by the same. In 1836, Common School Philosophy, 12 mo. pp 253, 
Read and Barber. In 1839, Mathematical and Physical Geography, 12 mo. pp. 300, Brown 
and Parsons. In 1839, School Astronomy, 19 mo. pp, 253, Read aijd Barber. In 1849, 
History of the Precious Metals, pp. 258, Belknap and Hamersley : and many others. 
The Natural Philosophy has been the most popular work. The annual sales for several years 
were from 28 to 30,000 conies, — the whole number sold over half a million. The Chemis- 
try was next in popularity, the sales about 12,000 annually, 250,000 been sold. His Philosophy 
has been edited by Prof Lees of the Military Academy of Edinburgh, also by Prof Hoblyn, of 
Oxford, and is now published by John Scott, Charterhouse Square, London. I believe that 
Prof. Hoblyn's edition has superseded that of Prof. Lees. It is also said that that work has been 
translated into German, and used in the public schools of Prussia. The above are the scientific 
works of the author. His History of Greece, History of the Hindoos, Cabinet of Curiosities, are 
all useful works to the world, if not lucrative to the Author. His Botany. Chemistry, Geology 
and Philosophy, have been much enlarged since first published, with new cuts and new matter, 
as the demand of the times requires. The pages of these works amount to about 8000. His 
Philosophy, the publisher in London, in order to give it the more circulation, has divided into 
six parts, under the title of " Scott's first books in science." On the cover of course acknowl- 
edging the American authority, and on the title pages. This surely is an honor paid to the 
works of an American Author. The com|)liinents paid to Dr. Comstock as an author, by his 
foreign editors, are of the highest and most flattering kind. Say." Prof Lees, " Among the many 
works on philosophy; we have certainly not met with one, uniting in a greater degree the two 
grand requisites of precision and simplicity, than in the work of Dr. Comstock." Says Prof. 
Hoblyn, "It is an elementary work requiring for its perusal no mathematical attainments, nor 
indeed any previous knowledge of Natural Pliilosophy. being at once simple, intelligible, and in 
most parts familiar." The publishers state that 500 000 copies of it have been sold in this 
country, besides in England and (Germany. The present puhli.-^hers are Farmer, Brace & Co. 
(late Pratt, Woodford &, Co.,) New York. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. G91 

father, Samuel, (says Dr. Smith,) removed from Montville (New 
London) to Lyme on to the James Rogers place, and d. there, and 
John Lee, was his grandson, by his son Samuel now deceased. 

Samuel Comstock removed from Saybrook to Sharon, Conn., one 
of the first settlors of Sharon, and was the first collector there, 
(town settled, 1738.) In 1748, he removed to New Fairfield, (see 
Sedgwick.) Some of the descendants of Samuel who moved from 
Sharon to New Fairfield, (Sherman,) settled at Kent. Samuel, 
the former deputy sherilj'at New iMilford, removed there from Kent 
and was a grandson of Samuel of New Fairfield, and a descendant 
of William sen'r of VVeth'ersfield and New London. The name 
Komstock, is frequently found in Germany, but the name is there 
uniformly spelled with a K.* Three of this name were early found 
in Conn., William, Samuel and Christopher Comstock. The Eliza- 
beth Comstock of Saybrook, who m, Edward Shipton, (Shipman,) 
in "the beginning of January, 16.51, was probably a dau'r of Wil- 
liam sen'r of New London, a sister of John of Saybrook and Lyme." 
In the will of lienry Ru^sell of Weymouth, 1G40, or 1643, is this 
notice of John Comstock. " Further I give and assign vnto Jane 
my wife, the rt'tiiiiinder of time to be served by my servant John 
Comstock." (His. and Gen. Reg., July number, 1S48, p. 263.) 
This makes four of the naiue early in New Engiand. 
^CONxVNT, Lieut. EXERCISE, of Windham, and wife Sarah, 
were at Windham, Conn., about 1697; shed. Dec. 4, 1718; his 
children probably were born before he came there. 

CONANT, JvJSlAH, (supposed son of Exercise,) m. Joanna 
Dimick, Oct. 6, 17t)9, and had a son Shubael, b. at Windham, July 
15, 1711. He removed from Windham to Mansfield, where he per- 
haps had other children. 

^ CONANT, CALEB, (supposed son of Exercise,) m. Hannah 
Crane, Aug. 23, 17 14. ls.sue, .Malachi, b. June 12, 1715 ; Benajah, 
b. Feb. 13, 17l(i-17 ; Sarah, b. Dec. 20, 1718; Ruth, b. Oct. 28, 
1720; Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1722-3; Josiah, b. Dec. 9, 1724. His 
family also removed from Windham to Mansfield. 

CONANT, JOSEPH, was one of the first settlers at Stalford, 
Conn. Roger Conaiit, perhaps an flpiscopal minister, when he 
came to New Eniiland. I')xercise his son, was aged about 72 years, 
ill 1708. Jf.shui C'liiarit's fiivcntoiy in 16.57. (Hist. Reg., Wind, 
ham and Stafford Jiccord.) The fore<joing Conants are descendants 
of Ivoger Con, in;. Roger Cnnant of B':*verly d. in the 89th year of 

• For the ariiiori.ll bearingi' of the Coiiisiocks see page 709, pout. 



692 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

his age, Nov. 19, 1679. He names his children in his will, viz, : 
Exercise, Lot, Roger, Elizabeth, Mary, wife of William Dodge, 
Sarah. After he had been planter in New England, as he says ■ 
" fortie-eight yeers and vpvvard," he petitioned the General Court of 
Massachusetts, to change the name of his town from " Beverly to 
Budleigh," (Budleigh the town famed as the birth-place of Sir Walter 
Raleigh,) for the reason that the town was nicknamed " Beggarly." 
(See Hist. Reg., Oct., 1848.) 

CON ANT, CHRISTOPHER, of Plymouth, 1623. Roger Conam, 
b. at Budleigh in Devonshire, April, 1591, supposed son of Richard 
and Agnes, brother of Dr. John Conant of Exeter College. His grand- 
father John Conant, descended from Gittesham, near Horriton, origi. 
nally of French extraction ; came to New England, 1623, lived at 
Plymouth, Nantasket, Cape Ann and Salem, and built the first house 
there about 1626; admitted freeman 1631; Representative to the first 
General Court, 1634; a worthy and useful character, and d. at 
Beverly, Nov. 19, 1679, aged 88. Joshua, who d. at Salem 1659 ; 
Lot Conant, b. 1624, one of the founders of the church in Beverly, 
1667, in Marblehead, 1674 ; probably sons of Roger Conant. Roger, 
son of the preceding, was the first child b. in Salem, and had 20 
acres of land granted to him on that account, Jan., 1640. (See Far., 
Gibbs^ Cojfihi, Felt's Annals of Salem.) Five of this name had gradu- 
ated at Yale College, 1776, four at Dartmouth, four at Harvard in 
1829, and two at Brown University in 1819. CONANT one coat 
of arms, (borne by the late Sir Nathaniel Conant, Knight.) 

CONDY, WILLIAM, was propounded to the General Court of 
Connecticut, for a freeman at New London, October 14, 1669. He 
first was at New London, in 1663, with Samuel Chester from 
Boston, engaged in the West India trade, as commanders, owners, 
&c. ; had a warehouse &c., on Close Cove, {Caulkins, p. 145.) Mr. 
Condy was at New London, in the controversy between the towns of 
New London and Lyme, as to the ownership of Black Point, and the 
western bound of New London, and after June 26, 1668, Mr. 
Condy, Mr. Palmes, and Mr. Prentis, were intrusted by the town, 
with the charge of the affair, but not with power to settle the bound- 
ary line, variant from the ancient grant of the Court, and particu- 
larly to recover Black Point, of which they claimed they had been 
wrongfully deprived by the people of" Seabrook." Mr. Condy, or 
Capt. Condy, proves his standing in New London, in 1668, by the 
confidence placed in him named above. Mr. Condy m. Mary 
Parker, dau'r of Ralph of Boston, about 1663, {Caulkins, p. 306.) 



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G93 



His children were Richard, William, Ebenezerand Ralph, baptized 
March 23, 167-2-3. He removed to Boston with his family about 
1680. His family is noticed as having remained several genera- 
tions in Boston, the 2d William, in 1710, and the 3d William Condy, 
in 1717. William, sen'r was about to sail from Boston to Barbadoes, 
in 1688. (See Caulkins\ N. L., p. 353-4.) (See SAMUEL 
CHESTER, a7ite.) CONDIE has one coat of arms. \ 

CONDY, JAMES, Braintree, 1640, had sons, Joshua, Experience 
and James. Rev. Jeremiah, graduated at Harvard College, 1726, 
minister at Boston, (Far.) 

CONE, DANIEL, was not a first settler at Hartford, but became 
one of the 28 original purchasers of the lands at 30 mile Island, of 
the Indians in 1662, for 30 coats, (Haddam.) The Indians called 
the north part, " Higganampoo," now called Higganum, and west 
part " Cockaponsit." Incorporated into a town 1668, in Hartford 
County. Cone and the other 27 purchasers occupied the land soon 
after the purchase. Daniel Cone presented for a freeman at Hart- 
ford, May, 1669, and selectman the same year, and presented the list 
of the freemen of Haddam. In 1664, the General Court of Connec- 
ticut appointed Mr. Campfield, Deac. More, Mr. Fayrchild, Mr. 
Hull, and Lieutenant Olmstead, to settle the controversy between 
Mr. Lord and Daniel Cone, and the committee decided that the 
" calf was Mr. Lords Steare." Daniel Cone, and George Gates, 
were selectmen, and Richard Piper, constable of Haddam, in 1669. 
Haddam has been the birth-place of several of the prominent men of 
Connecticut. Daniel Cone was probably m. and had children before 
he settled there ; perhaps had children when he came, viz., Ebenezer? 
Nathaniel, and Stephen ; his children born at Haddam, were : 

1. Ruth, b. 16G2. 

2. Hannah, b. 16G4. 

3. Danie], Jr., b. Jan. 21, 1666. 

4. Jarrard, (i. e. Jared,) b. Jan. 7, 166S. 

5. Rebecca, b. 1670. 

G. Caleb, ) These were probably the yonnjrest of his sons, but are not found 
7. David, 5 in the list of births. David, d. young, (Br. Field.) 

Daniel the father d. aged over 79 years, Oct. 24, 1706, Dr. 

Field says, Daniel (deacon,) son of Daniel sen'r had sons, Jeremiah, 

Jonah, William, Major Daniel and Oliver. George, father of Syl- 

vanus, George, Eliezer and Zachariah. Joseph, father of Joseph, 

Benjamin, Solomon, Martin, Ashbel, and Jeremiah 2d, and Jared of 

Matthew 2d, Nehemiah and Daniel. Jared, father of sons Stephen 

and Thomas, and Stephen the father of Elisha and Thomas, and 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 



Thomas, father of Joel, Noadiah, Joshua and Obadiah. Caleb, 
father of Caleb, Joseph, Noah, deacon Elisha, Simon, Daniel and 
Bariah. Deacon Daniel, Jared and Stephen, sons of Daniel sen'r, 
settled in East Haddam. Jared Cone, d. in 1718-19, distribution 
same year to his children, Stephen, Thomas, Elizabeth, Ruth and 
Hannah. Nathaniel, deacon at Millington, d. 1790, aged 78 years. 
Daniel Cone was a justice of peace in East Haddam, and d. in 1776, 
aged 78. Israel and William Cone, were also justices. Elisha 
Cone was an ordained deacon at Haddam, and d. aged 99, in 1809. 
Another Daniel in East Haddam, who was also a deacon about 1705, 
d. 1725, aged 60. Also Daniel, d. May, 1776, aged 83 years. 
Daniel sen'r the first, was commissioner for Haddam, in' May, 1669. 

CONE, CEPHAS, of the 2d church in Colchester, had a dau'r 
Lina, bap. June 27, 1783 ; Jonathan, bap. Sept. 16, 1787 ; 2d Lina, 
bap. June 27; Electa, bap. July 11, 1790. 

CONE, Rev. SALMON, a former minister at Colchester, was 
from Bolton, to Colchester, and was a descendant of the first Daniel; 
he d. and left children at Colchester. Daniel sen'r left a large 
family of sons and the Cones are now numerous and scattered far 
and wide over the United States. Several have been ministers, law- 
yers and merchants, but more of them deacons, though they have 
generally been farmers, and money makers and savers of it. 

CONE, STEPHEN, was the first of the name of Cone in Bolton, 
Conn., from East Haddam, in 1749, as appears upon the church 
record of Bolton. His wife was Susannah, (by tradition Clark.) 
Stephen the sen'r d. 1771, aged 66 ; he had children : 

1 Jared, was 15 years old when he came to Bolton with his father. 

2. Susan, m. George Griswold, father of Calvin, New York. 

3. Stephen. 

4. Zachariah. Mehitabel, d. aged IS, and John. 

CONE, JARED, son of Stephen sen'r and Christiana Loomis, 
had issue : 

1. Christiana, m. Solomon Dewey, ol' Amherst. 

2. Jared. 

3. Anna, m. Jonah Strickland of Bolton. 

4. Solomon, bap. Sept., 1766. 

5. Lois, m. G. Bissell, and was the mother of Wyllis Thrall's wife of Hartford. 

6. Amos. 

CONE, STEPHEN, son of Stephen and Susannah, m. 1st, a 
Strong, 2d, m. a Badger, and 3d, m. Mary Colton, (June 3, 1794, 
record.) 

1. Mehitable, m. Eleazer Pitkin, of Manchester. 

2. Mary, m. David Pitkin, of Manchester, his brother. (Record says Polly 
Cone m. David Pitkin of Oxford, [Manchester,] Sept. 6, 179S.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 695 

CONE, ZACHARIAH, son of Stephen sen'r, settled at Hebron. 
He ni. and had children, viz. : 

1. Siiinuel, went to the South. * 

"2. Cornelia, m. Peters, of Hebron, Conn. 

3. Frederick, went to Georgia. • 

4. Zachariah, in. Wealthy Kingsbury. 

5. Molly. 

6. Wealthy. 
'7. Adonijah. 
S. Daniel. 

9. Gardner. 
10. Gilbert. Three of this family went to Canandiagua, "Sew York. 

CONE, Rev. SALMON, the son of Jared and Christiana, was bap. 
Sept., 1776, graduated at Yale College, in 1789. He m. Polly Pinneo 
of Lebanon, and settled in the ministry at Colchester. He had one 
son, Salmon Edwards, a physician at Middletown, who m. a dau'r of 
J. T. Hosmer, and had one son who d. in College, (perhaps others.) 
The physician though m., d. a young man. 

2. Mary, m. Hubbard of Mitldletown, son Edward yet living in Middletown. 

3. Albert, went to the west unmarried 

CONE, AMOS, son of .Tared and Christiana of Bolton, now resides 
there over 70 years old. He m. Abigail Hale of Glastenbury, and 
had issue : 

1. Henry, a physician in Glastenbury, had 3 children. 

2. Adeline, wife of Dr. Hunt of Bolton, lias 3 sons and 4 or more daughters. 

3. Lucius, single. 

4. Edwin, d. unmarried at the South. 

5. Walter, m. Mary F. Andrus, of Glastenbury, d. young, but left one son 
Joseph Walter. 

There was also a John Cone, who m. Patience Hibard, or Strick- 
land, Nov. 18, 1773, wlio was probably son of Stephen Cone, and 
Susannah Clark. He went a soldier in the war of the Revolution, 
where lie d. by disease. The Cones as far as found or known were 
descendants of Daniel Cone, of Haddam. Daniel H. Cone, of 
Haddam, left Haddam, before or during the war of the Revolution, 
and for a time was in New Hampshire, but returned to Conn., and 
settled at Winchester, Ct. His sons were : 

Daniel, who settled at Norfolk, Ct., 

Samuel, (deacon,) also settled at Norfolk. 

Warner, also settled at Norfolk. 

Hurlbut Cone, settled at New Haven, Conn. 

Sullivan, settled at Westfield, in Chautauque County, New York. 

Silas, settled in Granby, Conn. 

Most if not all of this name in Litchfield County, are descendants 
of Daniel H. Cone, above of Winchester, and all descendants of 



696 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Daniel sen'r of Haddam. John Cochan, (perhaps Cone,) came to 
Boston, from Gravesend, England, in the ship John and Sarah of 
London, John Green, Master, bound for New England, in 1651-2, 
and landed at Boston. He was probably of Scotch descent. Coats 
of arms — Coane, (Scotland,) has one. Cone, (Scotland,) has one 
coat of arms. Eleven had graduated at Yale College, before 1848. 

CONEY, COREY or COUREY, BENJAMIN, a merchant of 
Stratford, purchased of Daniel Beardslee, of said Stratford, his home 
lot in said town, with the house, barn, &,c., Nov. 9^ 1702. He m. 
Mehitable GloAer, of New Haven, in Dec, 1703. Cony, of South- 
hold, L. I., made free by Conn., 1662. 

COREY, BENJAMIN, of Windham, m. Abigail Abbe, Nov. 10, 
1743. Issue, Mary, b. Aug. 12, 1744. John, b. March 9, 1746, 
perhaps others. Ab'm Corey, of Southhold, L. I., m. Margaret, 
dau'r of Jeffery Christophers of New London ; after he d. she m. a 
second husband. 

CONEY, JOHN, Boston, Mass., member of artillery company 
1662, d. Dec. 29, 1690, (see Fanner.) CONEY has five coats of 
arms. COREY has one. 

CONY, DANIEL, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1825. Samuel 
Coney, graduated at Brown U., 1829. 

CONCKLIN, CONKLIN, CONCLIN, CONKLING, GOOD- 
MAN, and JOHN CONCLIN GS, of Southhold, L. I., with the fol- 
lowing persons, were accepted to be made free in Conn., Oct., 1662, 
viz. : Mr. Wells, Thomas Terry, Philemon Dickerson, Goodman 
Purvier, Goodman Windes, Barnaba Horton, Joseph Horton, Lieut. 
Glover, Thomas Morse sen'r, Goodm. Cory, Goodm. Reeves, Goodm. 
Masses, Jo. Paine, Richard Browne, Joseph (or John) Youngs, sen'r 
and Jr., Jer. Vayle, Jo. Curwin, Richard Terry, Mr. Elton, Thos. 
Brush, John Bud and Mr. Tucker. (See Col. Rec.) Capt. Edward 
Conklin, when cruising off Point Judith, during the war of the Revo- 
lution, in the Eagle, took six prizes in succession, and in sending 
them into port, so weakened his own vessel, by sparing too many of 
his men, to man his prizes, that his own prisoners rose upon him 
and his men, and the Capt. and some of his men were murdered, 
after the vessel was surrendered. Murphy who murdered the Capt. 
lost his own life, (^Newspaper.) Benjamin Conkling, of Hartford, lost 
his wife Mary, by death March 2, 1789, aged 36. Not an early name 
in Conn. Ananias Conkling, of Salem, admitted into the church Dec. 
29, 1639, and freeman, 1642. Removed to East Hampton, L. I. 
{Farmer.) Rev. Benjamin Conkling, graduated at Princeton Col- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 697 

lege, 1755. Capt. Benjamin Conkling, (Sedgwick says,) went from 
Norwalk to Sharon, perhaps the same Benjamin named above, was 
selectman, &;c., at Sharon, and removed to Vermont, and after returned 
to Hitchcock^ s corner, in old age and d. there Oct. 1, 1S23, aged 86, 
father of Dr. Ebenezer Conkling. He perhaps came from L. I. to 
Norwalk. Wm. Conklin, graduated at Williams College, 1830. 
This became a Long Island name, where the same is yet found, 
probably all descendants of the family who settled at East Hamp- 
ton, L. I. 

CONNER, JOHN, son of Elizabeth Conner, was b. at Middletown, 
June J 4, 1686, first of the name in Conn. Farmer names William 
Conner, of Plymouth, 1(523. 

CONNER, PHILLIP, aged 21, embarked for Virginia, in the 
Merchant, Bonaventure, in 1634-5. This name was in Conn, after 
1750, an Irish family; someofthe descendantsnow reside in Hartford. 

CONNER, JOHN, taken prisoner at Quebec, 1775, and Edward 
Conner enlisted in the kings service, 1775, to escape. Cornelius 
Conner, took the oath of allegiance at Salisbury, Mass., Dec. 11, 
1677, servant of Richard Goodale, before 1666. Cornelius, aged 35 
in 1072. (See Hist. Reg.) ^ 

Arms. — Conner (Ireland, as borne by Daniel Conner of Bally 
Briker, Co. Cork, Esq.,) 1 ; and one other coat of arms for Conner ; 
and 1 for Connour. Two by the name of Conner, graduated at Yale 
College, 1806 and 1845; and 2 at Dartmouth College, in 1835 and 
in 1840. 

CONSTABLE, Mrs., of New Haven, with three in her family 'in 
1643, with an estate of £150, was probably a widow. CONSTA- 
BLE, has 16 coats of arms. 

CONVERSE, JOSIAH, one of the early settlers of StatTord. 
This is also an old name at Killingly, and is first found in Thompson 
and Killingly, in Conn. EDWARD CONVERSE, came to New 
England in 1630, resided in Charlestown, had a grant of the ferry, 
removed to Woburn, in 1643, representative there in 1660. 

CONVERS, ALLEN, Woburn, made free 1644. JAMES, of 
Woburn, free 1671, representative, 1679, '84, '86 and '89, a distin- 
guished officer in the Indian war, named by Mather, Book, VI. ; 
Josiah, of Woburn, freeman, 16.51. (Far.) 

Josiah Convers, graduated at Harvard College, 1723, and James 
Converse, graduated at Harvard, 1799 ; 4 by the name of Converse 
graduated at Yale College, before 1851; one at Brown U., in 1790; 
7 at Dartmouth College, before 1834. 
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698 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COOK, COOKE, (COCKE, COCKES,) AARON, Capt., was one 
of the early settlers at Dorchester, Mass., probably in 1630 ; he 
remained there a few years until about 1636 or 7, for, says the 
History of Dorchester, as late as July 5, 1636, a half acre of ground 
over against his lot, was granted him in Dorchester, " to build his 
house upon," so that he did not remove with the first settlers of 
Windsor, in 1635, as this vote was passed at Dorchester about a 
year after many of the Windsor settlers had left Dorchester. He 
was a man of character and energy, and it appears was popular 
wherever he located. He remained at Windsor several years, 
where, though a military man, he was honored with some civil 
appointments. He was juror, June 1, 1643, Dec, 1644, Oct. 9, 
1645, Oct. 29, 1646, May 24, 1647, Sept., 1647, and Sept. 7, 1648, &c. 
Capt. Aaron Cook, of Windsor, Sept. 1, 1656, was ordered to give 
seasonable notice to the people to attend meeting ; "on ye lords 
Dayes and lector dayes, by Drum or trumpet on ye lope of ye meeting 
howse and should have 20s, for ye yeare in sawing," confirmed Sept. 
6, 1656. May 28, 1655, when " Leftennant Cooke was chosen 
Captayne at Windsor, he had 87 papers (votes) only 19 for others," 
" In ye choyce of Leftennant, Mr. Nubery had 80 papers and all 
ye rest," only 13. "In ye choyce of an Insigne, David Wilton, 
had ye choyce by 6 papers more than Daniel Clarke.'' 

Gen. Court of Conn., May 21, 1653. Lieu. Cook was appointed 
commander-in-chief of 65 men ordered raised and forthwith pre- 
pared, at a days warning, provisions, &c., to be raised in the several 
towns in Conn., per order of said General Court, against the Dutch. 
And Capt. Bull to be the Lieut. (See CoL Rec, and Rec. of U. C.) 
A large committee was appointed by the Gen. Court, in each town 
in the Colony, with whom the constables were to advise in pressing 
the men for the expedition against the Dutch. The committee were 
for Windsor, Mr. Wolcott, Mr. Chester, Mr. Phelps and David Wil- 
ton; for Hartford, Mr. Webster, Mr. Westwood*, and Good'n Bacon; 

* This William Westvvood, was from Essex County, England ; lie came to this country a? 
early as 1631, or 2, and located first at Newtown, (Cambridge, Mass.) Made free there in 1635, 
he remained there about 3 years and then removed to Hartford, Conn,, probably in the autumn 
of 1635, as he was a member of the first Gen. Court, held in the Conn. Colony, on the 26th day 
of April, 1636. And continued a member of the Court, until the new organization went into 
operation in 1639, and frequently afterwards, was a member of the House of delegates until 
1656. After which it is supposed he took a lively interest in the great religious controversy at 
Hartford, that became one of the principal causes of the division of the church at Hartford, and had 
nearly as disastrous an effect on the church at VVethersfield, and terminated in the great remo- 
val of a large share of both churches to Hadley, Mass., in 1659, which town they then settled. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 699 

Wethersfield, Mr. Welles, Nathan'l Dickerson, Samuel Smith ; 
Farmington, I\Ir. Steele, Good, tiarte ; Pequet, Mr. Winthrop, (if at 
home,) Capt. Donison, Good. Calkin^;, and the constables ; Sea- 
broock, Capt. Mason, Good. Clarke, and Good. Chapman ; Stratford, 
Good. Groves, and Good. Thornton ; Fairfield, Mr. Ward and Wm. 
Hill. Capt. Aaron Cook on the 11th day of March, 1657-8, was 
one of the soldiers of Windsor, of the first troop of horse ever raised 
in Conn., composed of the most reputable youngerly men in the 
Colony, under the command of Major John Mason, who were allowed 
and approved by the Gen. Court. Lieut. Cook was allowed 50 acres 
of meadow in Massacoe. 1653, which he owned in court was in his 
father Ford's possession, at a court in May, 1661. Capt. Cook 
removed from Windsor to Northampton, and Hadley, both of which 
towns he represented at the Gen. Court of Mass. He was a firm 
friend to the Judges Whalley and GofFe, after their arrival at North- 
ampton and Hadley. He was three or four times married. He 
first married a dau'r of Thomas Ford, who also removed to Windsor 
from Dorchester, and second married Joanna, dau'r of Nicholas 
Denslow, who also removed to Windsor. His children found at 
Windsor, viz. : Joanna, bap. Aug. 5, 1638; Aaron, bap. P'eb. 21, 
1640 ; Mariam, bap. March 12, 1642 ; Moses, b. Nov. 13, 1645 ; 
Samuel, b. Nov. 21, 1650; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 7, 1653, and Noah, 
b. June 14, 1657. He perhaps had other children. We find Capt. 
Cook, of Windsor, Nov. 5, 1660, " made a motion of marriage in behalf 
of his son Aaron to Mr. Westwood," for his daughter. Capt. Cook 
proposed to give tiis son Aaron, his then dwelling-house in Wind- 
sor, the lot it stood upon with barn, outhouses, fences, orchard, &c. ; 
we also find Aaron Cook, m. Sarah Westwood, of Hadley, May 30, 
1661. Aaron Cook sen'r, in a deed to his son Aaron of Simsbury, 
describes himself of Westfield, about 1671. In 1660, the Gen. 
Court of Conn, required Capt. Cook, to desist from any further labor 
on the town farm at Massacoe, until a trial was had the May after. 
Capt. Aaron Cook, m. Elizabeth Nash, of New Haven, Dec. 2, 1676- 
Major Aaron Cook, in. Rebecca Smith, of Hadley, in 1688 ; Capt. 
Aaron, d. in 1690. 

COOK, AARON, son of Capt. Aaron Cook, m. Sarah Westwood? 



Mr. Westwood, was one of tlie first who held office in the new location, and one who aided in 
laying out the home lots for the settlers. He was selectman, and otherwise etnploved in public 
b\isines3. He was one of the valued settlers, in the three locations in the country in which he 
had resided. He d. at Hadley, April 9, 1669, and his wife d. l'2th of May, 1676. 



700 (iBNEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1661, dau'r of Mr. VVm. Westwood and Bridget his wife, of Hartford 
and Hadlcy. The following are supposed to have been their chil- 
dren, viz. : Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1661-2 ; Joanna, b. July, 1667 ; 
Westwoode, b. March 29, 1671 ; Samuel, b. Nov. 16, 1672 ; Moses, 
b. May 5, 1675 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 9, 167.7 ; Bridget, b. March 31, 
1683. One of the above is called after the maiden name of the 
mother, and one after the sirname of her father, which is some evi- 
dence of being the cliildren of Aaron, Jr., and Sarah. Perhaps 
Aaron, Jr., lost his wife Sarah, after the birth of Bridget his dau'r; 
he might have again married Martha Allyn, in Jan 3, 1683, when his 
dau'rB ridget was b. March 31, 1683. And if Aaron below d. as 
recorded, April 15, 1725, aged 61 years, he could not have been the 
son of Capt. Aaron, who was b. Feb. 21, 1640. He probably was 
a son of Aaron, Jr., and Sarah, who was b. after Sarah, in 1661, 
and before Joanna, in 1667, and was not recorded, and a grandson of 
Capt. Aaron Cook. 

COOKE, AARON, of Hartford, (not known whose son,) he 
appears at Hartford, about 1680, and m. Martha, dau'r of Hon. John 
Allyn, Jan. 3, 1683, and had children, viz. : Aaron, b. May 12, 
1686, d. April 8, 1689; Aaron, 2d, b. Sept. 23, 1689; Martha, b. 
June 2, 1693; John, b. Dec. 23, 1696; Moses, b. Oct. 7, 1700; 
Elizabeth, b. Sep. 4, 1703, d. Sep. 23, 1703 ; Mary, b. June 2, 
1706 ; Anna, b. May 17, 1708. Porter locates him in Front street 
in Hartford, in 1686. He d. in Hartford, April 15, 1725, aged 61.' 
Moses, d. at Hartford, July 25, 1738, aged 38. Joseph Cook, d. at 
Hartford, Nov. 1, 1747, aged 67. 

COOKE, NATHANIEL, was also at Windsor, one of the first 
settlers, and appears to have been there at an early period. He m. 
Lydia, vore, or vose, (dau'r of Richard,) June 29, 1649. He was 
in full communion in the church there, June 22, 1662, and his wife 
in 1658, when he joined also. Cornelius Gillett sen'r, and his wife 
Priscilla, testified in court that Lydia, wife of Nathaniel Cook, late of 
Windsor, deceased, who was dau'r of Richard Vore, that said Rich- 
ard Vore, desired them to witness, that the piece of land said Richard 
gave Lydia, on Vore's point, should go to her son Josias, of Windsor. 
John Cook, Nathaniel Cook, sons of Lydia, also Samuel Baker, fijr 
Sarah his wife, Joseph Baker, of Windsor, David Hoyt, of Deerfield 
and wife, also Abigail, children of said Natl)aniel, all approved of 
their mather Lydia's will, Jan. 14, 1700. Nathaniel, the father d. 
May 19, 1688. He was made a freeman, May 16, 1650. 40 acres 
of land in Suftield, was allotted to Nathaniel Cook, March 19, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 701 

1672-3, (perhaps Nathaniel, Jr.) Nathaniel sen'r and Lydia his 
wife, had children, viz.: Sarah, b. June 28, 1650; Lydia, b. Jan. 
9, 1652; Hanna, b. Sept. 21, 1655; Nathaniel, Jr., b. May 13, 
1658 ; Abigail, b. March 1, 1659-60 ; John, b. April, or Aug. 3, 
1662; Josia, b. Dec. 22, 1664; all except Sarah were baptized at 
Windsor. Nathaniel, Jr., and his sister of Windsor, gave each Is 
and 6 pence to the poor of other colonies, June 1, 1676. Nathaniel 
Cook, Jr., had children, Nath'l, b. April 6, 1689 ; Sarah, Ebe- 
nezer, Daniel, Lydia, Mary, Richard, b. Aug. 30, 1703 ; Abigail, 
Elizabeth, Jeremiah, Benjamin, b. March 26, 1711. 

COOKE, SAMUEL, 2d, of New Haven, m. Hope Parker, May 

2, 1667, and had children b. in New Haven, viz. : Samuel b. March 

3, 1667-8 ; a dau'r b. March 3, 1671-2 ; first Samuel d. and second 

Samuel, was b. ; John, b. Dec. 3, 1669, and perhaps other 

children. Probably tliis family removed with the Parkers, to Wal- 
lingford. No freeman is found by the name of Cook in the list of 
freemen there, Sept. 1669. Samuel Cook, was nominated for a free- 
man in May, 1669. 

COOK, THOMAS, sen'r, of Guilford, Conn., was an early settler 
there, and was assessed there at £51 155. in 1642, or 50. THOMAS 
COOK, Jr., at £11 ; Mr. John Collins, at J&68 -is ; John Baylee, at 
JE13. Thomas, Jr., made free, 1667 ; Thomas sen'r and Jr., in 
the list of freemen in Guilford, in 1609, and the list signed by 
Thomas Cook. 

'COOK, DANIEL, an early settler at Tolland, Conn., was 
appointed by the town, with Noah Grant, in 1723, to provide for the 
ordination of Mr. Steele, the first minister of Tolland, who was dis- 
missed Dec. 25, 1758, and d. Dec. 4, 1759, aged 63 years. As Tolland 
originally was a part of Windsor, perhaps Daniel Cook was of the 
family of Cooks in Windsor. Samuel Cook, of Windsor, d. in 
1649. 

COOK, JOHN, of Middletown, in his will dated Aug. 15, 1698, 
notices his children, to wit, John, Mary, Daniel, Sarah, and a child 
unborn, and provided for them, and his wife Hannah, and made his 
wife sole executrix of his will. He d. in 1704. Benedictus Alvord, 
of Windsor, took out attachment in 1644, John Cook, of Stratford, 
sold two acresof land at great neck in Stratford, to John Hicks from 
Long Island, March 24, 1700. 

COOK, JOSIA and HANNAH, his wife, of Middletown, had 
issue, Moses, b. Oct. 23, 1742; Nancy, b. 1745; Richard, b. 

March 17, 1753, &c. 

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702 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COOK, JOHN, of Middletown, and Desire his wife, had Hannah^ 
b. 1742 ; Desire, b. 1744 ; Sarah, b, 1746, &c. 

COOK, JACOB, and MERCY his wife, of Middletown, had Eliza- 
beth, b. Nov. 11, 1743 ; Mary, Josiah, Rebecca, and Elisha. 

COOK, ZACHEUS, and MARTHA, of Middletown. 

COOK, JABEZ, of Middletown, m. Abigail Blake, May 23, 1754, 
and had Mary, b. at Middletown, March 7, 1755. 

COOK, ELIJAH, of Middletown, m. Hannah Hale, Feb. 27, 
1760. 

COOK, EBENEZER,m. Mehitabel Rockwell, Nov. 18, 1764, d. 
1768. 

COOK, ZACHEUS, m. Mary Hubbard, May 9, 1747 ; issue, 
Mary, Zacheus, Martha, b. 1755, &c., all b. in Middletown. 

COOK, RICHARD, was in Conn., in 1648. 

COOK, AARON, was an original proprietor of Goshen, in Litch- 
field County, in 1738, where he drew lot No. 1, in the division of 
lands. 

COOK, JOSEPH, from Wallingford to Goshen, where he d. in 
1764. 

JOSEPH, m. Rachel Spencer, Oct. 24, 1705. 

COOK, SAMUEL, of Windham, m. Leah Ripley, of Windham, 
March 14, 1716, and had issue born there, viz. : Phinehas, b. Dec. 
6, 1716, d. 1728 ; Rebeckah, b. Nov. 20, 1718; Jerusha, b. Feb. 
20, 1721 ; Weltheon, b. Aug. 20, 1724 ; Mary, b. July 25, 1729 ; 
Samuel, b. Aug. 25, 1732 ; 2d Phinehas, b. June 7, 1736. 

COOK, EBENEZER, of Colchester, and Mercy his wife, had a 
dau'r Mary, bap. at the 2d church in Colchester, Sept. 21, 1755. 

COOK, SAMUEL, Jr., son of Samuel, of Windham, m. Anna 
Webb, Mar. 31, 1751, and had issue, Sibil, b. Sep. 3, 1751-j Samuel, 
b. Feb. 18, 1754, and others. 

Deacon John, of Windsor, d. May 25, 1751, aged 59 ; his wife 
Deborah, d. Aug. 25, 1755 ; Dea. Wm., of Windsor, d, Feb. 28, 
1780, aged 85. 

COOK, RICHARD, was an early settler at Norwich, Conn., also 
Ed'd Culver. 

COOK, THOMAS, of Windsor, was not the son of Capt. Aaron, 
or Nath'l Cook, of Windsor ; he had a dau'r Mary, d. at Windsor, 
March 10, 1688-9. Cook, Lydia, of Windsor, lost her only son 
Thomas, by death in 1676. 

COOK, GEO., appeared before the council at Hartford, Feb. 10, 
1675, with a letter dated Feb. 4, 1675, from Major Andros to said 



GENEALOGY OF THE TURITANS. 703 

council, which tiiey answered and ortlered the Secretary to sign it 
in the name of the Council. (See letters on the Journal of the Coun- 
cil.) Farmer names Elisha son of Richard, b. in Boston, Sept. ItJ, 
16.'i7. George, of Cambridge, admitted freeman, 1630, (both impor- 
tant men in Mass.) Francis, one of the first pilgrims at Plymouth, 
in 1620 ; John, of Salem, 1637 ; Joseph, of Cambridge, freeman 
and representative in 1630, had a son Joseph and four daughters. 
Josiah of Eastham, 1644; Phillip of Cambridge, free in 1647; 
Richard a tailor of Boston, 1634 ; Robert of Charlestown, free 
1641 ; Walter of Weymouth, 1643, &;c. The Cooks were numer- 
ous in this country in the early settlement, and many of them highly 
respectable, and I have only room to name some of the first. 

COOK, WM., aged 20, embarked for Virginia in the transport of 
London, July 4, 1635. John Cook, a servant, aged 15, and Richard 
Carr, aged 29, &c., came to New England, in the Abigail, in 1635. 
Cocke, Joseph, aged 27, and George Cocke, 25, came to N. England, 
in the Defence, in 1635. Richard Cook, aged 46. James Copley, &c., 
and embarked in the Globe of London, for Virginia, in Aug. 1635> 
and Richard Cook, aged 21, embarked in the Alice, for Virginia, 
July 1635; Thomas Cook, aged 24; Garret Cook, aged 20, em. 
barked for Virginia, in the Primrose, July 27, 1635 ; John Cook, 
aged 47, embarked for Virginia, in the Merchant Bonaventure, in 
1634-5 ; Jo. Cook, aged 17, passenger for Virginia, in the Assur- 
ance de Lo.(ndon,) in 1635; Joseph Cook, {Far.) came from Earle 
Olne, or its vicinity, to New England, Oct. 1635. {Sofnerby and 
Mass. Collections.) One by the name of Cook, and 14 Cooke, had 
graduated at Cambridge, before 1849 ; 9 by name of Cook and 18 
Cooke, had graduated at Yale, before 1850 ; 4 Cook and 3 Cooke, 
graduated at Brown University, before 1830 ; 2 Cook and 4 Cooke, 
had graduated at Williams College, in 1843 ; 3 Cook and 6 Cooke, 
had graduated at Dartmouth College, before 1848. 

Cook, has six coats of arms ; Cookes, has 3 ; Cock, or Cocks, has 
1 ; Cockes, 4 ; Kocks, 5 ; Cook, (Bedforshire,) 1 ; Cook, (London,) 
1 ; Cook, (Mildhain, Co. Norfolk,) 1 ; Cooke, 71 and some others. 
This name is now frequently found in England, and particularly in 
London. The Cooks of Wallingford, have not been examined as to 
their origin, supposed originated in the New Haven family, who' 
removed there. Joseph Cook, of Wallingford, removed to Goshen, 
and d. there in 1764. Aaron Cook, was proprietor of Goshen, in 
1738, from Wallingford, he drew No. 1, and Daniel Richard's No. 2, 
in the division of the town. 



704 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAVS. 

COOLEY, BENJAMIN, was early at Springfield, and became 
one of the first settlers at Long Meadow ; he had children, Bethia, b. 
16d, 11 mo. 1643; Obadiah, b. 1646; Daniel, b. 2d 3mo. 1651 ; 
Sarah, b. in Springfield 27 of 2d mo, 1653 ; Benjamin, Jr., b. first 
of 7 mo. 1656 ; Mary, b. 22d of 4 mo. 1659 ; Joseph, b. ye 6th o^ 
1st mo. 1662, perhaps others. He probably went to Long Meadow, 
as early as 1644. The Cooleys, of and about Hartford, are 
descended from this family. 

CO(^LEY, PETER, of Fairfield, made free in l664, and in the. 
list of freemen there in 1669, is spelled on the Fairfield record 
Cooley, or Coley. 

COOLEY, WM., of New London, in 1664, applied to the town 
to remain there, (perhaps from Ipswich.) 

COOLEY, JOHN, of Ipswich, Mass., 16.54. John of Salem, d'."' 
about 1654. (Farm.) 

COOLEY, SAMUEL, of Hartford, in 1689, was made overseer, 
to council and assist widow Newell, in the distribution of her (then) 
deceased husbands estate to his children. He was not a first settler 
at Hartford. 

COOLEY, ELIAKIM, Jr., of Springfield, m. Griswold Beckwith, 
dau'r of Mathew Beckwith 2d or Jr., by her mother Elizabeth, and 
by her mothers third marriage. Her second marriage was to Peter 
Pratt, he d. March 24, 168S. This Elizabeth was dau'r of Mathew 
Griswold of Lyme, who first m. John Rogers, and was divorced, 
Aug. 5, 1679, and had two children by Rogers, 

COOLEY, RICHARD, had a son Eliakim, b. in 1648. Cooley, 
Simon, m. Elizabeth Gunn, of Hatfield, Mass., in May 1709. 

COOLEY, BENJAMIN, of Springfield, was one of the committee 
to lay out the town of Suflield, in 1670, for the new plantation of 
Stoney Brook. Capt. Abel Cooley, d. at W. Springfield, May 26, 
1807, aged 92 years. The name is yet found in Western, Mass., 
and in Conn. 

Miss Caulkins, speaking of Wm. Cooley of New London, says he 
was at Southold, Long Island, witli Robert Bartlett, and George 
Tongue, trading off their " ineons and wampum" for rum, about 
1663. 

Cooley, has one coat of arms ; 1 by the name of Cooley, graduated 
at Amherst, in 1854 and 5, at Yale College, before 1827, and 5 at 
Williams College. (See Coley.) 

COLEY, SAMUEL, of Milford, had a house lot in Milford of 
more than two acres, as one of the first settlers there, an early free 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 705 

planter and voter there, where his wife Ann, d. Oct. 3, 1689. He 
was a free planter there Nov. 20, 1639, with liberty to act in " tiie 
choyce of public olliccrs " in the plantation, as was Nicho. Camp, 
Nath'l Brisco, John "Sharman " and others. His home lot laid out 
at MilfordjDcc. 28, 1646, was sold to Wm. Bisco. Samuel Coley, 
(supposed the same) is found in Fairfield, before 1700, and his dau'r 
Ann, m. .lohn Kellogg, of Norwalk, Jan., 1729-30, and had two 
sons and two daughters, (he d. in 1740, perhaps Samuel, Jr.) 
Peter Coley, of Fairfield, was accepted to be made free in Oct. 13, 
1664, and free there 16(39. Samuel Colcys son Sanmel, m. Mary 
Carles, Oct. 21, 1669, by John Clark commissioner. Samuel sen'r> 
of Milford, had a son Samuel, b. at Milford, Oct. 20, 1654; Thomas^ 
b. April 20, 1657, perhaps others before and afterward. This 
appears to have been a distinct family from that of Benjamin Cooley, 
of Springfield and Suflield. The name is uniformly spelled on the 
Milford record, " Coley and Coly," while the name at Springfield is 
as uniformly spelled •' Cooley." Coley, has 3 coats of arms ; Coley 
or Collay, 1 ; and Cooley, 1 ; Collay or Colley, 1 ; Colle, 1 ; CoUe 
or Coulee, 1 ; Collie, Colley, or Cooling, 1 ; Cooley, 1 ; 1 Coley, 
graduated at Tale College, 1816. (See Cooley.) 

COOLIDGE, JOHN, an early settler at Watertown, Mass., where 
he had eight lots of land recorded. 

COOLIDGE, OBADIAH, of Wethersfield, Conn., m. Elizabeth, 
and had issue, viz. : Elizabeth, b. Feb. 26, 1688 ; Obadiah, his son 
d. or born, Sept. 25, 1689 ; Hannah, b. March 26, 1690. 

COOLIDGE, GEO., aged 18, embarked in the Assurance de Lo. 
for Virginia, in 1635. 

COOLIDGE, AUGUSTUS, graduated at Dartmouth College, in 
1813, and Valorus P. Coolidge, in 1844 ; Coolidge, Amos Hill, in 
1853, graduated at Amherst College ; 9 of this name graduated at 
Harvard College, before 1848, the first in 1724 ; 1 at Yale College, 
in 1819. 

COOPER, THOMAS, of Windsor, was the first of the name in 
Conn., in March, 1636; he with George Ciiapple,and Tiiomas Barber, 
of Windsor, were put out in service to Francis Stiles, to learn the 
trade of a carpenter. (See Coll. Record.) Thomas Cooper inveigled 
the affections of lAIr. Lees maid, without her masters consent, for 
which he was ordered to pay Mr. Lee, 20.s, damages and a fine of 
205, to the court in June, 1640, and John Perkins and Thomas 
Cooper, engaged the payment of it by the last of March, at Hartford. 
He probably removed to Springfield, about this time, though his son 



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Timothy, was b. in Springfield, in 1644, and son Thomas, b. 1646, 
it has been claimed he removed to, Springfield, in 1641. He had 
children recorded at Springfield, viz. : Timothy, b. 2d mo. 1644 ; 
Thomas, b. 3d of 5lh mo. 1646 ; Elizabeth, b. 23d of 12th mo. 1648 ; 
Mary, b. 15, ye 8th mo. 1651 ; John, b, 12th of 2d mo. 1654 ; 
Rebecca, b. 3d mo. 1657; 2d John, b. 1659. 

COOPER, TIMOTHY, of Springfield, (son of Thomas,) b. 1644, 
and his wife Elizabeth, had Sarah, b. March 17, 1665-6 ; Thomas, 
b. 1667; John, b. Jan. 24, 1670 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 21, 1672, per- 
haps others. Thomas Cooper above, was one of the first town com- 
mittee at Springfield, in 1670, for the purpose of laying out the town 
of Sufiield, to grant lands to settlers, and manage the affairs of the 
town, with Capt. John Pynchon, George Colton and others, and had 
50 acres of land alloted to him there in 1680, and was a voter there 
in all town affairs, 1686. 

COOPER, JOHN, was one of the first settlers at New Haven, and 
signed the fundamental agreement there, in 1639. He had a family 
at New Haven, of three persons in his family, in the list of polls and 
estate there, which (regulated the first division in East Haven,) 
division of lands. He was agent at the Iron works in East Haven, 
some time, and removed there from New Haven, and was an active 
business settler, and a man of note ; he was deputy to the General 
Court, in April, 1665; May, 1671; Oct., 1671; Oct., 1674, and 
an assistant in 1676 ; John sen'r d. Nov. 23, 1689. His children 
were Mary, b. Aug. 15, 1631 ; Hannah, b. 1638 ; John, b. May 
28, 1642 ; Sarah, b. Sept. 21, 1645 ; the two first b. before he 
removed to New Haven ; John, was charged of high treason'by John 
Scott. 

COOPER, JOHN, Jr., son of John sen'r, of New Haven, m. 
Mary Sampson, Dec. 27, 1666, and had a dau'r b. Nov. 19, 1668, 
d. 1668 ; Mary, b. Nov. 15, 1669, d. 1670; John b. Feb. 23, 1670, 
perhaps others. (Perhaps John, Jr., went to Newark, New Jersey, 
and one of the 101 purchasers.) The name was these. 

COOPER, SAMUEL, m. Elizabeth Smith, at New Haven, Nov. 
15, 1699 ; Rebecca Cooper, of New Haven, widow of Samuel dece'd, 
was baptized, July 28, 1728, her son Robert, bap. July 28, 1728, 
and her sons Samuel, and Jacob, and dau'rs Mary and Experience, 
all baptized Sept. 22, 1728, under their mother Mary Badurtha, 
a former wife of Samuel Cooper. 

COOPER, THOMAS, from Springfield, settled at Middlctown, 
Conn., where he m. Abigail Whitmore, Jan. 20, 1710; Issue 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 707 

Abigail, b. Dec. 17, 1711 ; Thomas, b. and d. ; '2d Thomas, b. 
1715 ; Lambertoii, b. about 1717, or 18; Thomas sen'r, of Middle- 
town, d. Sept. 11, 17-22. 

COOPER, Capt. LAMBERTON, son of Thomas, of Middletown, 
b. 1717, was lost at sea, aged 30; Abigail his widow d. in 1752. 
aged 31, he left an only son Lamberton, d. at Middletown, Aug. 
26, 1815, aged 73 years ; his relict Elizabeth, d. April G, 1847, aged 
76, a very respectable family. 

COOPER, JOHN, of Southampton, Long Island, with Capt. Tap- 
pin, Mr. Halsey and Mr. Stanborough, in behalf of Southampton, 
being dissatisfied with the boundaries of the town, and Mr. Baker, 
and Mr. Mulford, in behalf of ye town of East Hampton, Long 
Island, " agreed that the bounds between the two plantations shall 
forever be and remain at the stake set down by Capt. How, an hun- 
dred pole Eastward from a little pond, the said stake being two 
miles or near there abouts from ye cast side of a great pond com- 
monly called Sackaponock ; and so to run from ye south sea to the 
stake, and so over the Island by a strait line to ye eastern end of 
Hog neck, according to ye true intent and purpose of what is 
expressed in the grant and deed subscribed and allowed by Mr. 
James Forret, agent for ye Right Hon. Earle of Sterling," &c. 
It was ordered, "that ye towne of East Flampton," should pay 
Capt. Topping and his co-partners towards their charges in trans- 
acting this case at this court, (May, 1661,) the sum of 20 nobles. 
John Cooper, of Southampton, Long Island, in May, 1652, appealed 
from a verdict of a jury at Southampton, to the General Court of 
Conn., in the case of Mr. Stanborough, plaintiff, vs., John Cooper 
.-.en'r defendant, the court sustains the right of appeal, and considered 
the bill presented of Cooper to Peter Tallman the Dutchman, and 
assigned by Tallman, to Stanborough, as not authentic. Mr. Cooper 
resided on Long Island, in 1655, and probably afterward, where he 
was a man of reputation. Jo. Cooper, aged 20, embarked for Vir- 
ginia, in the Alice, Orchard, Master, in 1635 ; Richard Cooper, 
aged 18, embarked in the Merchant, Bonaventure, for Virginia, in 
1634-5 ; Thomas Cooper, aged 18, embarked for New England, in 
the Christopher de Lo,, John White, Master, March 16, 1634 ; Peter 
Cooper, aged 28, came to New England, in the Susan and Ellen, or 
Increase, in 1635 ; Richard Cooper, aged 28, embarked in the 
Transport, for Virginia, in 1635 ; John Cooper, aged 41, of Oney, 
in Buckinghamshire, with his children, Mary 13, Jo. 10, Thomas 
7 and Martha 5 years old, embarked in the Hopewell for New Eng- 



708 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

land, April 1, 1635 ; Thomas Cooper, aged 18, embarked to be 
transported to New England, March, 1634, with certificates from 
justices of peace and ministers of the parish of St. Egyd, Cripple 
Gate &c., and in the Christopher de Lo[ndon,] Elizabeth Cooper, aged 
24, came to New England, in the Planter ; John Cooper, was repre- 
sentative, May, 1659, and afterward ; Anthony Cooper, of Hingham, 
1635 ; John Cambridge, 1636 ; Thomas, of Hingham, 1636, {Far- 
mer.) This has been a highly respectable name at New Haven, 
Middletown, South Hampton, Springfield and Suffield. John Cooper 
sen'r and Jr., were in the list of freemen at New Haven, Oct., in 
1669. Cooper has 24 coats of arms, and Coopers has 3. ' 

COOPER, TIMOTHY, of Lynn, in 1652; Thomas Cooper, 
buried at Boston, 1637, aged 80 ; Deacon Cooper buried in Massa- 
chusetts, Sept. 1, 1691, {SewalVs diary.) Mary, an English captive 
of Yorke, by Mathew Cary, in Oct. 1695, from Lubec ; Boyer 
Cooper, a Canada prisoner brought in from Louisburg, to Boston, 
taken at Capt. Bradbury's fort by ye Indians of Gorges ; Thomas, 
overseer of the will of Robert Martin, (Rehoboth,) Inventory, June, 
1660 ; Thomas, also one who made the inventory of John Brown, Jr., 
of Rehoboth, in 16G2, also of John Brown, sen'r will, dated April 7, 
1662 ; Deacon Thomas, overseer of the will of Rev. Samuel New- 
man, of Rehoboth Inventory, taken July 31, 1663. He was active 
in settling estates at Rehoboth. Lieut. Samuel Cooper, (of Conn.,) 
killed in Capt Hanchett's company, in the expedition against Quebec, 
1775. (See His. Reg.) 

COOPER, BENJAMIN, of Salem, in 1637, and mention is n^ade 
of Ester Cooper, Laurence, son of Benjamin, and his sister Rebecca, 
John Cooper, was freeman at Scituatc, soon after 1634; he was at 
Scituate, as early as 1634, and had an Island laid out to him there, in 
1638 ; he sold the Island in 1639, and removed to Barnstable in 1639. 

Thomas Cooper, (spelled Cowper, Ensign,) of Springfield, grants 
land at Warranoke River, to George Sexton, resident of Windsor, 
dated June 10, 1663. John Cooper, sen'r, of New Haven, being 
one selected to settle the bounds between New Haven and Walling- 
ford, he made his mark to the agreement, but objected to that part 
embracing the meadow, between Mill River and East River, north- 
ward, above the Blue Hills, going to New Haven, dated 28th, 1st 
mo. 1673. 6 of this name had graduated at Harvard College, in 
1827, and 4 at Yale College, before 1843 ; 1 at D&rtmouth, in 1845. 

Coals of Arms. Cooper, has 23 coats of arms ; Coopers, has 3 ; 
Cowper, 13. 



GENEALOOV OF THK PURITANS. 709 

COPELAND, Mr. AMASA, of Ponifret, Conn., a soldier of the 
Revolution, d. aged 94 years, Aug. 18, 1851, or 2. This name was 
early at Ipswich, Mass., and late in Connecticut; this name has 1 
coat of arms and Coupland, has 3. At a late period this name is 
found at Hartford. 

COPLEY, THOMAS, removed from Westfield, to Suffield, in the 
early settlement of Suffield. He m. when he resided at Westfield, 
Ruth Denslow, Nov. 15, 1672. He with Thomas Hanchctt, Edw'd 
Allen, sen'r, and Edw'd Smith, were fence-viewers at Suflicld, in 
1685 ; Tliomas Copley, surveyor of highways in Suffield, in 1681, 
and 1689; Constable, in 168S ; Thomas Copley, John Burleson, 
Wm. Holleday, and James Lawton, of Suffield, w^ere sent to keep 
garrison at Deerfield, April 12, 1697. 

Copley, Thomas, now or late of Northampton, deeded land to 
Praisever Turner, which he bought of Edward Griswold, of Wind- 
sor, Conn., dated April 20, 1664. Thomas Copley, Feb. 4, 1680, 
had eleven acres of land alotted to him, and 4^ acres at Tyler's brook, 
in Suffield; (he probably removed about this time or soon after; he d. 
at Northampton, Nov. 29, 1712;) June 26, 1683, he had four acres 
of meadow alotted him ; also 66 acres over Stoney River, in Suffield, 
&c. His grant of 60 acres was confirmed to him in 1677, and 30 
acres in 1688. He m. Ruth Denslow, Nov. 15, 1672, and had a 
son Mathew, b. in Westfield, Nov. 11, 1673; Thomas, b. July 28, 
1675; Mathew, b. April 14, 1679; Samuel, b. Sept. 20, 1682. 
His wife Ruth, d. Oct. 5, 1692, and he m, widow Ruth Taylor, 
May 25, 1693. He d. Dec. 3, 1712. His widow Ruth d. Nov. 3, 
1724. He may have had other children. He was selectman and 
constable at Suffield, as late as 1686-8, and surve3'or of highways, 
in 1689. 

Note. — In Monument Office at Frankfort, on the Maine, in Germany, is a pedigree of the 
family of Corastock, there spelled indifferently. Komstohk and Corastohk, which gives nine gener- 
ations previous to 1547, when Charles Von Korastohk, a baron of the Roman Empire, was 
implicated in Von " Benedict treason," and escaped into England with several noblemen of 
Austria and Silesia. 

The arms are or (gold,) two Bears rampant, sahU (black,) muzzled, ^lUes (red,) in chief; and 
in base, a sword issuing from crescent, the point downwards, all the last (red.) Upon the arms 
a Baronial helmet of the German Empire mantled or and guttles (red and gold,) surmounted by a 
Baron's coronet jewelled proper, issuing therefrom an Elephant proper, and rampant. 

The Bears imply courage, the sword issuing from the crescent, shows that the family had 
fought against the Turks. Tlie Elephant rampant, in the crest was given as an indication of 
personal prowess and sagacity. 

Motto. — jVid cyfoeth ond boddioudctk. Not wealth, but contentment. 

This motto is in the Welch language, from which country it ie understood the family came 
to .\merica. 

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710 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COPLEY, SAMUEL, son of Thomas, m. Abigail Kent, of Suf- 

field, Feb. 4, 1713-14; issue, Samuel, Jr., b. Jan. 16, 1715-16; 

Daniel, b. July 23, 1718; Abigail, b. April 26, 1723; Elisha, b. 

Aug. 26, 1728 ; Samuel, was constable in Nuffield, in 1715. 

COPLEY, MATHEW, son of Thomas, m. Hannah Huxley, of 

Suffield,Feb. 20, 1701-2; issue, Nathaniel, b. Nov., 1802 ; Mathew, 

Jr., b. March 8, 1703 ; Thomas, b. July 27, 1706, and d. Sept. 9, 

1706; Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1707; 2d Thomas, b. Oct. 19, 1710; 

Moses, b. Dec. 28, 1712; Noah, b. Feb. 12, 1714-15, d. same 

month; Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1715; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 16, 1718-19; 

2d Noah, b. Nov. 28, 1721 ; the father d. Feb. 18, 1763. 

. COPLEY, MATHEW, Jr., m. Rebeckah Owen, April 28, 1736; 

issue, Rebecka, b. Jan. 28, 1737 ; Ann, b. June 30, 1739, perhaps 

others. 

COPLEY, THOMAS, of Suffield, m. Mary Maishall, Oct. 24, 

1717; issue, Thomas, b. Jan. 9, 1718; Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1720; 
Ebenezer, b. Feb. 22, 1722-3 ; Mary his wife, d. Aug. 15, 1751 ; 

Mr. Copley, d. Aug. 30, 1751. 

COPLEY, DANIEL, of Suffield, m. Mary Wright, of Long 
Island, 1744-5. It is said Copley, painted many pictures yet extant. 
James Copley, aged 22, embarked for Virginia, Aug. 7, 1635, in the 
Globe of London, Blackman, Master. The Copleys of Suffield, 
were of the best families there as appears by the offices they held. 
Nathaniel Copley, of Suffield, m. Hannah Huxley, in 1704 ; 
Samuel, m. Abigail Kent, 1713; Elizabeth Copley, m. Praisever 
Turner, of Northampton, Jan. 26, 1664 ; Thomas Copley, of Suf- 
field, drowned at Hartford, 1745, aged 25 ; Daniel Copley, of 
Suffield, m. Mary Wright, of Long Island, 1744-5 COPLEY, has 
12 coats of arms. 

Thomas Copley, now or late of Northampton, deeds land to Prai- 
sever Turner, which he purchased of Edward Griswold, of Windsor, 
dated April 20, 1664, bounded south on Geo. Sexton, and north on 
Benedictus Albard. 

COPP, COP, JOHN, was a school-teacher, at Norwalk, Conn., in 
1701 ; Dec. 30, 1701, the people of Norwalk, voted to have a school- 
master for the next year, also voted to employ Mr. John Copp, if he 
could be procured on reasonable terms; he was surveyor and deacon. 
In 1718, he was seated in the second pew from the pulpit; he was 
also some years town-clerk of Norwalk from 1708 to 1740, and 
better educated than most men of the town, and was recorder of the 
town as early as Feb. 24, 1708-9. He m. Ruth Belding, of Nor- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 711 

walk, widow of Lieut. John, Dec. 30, 1701. In 1705, the select- 
men of Norwalk, recommended him for a license as a physician. 
Farmer says, Wm. Copp, a shoemaker, was the earliest proprietor of 
Copp's Hill, Boston ; made a freeman 1G41 ; he had a son Jonathan, 
b. 1640. David Copp Elder, d. at Boston, Nov., 1713, aged 78 years. 
Mr. Jonathan Copp, was elected deacon of Mr. Hillhouse's church, at 
Montville, Nov. 19, 1722, which he accepted. He was appointed 
to go to Boston, and accompany the Rev. James Hillhouse, to his 
then future home at Montville, where he was installed, Oct. 3, 1722. 
Jonathan Copp, was from Boston to Stonington, and thence to Mont- 
ville, in 1713; David, was the son of Deacon Jonathan Copp, and 
was made deacon of Mr. Jewett's church, July 4, 1746, and was 
succeeded by deacon Joseph Otis. Miss Calkins says, " Copp's 
Hill derives its name from a branch of this family." Jonathan 
Copp was a teacher in the New London grammar-scho%l, in 1747. 
Two of this name are now found in Conn. (See Hall, Caulkins, 
New London Col. Rec.) Cope, has six coats of arms; COPPIN, 
3. John Copp, d. May 16, 1754, aged 78 years. 2 by the name of 
Copp, graduated at Yale College, between 1744 and 1847 ; 4 at Dart- 
mouth College, before 1844. 

CORBE, WILLIAM, (See Corlin.) 

CORBIN, or CORBE, WILLIAM, d. at Haddam, 1074, and left 
children, William, aged 18 ; John, 16 ; Mary, 12 ; Samuel, 9 ; and 
Hannah, 6 years old. Inventory, Oct. 10, 1674, £150, 13*. Id. 
Wm. Corbe and Ab'm Dibble, of Windsor, were original proprietors 
of Haddam, 1662. 

CORBE, SAMUEL, of Haddam, d. April 10, 1694; estate £60; 
children, Mary, 17 months old, " and a posthumous son three months 
old, named Samuel." He d. when a young man. Inventory of his 
property offered in court at Hartford, by his relict May 16, I'JOS. 

CORBIN, JAMES, an original settler and proprietor of South 
Woodstock, in 1686. He drew home lot No. 2, of 20 acres, with 20 
acre .rights, located in Woodstock, on the west side of Chain Hill. 
He was one of the first 38 proprietors ; he was not from Koxbury, 
but was admitted into the company of proprietors by the selectmen of 
Roxbury, and by the company approved as a member, to settle New 
Roxbury. He took a division in addition to his first in 1690. He 
drew No. 32, in the division of the good meadow. He m. Hannah 
Eastman, April 7, 1697. 

JABEZ CORBIN, had a 15 acre home-lot in May, 1690, at 
Woodstock. He drew No. 19, in the division of good meadow in 



712 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1690, at Woodstock; Robert Corbit, (Corbin,) for lot No. 38, (for 
lot 31.) 

CLEMENT CORBIN, had No. 45; most of those who drew a 
share of the good meadow, also had a share of the poor meadow in 
1694. JABEZ CORBIN, was allowed 12 square rods of land, 
joining his father's lot, for a shop in 1693 ; Jan. 7, 1688, the plant- 
ers of New Roxbury, granted Clement Corbin, a 20 acre home lot 
with 20 acre rights, which he had before possessed on the northwest 
side of the highway to Muddy Brook. Corben, Corbin, or Corbyn, 
(Staffordshire and Suffolk,) has 1 coat of arms ; Corben, 2 ; Corbin, 
1 ; Corbyn, 2, and Corby, 3. 

CORBEE, SAMUEL, of Saybrook, m. Mary Crippin, at Haddam, 
Jan. 28, 1691-2. Wm. Corbee or Corbin, was an original settler at 
Haddam. The name of Corbee, has been found in Simsbury and Wind- 
sor ; James Corbin, and Peter Aspinwall, were two of the signers to 
settle Woodstock, in 1683 ; Edward Ainsworth, d. there in 1740-1, 
aged about 89 years. Mary Corby gave a deed of land situated in 
Haddam, to Thomas Shaylor, Jan. 10, 1674. William Corbe, sold the 
same land to Shaylor, in his lifetime, and the General Court of Con- 
necticut, confirmed the deed in Shaylor, in 1676 ; Wm. Corby, 
freeman of Haddam, 1669 ; Wm. Corbit (the same Wm. Corbe, 
Corby) was a defendant in two actions in favor of Geo. Steel, at 
Hartford, in 1647; James Olmsted, in his will in 1640, says, "I do 
give my searvuant Will Corby, five pound, to be paid when his 
tyme comes forth," and directed his son " Nehemya to pay it," and 
willed that Corby should serve the remainder of his time with his son, 
aforesaid. 

CORBET, (CORBE,) WILLIAM, of Farmington, propounded 
for a freeman, Oct., 1664. (See Cohbeit.) Armorial, " Sir Andrew 
Cincent Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, and Actan Reynold Bart, repre- 
sentative of that most ancient and distinguished family, bears a 
shield of twenty-five Quarterings." Crests, (to the arms,) first an ele- 
phant ar. armed or. on his back, a castle triple towered of the last 
trappings or. and sa. second a squirrel sigant or. mottoes, and for the 
arms. CORBIT, in Court from Windsor, in two cases at Hartford, 
Dec. 2, 1647 ; Cobbett James, aged 23, and Josias, 21, embarked in 
the Elizabeth and Avon, for New England, April 29, 1635. 

CORBE, WILLIAM, Abraham Dibble, from Windsor, were two 
of the 28 original proprietors and settlers of the town of Haddam, 
which was invested with town privileges in Oct., 1668, and called 
Haddam, probably after Haddam, or Hadham, in England. The 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 713 

proprietors took possession of their land about 1662. (See Cohbetl 
Ante.) 3 by tlie name of Corbett, graduated at Harvard College, 
before 18-22. 

CORBETT, JOHN, from Lebanon, Conn., to Sharon, in 1743. 
(See Cobbilt, pages 626-7, of this work.) Three graduated at Har- 
vard, before 1822. 

CORDENT, CORDANT, RICHARD, in Connecticut, in 1663. 

CORIGG, or CARIGG, ROBERT, m. Hannah Welles, of Col- 
chaster, Conn., in 1757 ; John Chilly, was in Conn., in 1663. 

CORBET, THOMAS, m. Grace Woodworth, at Colchester, by 
Rev. Eph'm Little, Oct. 10, 1733. 

CORNELL, or CORNILL, PAUL, m. Susanna Bouton, of New 
Haven, Aug., 1701. (See Cromwall ;) see also marriages in New 
Haven ; Cornell, has 3 coats of arms. He appears not to have been 
one of the Corn well family of Wetherslield, and Hartford. 

CORNELIUS, LAURENCE, (Dutchman,) his certificate (and the 
townsmen of the Pequot) having been read by the Court, Feb. 26, 
1656, confirmed the act of the town, in admitting him an inhabitant 
of Pequot, to have free trade amongst them, if he observed the laws 
and orders of the jurisdiction, and such as should be made. Cornel- 
ius has 1 coat of arms ; one graduated at Dartmouth College, 1829. 

CORNING, SAMUEL, was admitted freeman in 1641, and was 
one of the founders of the church in Beverly, in 1667. {Farmers 
Genealogical Register.) May 15, 1665, " there were chosen at a pub- 
lick meetiug for to make the rate for Mr. Hail's maintenance for 65 
as foUoweth : Captain Lathrop, Wm. Thorndike, Roger Conant, 
Samuel Corning, Joseph Rootes." {Beverly Town Records.) This 
appears to have been the first choice of what have since been termed 
selectmen by the inhabitants of Beverly, although the town was not 
incorporated until 1668. In 1667, among those chosen as above is 
*' Ensigne Corning." In 1663, among those chosen to procure wood 
for Mr. Hale, was " Ensigne Corning," from his house to Mr. 
Conaut's Bridge. Same year Samuel Corning, sen'r, and Lot Conaut, 
"to see the rate for Mr. Hale brought in 1669." Samuel Corning, 
sen'r, one of the selectmen, and also on a special committee to 
treat * * * * jjpJ ^q settle boundary with VVenham, 1682, to 
see the rate brought in. June 2, 1670, " Samuel Corning is chosen 
to keep an ordinary ; " 1670, " Samuel Corning chosen assistant ; " 
Feb. 22, 1670, " William Ramdut is chosen a s'jlectman instead of 
Samuel Corning;" March 6, 167L, "Richard Brackenbury, and 
Samuel Corning, sen'r, have leave to make a seat at:' the north end 
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714 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

of the pulpit." May 29, 1671, " Samuel Corning, sen'r, for and in 
consideration of a parcel of land near the meeting-house in Beverly, and 
for a highway lying on the backside of the 20 acres of land which he 
bought of Osmaud Wark, which was Jonathan Porter's, is granted a 
parcel of land lying between the meadow of Captain Lowthropp, and 
the farm of the said Samuel Corning, be it more or less." Sept. 1, 
1674, " Ensign Corning," on committee to lay out land to David 
Perkins, a smith; 1674, "Ensign Corning," chosen one of the 
selectmen; also in 1675; in 1676, collector of rate; 1677, selectman; 
1678, committee on boundaries ; 1679, Samuel Corning, sen'r, had 
20 trees for building and fencing. He died before March 11, 1694-5, 
when Samuel Corning 2d, Nathaniel Hayward, sen'r, and his wife 
Elizabeth, and Nathaniel Stone, sen'r, and his wife Remember, 
divided the lands of their late father, " Ensign Samuel Corning, sen'r, 
deceased," whose widow was Elizabeth. These tliree, Samuel, Jr., 
Elizabeth and Remember, were probably all the children of Samuel, 
sen'r, of Beverly; only one son. 

CORNING, SAMUEL, Jr., only son of Samuel, sen'r, and Eliza- 
both, who d. May 11, 1714, aged 73, left sons : 

1. Samuel, 3d, b. June 1, 1670. 

2. John, b. 1676. 

3. Joseph, b. Nov. 19, 1679. 

4. Daniel, b. Sept. 17, 1686. 

He m. Hannah, dau'r of John Bacheldor, d. Feb. 17, 1718, aged 
72 years. 

CORNING, JOSEPH, son of Samuel, Jr., m. Rebeckah Wood- 
bury, Jan. 17, 1702-3, and had issue : 

1. Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1703, m. Peter Grover, d. in Brimfield, aged 65. 

2. Joseph, Jr., b. May 22, 1707. 

3. Josiah, b. Nov. 15, 1709, m. Jane Andrus, Jan. 10, 1733, d. 1760, aged 51. 

4. Martha, b. Aug. 21, 1714, m. Nathaniel Giddings, of Preston. 

5. Nehemiah, b. April 25, 1717. 

Joseph, the father d. 1718. This Joseph, and Nehemiah, b. 1717, 
were the first of the family who removed from Beverly to Norwich, 
Conn. ; Joseph, b. 1679, came to Preston, Connecticut. 

NEHEMIAH CORNING, b. 1717, son of Joseph, and grandson 
of Samuel, Jr., m. Mary, the widow of Abner Pride, formerly Mary 
Richards, Nov. 14, 1745, and had the following children : 

1. Joseph, the oldest b. Oct. 7, 1746; taken by the British in the Revolution- 
ary war, and put on board of the Jersey prison-ship, at New York, and never 
was heard from after. 

2. Benjamin, b. Jan. 22, 1748, a farmer, settled in Voluntown, in Connecti- 
cut, d. 1&27. 

3. Amos Corning, b. April 27, 1751, and d. 1753. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 715 

His wife d. and Nehemiah Corning, m. for his second wife, Free- 
born Bliss, Dec. 25, 1754, and liud the following children : 

4. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1755, m. Elijah Fish ; botli d. West. 

5. Uriah, b. March 20, 175S, and still living. 

ti. Amos, 2d, b. April 20, 1760, and d. Oct. 14, 1837, aged 77. 
7, Bliss, b. Oct. 30, 1763, the lather of Erastus, Esq., of Albany. 
S. Cyrus, b. March 12, 1766, d. June 16, 1827. 

Nehemiah Corning, the parent of the above children, d. Oct. 7, 
1797, aged 81 ; Freeborn his widow d. Nov. 8, 1809, aged 86 years. 

CORNING, JOSEPH, son of Nehemiah, was b. Oct. 7, 1746 ; 
he was taken by the British, during the Revolution and put on 
board the Jersey prison-ship in New York, where he probably d. as 
he was not heard from afterward. He m. Deborah Holdridge, and 
had issue, Joseph and Susan, and both died. 

CORNING, BENJAMIN, b. 1748, son of Nehemiah, settled as a 
farmer in Voluntown, Conn., and d. in 1827, m. Elizabeth Benham, 
and had issue, Lois, Charles and Joseph ; Charles, a farmer in 
Chenango County, N. Y. ; Joseph and Lois, live in Voluntown, Ct. 

CORNING, MARY, b. 1755, dau'r of Nehemiah, by his 2d wife, 
Freeborn Bliss; she m. Elijah Fitch, and both d. at the West. 

CORNLNG, URIAH, b. 1758, son of Nehemiah, m. Elizabeth 
Willet, Aug. 24, 1780, and had issue, viz. : 

1. Sophrona Hall, b. June 20, 1781, m. Samuel Story, of Norwich. 

2. Elias Bliss, b. March 9, 17S3, m. Mary Gary. 

3. Rebeckah W., b. April 21, 1785, m. Jeffery Chainplin. 

4. Betsey, b. Sept. 16, 1787, d. 1787, Dec. 9. 

5. Betsey, 2d, b. June 2, 1789, d. 17&9, Jan. 30. 

6. Jedediah, b. June 12, 1790. 

7. Amos, b. Aug. 7, 1797. 

S. Sally B., b. March 26, ISOO. 

9. Elizabeth Willett, b. Feb. 23, 1802. 
Uriah is yet living. 

CORNING, BLISS, b. 1763, of Preston, Conn., .son of Nehemiah, 
who was from Beverly to Norwich, Conn. ; he m. Lucinda Smith, of 
Preston, b. 1755. (Her brothers and sisters were Nathan Smith, b. 
Jan. 10, 1757; Richard, b. Jan. 1. 1759, d. June 4, 1801 ; Elisha, 
b. Nov. 21, 1760; Benjamin, b. Sept. 16, 1763, d. March 27, 1742; 
Lucinda Smith, b. May 6, 1765; Erastus, b. May 20, 1767; 
Clari-ssa, b. Feb. 2, 1772 ; perhaps John Smith, who d. in May, 1804, 
and Hannah, who d. Aug. 27, IdOO.) Tlie children of Bliss Corn- 
ing were 

1. Nathan S., b. May 20, 17S8. 

2. Elisha, b. Feb. 17, 1790. 

3. Clarissa, b. Dec. 7, 1792. 



716 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

4. Erastus Corning, of Albany, b. Dec. J 4, 1794. 

5. Alexander B., b. Jan. 5, 1796. 

6. Edwin, b. March 16, 1798. 

7. Richard S., b. July 8, 1800. 

8. Eliza, b. Sept. 13, 1802, d. Oct. 7, 1S03. 

9. Hannah T., b. Oct. 4, 1804. 

10. Mary Ann, b. Sept. 24, 1806. 

11. John H. Corning, b. March 10, 1809. 

* CORNING, ERASTUS, Esq., of Albany, son of Bliss Corning, 

• Hon. Erastus Corning, of Albany, a son of Bliss Corning, of Norwich, or Preston, Conn. ; his 
mother was Miss Lucinda Smith, as before stated. Few men in this country who.se personal 
history is more interesting or more instructive to our young men, than that of Mr. Corning, who 
was the son of a country farmer, but his energy, industry and perseverance, backed and based 
upon his uniform and stern integrity, business habits and good common sense, has placed him 
in the exalted station, in wealth and lienors, which he now occupies. He left Norwich, when 
a boy in 1807, and entered a hardware and iron store in Troy, New York, with his uncle Benja- 
min Smith, who was a prominent democrat at that day, governed by the principles of Thomas 
Jefferson, and who held some important local offices in Troy. Mr. Smith, took a warm interest 
in his nephew, and some years after, on the death of Mr. Smith, he left to Mr. Corning, the bulk 
of his estate, acquired in Troy. In March, 1814, Mr. Corning left Troy, fora larger field of ope- 
ration, and located at Albany, where he entered the hardware and iron store of John Spencer 
& Co., at that time, to say the least, was one of the principal mercantile houses in Albany. In 
1816, young Corning became a partner and member of the firm of that business house and 
wealthy concern, e.\actly fitted to his ambition and business habits, and where he has continued 
uninterruptedly until this time. The firm now being Erastus Corning & Co., and now is, and 
has been, in the amount of its business, one of the leading and largest business houses in the 
trade in this country. The firm have not been confined strictly to the business of the store at 
Albany, but own and carry on, nail and iron works, rolling mills, &c., which are among the best 
arranged and largest in the country, situated about two miles south of Troy. His fellow citizens 
having implicit confidence in his business habits, his integrity and political principles, drew him 
from, or rather added lo his multifarious concerns, by electing him in 18^8, one of the Alder- 
men of the City of Albany. He also served in the responsible and honorable office of Mayor of 
that City, about three years, between 1834, and 1837. In 1833, Mr. Corning was elected Vice- 
President of the New York State Bank, but retired from this post in 1834, on the organization 
of the Albany City Bank, of which he was chosen president, which responsible station he yet 
holds. In 1833, on the organization of the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Company, Mr. 
Corning was elected its president, and remained so until 1853, when it was merged into what 
is now the New York Central Railroad Company. The Utica and Schenectady road, was one 
of the earliest railroads in this country, and proved a very successful project to Uie State and 
country, particularly to the great West, the success of which was greatly owing lo the unre" 
mitted exertions and management of its president. In 1833, the legislature elected him one of 
the regents of the university, and he yet remains a member of the board. He was elected a 
member of the State Senate of New York, for four years, from 1842, which place he 
filled with marked ability, as a politician and a man of business. On the first election of direc- 
tors of the New York Central Railroad Company, in 1853, he was elected its president, and still 
occupies the place. This Company own the entire line of railroad from Albany and Troy and 
Hudson River, to Buffalo, on Lake Erie, and the suspension bridge near Niagara Falls. Its stock 
and funded debt, together form as is supposed the largest aggregation of capital in any one 
corporation in this country. The Saint Mary's Falls Ship Canal, connecting Lake Superior, with 
the lower lakes, was constructed by a company of which Mr. Corning was also president. A 
full account of this great work, appeared in several of the leading newspapers in this country, in 



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of Preston, Conn., b. Dec. 14, 1794, m. Harriet Weld, who was b. 
July 31, 1794, and was m. by Rev. Jonas Coe, March 10, 1819; 
they had children, viz. : 

1. Benjamin Smith, b. Jan. 1, 1820; he d. Sept. IS, 1821. 

2. John epencer, b. Nov. 13, 1S23, d. Feb. 25, 1833. 

3. Erastus, Jr., b. June 15, 1827. 

4. Joseph Weld, b. March 8, 1829, d. Aug. 14, 1830. 

5. Edwin W., b. Sept. 4, 1836, only two sons living. 

CORNING, AMOS, b. April 20, 1760, son of Nehemiah, by his 
2d wife, d. Oct. 14, 1837, aged 77, m. Aletty Burtis, of New York, 
and had 

1. Sally, b. 1787, d. Dec. 15, 1794. 

2. Samuel, d. Oct. 12, 1822, aged 27. 

3. Mary Ann, and William, reside in New York. 
Amos, the father, d. Oct. 14, 1837, aged 77. 

CORNING, CYRUS, son of Nehemiah, by his second wife, 
(Bliss,) b. March 12, 1766, d. June 16, 1827, m. Lucy Geere, of 
Preston, and had issue : 

1. Sabra. 

2. Nehemiah. 

3. Sidney. 

4. Louisa. 

5. Nathan. 

Cyrus, the father, d. June 16, 1827, aged 59- 

CORNING, SOPHRONIA H., dau'r of Uriah, m. Samuel Story, 
of Norwich ; issue, Laura, Edward, Sally and Albert ; parents both 
deceased. 

CORNING, ELIAS B., son of Uriah, m. Nancy Cary, and had 
issue, Emily, Horace, d. Aug. 7, 1846, aged 23 years, Jane and 
Luther. 

CORNING, REBECCA, dau'r of Uriah, m. Jeffery Champlin, 
Dec. 4, or 30, 1804 ; issue, Fanny, b. April 8, 1806, d. May 8, 
1838 ; Jeffery, the father, d. in Demerara, in 1811. 

May, 1855, which it is unnecessary to recapitulate ; was also chosen a director of the Michigan 
Central Railroad Company, on the commencement of that enterprise, and is yet a member of 
that board. Mr. Corning has also held various other places of trust in other corporations and 
associations, and is now a director or trustee in several others not before named. Mis political 
sentiments, in which he has been uniform through life, it is unnecessary to say has been of the 
' Jeffersonian school of democrats, and he w.is a prominent member of the Democratic National 
Conventions at Baltimore, in 1848. and in 1852, and at the last was the president of the New York 
delegation. The life thus far of the Hon. Erastus Corning, who is now traveling Europe, on 
business or for his health, is a lesson to the farmer's sons in this country, proving to them most 
effectually, that with a New England common-school education, if applied to good common 
sense, with strict integrity and incessant industry, that wealth and honors are within their reach 
with these qualifications. 



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CORNING, JEDEDIAH, son of Uriah, m. Lydia P. Hazen, 
June 9, 1815, and had children, viz : 

1. Hiram Prentiss, b. June 9, 1S16, d. 1818. 

2. Harvey, b. April 9, 1818. 

3. Lewis W„ b. Jan. 17, 1S20. 

4. Samuel B., b. Sept. 14, 1822. 

5. Mary L., b. Oct. 4, 1831. 

Lydia, his wife, d. Nov. 29, 1836, and Jedediah, m. for 2d wife, 
Rhoda Ann Budington, Jan. 27, 1^39, and had issue : 

6. Ann Matilda, b. March 4, 1S41. 

7. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Dec. 7, 1843. 

CORNING, JOSIAH, son of Joseph, and brother of Nehemiah, who 
was son of Samuel 2d, m. Jane Andrews, Jan. 10, 1733, of Nor- 
wich. He d. Feb. 27, 1760, aged 51 years. His wife Jane, d. 
March 21, 1803, aged 88 years ; had children: 

1. Sarah, b. Oct. 13, 1734, m. Britt, and had William, Anna, Polly, and 
Sarah. 

2. Ezra, b. April 10, 1737, he was the first Corning to Hartford, from Long 
Society, or Preston. 

3. Elisha, b. July 25, 1745, lived and d. at Preston, in 1S05, aged 60 ; married. 

4. Lydia, b. Oct. 4, 1741, m. Andrew Parish, and had a son Andrew, and d ; 
she m. 2d Crosby, and ha.d Levi and Ezra. 

5. Daniel, b. July 18, 1739, m. and had a dau'r Eunice ; he was lost at sea. 

6. John, b. Nov, 23, 1746, lived and d. at Norwich Landing; had two wives. 

7. Eph'm, died at sea. 

8. Polly, or Mary, b. May 22, 1749. 

9. Asa, b. Dec. 3, 1753; lived in Front street, Hartford, 1784, d. 1815. 
iO. Ann, b. April 22, 1751, d. June 13, 1785. 

11. Eph'm, b. 1755. 

CORNING, HANNAH, dau'r of Joseph, and sister of Nehe'miah, 
ni. Peter Grover or Groves; she d. at Brimfield, Mass., aged 65. 

CORNING, MARTHA, dau'r of Joseph, and sister of Nehemiah, 
m. Nathaniel Giddings, of Preston, and had children, viz. : 

Nathaniel Jasper, (left Preston, and not known where they died.) 

Solomon, m. Ruth White, of Preston. 

Lydia, m. Abraham Andrews, of Connecticut. 

Hannah, m. Jubeth Story, of Connecticut. 

Elizabeth, m. Philip Harvey, of Connecticut. 

Levi, d. of consumption, aged about 23. 

Eunice, m. John Young, of Norwich, Connecticut. 

CORNING, HARVEY, b. 1818, son of Jedediah, m. and lives in 
Brooklyn, New York; children: Adelaide, Hiram, and Washington. 

STORY, LAURA, dau'r of Samuel, m. John Kinney, merchant, 
of Norwich, Conn , and had children, Newcomb, Esq., John, Laury 
and Joseph. 



GENEALOGY OF TUE PURITANS. 719 

STORY, ALBERT, son of Samuel, m. Elizabeth Beebe, and had 
issue, Edward and Albert. 

CHAMPLIN, FANNY, dau'r of Jeffery, m. George P. Ilarkness, 
June 9, 1831, and had a son George, b. March 21, 1833. 

CORNING, EMILY, dau'r of Elias Corning, m. Asa Nash, and 
had issue, Louisa, Horace and Emily. Settled in Preston. 

CORNING, AMOS, m. Matilda Guiant, Nov. 8, 1818, and had 
Juliett, b. Nov. 1, 1819; Rebecca, b. Jan. 6, 1826; Juliett, m. 
Dudley Budington, of Preston, and had Juliett and Ann Abell ; 
Rebecca, dau'r of Amos, m. Charles Holden, of Norwich, and had 
issue, Isabel], b. Aug. 23, 1844. 

CORNING, SALLY, dau'r of '■ — , m. Harvey L. Hazen, 

of Norwich, Conn., and children, Asher, Chester, Hiram, George, 
Mariah and Fanny. 

CORNING, ELIZABETH, dau'r of , m. James Whipple, 

of Boston, and had James, Uriah, Elizabeth, Alida, Frederick, 
Rebecca, Marcus and Sarah Wiiipple. 

CORNING, Deacon EZRA, son of Josiah, sen'r, removed l^om 
Long Society, (Preston,) in Norwich, to Hartford, and was the first 
of the Preston family at Hartford, where he was a shoemaker, and 
afterward a grocer. He had three wives. He lived on the ground 
in Hartford, where the house ofGovernorToucey now stands, on Main 
.street. He in. Mary, dau'r of Capt. Thomas Hopkins, and had issue : 

1. M;iry, d. in infancy. 

2. Iliildah, d. 

3. Daniel, ni. Vibbcrt, liad four daughters and one son; 2 m. Thompsons, 
widows in N. Y., and his son .lohn lives in N. Y.; two of them m. ministers at 
the west. 

4. Ezra, Jr. 

His wife d. and he m. Catherine Hall, and had 

5. George, 
f). Charles. 

7. Catherine. 

8. William. 

9. Henry, d. young. 

10. Henry, a tailor ; lives in Hartford. 

His second wife d. and he m. Hannah Benton, by whom he had 
no issue. 

. CORNING, ELISHA, son of Josiah, of Preston, m. Elizabeth 
Parish, Dec. 27, 1770, and had issue : 

1. Josiah, b. Feb. 20, 1772, a carpenter by trade, m. and had children at 
Enfield or SufTield. 

2. Susan, b. July 27, 177,j. 

3. Andrew, b. Feb. 26, 1778 ; no issue found ; went to sea ; d. at Norwich. 

4. ElishaP., b. .Ian. 25, 17S1 ; twice married ; had issue, d. in Hartford. 



720 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

5. Shubael, m. and had no children; lived in Hartford. 

6. Erastus. 

CORNING, ANDREW, son of Elisha, was a shoemaker ; he m. 
in Hartford, and went to sea and came home in feeble health, and 
d. in Norwich. 

CORNING, ELISHA P., son of Elisha, of Preston, shoemaker, 
was twice married, hud children, and d. in Hartford. 

CORNING, SHUBAEL, son of Elisha, of Preston, m. but had 
no children. 

CORNING, LYDIA, dau'r of Josiah, m. Andrew Parish, and had 
a son Andrew ; Mr. Parish, d. and his widow m. 2d, Mr. Crosby, and 
had Levi C. and Ezra. ' 

CORNING, DANIEL, son of Josiah, m. Emiice Leffingwell, and 
had a dau'r Eunice. 

CORNING, JOHN, son of Josiah, m. Clark, and had issue : 

J . John, d. at Jewett City, aged about 50. 

2. Gurdon, of Troy. 

3. Eph'm. John was a shoemalier, had two wives ; Ephraim, d. at sea. 
CORNING, POLLY, dau'r of Josiah, m. Story, and had 

a son Charles Story. 

CORNING, ASA, son of Josiah, m. Cynthia Seymour, of Hart- 
ford, near Cooper Lane, and had issue : 

1. Mary, m. Richard Winslow, of Albany, and had several children; Rich'd 
H., John II., Edward, William, James, &c. 

2. Ephraim, b. 17S4. 

3. Nancy, m. Elias Mather, of Albany, and had Charles L., and Mary Ann ; 
m. Harris. 

4. Clarissa, d. single. 

5. Cynthia, m. Elias Mather ; lived in Albany, and had James and Jane, m. 
E. D. Smith, of Buffalo. 

6. Jasper, b. 1794, banker in N. Y. ; m. 1st. Abg'l Kibbe ; 2d, Margaret Kibbe. 

7. Fanny, tn. Charles Bull ; she d. in Buffalo, soon after m. ; no issue. 

8. Leonard, m. 1st, Eliza Steel; 2d, Bleeker, of New York; he d. in New 
Orleans, left a dau'r Mary W. 

9. Jane, m. Charles Townsend, and d. in Buffalo. 

10. Edward, lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; m. 1st, E. Stebbins ; 2d, Cath'nc Austin. 

Asa, the father removed from Preston, to Hartford, and lived in 
Front street, in 1784, and d. Dec, 1815. 

CORNING, GEORGE, son of Ezra, son of Josiah, of Preston, 
m. Benton, and had issue : 

1. Julia C. 

2. George W., twice m. and twice settled. -• 

3. John Benton, a wealthy merchant in Hartford, has 3 children. 

4. Hannah M., d. 

5. Wm. Henry, d. 

CORNING, HENRY, son of Ezra, m. , issue. 

1. Henry. 



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2. Franklin. 

3. Lucy E. 

4. James E. 

Henry was a tailor by trade, and is now living in Washington 
street, in Hartford, Conn. 

CORNING, JOSIAH, son of Elisha, a carpenter by trade ; he m. 
and settled at Enfield or Suffield, and had children. 

CORNING, DANIEL, son of Deacon Ezra, of Hartford, m. Vib- 
bert, and had four daughters and one son Daniel ; two of his daugh- 
ters m. Thompson's, and are nofv living widows in New York ; his 
other two daughters in. ministers, and settled at the West. His son 
Daniel is m. and now lives in New York. 

CORNING, JASPER, son of Asa, of Hartford, resides in the city 
of N. Y., where he is a banker in Wall street ; twice m. ; 1st Abigail 
and 2d, Margaret Kibbe, sisters; children, George, Car. W., Eliza S., 
Robert E., Laura C, Edward ; Margaret Ann d. ; Eliza S., m. John 
Otto, of Buffalo. 

CORNING, EDWARD, son of Asa, of Hartford, lives in Brooklyn, 
New York ; twice m. ; 1st, m. Elizabeth C. Stebbins, of N. Y., she d. 
and left two children, viz., Rev. James Leonard and Jasper E. He 
ni. 2d, j\Iiss Austin, of Brooklyn, and had Matilda, Catharine M., 
Daniel A., Catharine M., Edward, Jr., Charles, John L. ; Emily 
and Hanson K., d. 

CORNING, EPH'M, b. at Hartford, 1784; son of Asa; m. 1st, 
Nancy Dorrance, d., C. Seymour, of Hartford, (a relation of Gov- 
ernor Seymour, now minister to Russia,) and had children: 

1. Hanson K., b. at Hartford, in 1810, m. Emma B. Dorrance, of Philadelphia. 

2. Asa A., b. Oct., 1814, at Sterling, Conn. 

.3. John D., b. at Providence, R. I., March, ISIO. 

4. Sarah D., b. at Alexandria, Virginia, Jan. 8, 1S19; ra. A. N. Lewis. 

5. Eph'm L., b. at Alexandria, Virginia, and d. young. 

His wife d. January, 1849; Ephraim was a sea captain, and 
retired wealthy some years since, and is now living in Brooklyn, at 
his ease in feeble health. A child of Sidney Corning, aged 2 years^ 
d. at Suffield, Aug. 6, 1825 ; Sidney, d. there May 10, 1826, aged 
28, and his child d., aged 1 year, Aug. 11, 1826. 

CORNING, has three coats of arms. 

CORNING, MALACHI, was the first of the name of Corning, 
who settled at Hartford; who he was, or where from, is not discovered. 
He appears not to have been a descendant of Samuel, of Beverly, 
Mass.; he came to Hartford, about 1750, where he died; wife not 
found. His children were, 
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722 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Nathan. 

William. 

" Hulday." 

Malachi, Jr. 

Ginger, m. Moses Pratt. 

Elizabeth, ni. Josiah Smith. 

Eunice, m. Zachariah Converse. 

His estate was distributed to his children named above, April 5, 
1773. This family probably all left Hartford, soon after the death 
of their father, as nothing is found of them afterward, and there is 
no tradition in the family of Deacon Ezra Corning, who was the first 
of the descendants of Samuel, of Beverly, at Hartford, of such a 
family having been there. (See Hartford Probate Record.) 

Bliss Corning, father of Hon. Erastus, d. Feb. 10, 1847; Lucinda, 
his mother, d. June 24, 1821. 

There was a James Corning, that came out of Beverly, about the 
time that Nehemiah and Josiah came to Preston, and they were 
connected, but by what branch of the family, not able to state ; but 
neither their posterity, or their name is now found. The above James 
Corning, was much older than Josiah, or Nehemiah. (Perhaps Mal- 
achi, instead of James.) It is not found from what place Malachi 
Corning was when he came to Hartford, or where his children settled. 
Alfred H. Corning, graduated at Williams College, in 1831. 

CORNISH, . May 29, 1678, at a town-meeting in Norwalk, 

it was voted " to hier a scole master to teach all the childring in the 
Towne to lerne to Rede and write ; and that Mr. Cornish, shall be 
hiered for that service," &i.c. {Hall, p. 69.) 

CORNISH, GOODMAN, is named in the will of Joan Cummings, 
in 1644. 

JAMES CORNISH, an appraiser of Marvin's estate at Lyme, in 
1662 — the school- master. 

CORNISH, JAMES, of Wind.sor, had children b. there, viz., 
Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 1695 ; Joseph, b. Oct. 18, 1697 ; Deacon 
James, m. Hannah Humphries, widow of Thomas Humphries, of 
Simsbury, April 15, 1715 ; Jemima, b. Nov. 20, 1718. 

CORNISH, JAMES, Jr., had children b. at Windsor: James, b. 
Oct. 4, 1720, d. Feb. 13, 1736-7 ; Keziah, b. Oct. 12, 1721, d. 
19th ; Elisha, b. June 5, 1722 ; Amy, b. Aug. 2, 1724 ; Daniel, b. 
May 21, 1727 ; Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1729, d. 1732 ; Joel, b. July 
18, 1731; 2d Abigail, b. May 5, 1735; Violet, dau'r of Capt. 
James, b, April 12, 1737 ; Rachel, dau'r of Capt. James, b. Sept. 3, 
1740 ; also is found same record, Lucy, 4th dau'r of James Cornish, 
Jr", b. June 8, 1735 ; Capt. James Cornish, of Simsbury, m. Amy 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 723 

Butler, of Hartford, Dec. 9, 1719; James, sen'r, had his earmark 
at Simsbury, April 23, 1712; James, sen'r and Jr., of Simsbury, 
freeman, 1717; lister, 1744; Elisha, tithing-man, 1744 ; James, 
sen'r, deeded land at Weatauge, in Simsbury, to his son James, Jr., 
Feb. 15, 1716-17 ; Gabriel and James, at the great contribution in 
Windsor, for the poor of other colonies, in 1676, June 11, each gave 
6s. and 3 pence. James Cornish was of Saybrook, in 1659, when 
and where he witnessed the will of Wm. Jackson, of Saybrook ; 
James Cornish, of Wethcrsfield, Aug. 17, 1710, being bound for 
Port Royal, made his will, (then unmarried,) gave his land in West- 
field and Wethcrsfield, to his sister Damaris Cornish, and his clothes 
in the hands of his uncle George Wolcott, during her life and to 
descend to her eldest son, forever; will proved July 2, 1711; 
Gabriel Cornish, of Westfield, m. Elizabeth Wolcott, dau'r of 
George, Dec. 15, 1686; Gabriel Cornish, m. Mary Wilcockson, 
Nov. 10, 1737 ; Violet Cornish, m. Elijah Holcomb, Nov. 17, 1756 ; 
Elizabeth Cornish, m. James Smith, Jr., June 4, 1747. 

CORNISH, ELISHA, b. 1722, and Charity his wife, of Simsbury, 
had issue: Hepzibah, b. Aug. 27, 1741; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 11, 
1742 ; James, b. Dec. 16, 1744 ; 2d Hepzibah, b. May 8, 1746 ; 
Elisha, b. Dec. 7, 1748; Dorcas, b. Sept. 11, 1750; Charles, b. 
Sept. 29, 1752 ; Mary, b. Feb. 17, 1759 ; Giles, b. April 8, 1780. 
(Charity was perhaps his second wife.) 

CORNISH, BENJAMIN, of Newtown, Long Island, in 1655-6. 

CORNISH, JABEZ, m. Dorothy Dibol, March 14, 1747-8. 

CORNISH, BENJAMIN, of Simsbury, d. and .Joseph Cornish, 
administrator on his estate, 1731. 

CORNISH, JOSEPH, m. Mary Humphrey, alias Enno, May 5, 
1727, and had Joseph, b. June 13, 1729; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 15, 
1727-8; Mary, wife of Joseph, d. Sept. 16, 1731. 

CORNISH, JOSEPH, Jr., of Simsbury, m. Rutli Martin, of 
Meriden, April 3, 1755, and had children. 

CORNISH, GABRIEL, and ELIZABETH, of Westfield, had a 
son James, b. Oct. 29, 1687 ; Damaris, b, Feb. 17, 1690, probably 
the James Cornish, of Wethcrsfield, who gave his land to his sister 
Damaris. Farmer names Samuel, of Salem, 1637. He also names 
James Cornish, the first school-master and town-clerk of Westfield* 
also Gabriel, at Westfield, in 1667; Thomas, of E.xeter, in 1652. I 
give thoie of this name without any form but publish such facts as 
I have, as it may aid the family in getting a full genealogy. 

The name of James Cornish, appears as school-master at Say- 



724 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

brook, the first in Connecticut, and afterward in several towns up 
the Connecticut River. 

Mr. Cornish, is named on Windsor record for a school-master 
there, Dec. 28, 1676. The town of Windsor, Dec. 20, 1685, ordered 
Tahan Grant to pay Mr. Cornish, school-master, 30s. James Cornish 
was an appraiser of the property of James Hilly er, deceased, in July, 
1729 ; James Cornish, of Wethersfield, m. Elizabeth Thrall, of 
Windsor, Nov. 10, 1693, and had a dau'r Elizabeth, b. Sept. 25, 
1695 ; Joseph, b. Oct. 18, 1697. 

CORNISH, has 3 coats of arms. 

JAMES CORNISH gave 5s. and Gabriel Cornish 13s. 3 pence, 
in the contribution at Windsor, for the poor of other colonies, June 
11, 1676 ; Gabriel, of Westfield, Mass., m. Elizabeth Wolcott, dau'r 
of George, of Windsor, Dec. 5 or 15, 1686 ; Benjamin Cornish, of 
Simsbury, d. about 1731, and Joseph Cornish, adm'r, insolvent. 
In 1662, James Cornish, an appraiser of R. Marvin's estate. The 
townsmen of Windsor, Dec. 20, 1685, ordered £4 to be paid to the 
town by Tahan Grant, for the rent of John Fitche's house, for the 
two last years (then past) and the same paid to the two present 
school-masters, viz., to Mr. Cornish, 30s. and John Loomis 50s. 

Mr. James Cornish, plaintiff, vs. Thomas Lee, defendant ; plain- 
tiff recovered, and Lee appealed from the decision of the court of as- 
sistants, in 1666. Edward J. Cornish, graduated at Amherst College, 
in 1845. One at Harvard College, in 1820. 

Farmer names Richard Cornish, Boston, d. Feb. 6, 1694 ; Samuel, 
of Salem, 1637 ; James, the first school-master and Town-Clerk of 
Westfield, Mass., also Gabriel, in 1667; Thomas, of Exeter, in 
1652. 

CORNWALL, WILLIAM, was an original settler, and had 8 
acres 1639 ; he drew 24 acres in the land division in E. H., June 12, 
1666, at Hartford ; though not an original proprietor, he had a house- 
lot in Hartford, No. 54, west of south street, and south from the lane. 
He removed to Middletown in the early settlement of that town. He 
was probably married before he came to Hartford, and removed with 
his family about 1651, to Middletown. He was deputy at the Gen- 
eral Court, May 18, 1654, and July 11, 1654. He d. there " being 
well stricken in years;" made his will in 1674, in which he notices 
his children then living, viz., John, William, Sarah, Samuel, Thomas, 
Jacob, Ester Wilcock, and Elizabeth Hall, and his wife Mary. 
He d. Feb. 21, 1677-8. His children, viz. : 

John, b. April, 1640, m. Martha Peck, June 8, 1665. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 725 

William, Jr., b. June 24, 1641, m. Mary Bull., Nov. 30, 1070. 

Samuel, b. 1642, m. Rebecca Bull, Jan. 15, 1667. 

Jacob, b. Sept., 1646, m. Mary White, dau'r of Nathaniel, 1077. 

Sarah, b. Oct., 1047. 

Thomas, b. Sept., 1648, m. Sarah Clark, Nov. 14, 1072. 

Ester, b. May, 1650, m. John Wilcock. 

Elizabeth, b. Jan., 1651. m. Hall. 

JOHN CORNWELL, son of Wm., m. Martha Peck, June 8, 1665, 
and had children, viz., Mary, b, Nov. 20, 1666 ; Martha, b. Aug. 
30, 1669, m. Richard Hubbard, March 31, 1692; John, b. Aug. 13, 
1671, m. Elizabeth Hinsdell, Sept. 15, 1695, and 2d Mary Hilton, 
March 23, 1698-9 ; Wm. b. May or Aug. 17, 1673, m. Martha 
Thompson, Dec, 1699 ; Pall, b. June 6, 1675, m. Susannah Bowden, 
Sept. 4, 1701 ; Hannah, b. Sept. 5, 1677 ; Joseph, b. Oct. 5, 1679, 
m. Abigail Harris, April 20, 1710 ; Thankful, b. March 1, 1682-3, 
d. Nov. 22, 1684 ; 2d Thankful, b. July 20, 1685, m. Jonathan 
Steel, July 6, 1710; Benjamin, b. Dec. 23, 1688, m. Hannah 
Merry, of Hartford, May 21, 1712. 

WILLIAM, Jr., son of Wm. Cornwell, m. Mary Bull, and had 
issue, William, b. Sept. 13, 1671, m. Esther Ward, Jan. 22, 1691-2 ; 
Jacob, b. Oct. 3, 1673, d. 1742; Experience, b. April 14, 1682; 
Ebenezer, b. Jan. 13, 1688; Eliezor, b. Feb. 1, 1691, d. 1692; 
William, the father, d. June 18, 1691. His widow Mary, d. Nov. 
25, 1717. 

SAMUEL, son of William, sen'r, m. Rebecca Bull, and had issue, 
Mary, b. Oct. 1, 1667, d. Sept. 28, 1669; Rebecca, b. Sept. 26, 
1670 ; William, b. Jan. 22, 1672 ; Samuel, the father d. Dec. 6, 
1728. i,, 

JACOB CORNELL, son of William Cornell, m. Mary Bull, and 
had issue, Mary, b. Nov. 2, 1679, m. Francis Whitmore, May 30, 
1698 ; Jacob, Jr., b. Aug., 1681, d. Nov., 1681 ; 2d Jacob, b. Oct. 
1, 1682, m. Edith Whitmore, 1710-11 ; Nathaniel, 1684 ; Giles, 
1686 ; Daniel, 168S ; Isaac, 1690 ; Wait, b. 1692 ; Elizabeth, 
1697, m. Jacob Dowd, 1716; Timothy, b. Aug. 23, 1700; Jacob, 
sen'r, d. April 18, 1708. Flis widow m. John Bacon, April, 1710. 

THOMAS, the youngest son of William Cornwell, sen'r, of Middle- 
town, m. Sarah Clark, Nov. 14, 1672, and had issue : Thomas, Jr., 
b. Dec. 27, 1673; Hannah, b. Feb. 27, 1675-6; Daniel, b. Aug. 
8, 1677 ; Jonathan, b. Dec. 19, 1679 ; Abraham, b. Sept. 4, 1682 ; 
Stephen, b. July 6, 1693; David, b. Sept., 1697," d. June 16, 1725. 

These are the five sons of William sen'r, and their children. 
The lot of eight acres which William Cornwall had in Hartford, was 



726 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

lield by him only at the " courtice of the town," as he was not an 
original proprietor of the town ; he also had " liberty to fetch wood 
and keep cows and swine on the common." Many others were in a 
similar situation. He was a man of reputation and a Representative 
to the General Court from Middletown, (Sergeant Cornwall,) as 
early as May, 1654, July, 1654, and in 1<)57, and 1664, and in 1665 ; 
constable in 1664. He drew 24 acres of land at East Hartford, in 
the division there in 1666. His sons John, Samuel, and William, 
Jr., were settlers at Middletown, as early as 1671. He provided 
liberally in his will for his wife Mary, during her widowhood. 
Deacon Hall and Deacon Stocking, were overseers of his will. His 
will dated, 4th, 12th, 1674, which he signed. His dau'r Sara, is 
called Sara Hubbard, Esther Stowe and Elizabeth Hall ; inventory 
.£251, 3*. There was a Paul Cornell, at New Haven, who m. 
Susanna Bouton, in Aug., 1701 ; had a dau'r Lois ; his dau'r Lois, of 
New Haven, m. Nehemiah St. John, of Norwalk, Dec. 8, 1743, and 
had eight sons and four daughters ; the youngest son, called CORN- 
WALL. Perhaps Paul's name should have been spelled Cornwall. 
Hannah Cornwall, m. Daniel Doolittle, of Wallingford ; he d. at 
Wallingford, in 1755, aged 80. Nathaniel was early a Justice of 
the Peace in East Haddam. This family is now very numerous and 
dispersed in every quarter of this country. 

PAUL CORNELL, of New Haven, was a different name and 
family from Cornwall, of Hartford. Coatsofarms: Cornwall has 23; 
Cornewall has 2 ; Cornell, 3 ; Cornewale has 1 ; Cornewayle has 
1 coat of arms. One by the name of Cornwall, and 3 spelled Corn- 
well, graduated at Yale College, before 1843 ; and one Cornwall 
and one Cornwell graduated at Williams College, before 1844. The 
family of Wm. is legion in New England and the West ; it began at 
Hartford among the first settlers, with five sons and three daughters. 

CORROW, or CARROW, PETER, of Milford, mariner, received 
a quitclaim or release of Edward Fonnell, of " ye Island of Barba- 
does, planter," for £5 " starling," releasing all actions and causes 
of actions, suits, &c., as said Fonnell had been grandson of said 
Corrow ; Dated, Aug. 14, 1689. CARRE, has 4 coats of arms. 

CORWIN, MATHIAS, was one of the leading men of Southhold, 
Long Island, in its first settlement ; the town was originally purchased 
and settled mostly by New Haven families, and under their govern- 
ment. It was at first called Yennicock. It was purchased in 1640 
and 1665 ; many of the first planters there came with Rev. John 
Young, who had preached at Hingham, Norfolk, England, and set- 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAXS. 727 

tied under him at Soulhhold. Mr. Young, reorganized his church 
while in New Haven, in Oct., 1640, and went with his church to 
Southhold, and settled the plantation. The church adopted the fun- 
damental agreement which had been established there as a rule of 
their civil conduct. Mr. Young, stood at the head of all civil and 
religious affairs in the town, aided by Corwin, Masses, Wells, Tut- 
hill, [lorton, and others of his church. The name of Conoin, was 
not strictly a Connecticut name, only at the time Southold, was under 
the jurisdiction of the Connecticut Colony. Joseph Corwin, gradua- 
ted at Yale College, 1835. 

Perhaps Crerwin, George Curwin, b. at Washington, Co., of Cum- 
berland, in England, Dec. 10, 1610, came to New England, and 
settled at Salem, in 1638; free, 1665; selectman, captain and rep- 
resentative, 1666; 9 years, and d. Jan. 6, 1685, aged 74. He m. 
Elizabeth, widow of John White; (she d. in 1668.) He had issue, 
Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah, John and Jonathan. He m. 2d Eliza- 
beth Brooks, in 1669, and had Penelope, George, d. in infancy, and 
Susanna. Capt. Curwin left an estate of £5,964. His son John, 
Capt., of Salem, free 1665, m. Margaret, dau'r of Governor Win- 
throp, and d. July 12, 1683, aged 45. His wife d. Sept. 28, 1697. 
(Felts aimals.) 

JONATHAN, son of the preceding, bap. in Salem, Ja'n. 17, 1641 ; 
free, 1671 ; representative, 1689 ; one of the first council under the 
new charter 1691, d. June 9, 1718, aged 7.7 ; Mathias Curwin, of 
Ipswich, 1634, probably removed to Southold, Long Island. ( Wood. 
His. of Long Island, 34.) Samuel Curwin, d. at Boston, Nov., 1698. 
(See Fanner.) The name Badcock, has changed to Babcock, Bur- 
nap, to Burnet, and perhaps Curwin, to Corwin. 

COSIAR, RICHARD, owned a small tract of land in Norwalk, 
in 1687. He was j£50 in the list of estate of commonage. This 
name is yet in Connecticut. 

COSSETT, RANE, a French gentleman who came to Conn., 
soon after 1700, and settled in Simsbury, where he m. and raised a 
respectable family. Children, viz. : 

1. Marguiet, b. Dec. 4, 171S, or I'J, m. Nathaniel Holcomb, olGranby. 

2. Mary, b. Sept. G, 1720. 

3. Rane, Jr., b. Sept. 3, 1722. 

4. Ruth, b. July 20, 1724, m. Mr. Boore or More. 

5. Franceway, b. Nov. 2, 1726; he m. Abigail Dibol, of Simsbury, 1749, and 
had issue, Reuben, Jesse, Rosvvell, Lydia ; she d. single at Waterbury. 

6. Lydia, b. Oct. 1, 172S, d. in Waterbury, supposed unmarried. 

7. Timothy, b. Feb. 9, 1731-2; children, Timothy, Martin, and a dau'r, m 
Ezekiel Hayes. 



728 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

8. John, b. March 15, 1735; lived in Watevbuiy, and his son John, and his 
dau'r Susan. 

9. Alexandria, (a son,) b. July 23, 1736; lived and d. in Granby, and left 
children. 

COSSITT, RANE, Jr., son of Ran© of Granby, m. Phebe Hillyer, 
dau'r of James, and had issue : 
1. Phebe, b. 1742-3. 
2.'Rane, b. 1744, (who was an Episcopal minister.) 

3. Ruth, b. June 13, 1747, m. 1st Perrin, 2d Abra'm Pinney. 

4. Ambrose, b. 1749, m. Hannah Cole, and lived in Claremont, New Hamp- 
shire, and d. there. 

5. Betsey, b. 1751, m. Bush,of Westfield, Mass. 

6. Asa, b. 1754, m. Mary Cole, of Farmington ; lived and d. in Granby. 

7. Silas, b. ; m. Shepard, and removed to Ohio. 

8. Samuel, b. 1758, m. Anna Hart, of Farmington ; he settled and d. in Wash- 
ington, Mass. 

9. Rosenne, b. May 30, 1759, m. Abel Adams, of Simsbury. 

ALMIRA COLE, dau'r of Samuel Cole and grand-daughter of 
Asa Cossitt, b. 1680, m. Aaron Goodman, of Hartford, in 1804, and 
had children : 

Edward, Esq., attorney at law in Hartford. 

Almira. 

Julia. 

Samuel. 

Aaron C. Goodman, merchant in New York. 

COSSITT, FRANSAWAY, son of Rane and Abigail, had issue : 

1. Jesse, b. at Simsbury, Nov. 30, 1749. 

2. Roger, b. Aug. 24, 1752. 

3. Lucretia, b. June 23, 1755. 

4. Abigail, b. July 22, 1757. 

5. Rufus,b. Sept. 28, 1760. 

6. Roswell, b. May 22, 1763. 

7. Reuben, b. July 24, 1765. 

8. Lucy, b. Jan. 3, 1768. 

9. Theody,b. July 16, 1770. 

COSSITT, TIMOTHY, son of Rane, sen'r, m. and had children, 
viz. : 

1. Timothy, Jr., b. Oct. 9, 1754. 

2. Martin, b. at Simsbury, Jan. 11, 1757, and one dau'r; she m. Ezekiel 
Hayes; lived and d. in Waterbury, had son John and dau'r Susan. 

COSSITT, SILAS, son of Rane, Jr., m. Sarah Shepard, of 
Granby, Conn., and removed to Ohio, about 1813. His sister 
Rosanna, m. Abel Adams, of Simsbury, and had a large family. 

COSSITT, ALEXANDER, lived and d. in Granby, and left 
children. One graduated at Brown University, in 1771, (Rane, 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 729 

Ranna,) Ranna Cossitt, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1798. 
This has been and now is a very respectable family. 

COSTER, Mrs. HESTER, d. at New Haven, April 5, 1691. 

COSMORE, Mr. JOHN, (sometimes spelled on the record Gos- 
more,) of Southampton, Long Island, where he early located and 
became a leading and useful settler. The General Court of Conn., 
in May, 165S, ordered that Mr. Cosmore, Mr. Ogden, Capt. Tappin 
and Goodman Chirk, should make distribution of the payments made 
to them by the Indians, to those who had suffered loss by fire, 
except " Mr. Fordam is exempted from any part of tliis pay for the 
losse of his owne house and goods therein contuyned," &c. The 
same session Mr. Cosmore and Mr. Ogden, were magistrates from 
Long Island, and in their seats in the Upper House at Hartford, Ct. ; 
Mr. Cosmore was first a magistrate in Conn., and attended the Gen- 
eral Court at Hartford, as such, with Edward Howell, also a magis- 
trate from Southampton, Long Island, May 20, 1647 ; under the 
association or compact formed between the town of Southampton and 
Connecticut, placing themselves under the government of Conn., 
subject to their laws, there established, "according to ye word of 
God and right reason," &c. (See combination article, towns and 
lands, Vol. I., No. 7.) Mr. Cosmore and Mr. Howell, again attended 
the General Court at Hartford, as magistrates in May, 1648; in May, 
1649 ; May, 1650. Mr. Cosmore, and Capt. Thomas Tappin, in 
May, 1655 ; and Mr. Cosmore and Mr. Ogden, attended in 1657 and 
1653. An examination of the Col«ny records of Connecticut, shows 
that Hon. John Cosmore, Mr. Edward Howell, Mr. John Ogden, Mr. 
Young, Capt. Thomas Tappin, Thomas Baker and Robert Band, 
were the leading men on the eastern half of Long Island, in its 
early settlement. (See Col. Record.) 

Note. — COGSHALL, BENJAMIN, m. Elizabeth Dunlap, at Stratford, dau'r of Archibald, 
April 8, 1735, and had issue b. in Stratford, viz., Mary, b. May 4, 1730 ; John, b. 1737 ; Parah, 
b. 1739 ; Anhibal, b. 1740; Caleb, b. 1743; Dunlap, b. July 12, 1747, and Daniel, b. May 28, 
1749. This name was in Rhode Island, many years earlier. A town or village by the name 
of Coggshall, is located in Essex County, in England. Sir Henry de Coggsliall and Thomas his 
brother, were of a very ancient family, and had large estates near Coggshall, from which place 
they derived their name. Sir Henry, d. in the reign of Edward, 3d, and left Sir William his con 
nnd heir, who had four daughters to whom his vast estates descended, the direct male hne 
having failed. (See His. of Esaei.) The Coggshalls, of Rhode Island, perhaps derived tlieir 
name from the same source, if not members of the family. 

Benjamin Coggshall, of Stratford, tradition sajs, was a descendant of Governor Coggshall, of 
Rhode Island, and emigrated to Stratford, Connecticut, about 1733, where some of liis children 
married St. John's and others, and yet have descendants iu that vicinity. One of the name 
graduated at Harvard College, 1817 ; 2 at Brown University, 1808, and 1827. 

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730 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COTHREN. — This name may not strictly come within the rule 
prescribed by the author of this work, the Cothrens not having been 
either an original or early family of settlers in Connecticut. Yet 
when any gentleman, born in another State, becomes an adopted citizen 
of Connecticut, and devotes his time and money, to preserve, col- 
lect and publish any part of the unknown history of his adopted 
State, he is entitled at least to their gratitude, and to the notice of 
every historian, in and out of Connecticut. The work published by 
Wm. Cothren, Esq., viz., the History of " Ancient Woodbury," Con- 
necticut, from the first Indian deed in 1659, to 1854, &c., entitles the 
author to much credit ; most of which history has been extracted 
from the old, half- worn and obliterated records of Woodbury, and by 
him preserved in form, and in a handsome style, for their descend- 
ants, through all time, when the records from which he collected the 
facts, shall be no more, and the only evidence that they once existed, 
shall be his history. And that this historian shall last as long as his 
valuable work, I violate my rule, and I give his line of his family 
a place. 

This name is found in Scotland, (and is strictly a Scotch name,) 
in England, Ireland and the United States, — spelled Cochran, Coch- 
rane, and by this family Cothren. Those of this country descended 
from the first Earl of Dundonald. Some of the Cochranes, of Paisley, 
went to the north of Ireland, long since, and from thence some of 
them came to this country and settled in Pennsylvania; John Coch- 
ran, of New York, is of that famiiy, and also the Cochran's of Coch- 
ransville, in Pennsylvania. The first of this branch were distin- 
guished in the revolution. Others of the name came to this country 
and their descendants are now found in Massachusetts, New York, 
Ohio, and Tennessee. But the ancestor of William, Esq., of Wood- 
bury, Conn., was William Cochrane, who immigrated from Paisley, 
in Scotland, to Plymouth, in England, about 1740. He was m, and 
had a son William. He was an extensive manufacturer and ship- 
owner of wealth. After his arrival at Plymouth, his wife d. and he 
m. a 2d wife. His son William, then being about 19 years of age, 
had a disagreement with his mother in-law, in consequence of 
which, he privately left his father's mansion, unknown to his 
father, and sailed for North America. Leaving as he did, he had 
no means to pay his passage ; he worked his passage to New Eng- 
land, and landed at Wood's Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts, about 
1750. His father's parental affections were soon aroused at the loss 
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inquiries in every direction for him. Yet never until about 1775, 
leai'ned wlietlier he was living, or where he was located. He 
obtained this important and long-desired information, from a Fal- 
mouth sea-captain, when he had nearly ceased in([uiring after his 
son. After satisfying himself it was his son, he sent by the Captain 
a purse of gold to his son, and a letter which was stolen by the cabin- 
boy on reaching the shore. The fatiier again solicited his son to 
return to him as he had no other child to leave his property to. Before 
he could prepare to leave home, to visit his father, the war of the 
revolution broke out, and he was prevented in his object. At this 
time he" had gained a handsome property and had a wife and child- 
ren. Being a firm republican, he entered the service as lieutenant 
and served one year. After this in preparing to visit his father, and 
not expecting the war would last long, he turned most- of his pro- 
perty into money. He was by occupation a pilot, and went to pilot 
a ship out of Falmouth harbor, and not returning, was found four 
days after floating upon the water, and his paper money being in his 
pocket was destroyed. This occurred in 1778, in the 40th year of 
his age. Before he was married he resided at Chilmark, on the 
Island of Martha's Vineyard, but after he m. he resided at Fal- 
mouth. William, his father, of Plymouth, was living after the close 
of the war and again sent for his son, and if not living, for his eldest 
son to come to England immediately ; but he never went. And 
William, of Plymouth, England, d. in 1785, aged about 80 years. 
Here follows the line of William Cochrane, of Chilmark and 
Falmouth. 

COCHRANE, WILLIAM, of Chilmark and Falmouth, Mass., son 
of William Cochrane, of Plymouth, England, a descgiiida jit of the 
Eai^ofJittmtefraH- The blood and breed are Scotch. William, 
of Chilmark, m. Experience Wicks, of Falmouth, Mass., Nov. 1, 
1758 ; she was admitted to the church, Oct. 15, 1780, and her eight 
children bap. at the same time, and she d. in Chatham, Conn., in 
1823. Children of William and Experience, were 

1. David, b. Nov., 17G8. 

2. ""Muria, b. Nov., 1771, m. Thomas Smith, of New York, died. 

3. Tamar, b. Nov., 1771, m. Hildreth, of New York; both d. 

4. Hannah, b. April, 1773, m. Joseph Small, March 30, 179G; he d. at Kasi- 
port, of small-pox. 

5. Jane, b. July, 177J, m. Loudon Fish, 1793; he d. in 1S12, and she 
survives. 

6. William, b. Dec, 177.5; sea captain, d.; no issue, at Havana, in 1801 

7. Peter, b. June 7, 1777. 

8. Mary, b. 177S ; d. unmarried. 



732 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COTHRIN, DAVID, b. Nov., 1768, eldest son of Willian and 
Experience, m. Eunice Backhouse, of Falmouth, March 15, 1788. 
He removed to Maine, and settled in the woods at Farmington, in 
that State. It was here he changed his name to Cothrin. His 
brother William, d. in Havana, in 1801, and David went to New York 
to settle his estate the winter after. He afterward, as had been his 
custom, went south for his health, and d. in North Carolina, Feb., 
1802. Eunice, his widow, m. Stephen Dillingham, in 1808, and d. 
at Farmington, Me., April 1, 1841, aged 73. Children: 

1. Keziali, b. Oct. 14, 17S9, m. Montgomery Morrison, in ISOS. He was b. 
April 14, 1783, and d. March 10, 1S46, at Fayette, Me. 

2. William, b. Oct. 31, 1791. 

3. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 6, 1793. 

4. Taniar, b. Feb. 12, 1797, in Farmington, Me., m. Rufus Dresser; he was 
b. 1795 ; settled in Illinois. 

COTHREN, Capt. WILLIAM, b. at Falmouth, Oct. 31, 1791. 
He and his brother Nathaniel, spelled their name Cothren. He 
removed with his father when four years old, to Farmington, Me, 
And the same little spot of land then taken up by his father, is now 
his, and forms a part of his farm. He was a soldier in the war of 
1812. He m. first Hannah Cooper, Jan. 14, 1819. She b. at Pitts- 
town, Maine, Feb. 19, 1798, and d. at Farmington, Me., Nov. 29, 
1831. He m. second, widow Nancy Titcomb, of Farmington, Nov. 
15, 1835 ; she d. at that place April 19, 1840, aged 45. Children 
by Hannah his first wife, were 

1. William, Esq., of Woodbury, Conn., b. Nov. 28, 1819. 

2. Charles b. June 16, 1822 ; graduated atBowdoin College, 1849 ; and resides 
at Eatontown, New Jersey. 

3. Nathaniel, b. June 21, 1825; graduated at Bowdoin College, in 1S49; 
resides at Eatontown, New Jersey. 

4. George Webber, b. July 12, 1S29. 

5. Wesley Rogers, b. Dec. 15, 1837, by second wife. 

COTHREN, WM., Esq., who was b. at Farmington, Maine, Nov. 
28, 1819, son of Capt. William Cothren, of Farmington, Maine, is 
the well known historian of Ancient Woodbury. He graduated at 
Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1843, and received his second degree 
there in 1846, and Master of Arts, ad eundem, at Yale College, in 
1847. He removed to Woodbury, Conn., in Nov., 1844 ; and com- 
menced the practice of his law profession there in Oct., 1845; 
and though yet a young man, has become conspicuous at the bar, as 
a sound and well read jurist. And his history of Woodbury, has 
given him a reputation at home and abroad. He has been noticed 
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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 733 

Senator, in 1855. Though unsuccessful in his election, it shows his 
standing and character at home. He was elected a corresponding 
member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, May 
5, 1847, and of the Connecticut Historical Society, Nov. 23, 1852. 
Commissioner for Litchfield County, Conn., by the General Assem- 
bly, in May, 1851. He m. Mary J. Steele, of Woodbury, Sept. 3, 
1849. 

More than one hundred years since a branch of the Cochrane 
family resided at "Ancient Woodbury," not known where from, but 
venture to say he was a Scotchman. His name was Samuel Coch- 
rane ; not much is found of him. He was a literary man, judging 
from his extensive library, which consisted of more than 400 vol- 
umes, large indeed for that day for a farmer, and even now how 
many farmers in New England, has a library of 400 volumes. It is 
not known where his family removed, or whom and where he m. 
His children were 

1. James, bap. May 30, 1717. 

2. Manila, bap. May 19, 1749, m. Abel Brownson, Aug. 1, 1770. 

3. Ruth, bap. May 12, 1751, m. David Perry, Nov. 3, 17S9. 

4. Samuel, Jr., bap. March 3, 1754. 

5. Elizabeth, bap. June 29, 1756, m. Robert Jackson, March 23, 1775. 
0. Sarah, bap. Nov. 30, 175S. 

7. Stephen Peet, m. Hester Cochran, 1700. 

Jean Cochran m. Benajah Strong, Feb. 3, 1761. The two last 
above, were probably dau'rs of Samuel, and the blood of this Coch- 
rane family, yet circulates in Ancient Woodbury, in the veins of the 
Bronsons, Perrys, Jacksons, Peets and Strongs, by marriage. Coch- 
ran, Cochrane, Cochrain, Cothrin, Cothren, and perhaps Cockran, 
were probably all originated from the old aristocratic Scotch name 
of Cochrane, a name which has been worn by Earls, Lords, Barons 
and Honorables, in early days, for centuries past. The coats of 
arms, and a much more full list of the family will be found in Coth- 
ren's History of Woodbury, from which most of these facts have been 
extracted. The two Miss Cocrans of Northampton, Mass., perhaps are 
descendants of this original stock, 

COCHRAN, BENJAMIN F., graduated at Harvard College, 
1846 ; Joseph G., at Amherst, 1842 ; 2 at Brown University, in 
1799 and 1809; Robert at Yale College, in 1846; three at Dart- 
mouth, viz., Peter, 1798 ; Sylvester, 1835 ; Thomas H., 1840. 

COTTER, WILLIAM, of New Haven, m. Elna, who had been 
a servant girl to Mr, Winthrop, 3d, 12 mos., 1652. He had a six 
acre lot in New London, in 1061. His wife was Elenor Cotter, has 2 
coats of arms. 



734 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

COTTON, SAMUEL, of Middlelown, was the only son of John 
Cotton, of Concord, Mass. (deeds.) He m. Mercy, daughter of John 
Stow, (who, with his father, Thomas, and uncle Samuel Stow, were 
from Concord.) Nathaniel Stow, son of John, and brother of John 
Cotton's wife, Mary, (Stow,) not having children, they took young 
Samuel Cotton to live with them (at Wethersfield.) John Cotton, 
his father had d. about that time, and his mother had married John 
Spaulding, of Concord. Nathaniel Stow d. 1705, and having no 
issue, gave his property to his sister, Mary Cotton, (Spaulding,) and 
Thankful Hill, of Guilford. Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding gave their 
share to her son Samuel Cotton, 1705, and her daughter Thankful 
(Cotton) Hill, of Guilford. Farmer says, there was a John Cotton 
living in Concord, 1667 and 1679. 

Samuel Cotton was a housewriglit by trade as well as a farmer. 
June 24, 1703, he purchased a house-lot of 6 acres, in Newfield 
street, of Isaac Lane, (now the Tuttle place,) for £6, and built a 
house ; afterward purchased quite a quantity of land, and with 
what his uncle Nathaniel Stow gave his mother, made him a large 
landholder at Middletown. He m. Lydia, and had children. 

1. Mary, b. Nov. 23, 1697. 

2. Lydia, b. Nov. 25, 1699. 

3. Elizabeth, b. March 25, 1701. 

4. Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1703, d. July 13, 1703. 

5. Samuel, Jr., b. May 26, 1704. 

6. Prudence, b. July IS, 1707. 

7. Ebenezer, b. April 9, 1713. 
S. John, b. Jan. 7, 1719. 

His wife, Lydia, d. Sept. 6, 1713, and Samuel Cotton m. for 2d. 
wife, Experience Hall, Feb. 28, 1717. Samuel, senior, d. 1738; 
will made, Nov. 18, 1737. His brother-in-law, Samuel Hall, ad- 
ministrator. Samuel, in his will, gave Experience, his wife, the 
property she brought with her, and a cow, &c., and gave his son 
Samuel one-third part of his estate and " a large Sermon Book, 
which his father, Jolm Cotton, called Gospel Conversations." To 
Ebenezer, one-third part; John and Wm., the homestead, house and 
buildings ; to Mary and Elizabeth, the daughters " of my daughter 
Prudence," 20Z. each; and his daughter Lydia, lOZ. Few of the 
name are now found in Middletown. 

Samuel Cotton had issue by his 2d marriage, viz. : 

9. William, b. Sept. 18, 1720. 

10 Daniel, b. Nov. 17, 1722, d. Nov. S, 1731. 

11 Phebe, b. Nov. ], 1724, d. 1725. 

Experience, his second wife, d. April 22, 1762, aged 78; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 735 

COTTON, JOHN, m. Hannah , of Wethersfield, Nov. 7, 

1660, (Rec.) April, 1060, the General Court of Conn, appointed 
William Wadsworth, and John Deming, senior, to assist Mr. John 
Cotton in the administration in the estate and as overseers of the 
last will of Thomas Welles, Esq. John Cotton was made free in 
Conn., March 14, 1660, with James Rogers, &c. 

COTTON, PRUDENCE, daughter of Samuel, sen'r, had two 
children, and no husband found, viz., Bathsheba, b. Jan. 13, 1726-7 ; 
Lucia Cotton, b. Sept. 11, 1732. 

COTTON, EBENEZER, son of Samuel Cotton, sen'r, m. Han- 
nah Cornwell, Nov., 1737 ; issue, Hannah, b. Dec. 24, 1739; his 
wife, Hannah, d. Dec. 31, 1739; Ebenezer m. 2d. Huldah Aspen- 
wall, of Kensington, Oct. 9, 1740, and had issue, Oliver, b. July 
26, 1741, d. Dec. 2, 1741; Ebenezer, Jr., b. Dec. 17, 1742, d. 
1765 ; Huldah, b. Nov. 8, 1744, d. 1761 ; 2d Oliver, b. Jan. 27, 
1746-7; Rachel, b. Aug. 26, 1749; Lucia, b. Jan. 29, 1751-2; 
Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1754 ; Sarah, b. 1757 ; Elizabeth, b. April, 2, 
1760 ; David, b. Aug. 8, 1763 ; 11 children. Huldah, wife of 
Ebenezer, d. May 9, 1789. 

COTTON, JOHN, son of Samuel, sen'r, m. Bathsheba Sage, of 
Middletown, June 30, 1752 ; issue, Elisha, b. Sept. 1, 1753 ; Mil- 
lerent, b. Oct. 15, 1755; Elizabeth, b. 1757, d. 1758; William, b. 
Oct. 22, 1758 ; Samuel, b. March 9, 1760 ; Timothy, b. April. 9, 
1762, d. April 26, 1762 ; Bathsheba, b. March 4, 1764. 

COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Samuel, sen'r, by 2d wife, m. 
Rebecka Ware, Sept. 23, 1742 ; issue, Rebecka, b. Sept. 20, 1743, 
d, 1754; Lucy, b. 1747; William, Jr., b. March 6, 1750; Lu- 
cretia, b. 1753; James, b. Nov. 27, 1755; Michael, b. March 15, 
1758 ; a son b. and d., 1760 ; Thomas, b. May 26, 1764. ( Weih- 
ersjield and Middletoion Rec. and Stearns.) 

COTTON, Mr. SEABORN, married Mrs. Dorothy Bradstreet, 
(by Mr. Bradstreet,) at Andover, Mass., June 14, 1654, had a dau'r 
Dorothy, b. at Windsor, Conn., Nov. 11, 1656, (perhaps Cuffur.) 

COTTON, Rev. JOHN, b. at Boston, March 13, 1640, gradu- 
ated at Harvard, 1657, was at Wethersfield, Conn., as early as 
1660, and Nov. 7, 1660, he m. Hannah Rossiter, dau'r of Dr. 
Brian Rossiter, of Guilford, Conn. He preached at Wethersfield 
as late as 1663. June 12, 1663, it was voted at Wethersfield to 
hire Mr. Cotton for another year. He had children b. in Wethers- 
field, viz., John, b. 1661, and Elizabeth, b. 1663; (the last m. Rev. 
James Ailing, of Salisbury, Mass. ; Rev. James, deceased, and his 



736 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

widow, Elizabeth, m. Rev. Caleb Gushing, the successor of her first 
husband, and became the mother of a noble family, viz., Rev. 
James, of Plaistow, N. H., graduated at Harvard, 1725 ; Rev. 
John Gushing, graduated at Harvard, 1729, minister at Boxford ; 
Rev. Rowland, b. 1666, graduated at Harvard, 1696, minister at 
Sandwich ; also Sarah, b. 166.5, d. 1669 ; 2d Sarah, b. 1670, m. 
Wymand Bradberry ; Theophelus, b. 1682, graduated at Harvard, 
1701, and settled at Hampton Falls, N. H., and d. 1726, aged 45 ; 
and others, who died young, being 10 in all.) Rev. John Gotton ap- 
pears to have left Wethersfield in 1663, not heeding the vote of the 
town to employ him longer. He afterward preached at Martha's 
Vineyard, where he obtained his knowledge of the Indian language. 
He left Martha's Vineyard, and was settled at Plymouth, in June, 
1669, where he continued until his dismission, in 1697, and was 
then settled at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1698, and d. Sept. 
18, 1699, aged 59 years. His wife, Hannah, d. Nov. 12, 1702, 
aged 60. (See Wethersfield Rec, Dr. Chapin^s Glas., Allen, Mass. 
Hist. Col.) 

GOTTON, Rev. JOHN, sen'r, b. at Derby, in England, Dec. 4, 
1585, came to New England in 1633, and was settled the 2d min- 
ister of the 1st church in Boston, was the father of Rev. John and 
Seaborn, and perhaps others. He took his degree of Master of Arts, 
at Trinity College, in 1606, and became a leading divine in New 
England ; d. Dec. 23, 1652, aged 67. This has been a prominent 
name in Mass. 21 of the name had graduated at Harvard College 
before 1811, and 4 at Yale before 1849, and 1 at Brown Uni- 
versity. Mr. Seaborn Gotton took the oath of Allegiance at Hamp- 
ton, 1648, aged 35 ; m. Prudence, widow of Dr. Anthony Colby ; 
William, aged 48, in 1661; William in 1653; William, (Cuther,) 
in Boston, 1654 ; Ephraim, m. Mary Noble, 1697 ; Joanna, dau'r 
of Rev. Roland Cotton, and granddau'r of Rev. John, m. Rev. 
John Brown, of Haverhill. (Farmer, and Hist. Reg.) 

Cotton has three coats of arms. Simeon Cotton and J. Randall, 
of Pomfret, Conn., members of the Convention in 1788, to ratify the 
Constitution of the United States, both voted in the negative. 

Richard Cottan, passenger for Virginia, aged 21 in 1635; Row- 
land, aged 22, passenger in the America for Virginia, June 23, 
1635 ; Rev. John, of Newton; Rev. Nathaniel, of Bristol ; Roland, 
A. M. ; Rev. Ward, of Hampton; were all subscribers for Prince's 
Chronology. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 737 

COUCH, THOMAS, of Welhersfield, m. Rebeckah, Nov. 22, 
1666, and had Susannah, b. Oct. 12, 1667; Simon, b. Dec. 11, 
1669; Rebeckah, b. Feb. 16, 1672. His wife d. March 1, 1672, 
and he d. 1687. He also had children, Hannah, aged 13 ; Thomas, 
12; Mary, 11 ; Sarah, 8 ; Abigail, 6; and Martha, 3. His relict, 
presented the inventory of his estate, Sept., 1687 ; his real estate 
was distributed, a double portion to his eldest son, and his other chil- 
dren, equal portions when of age. 

COUCH THOMAS, Jr., of Wethersfield, m. Sarah Must, of 
Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 16, 1713, and had issue, Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 
1714; Hannah, b. July 27, 1716; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1718; 
Thomas, b. May 9, 1721 ; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 28, 1723; Benoni, b. 
June 5, 1727. Thomas, the father, d. Dec. 1, 1751, and his wife 
d. Oct. 16, 1757. BENONI, son of Thomas, m. Phebe Miller, 
July 28, 1754, and had a son Samuel, b. at Wethersfield, June 18, 
1755, and Thomas, b. April 26, 1757. Thomas Couch drew 57 
acres in the land division in Wethersfield in 1670. Couch or 
Clough, Thomas, owned land in Wethersfield in 1665. 

COUCH, SIMON, in 1722, was one to whom 6000 acres of land 
in Glastenbury was granted, 68 acres for £34, and under the grant 
at Glastenbury, 34 acres, 123 rods, in 1725. 

COUCH, or COUCHE, has one coat of arms. 

SAMUEL COUCH was of Milford, in 1689. 

COUCH, SAMUEL, of Fairfield, in the year 1724, purchased 
of Ciiicken, an Indian saggamore, (who lived between Fairfield and 
Danbury,) Ridgefield and Newtown, at a place called Longtown, 
for the consideration of J£l2, 6s., all the lands situated between said 
towns, except such as had been patented by the Governor and Com- 
pany of Connecticut — (all unpatented land.) Chicken reserved in 
his deed, to himself and his heirs, the right to hunt, fish and fowl 
upon the land and in the waters ; also reserved to himself, his chil- 
dren and grand children and their posterity, the use of so much land 
by his wigwam as the General Assembly should by an indifferent 
committee deem necessary " for him, and his children's children's 
children and their posterity." Acknowledged before Joseph Piatt, 
Justice, 1724. Some of his posterity yet reside in Fairfield county, 
at Greensfarms. {Record of Patents, p. 31.) 

Two of this name graduated at Yale College before 1805. Paul, 
at Dartmouth College, in 1823. 

COULSON, JOHN, and ANN BENNIT, were fined £10 each, 
at Hartford, May, 1664, for their misdemeanor, to be paid by Dec. 
63 



738 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1, or be severely whipped, and give a bond of £20 for good behav- 
ior, till Quarter Court in Dec. ; also enjoined marriage. Mr. Rich- 
ards, John Coulson, and Bennit, left to the Court what Coulson and 
Bennit should pay Richards for the time and trouble of his family. 
The Court ordered Coulson to pay his master £20 down, and £1.5 
by the 1st of March, 1666. 

COULTMAN, JOHN, of Wethersfield, m. Mary, Sept. 21, 
1667, and had Mary, b. Nov. 29, 1672 ; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 14, 
1677; Anna, b. March 11, 1681. {Wethersfield Record.) See 
Coltman. 

COVEE, BENJAMIN, and ABIGAIL, his wife, had a dau'r 
Mary, bap. at Hampton, Conn., Aug. 12, 1744 ; perhaps others. 
Covee has two coats of arms. 

COVELL, JOHN, Peter Perrit, Levi Mallet, Jr., and Major 
Edward Allen, in 1768, had liberty of the town of Milford to plant 
oysters in Indian River, for three years. Covell has 4 coats of 
arms, and Covill has 2. 

COVELL, CEGONA, aged 15, embarked in the Abigail, Hack- 
well, Master, for New England, June 17, 1635. 

COVERLEE, PHILLIP, of Colchester, m. Hannah Addams, 
Dec 20. 1713, and had John, b. Nov. 24, 1731, and had other 
children. His wife d. June 19, 1739. He had a negro servant, 
Jethro, bap. May 10, 1747 ; and a negro girl, Dinah, bap. June 30, 
1751; dau'r Hannah, bap. Aug. 11, 1754; dau'r Mary, bap. July 
18, 1756 ; his servant, Japhet, bap. Sept. 23, 1757 ; and John. 

COWDALL, JOHN, a trader at New London, failed in 1659, 
and left the place. 

COY, SAMUEL, was a first settler at Stafford, Conn. 

RICHARD COYE came to this country with Mathew Coye, his 
brother, in 1638 ; Richard, aged 13 and Mathew 15. Their sister 
Mary m. John Lake, of Boston. {His. Rec.) 

COY, G., was permitted by the Council at Hartford, April 8, 
1676, to transport the corn he brought from Springfield. 

COY, STEPHEN, of Windham, m. Anna Bissell, Nov. 11, 1762. 

COY, JOSEPH, of Windham, m. Jerusha Sawyer, Dec. 31, 
1767. Issue, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jerusha, Lewis, Sarah, John, and 
Susannah. Coy has 1 coat of arms. 

COY, SAMUEL, m. Sarah Hall, and had a dau'r Sarah, b. in 
Suffield, Jan. 23, 1755. A late name in Suffield. 

COY, MATHEW, was at Norwich at an early period of the 
settlement of the town. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 739 

COY, JOHN, was killed by Indians at Brooklield, Mass., Aug. 
•JO, 167.3. Riciiard of Brooklield, 167;^. {Far.) This name is 
now found in Hartford. 

COZENS, COUSINS, COOZENS, RICHARD, was admitted 
at Saybrook, about 1084-5. lie m. Mary Chalkcr, of Saybrook, 
March 7, 1677-3, and had issue, Hannah, b. March 17, 1778-9 ; 
Sarah, b. at Block Island, May, 10, 1683 ; Bethiah, b. at Saybrook, 
Nov. 4, 1685. 

ISAAC COUSINS, of Boston, and Ann, his wife, 1658; Cosans, 

Note. — 1 insert this notice cf the Caldwells, once of Hartford, at the suggestion of a descend- 
ant, anxious to preserve to posterity the respectable standing of his ancestors. John Caldwell, a 
Scotch gentleman, was from the county of Ayer, of an ancient and highly respectable family 
now represented in Ireland by the " Barronefs Caldwell " of •'Caldwell Castle," and in Eng- 
land by the "Stamford Caldwells of Linlaywood," Staffordshire. John Caldwell was born in 
Scotland in 1638, came to this country and settled in Hartford, Conn. He m. Hannah, dau'r of 
George Stillman, of VVethersfield and Iladley, who was member of the General Court of Alass. 
John and Hannah had children, viz., James, William, John, Mary, George, and Charles ; Charles, b. 
173'2, m. Mary, dau'r of the 3d Richard Lord, and great granddau'r of the 1st Richard, the 1st Cap. 
tain of the first Company of Cavalry in Conn., and one to whom the old charter of Conn, was 
granted. She was also great granddau'r of Gov. VVyllys, and of Gov. Haynes. Charles was a 
gentleman of large estate in Hartford, and great worth. During the Revolution, at the evac- 
uation of Boston by the British, he was present, and knew many of the trying scenes of that 
war, and was a paymaster and commissary with the rank of Major. The mansion-house, 
where he and the family once resided, was nearly opposite the present State House. He left 
one son, Henry, and several daughters. 

Henry, son of Charles, b. 1765, graduated at Yale College, 1784, and immediately after left 
for England, to secure property which belonged to the family, and remained there twelve 
years, where he m. Harriet Brotnedge, dau'r of Captain John Bromedge, of the Royal Navy, 
and granddau'r of Admiral Hugh Bromedge, of the same service. Henry left issue, Charles 
Henry, and George Lord ; the last, with his mother, were buried in England. Henry returned 
to this country with his son Charles Henry, and entered the United States Navy, when organ, 
i zed in 1798, as a Lieutenant of Marines. He served in the war with Tripoli, and in one action 
in the war of 1812. He d. a Captain in 1812. 

Charles H. Caldwell, b. 1793, entered the navy as Midshipman in 1811, and served on the 
Lakes in the war of 1812. He m. Susan, and 2d Elizabeth, dau'rs of Samuel Blagge, Esq., of 
Boston, Consul for his Majesty the King of Sweden, and granddau'rs of Benjamin Blagg, Esq , 
of New York. He had issue by Susan, his first wife, Susan, and Charles Henry Bromedge ; 
and by Elizabeth, his 2d wife, Samuel Blagg. Charles II. was relieved from the command of 
the Dolphin, in the Pacific, and sent home for the recovery of his health, but he died on his 
return passage in 1831. 

Charles Henry Bromedge Caldwell, b. 1823, entered the Navy as Midshipman in 1838. He 
m. Judith Emeline, dau'r of Richard G. Packer, Esq., of Boston, and granddau'r of Rev. Samuel 
Packer, Bishop of Mass. He is now a Lieutenant in the Navy. As it has ever been among 
the best names of Conn., the State watches the bravery of her sons, even in foreign seas, and 
are proud of their noble deeds. (See Caldwell, page 4C9 of this work.) 

Three of this name graduated at Yale College, in 1757 and in 1784 ; two at Dartmouth 
College, in 1814 and 181.7; one at Amherst College in 1837; and eight at Harvard College 
before 1839. 



740 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Isaac, of Haverhill, and Elizabeth, his wife, 1653 ; Isaac Cousins, 
Locksmith, and wife, Elizabeth, of Boston, 1656. 

GEORGE COUSSENS, of Marlborough, England, shipped at 
Hampton, in the James of London, William Cooper, master, for 
New England, April, 1635. 

Cosen, has 3 coats of arms ; Cosens, 1 ; Cosins, 1 ; Cossen, 2 ; 
Cosyn, 8 ; Cosyns or Cosins, 1 ; Cozens, 1. 

COZZENS, BENJAMIN, graduated at Brown University, 
Rhode Island, 1811. 

COSIN, FRAlNteiS, member of Ar. Co., 1640; Isaac Cosin, or 
Cosins, of Rowley, about 1650 ; Mathew, of Boston, 1656. 

CRAB, RICHARD, was an early settler at Wethersfield, and a 
man of high reputation which he sustained while he remained at 
Wethersfield. He represented the town of Wethersfield, at the Gen- 
eral Court in Connecticut, from Wethersfield, April 11, 1639; Jan., 
1639, two sessions in 1640, and in April, 1641, before he removed. 
In 1641, he with Richard Law, Robert Bates, and others, joined the 
settlers in the settlement of Rippowams, (Stamford,) and went with the 
first settlers. (Robert Bates, while at Wethersfield, is recorded a land- 
holder there, by the name of Robert But, Bate, &c., and has yet 
descendants at Branford, and other towns in Conn.) Mr. Crabb, had 
7 tracts of land in Wethersfield, in 1640. He was one of the 30 
persons who had land alotted to them at Stamford, in Nov., 1641, in 
all 276 acres, probably their building lots. He attended the first 
town-meeting in 1641, when 7 of their principal settlers were 
appointed to order the town affairs, viz., Mathew Mitchell, Thurston 
Rayner, Andrew Ward, Jo. Whitmore, Richard Law, and Richard 
Crabb. After his residence some time at Rippowams, he removed 
to Greenwich, and in 1655, complaints were made to the General 
Court at New Haven, of the conduct of the people of Greenwich ; 
that they permitted drunkenness, harbored runaway servants, and 
joined persons in marriage without lawful authority. Greenwich, 
denied the jurisdiction of New Haven over them, and refused obe- 
dience to their orders. The General Court therefore, ordered, that 
unless they appeared before the Court, and submitted by the 25th 
day of June then next, viz., Richard Crabb and others, who had 
been the most stubborn, they should be arrested and punished. 
They complied. This name yet continues in Connecticut. Crab, 
has 2 coats of arms, and Crabb, has 2. 

CRADDOCK, MATHEW, in 1636-7, was indebted to the estate 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 741 

of John Oldham, as settled in Conn., where Mr. Oldham was mur- 
dered by Indians, in 1636, £229. 

CRADDOCK, NATHANIEL, 1639. Cradock, has 12 coats of 
arms and Craddock, has one. 

CRAFT, CRAFTS, CROFT, MOSES, of Branford, Conn., after- 
ward of Wethersfield, sold 19 acres of land at Pine Brook, in Bran- 
ford, to Jonathan Frisbee, Oct. 26, 1683. 

CRAFT, Capt. SAMUEL, of Roxbury, Mass., took the 27th 
home lot of 20 acres, for his son Samuel, eastward of Plain Hill, in 
Woodstock, in the first division of home lots, No. 28, at New Rox- 
bury, with 20 acre rights. In the division of good meadow, in 1690, 
Samuel drew No. 11, and No. 30 in the division of the bad meadow, 
in New Roxbury ; Samuel, of Roxbury, was one of the 39 persons 
who were signers to settle at New Roxbury, (Woodstock.) John 
Crafts, m. Martha Graves, of Hatfield, Mass., in 1716; Allis Craft, 
m. Robert Loverain, in Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 3, 1704-5 ; William 
Crafts, 1667 ; Ephraim, 1667 ; William, 1671 ; Alice Craft, b. 
1678, d. in Holliston, in the 105th year of her age, and in her fifth 
widowhood ; Ann Crofts, aged 14, was passenger in the Safety, for 
Virginia, Aug., 1635 ; and John Crofts, aged 20, was passenger in 
the America, for Virginia, June 23, 1635. His name appears to 
have been first in Conn., at Branford, and then at Wethersfield, and 
in 1686, Samuel, of Roxbury, Mass., is at Woodstock. It is proba- 
ble the Samuel Crafts, named by Cothren, in his His. of Woodbury, 
p. 526, as settled at Pomfret, in 1686, was the same Samuel, who 
settled at Woodstock, 1686, named above from Roxbury, Mass., for 
this line, (see Coihren's Ancient Woodbury.) 8 of the name had 
graduated at Harvard College, in 1840, and 2 spelled Craft, in 1784. 
One Craft, at Yale College, in 1759, and one Crafts in 1808, at Yale 
College ; 3 had graduated at Brown University, Rhode Island, in 
1821 . It is probable that Moses Craft, who deeded land in Branford, 
in 1683, had previously lived at Branford, and was the first of the 
name in Conn. 

MOSES CRAFTS, in his deed of the 19 acres above, he sold to 
Jonathan Frisbee, in Branford, dated Oct. 26, 1683, describes his 
own residence, viz., " sometimes of Branford, now of Wethersfield." 
CROFTS, has 17 coats of arms j CROFT, has 7. 

CROFT, THOMAS, of Hadley, Mass., m. Abigail Dickinson, 
Dec. 6, 1683, and had John, b. Nov. 8, 1684 ; Mary, b. Feb. 2, 
1685, at Hadley. 
CRAGHEAD, Rev. THOMAS, an Irish gentleman, was em- 



742 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS, 

ployed to preach six months at North Stonington, Sept. 4, 1722. 
In Oct. after, they gave him a call to settle as their pastor, which he 
accepted, — but was never settled there. The society was incorpo- 
rated in May, 1720, and the bounds between the societies established 
in May, 1721, and was named North Stonington, in 1724. Rev. 
William Worthington, was the first minister, where he preached 
about one year and a half, but he refused to settle as their pastor in 
1722; and in 1726, they gave Mr, Worthington a second call to 
settle, which he also refused. Mr. Craghead had been a minister in 
Ireland, and had preached at Freetown, Mass. 

Crag, John, John Cragan, James and Niel Camel, came to Boston, 
in the John and Sarah, of London, bound for New England, in 1651, 
Scotch prisoners or servants. One by the name of Craighead gradu- 
ated at Flarvard College, in 1847. 

CRAIS, JOHN, from Killingworth, removed about 1695, and set- 
tied in Andover or Coventry. 

Jesse Crais, of Colchester, had a son John bap. Jan. 29, 1774. 
CRAMER, ADAM, and Moll his wife, lived near Good Hill, in 
Woodbury, Conn., about 1750 ; he was by trade a blacksmith, and 
his wife Moll, a witch, which fact the people in that vicinity verily 
believed, and her husband knew she was a witch, as he had con- 
stant and afflicting evidence of it from day to day, and to save his 
own reputation, he put off Moll, that he should not be charged of 
having familiarity with the Devil. She had a son Adam, who had 
a daughter Moll Cramer, within the last 60 years. The wonderful 
deeds of Moll, the witch of Woodbury, are well remembered by the 
aged and by tradition. See the history of her wonderful deeds in 
Cothren's Woodbury, p, 160-1, &c, CRAMER, has one coat of 
arms; Cranmer, has 2 ; Cranmore, 1. 

CRANDALL, is first found in Stonington Conn.; Isaac, of Ston- 
ington, a brother of Hosea Crandall, removed from Stonington, and 
settled at Goshen, in Litchfield Co., where he m. Charlotte, dau'r of 
Thomas Griswold. His brother Hosea, b. at Stonington, Dec. 7, 
1799, m. Harriet Griswold, sister of his brother Isaac's wife. Hosea, 
had two sons and five daughters. They were probably descendants 
of George Crandall, of New London, who in 1671, was suspected of 
opposing the government of the Colony. Reuben Crandall gradua- 
ted at Yale College, 1829. 

CRANE, GRAIN, CRAYNE, Me. JASPER, was one of the 
first and important settlers of the New Haven Colony, and signed the 
first and " fundamental " agreement June 4, 1639, (see note, p. 77,) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 743 

at a general meeting of all the free planters, at New Haven, " at 
the barn of Mr. Newman." Tradition says, he had the steward- 
ship and oversight of the property of the Rev. John Davenport, 
during the time Mr. Crane remained at New Haven ; his children 
b. in New Haven, were Deliverance, Jan. 12, 1642 ; Mercy, March 
1, no year ; Micah, Nov. 3, 1647. His son Jasper, Jr., was b. at 
New Haven, April 2, 1651. He is noticed at New Haven, by 
Lamb't in 1643, with a family of three persons, and an estate of 
£480. He was one of those at New Haven, who attempted the set- 
tlement of lands on the Delaware, and was repulsed by the Dutch, 
Natives, Swedes and Fins. On April 20, 1665, (after the union of 
the Colonies,) he was ordered by the General Court to be read at the 
election " for nomination for an assistant." He had four sons. 
John the eldest, d. in 1694, aged 59; Deliverance, was bap. at New 
Haven, 12th 4th mo. 1642; Jasper, Jr., b. April 2, 1651, and d. in 
Newark, New Jersey, Nov. 5, 1730, aged 83, m. a dau'r of Gover- 
nor Treat. Hon. Jasper, sen'r, with his sons John, Deliverance and 
Azariah, all signed the agreement at Branford, for the settlement of 
Newark, New Jersey. He also had a dau'r Hannali, who married 
Thomas Huntington, who also signed said agreement. He had a 
dau'r "Belle," of whom nothing further is found. After some 
year's residence in New Haven, he became interested in that well 
known, bog-ore furnace of early days, of which Richard Post, was 
founder in East Haven, to which he removed with his family, — says 
Dod, after he removed to East Haven, where he traded and lived 
before he removed to Branford, that he had his house-lot on the east 
side of the green, (in East Haven.) That he sold his lot of 16 acres 
to Moulthrop, Sept. 7, 1652, and soon after removed his family to 
Branford. His lands in the first division of lands in East Haven 
with 3 polls amountedxto £480. He remained in Branford a few 
years, when a project was started by old Jasper Crane and others, to 
make a new settlement in New Jersey, and in 1665, he with his 
sons John, Deliverance and Azariah, and many others, from Bran- 
ford, New London, Milford, New Haven, &c., subscribed an instru- 
ment, embracing rules for governing their town upon Passaic River, 
in the Province of New Jersey, particularly the essential qualfica- 
tions for freemen, magistrates, deputies, assistants, chief military 
officers, &c., (to settle Newark.)* 

• In 1650-1, a solemn agreement was entered into with Governor Stuyvesant, with great pro- 
fession of amity and good feeling for the English, by the Dutch, which induced the English 
Settlers of New Haven and Branford, to settle their lands at the Delaware which they had pre- 



744 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Yet he remained ia Branford, until 1667, as he signed there the 
contract as to church order according to the platform of discipline, 
agreed upon by the synod, about 1648, drawn from the word of God 
for those who remained in Branford, dated, Jan. 20, 1667. He was 
a surveyor and trader and with " Mr. Myles," laid out much of the 
town plot at New Haven, and located grants, settled division lines 

viously purchased. Therefore, fifty men from these two towns, hired a vessel to transport them 
to their lands, to settle at Delaware. They took with them a commission from Governor Eaton, 
of New Haven, and a kind letter to Governor Stuyvesant, informing him of the design, notifying 
him of the previous agreement at Hartford, assuring him they would settle on their own lands 
and not disturb their Dutch neighbors. The Governor of Massachusetts, also wrote to Governor 
Stuyvesant, making like assurances. The vessel sailed to New York, delivered the letters to 
the Dutch Governor ; instead of regarding the agreement made the previous year at Hartford, he 
arrested the bearers of the letters and imprisoned them, and sent for the Captain of the vessel 
to come on shore, that he wished to speak to liira ; no sooner was he on shore than he arrested 
and committed him to prison, and all others of the crew who came on shore, were also impris- 
oned. Governor Stuyvesant, asked to see their commission, for the purpose of copying it and 
engaged to return it when copied, and when delivered refused to return it. He kept them im- 
prisoned until they each signed a writing not to proceed to Delaware, but to immediately return 
to New Haven, and told them if he found them at Delaware, he would seize their goods and send 
them prisoners to Holland. At the meeting of the Commissioners of the United Colonies at New 
Haven, in 1651, Jasper Crane, William Tuttle, and others, of New Haven and Branford, peti- 
tioned the commissioners, stating the conduct of the Dutch Governor, toward the Delaware 
settlers, that they were damnified over X'300, over and above the insult to the Colonies. That 
the Dutch hid seized their lands and were about fortifying, &c. (See Trumbull, 194-5, iS-c. — 
Record of Commissioners of United Colonies, and Colony Record.) Jasper Crane, from the active 
part taken by him in this petition, was probably one of the company who purchased the lands 
of the original proprietors at Delaware, and one of the company so harshly treated by Governor 
Stuyvesant, at •' Manhaders." Yet the list of the 51 settlers is not now found. 

Crane, Mr. [Jasper,] at the October General Court, 1664, Mr. Sherman and the Secretary, 
[Mr. John Allyn,J were appointed to go to New Haven, and by order of said Court in his Magis- 
ty's name, require all the inhabitants of New Haven, Milford, Branford, Guilford, and Stam- 
ford, to submit to the government established by his Magisties Gracious Grant, to the Colony of 
Conn., and receive their answer. Also to declare all the (then) freemen of the towns above, who 
were qualified by law, to become freemen of the Colony of Conn., so many as should accept and 
to take the freeman's oath, &c. Also to declare that the Court doth invest VVm. Leete, Esq., 
Mr. Jones, Esq., Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Fenn, Mr. Crane, Mr. Treat and Mr. Lawes, with the power of 
Magistrates, to assist in the Government of the above plantations and according to the laws of 
the Conn. Corporation, or their own laws not contradictory to the Charter, until the next May. 
And if any of them refused to govern the people as aforesaid, then Mr. Sherman and Secretary 
Allyn, were authorized to appoint others in their places, and administer the oath for a faithful 
execution of the trust. Also to declare that all other civil and military officers, were established 
in their places, until the next May. {Col. Rec. Hin., p. 437.) 

There has been a uniform mistake with all the Huntington family of Norwich, as to one of 
the three sons of Margaret Huntington, the mother of the first Huntington, at Saybrook, in 
Conn. She had no son by the name of Samuel. His name was Thomas ; he so signed his 
name at Branford, with the other emigrants from Branford, to Newark. 

In page 315, Col. Rec, of Conn., is found Christopher Huntington ; on page 297, is found 
Thomas, and on page 41^, Simon made freemen. JVo Samuel, was made free ; Thomas is first 
found on the Branford record, in 1663. He probably m. Hannah Crane, a dau'r of that good old 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 745 

and disputed titles. Mr. Jasper Crayne, was a selectman and one 
of the civil managers of the new settlement, 1639, (New Haven.) 
In March, 1641, he had a grant of 100 acres in the east meadow, 
selectman, &c. He was in the list of estates at New Haven, at £480, 
in 1643. In 1644, Mr. Jasper was freed from " watching and trayn- 
ing," because of his weakness ; made freeman in 1644. In 1644-5, 
had a second grant of 16 acres of upland in East Haven, where he 
built his house in East Haven, in which Jasper, Jr., was b. April 2, 
1651 ; soon after this, not being satisfied with his location as a mer- 
chant, he sold his place in 1652, Sept. 7, and purchased in Branford, 
or Totoket, and removed with his family, and joined the settlers from 
Wethersfield, under the head of Mr. William Swain, Swayne, &c., 
of Wethersfield, with about 20 others from Southampton, Long 
Island, who emigrated to Totoket, with Rev. Ab'm Pierson. And 
'* Jasper Crane, Esq.," and Mr. William Swayne, were the first 
deputies to the " General Court of Electors," from Branford, May, 
1653, and four years after. In May, 1658, chosen magistrate of 

saint Jasper Crane, who removed to Newark, as Crane in his will calls Thomas Huntington his 
son ; her age not known ; her brother Jasper,"Jr., was b. in 1651. There are no facts to show at 
what date the Huntington family arrived from Roxbury, Mass., at Saybrook, probably not before 
1646. Jasper Crane, sen'r, was at New Haven, as early as 1639. Crane, d. an old man at 
Newark, about 1081, as his inventory was proved in Oct., 1681. Samuel Huntington's name 
does not appear on the Newark record, until after Thomas had a son Samuel born ; but Thomas 
is found from the early settlement of the town. In 1677, Thomas was appointed constable ; in 
1684, Thomas Huntington, with Mr. Johnson, Mr. Ward, Mr, Kitchell, Mr. Curtiss, Deacon Law- 
rence, Eph'm Burwell, and others, were appointed a committee " to treat with the Governor." 
No second-rate men at that time were put upon a committee to contend for the rights of the town^ 
Jan. 1, 1684-5, John Curtiss and Thomas Huntington, were appointed deputies from Newark, to 
the General Court of the Trovince of New Jersey. As his name disappears from the record soon 
after, he probably died. In 1094, proprietors of the lands (of which Thomas had been one) the 
office was granted to Samuel his son ; if Thomas had been living, the grant would probably have 
been to Thomas. In the oflice of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, he conveyed land to Jonathan 
Baldwin, and in Newark town records, in 1702. "Samuel Huntington, son and heir-in-law of 
Thomas Huntington, deceased," conveyed land to I. and I). Crane. Also in 1702, Samuel and 
Sarah Huntington conveys to Nathaniel Ward. In 1704, they sold also, and in 1724, Thomas 
and Simon Huntington, late of Newark, now of VVhipanong, in the County of Huntordon, 
" being equally interested in certain lands of" our honored father, Samuel Huntington, late of Ne- 
wark, deceased, sold land to Nath'l Ward. Samuel's will, dated, Nov. 11, 1704, and proved, 
Nov. 19, 1712. Simon above d. in Morris County, New Jersey, aged 74 years, and left to bis 
brother Samuel, "my sermon book the ten Virgins." John Ward, of Branford, in 1654, had six 
children before he removed to Newark. Ward d. about 1694, (as his will is dated 1694 ;) his 
widow had been the widow of Thomas Huntington, (and her name Hannah.) She was probably 
younger than her first husband, and though considerably younger than John Ward, he jirobably 
thought her a suitable companion, as some widowers even in these days, prefer young ladies to 
old ones. Thomas, sen'r, had a dau'r Hannah, mentioned in the will of her grandfather Jasper 
Crane, as bis granddaughter Hannah Huntington. 

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746 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

New Haven Colony, which he held until 1663. On the union of the 
two Colonies, he was chosen an assistant (Senator) to the General 
Court at Hartford. Justice of County Court at New Haven, in 
1664-5, one of the magistrates convened at Hartford, by the Gover- 
nor, in 1665, and one of the assistants and magistrates of Conn., in 
1665-6, and in 1667, and magistrate in New Haven Colony, in 1658. 
In 1665-6, the Branford people became dissatisfied with the union 
of the two Colonies, of New Haven and Conn., particularly allow- 
ing the right of suffrage to such as were not members of the church, 
&c. In the spring of that year many of them determined upon 
removing, and agents had been sent to New Jersey, to examine the 
lands, which had been ceded to the Court by the " land proprietors." 
The flattering reports stimulated them for a removal, " beyond the 
marshes lying to the north of Elizabeth." In October, after adopt- 
ing a code of laws for the government of themselves, (and inter- 
lopers,) Mr. Abr'm Pierson, with a part of his congregation left 
Branford, to settle at {Milford first called) Newark, but Mr. Jasper, 
appears not to have removed with the first company, though he was 
one of the 23 persons who signed the first contract in 1665, as he 
continued a leading man in Branford, with Mr. Mitchell, Taintor, 
&c., and directed the affairs of Branford, and an assistant, &c., in 
1667-8, not only so. Jan. 20, 1667, a new church-covenant was 
formed for those left at Branford, and Mr. Crane headed the list of 
signers and church-members under the new organization, with others, 
who signed the agreement in 1665, and after disposing by deed of 
his property at Branford, in 1667-8, he joined his associates at 
Newark. John Crane, the son of Jasper, was born before his father 
came to New Haven, as John d. at Newark, in 1694, aged 59, and 
he probably bad others born before he came there. His son Deliv- 
ered, (or Deliverance,) was bap. at New Haven, 12th, 9 mo. 1642^ 
Jasper, Jr., as stated before, b. April 2, 1651, and d. at Newark* 
March 16, 1712, aged 83. Azariah, another son o/ Jasper, sen'r, m. 
a dau'r of Governor Treat, and d. at Newark, Nov. 5, 1730, aged 
83 years, (b. in New Haven, in 1647, but no record of it.) Hannah, 
dau'r of said Jasper, sen'r, m. Thomas Huntington, (son of Margaret,) 
who signed the article at Branford, with Mr. Jasper, sen'r, &c. 
Thomas Huntington, of Newark, son-in-law of Jasper, shared in 
Jasper's will, by his wife Hannah, and Mr. Jasper, calls said T. 
Huntington in his will his son ; he also had another dau'r Bell, of 
which I have no account, before named. Jasper, sen'r, d. at Newark, 
about 1681, in his old age. Mr. Crane, (Jasper,) Mr. Leete and 



' GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 747 

Mr. Phen, (Fenn,) were appointed, or any one of them, to give the 
oath for assistants to Mr. Jones and the oath of commissioner to Mr. 
Gilbert ; Capt. Nash and Mr. (James) Bishop, July, 1G65. Mr. 
Crane, Mr. Leete, Mr. Fenn, Mr. Treat, Mr. Briantand Capt. Nash, 
were appointed or any three of them, a committee to discover the 
approach of the enemy, when De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was 
expected on the coast, from Guilford to Stratford, July, 1665. Jas- 
per, sen'r, and Robert Treat, were the first magistrates in Newark, 
in 1668-9; they represented Newark, in the General Court same 
year, and again chosen deputies in 1669-70, and Mathew Campfield 
chosen magistrate ; Crane and Treat, were deputies and magistrates 
in 1671-2, and in June, John Brown, Jr., was chosen recorder for 
the town, which office Mr. Treat, had held at 40*. per year ; about 
this time Mr. Treat left Newark, and returned to Conn., where he 
was made Lieut. Governor, in 1676. 

In 1675, Mr. Crane, was deputy and magistrate at Newark. He 
was one of the purchasers of the Kingsland farm, a large tract of 
land located northerly of Newark, (now Belville.) Mr. Crane, was 
ranked with the strong-minded men of Connecticut and New Jersey, 
and lived to an advanced age, and d. 1681, as the inventory of his 
estate was proved in 1681. His sons John and Deliverance had 
seats (says Conger) in the first meeting-house in Newark j Jasper, 
at j£570 ; John, £250, and Deliverance, at £250. Estate. 

1. Crane, John, son of Jasper, b. 1635, d. 1694, aged 59 years. 

2. Hannah, dau'r of Jasper, sen'r, b. about 1639, m. Thomas Huntington of 
Newark, and had a dau'r Hannah, named by Jasper, sen'r, as his grand- 
daughter, and perhaps, others. 

3. Deliverance, son of Jasper, sen'r, bap. July 12, 1042; and d. without 
children. 

4. Azariah, b. 1647, son of Jasjicr, sen'r, d. Nov. .'), 1730, aged S3 years. He 
m. Mary, dau'r of Robert Treat, (who was Lieutenant and Governor of Conn.,) 
when Mr. Treat left New Jersey, for Conn., he betrusted his property at New- 
ark, to his son, Deacon Azariah Crane, who lived in the stone house at 
Newark, and was a man of integrity and standing; had issue, Nathaniel, Aza- 
riah, Jr., John, Robert, Mary Baldwin and Jan(^ Bull. Robert Crane, had sons, 
Timothy, Isaac and Josiah. ^ 

5. Jasper, Jr., b. at East Haven, April 2, 1651, removed with his father to 
Newark, he purchased the estate of Robert Lyman, in Newark, in 16S4, after 
Mr. Lyman returned to New England. Jasper, Jr., d. March 16, 1712, aged 
61, at Newark. 

Josiah Crane, of Newark, resided between Newark village and 
Conn. Farms, in New Jersey ; in his will dated Nov. 2, 1785, proved 
178^ ; he names " Phebe," his wife and sons Obadiah, Josiah and 
Elias, deceased. (Elias Crane's children left, were Mary and Phebe.) 



748 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

He also mentions his daughter Lois Hinman, (wife of Samuel Hinman, 
of Newark, and son of Jonas Hinman and Elizabeth, his wife, of 
Newark,) also Betsey Pool, Mary Harrison, Johannah Heard and 
Jerusha Brown, as his children. Josiah was interred at Conn. 
Farms, six miles from Newark. His gravestone says, " Capt. Josiah 
Crane, d. Dec. 15, 1785, aged 67 years." He was a son of Joseph 
Crane, and brother of Joanna Crane ; the grandmother of the antiqua- 
rian, Samuel H. Conger, Esq., the present Librarian of the Historical 
Society, of New Jersey. Joseph Crane, was son of Jasper Crane, Jr., 
who was the son of Hon. Jasper Crane, sen'r, of N. H., Branford and 
Newark, an associate of Pierson, Brown, Treat, Harrison, Kitchell, 
&c., of Newark, in 1668. Joseph Crane, the grandfather of Lois 
Hinman, d. Aug 4, 1726, aged 50, and his children were, Benjamin, 
Ezekiel, Isaac, Israel, Josiah, Joseph, Abigail and Joanna, and his 
wife was Abigail Lyon. (See Hinman.) Rev. John R. Crane, D. D., 
of Middletown, Conn., adescendant of Jasper, Jr., and Jasper, sen'r, 
who was the progenitor of most if not all of the Cranes, of New Jersey, 
an able and respectable family, &c. ; Crane, D. D., educated at 
Nassau, 1805 ; settled at Middletown, Upper Houses, Ct., 1818. 

CRANE, BENJAMIN, sen'r, was a proprietor at Wethersfield, 
Ct., in 1658; juror, 1664; d. 1693 ; m. Mary, April 23, 1655; issue: 

1. Benjamin, b. March 1, 1655-6. ^ ..'' - 

2. John, b. April, 1663, d. 1694. 

3. Jonathan, b. Dec. 1, 1658; removed to Windham, and d. 1697; Jose, b. 
April 1, 1661 ; Israel, b. Nov. 1, 1671. 

Mrs. Mary Crane, wife of Benjamin, d. July 8, 1717; Benjamin, 
drew 76 acres in the land division in Wethersfield, in 1670. 

Benjamin Crane, on the 15th of May, 1653, testified at Flushing, 
that he lived some times at Dedham; with Mr. Joseph Clark, (nine 
years,) and with Mr. Howard, of Dorchester, one year, then aged 
24 years. He testified he lived up Hudson River about 10 miles, 
with one Mrs. Mary Vandunkes, dau'r of Mr. Daughty ; that his 
Mrs. would speak very good Indian, and that she told him that three 
Sagamores, that lived up the country, said that the Dutch Governor, 
and ye ffiscall, had hired them to cut off ye English, and kill all 
they could, for which they were to give them a ship load of powder 
and kettles and have their trade, &c., &c. (Who was this Benjamin 
Crane ?) 

CRANE, JOSEPH, son of Benjamin and Mary, of Wethersfield, 
m. Sarah, dau'r of John Kilbornc, Dec. 10, 1684 ; issue, 

1. Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 16S5; d. an iniant. 

2. Sarah, b. March 15, 1687. 



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3. Hannah, b. Aug. 4, IGSy. 

4. Mary, b. Aug. 31, 1692 ; cl. 1701. 

5. Benjamin, b. May 21, 1694. 

G. Joseph, b. Nov. 25, 1696; d. 1727, or 1712. 
7. Hester, b. Sept. 7, 169S ; d. 1701. 
S. David, b. April 27, 1701 ; d. in infancy. 
9. Easter, b. Aug. 2S, 1702. 
10. Isaac, b. Oct. 20, 1707. 

Mr. Joseph Crane, d. Nov. 28, 1707 ; distribution 1717 ; aged 46. 
He left his wife and children, Benjamin, Isaac, Susan Pool, Han- 
nah Purple, and Esther Crane. 

CRANE, JOHN, son of Benjamin and Mary, m. Abigail, dau'r 
of Nathaniel Butler, Oct. 27, 1692 ; issue, Josiah, b. March 22, 
1694. Mr. John Crane, d. Oct. 23, 1694, aged 30 years. 

CRANE, BENJAMIN, Jr., son' of Benjamin and Mary, m. Mary 
Chapman, May 12, 1686 ; she d. April 5, 1687, aged 21. He, for 
second wife, m. Martha, and had issue, Benjamin, b. Nov. 7, 1690, 
and d. 1693 ; Isaac, b. Aug. 19, 1692, d. 1712; and Mr. Crane, d. 
June 20, 1693. 

CRANE, ISRAEL, son of Benjamin, sen'r, and Mary, m. Lidia, 
Sept. 13, 1695, and had issue, Lidia, b. Aug. 4, 1701 ; Hannah, b. 
Nov. 24, 1702 ; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1704 ; Martha, b. March 
19, 1706; Mr. Crane d. April 23, 1707, aged 35. These are a 
part of the Cranes, of Wethersfield, the descendants of Benjamin and 
Mary Crane, his wife. Benjamin Crane, sen'r, was from Massa- 
chu-setts, to Wethersfield. A Jonathan Crane, went from Wethers- 
field to Windham. 

CHRISTIAN CRANE, of Cambridge, Mass., 1647 ; John, of 
Braintree, Mass., 1686, m. a dau'r of James Leonard. " The 
name of Crane often appears among the records of meetings held in 
England, before 1630, as one of the governors and company of the 
New England Colony, to be planted in Mass. Bay." 

Sir Robert Crane, of Co.xhall, Essex County, England, m. Mary, 
dau'r of Samuel Sparhawk, of Dedham, Essex, before 1630, and 
had issue : 

1. Samuel. 

2. Thomas. 

3. Mary. 

4. Margaret. 

2. Thomas, m. Elizabeth Marpaut, and lived in Kilverton, Essex 
County, England, and had Thomas and John. 

3. Mary, m. Henry Whiting, Portman, at Ipswich, England. 

4. Margaret, m. Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, of Ipswich, England, 



750 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Rector of Assington, afterward emigrated to New England, and set- 
tled at Ipswich, Mass., and had children, viz. : 

1. John, b. in England, June 11, 1630 ; and became a noted minister and the 
5th President of Harvard College. 

2. Nathaniel. 

3. Samuel. 

4. Timothy. 

5. Mary. 

Ralph Crane was with Sir Francis Drake, 1577, when he visited 
North America. 

Robert Crane, one of the original Massachusett's Company. Dan- 
iel Crane taken prisoner in the expedition against Quebec, and 
enlisted in the king's service. {His. Rec.) 

Jonathan, of Windham, deeded land to his son Isaac Crane, of 
Windham, 1721 ; the above Jonathan, m. Mary Hibard, July 31, 
1705 ; and had issue, Sarah, b. 1707 ; Mary, b. 1709 ; Anna, b. 
1711 ; Zebulon, b. 1713; Jonathan, Jr., b. July 6, 1715. He also 
had 1st Hannah, b. 1692, 2d Isaac, b. 1694 ; Joseph, b. 1696; 
Elizabeth and Deborah, b. 1698, both d. 1698 ; Abigail, b. 1700 ; 
these were by his first wife Deborah, who d. about 1704. 

JOHN CRANE, of Windham, m. Sarah Spencer, Sept. 16, 1708, 
and had issue, John, b, 1709; Abia, 1710; Eunice, 1712; Sarah, 
wife of John, d. Sept. 15, 1715. 

HUMPHREY CRANE, of Hampton, Conn., admitted to the 
church there, April 17, 1728, and Hulday, admitted 1739. Hum- 
phrey, Jr., son of Humphrey and Hannah, bap. March 23, 1735 ; 
Hannah, bap. 1733 ; Dinah, his dau'r, bap. 1738, and dau'r Sarah, 
April, 1740, at Hampton. 

CRANE, ISAAC, son of Jonathan, of Windham, m. Ruth Waldo, 
July 12, 1716, and had issue, Ruth, b. 1718; Aorce, b. 1720; 
Anna, b. 1724; Isaac, b. 1726 ; Deborah, b. 1729. This name is 
spelled on the Windham record, Crane and Crain. 

CRANE, ABIA, of Tolland, m. Mary Fyler, 1741-2, and had 
issue, Joshua, Isaac, Mary, Abia, Eleazer, Joseph, Eunice and John 
b. 1766. 

CRANE, HENRY, assessed at Guilford, in 1642, or 50, at £30, 
was early at Wethersfield, and held land there. In Aug. 17, 1658, 
he signed a petition with Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield, the same 
year, for the dismission of Rev. Mr. Russell ; he probably soon after 
left Wethersfield, for we find Henry Crane, at Guilford, in 1642, or 
50, where he was in the list of freemen in 1669, a representative to 
the General Court, from Kennelworth, in May, 1675. Henry 



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Crane is next chosen Lieutenant of Killingworth train-band, in 1676 ; 
the time he went to Killingworth, is uncertain as we find the name 
at Killingworth in the first land division, {Henry Cranne, No. 21,) 
which from the dates appears as early as 1663-4, entered as one of 
the planters of Kenilworth. (See note, p. 550.) He was a Justice 
of Peace at Killingworth, and deacon at Durham. His children 
born or recorded at Killingworth, were Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1670 ; 
Phebe, b. 1672; Theophilus, b. Jan. 5, 1674; Abigail, b. 1676; 
Henry, b. Oct. 25, 1677; Mercy, b. 1680, and Nathaniel, b. Aug. 
7, 1682. Henry Crane, of Killingworth, purchased all the land of 
Mathew Bellamy, then late deceased, of Killingworth, of his son 
Mathew Bellamy, of Wallingford, Feb. 25, 1698-9. He represented 
the town at the General Court, in 1675-6-7. The plantation of 
Cawgiiichaug, or Durham, settled in 1698-9, and was incorporated 
in 1708; at this time, Henry Crane, of Killingworth, had removed to 
Durham, (or his son Henry,) where he was a justice, or commis. 
sioner and deacon of the church and d. (Dr. Field says) April 11, 
1741, aged 64 years. This deacon Henry, was probably the son of 
Henry, of Killingworth, who was b. Oct. 25, 1677, at Killingworth. 
The name is yet found at the last named place. Mr. Henry Crane 
was one of the assistants in the upper house of the General Court, 
Oct. 12, 1665 and in May 1666. Henry Crane, deputy to General 
Court, May, 1675. Lieut. Henry Crane, deputy of Kenilworth, 
May 11, 1676. Lieut. Henry Crane, deputy for Kenilworth, with 
Mr, Edward Griswold, May 10; 1677, &c. There was a Henry 
Crane, of Dorchester, Mass., in 1658, perhaps the same who was at 
Wethersfield, Guilford and Killingworth. 

CRANE, has 7 coats of arms. There was a Crane family at 
Mansfield early. 

Benjamin Crane drew 76 acres in a land division at Wethersfield, 
in 1670. Benjamin Crane owned land at Wethersfield, in 1659 ; 
freeman, May 20, 1658. Crane, Elijah, of Fairfield village, had a 
deed of 18 acres of land at " Toylsome," in Stratford, of Samuel 
Sherman, of Fairfield village, dated June 1, 1699. This has been a 
highly respectable name in New Jersey, since the days of Hon. 
Jasper Crane. Four of this name graduated at Brown University, 
before 1829 ; Sat Amherst College, before 18.55; 2 at Williams 
College, before 1835; 8 at Yale College, before 1851 ; 5 at [L'lr- 
vard, before 1848, and 4 at Dartmouth, before 1850. 

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752 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

first church at Unity, 1730, (North Stratford.) Perhaps Crany, 
spelled Cranny on the record. 

CRAMPTON, JOHN, was an early settler at Norwalk, the ex- 
act time not known, or where he was from to Norwalk. He is 
found in Hall's table of those who had home lots there, " because he 
was a souldier in the late Indian war," in 1679, 3 acres. At a 
later period was granted him by Norwalk, two roods of land more 
or less ; also granted by the town for his service as a soldier " in the 
late Indian warr," 8 acres, 4 roods of land, near Webb's meadow 
in Norwalk. His estate of commonage of Norwalk which was ac- 
cepted by the town, Jan. 3, 1687, was £53, ds-, 8d. He was voted 
by the town of Norwalk £2, 10s. for the year ensuing, to beat the 
drum on all public occasions, and sweeping the meeting-house, and 
to keep it neat and clean. The townsmen to furnish so much flax 
for cords for the town's drum as should be needed, at the expense 
of the town, 1697. This was before a bell was procured to call 
the people to church, town-meeting, &c., at Norwalk, He was at 
Norwalk between 1650-60. He married Sarah Rockwell, of Stam- 
ford, dau'r of John, Oct. 8, 1676 ; children, 

1. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1679. 

2. Abigail, b. Aug. 9, 1681. 

3. John, b. Jan. 7, 1682-3; perhaps others. (See Hall's Norwalk, pages IS, 
26, 61, 65, S3, and Town Record.) He drew No. 14 in the division of land 
" over Norwalk River." 

CRAMPTON, MILES, d. at Farmington, 1831, aged 85. He 
had children, Adna, b. Jan. 27, 1774 ; Stephen, b. May 14, 1776, 
&c. 

CROMPTON, or CRAMPTON, HENERIE, took the oath of 
fidelity, with Richard Hubbard, Nathaniel Whitfield, William How- 
ard, and others, at Guilford, Crampton has two coats of arms. 
(Ireland.) 

CRARY, PETER, was the first of the name in Conn. He was 
in New London as early as 1663, and was there when the patent of 
New London was sanctioned by the Governor and Company, 1704. 
He resided on the Groton side of the river. He married Christobel 
Gallop, dau'r of John, of New London, in 1677, and had a dau'r 
Christobel, b. Feb., 1678-9. His other children, found in his will, 
were Peter, John, William, Robert, Margaret, and Ann. Peter, the 
father, d. in 1708. (Caulk., p. 351.) 

CRARY, CHRISTOPHER, (a grandson of Peter, sen'r, of New 
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to Clarendon, Vermont, with his family, viz., his wife, son Ezra, 
and perhaps others. 

CRARY, EZRA, son of Christopher, m. and had children, in 
Vermont, viz., Nathan, Elias, and Nathaniel, and two dau'rs; 
Dolly, who m. John Smith, and another dau'r m. Randall Arnold. 
CRARY, NATHAN, son of Ezra, was a Methodist minister, 
and removed into St. Lawrence County, New York. He m. and 
had children, viz., Edward, Appleton, Nathan, John Westley, and 
Stephen ; some of his sons were also Methodist ministers. 

CRARY, ELIAS, son of Ezra, m. Betsey Painter, also removed 
from Voluntown, Conn., with her father, David Palmer, to Vermont. 
Elias and Betsey had issue, Solomon, Polly, Elias, Jr., Sally, 
Nathan, Cynthia, Dr. David, and George. They all married. 
Solomon and Sally live in Pottstown, St. Lawrence County, New 
York ; Appleton and Polly live in Wallingford, Vermont, where they 
were born ; Elias, Jr., settled in Illinois ; Nathan, Cynthia, and 
George, m., had families, and deceased. 

CRARY, Dr. DAVID, son of Elias, removed from Vermont to 
Conn., the land of his forefathers ; he is now in a full practice of 
medicine at Hartford, Conn. He m. 1st, Susan Harris, of Brattle- 
borough, Vt., dau'r of Calvin Harris, and had issue, David, Frank 
and Susan. His wife d. in Hartford, 1849, aged 38. He m., 2d, 
Martha Tryan, of Glastenbury, dau'r of Isaac, d, in 1851, and has 
issue by this marriage. 

CRARY, POLLY, dau'r of Elias, m: Dr. John Fox, of Wall- 
ingford, Vermont, whose father went from Woodstock, Conn., to 
Vermont ; he was an eminent physician and surgeon, and frequently 
a member of the General Assembly of Vermont, in both branches. 
Dr. Fox had three sons, two of whom were physicians. 

THOMAS CRARY was a sharer of Mill Swamp, in Hatfield, 
Mass., in 1672, with Samuel Gillet, &c. 

CRAW, ELIJAH, m. Elizabeth Wakelee, August 3, 1732, at 
Stratford, and had Jabez Craw, b. at Stratford, February 13, 
1733-4, &c. 

CRAWFORD. This name was at Killingworth after 1700. 
CRAFORD, (perhaps CRAWFORD,) MORDICA, wife Judith, at 
Salem, in 1663. This name is now found in Union and other 
eastern towns in Conn. Craford, has 3 coats of arms ; Crauford, 1, 
Crawfurd, 28; Crawfurde, 1. 

CRAFFORD, TABITHA, of Plainfield, Conn., m. Isaac Gran- 
ger, of Suffield, Jan. 14, 1731 ; issue, b. at Suffield, Joseph, b. 
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754 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

1731-2 ; Josiah, b. 1735 ; Anna, b. 1742 ; Tabitha, b. 1748-9. 
Josiah, d. in the army, Sept. 1, 1756 ; his wife d. July 30, 
1754. 

Farmer names Stephen Crawford, Mass., d. before, 1649. It is 
not found an early name in Conn. The name was at Killingworth 
not early. One graduated at Dartmouth College, 1807 ; one at 
Harvard College, 1761 ; one at Brown University, 1831 ; and one 
at Williams College, 1836. This has been an important name in 
Georgia. Stephen, Mass., d. before 1649. (Farmer.) 

CRESSE, CRISSE, NATHANIEL, of Branford, as early as 
1682. CRISSY, JOHN, of Stamford, had children, viz., Sarah, 
b. Sept. 25, 1693 ; Abigail, b. March 6, 1695 ; John, b. Feb. 2, 
1696 ; Deborah, b. Feb. 14, 1698 ; Nathaniel, b. 1700 ; Mary, b. 
1704 ; and Moses, b. 1706. 

CRISSY, WM., had John, b. May 15, 1665, perhaps others. 

CRISSEE, BENJAMIN, owned six lots of land at Watertown, 
Mass., soon after its settlement. {Wat. Rec.) 

Michael Cresse, in Mass., 1658 ; Mighill Cresse, 1669; Michael 
Cresse, aged 30, in 1658 ; and Mighill Cressie, aged 40, in 1669, 
in Mass. A family of this name lived at Southbury about 1730. 
John, and Mary Crissy, his wife, of Southbury, owned rights in 
Mine Hill, in Roxbury, Conn., as early as 1730. 

Cresse, has 4 coats of arms ; Cressy, 4 ; Cressey or Cressie, has 1. 
Noah Cressey graduated at Williams College in 1805 ; 2 at Am- 
herst, 1826-8 ; 1 at Dartmouth College in 1834. 

CRIPPIN, THOMAS, of Haddam, and his wife Francis, and 
Francis his widow. His will, dated May 10, 1705. Inventory 
dated Jan. 24, 1709-10. Estate, £47, 'Ss. Children, Catherine 
Rowley, MaryCorbee, Mercy Crippin, Experience Crippin, Thomas 
and Jabez. These children were living at the settlement of the 
estate in 1710. Jabez, above, son of Thomas, was an original pro- 
prietor of the town of Sharon, Conn. He first located at Colchester, 
and removed from Colchester to Sharon. He m. Thankful Fuller, 
at Colchester, July 9, 1707, and had issue, Susanna, b. May 21, 
1708; Francis, b. June, 26, 1710; Lydia, b. March 17, 1713; 
Thomas, b. May 15, 1715; Jabez, b. July, 14, 1717; John, b. 
March 20, 1720 ; Mehitabel, b. July 6, 1722 ; Samuel, b. July 7, 
1724 ; Joseph, b. June 7, 1726 ; Thankful, b. April 2, 1728. His 
sons John, Jabez, Jr., Thomas, Samuel, and Joseph, in 1752 re- 
moved to Armenia in Dutchess County, New York, at a place 
called Crippintown. Jabez, sen'r, d. at Manchester, in Vermont, in 



GENEALOGV OF THE PURITANS. 755 

1785. Francis, dau'r of Jabez, sen'r, m. Timothy Carrier, Feb. 
26, 1729-30, and had issue, Elizabeth Thankful, 2d Elizabeth, and 
others. Gripping, or Cropping, has 1 coat of arms. Jabez was a 
man of some reputation in Sharon, whei'e he was the first selectman 
elected in the town. A good family in Plymouth Colony. 

CRISP, ZACHERY, early at Wethersfield. Crisp has one coat 
of arms ; Crispe, 7 ; Crispie, one. 

CRITTENDEN, CRUTTENDEN, CRITTINGTON, ABRA- 
HAM, one of the first settlers of Guilford. The town was 
purchased Sept. 29, 1639, and Crittenden was one of the grantees 
in trust in the draft, for the body of settlers in Guilford. The 
contract was made and signed by the Sachem Squaw, for the 
Indians, and by Henry Whitefield for the settlers and planters. 
Abraham Crittenden, sen'r, was assessed in Guilford in the General 
Assessment in 1642 or 1650, at £100, 165. ; Abraham, Jr., at 
j£82. Ids. ; John, at £62, Gs.; Thomas, at £50 ; Isaac Cruttenden, 
same year, assessed at £67. Abraham Cruttenden, sen'r and Jr., 
and Thomas Cruttenden, were in the list of freemen at Guilford, 
Sept. 24, 1669, and Isaac Crittington, of Guilford, propounded for a 
freeman in May, 1670. 

CRITTENDEN, ABRAHAM, m. Susanna Grigson, at New 
Haven, May 13, 1661. Abraham Crittenden, of Farmington, had 
children, Stephen, b. April 15, 1755 ; Levi, b. Nov. 28, 1758 ; 
Jason, b. March 30, 1761, &c. 

CRITTENDEN, JONATHAN, and Bethiah Chapman, m. at 
Colchester, May 5, 1762. This name is first found at Guilford in 
the first settlement of the town, the year after the settlement of New 
Haven. The patent of Guilford was granted by the Governor and 
Company, Dec. 7, 1685, to Andrew Leet, Esq., Mr. Josiah Rossiter, 
Abraham Crittenden, Sergeant John Crittenden, &c., in trust for the 
other inhabitants of Guilford. William Crittenden, Abraham Crit- 
tenden, sen'r and Jr., are named in Lambert's first list of settlers 
at Guilford in 1650, and William Crittenden as one of the original 
purchasers. 

Cruttenden has 1 coat of arms, Cruttenden or Crutendon, 1. 
CROCKER, JOHN; (of Barnstable ;) will dated Feb. 10, 1668, 
mentions his brother William Crocker's children, viz., John, Job, 
Samuel, Josias, Elisha, and Joseph. His kinsman, Job Crocker, 
Ex'rs. (See Gen. Reg.) William Crocker and his wife, Alice, of 
Barnstable, had children recorded there, viz., John, May 1, 1637 ; 
Elizabeth, b. Sept. 22, 1639, d. 1658; Samuel, b. July 3, 1642; 



756 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Job, March 9, 1644 ; Josiah, b. Sept. 19, 1647 ; Eleazer, July 21, 
1650 J Joseph, 1654. {His. Reg.) 

Farmer names John Crocker, of Scituate, 1638, and Thomas, of 
Kittery, freemen, 1652. 

CROCKER, THOMAS, purchased a house lot in New London 
in 1660. He m. Ann Beebe, dau'r of Samuel ; also, Thomas 
Crocker, m. Rachel, dau'r of George Chappell, sen'r. He d. Jan. 

18, 1715-16, resided in New London about 50 years, and about 83 
years old at his death. He had children, 

1 Mary, b. March 4, 1668-9. 

2 Thomas, Jr., b. Sept., 1670. 

3 John, b. 1672, 

4 Samuel, b. July 27, 1676. 

5 William, b.ieSO. 

6 Andrew, b. 1683. 

THOMAS, Jr., d. aged 83 years and 7 months. William, the 
4th son of Thomas, was styled "Captain of the Scouts." John, son 
of John, and grandson of Thomas, was a soldier in the French war, 
and d. Nov. 30, 1746, aged 40. Andrew, son of Thomas, of New 
London, m. Sarah, dau'r of Thomas Leach, 1706. {Caulkins 
and Record.) 

CROCKER, JAMES, was early at Colchester, where his chil- 
dren were born and baptized, viz., Simeon, b. Sept. 19, 1722; Abi- 
gail, b. March 22, 1724; Hannah, b.'jan. 17, 1726; Levy, b. May 

19, 1728 ; Jonathan, b. March 16, 1730 ; James, Jr., b. April 20, 
1732; Thankful, b. Jan. 27, 1733-4; Lydia, b./an. 14, 1735-6; 
and Ephram, b. Sept., 1739. James Crocker, Jr., m. Rhoda, of 
2d church in Colchester, had James, bap. Dec. 30, 1758; Daniel, 
bap. Feb. 10, 1760, &c. 

CROCKER, JONATHAN, son of James, m. Rachel Skinner, 
of Colchester, in 1755 ; children, Olive, Amos, David, Jona- 
than, &c. 

CROCKER, ISAAC, appears at Colchester, and his wife Eliza- 
beth. His first child b. there, Abigail, March 10, 1733, Martha, 
and perhaps others. Isaac d. in Colchester, August, 1769, aged 77 
years. Anne d. in Colchester, March 29, 1772, aged 49. 

CROCKER, SIMEON, and DOROTHY, his wife, of Colchester, 
had Isaac, bap. in 2d church in Colchester, Oct. 12, 1755 ; Timothy, 
bap. April 16, 1758; William, bap. 1660, also William, bap. 1661 ; 
Isaac, son of Simeon and Hannah, bap. June 20, 1784 ; Dorothy, 
June, 1784; Simeon, bap. 1785; perhaps two wives, and perhaps 
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CROCKER, JOSEPH, and SARAH, his wife, had Isaac, bap. 
at 2d church in Colchester, April 11, 1756; also Sarah ; Lydia, 
bap. April, 175G ; Jurdan, bap. Nov. 9. 1766; and Joseph, bap. 
Dec. 29, 1771. SIMEON CROCKER m. Huldah Williams, both 
of Colchester, Nov., 1778. This is all I find at Colchester of the 
families who settled there. {Records of Colchester and Otis.) 

CROCKER, CROAKER, ELIEZA, and his wife, Judith, of 
Windham, had childrsn, viz., Ebenezer, b. Jan. 2d, 1724-5; John, 
b. August 23, 1727, d. 1727; Hannah, b. June 27, 1729; Ruth, b. 
Dec 7, 1732, d. 1737; 2d John, b. August 3, 1735; Sarah, b. 
August 9, 1739. Elieza and his wife Judith, admitted to the 
church in Hampton, April or Nov. 24, 1723. 

SARAH CROCKER had an ear-mark at Lyme for her cattle in 
1734. OLIVER CROCKER, of Lebanon, removed to Sharon be- 
fore the Revolution, and d. there in 1812, aged 81, and his widow 
d. over 90 years old. He left no sons. {Sedgwick.) 

CROCKER, SETH, and Caleb Holt, of Willington, were mem- 
bers of the Convention in Conn, in 1788, to ratify the constitution of 
the United States ; both voted affirmatively. 

CROCKER, CROCKER, aged 28 in 1670. 

CROCKER, Rev. BENJAMIN, graduated at Harvard College, 
1713 ; taught school in Ipswich from 1717 to 1719, and afterward 
in 1759-60, and left Ipswich in 1764. He preached as early as 
1726, and received "one pound, for preaching on Sabbath days, 
from the treasurer of the town ; " (supposed of Ipswich ;) father of 
Deacon John Crocker. William Crocker made the inventory of 
Thomas Burnam's estate of Barnstable ; will dated May 9, 1663. 
John Crocker, with Barnabas Lathrop, made the inventory of the 
estate of Tristram Hull, (Barnstable,) his will dated Dec. 20, 1666. 
{Hist. Reg.) Thirteen of this name graduated at Harvard College 
before 1849 ; six at Yale College ^before 1835 ; three at Brown 
University before 1823. 

May 6, 1640, it was ordered at court that William Fowler and 
John Cracker should have the goods of two men drowned, to satisfy 
the debt. {New Haven Colony.) 

Crocker has one coat of arms. (See Croaker.) 

CROCKER, OLIVER, removed from Lebanon to Sharon, Conn., 
previous to the war of the Revolution, and d. April 12, 1812, aged 
91 years. His widow d. aged 90 years. His name not perpetu- 
ated by any sons. I / 

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758 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CROMBE, DANIEL, of Westerly, Rhode Island, m. Alice, the 
widow of Richard Haughton, who had lived in Mil ford. Wethers- 
field and New London, and who d. in 1670. (See Haughton.) 

Crombie has two coats of arms. 

CROMMELINE, CHARLES, in 1715 owned one-fourteenth 
part of the mines in Simsbury, (or one-third part,) which he pur- 
chased of Elias Boudinot, merchant, of New York, August 10, 
1715. Crommelin has one coat of arms, and Cromlyn one. 

CROOKE, SARAH, in 1672, and George Ash, in 1682 were 
settlers at East Hartford. Sarah owned 2 lots of land in Hartford 
in 1680, which she sold to William Pitkin in 1685 ; Samuel Crooke, 
in Conn, in 1664. William Crooke, James Cross, &c., embarked 
from England for Virginia in the Thomas and John in 1635. 
Crook has four coats of arms ; Crooke five ; Crooks one, and 
Crooks or Crucks, one. 

CROCKER, CROAKER, CROKER, WILLIAM, was early at 
Stratford, but did not long remain there^/and others were there with 
him, viz., Francis Jacocks, William Quimbe, Edward Higby, 
widow Ramble, John Gregory, John Reader, John Fish, John Jener, 
Robert Rice, Francis Stiles, Richard Mills from Windsor, and 
Thomas Thornton, &c., owners of real estate in Stratford, some of 
whom were residents for a short period only. Quimby went to 
New Jersey, where the name is yet found. Richard Mills was a 
first settler at Windsor; went to Stratford ; from there to Stamford. 
Perhaps the same Esq. Richard who figured at Westchester in its 
first settlement, the old schoolmaster, perhaps ancestor of the Mills 
of Fairfield County. 

CROCKER, (DEVONSHIRE.) See Croker, for coats of arms. 

CROCKER, Wm., of Scituate, soon after 1633, also JOHN 
CROCKER. 

THOMAS CROOKER was an early settler at Stratford, and 
held lands there. He died and left no children. As the name is 
sometimes spelt Croaker, perhaps it was Crocker. Sarah Crooker, 
m. Thomas Maycumber, at Marshfield, Jan. 20, 1676. Jonathan 
Crooker, m. Sarah Allen, in Marshfield, 1714. Francis Crooker, 
m. Patience Child, in Marshfield, Mass., March 11, 1723-4, (per- 
haps Crocker.) {His. Reg.) 

Coats of arms, of which the name has several. Croker, (London 
and Batisford, county of Gloucester,) has one. Croker or Crocker, 
(original seated at Croker's Hele,) and Crokern, farmer, in Devon- 
shire, became possessed of Lineham, by marriage with the heiress of 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 759 

Churchill, The genealogy of Croker or Crocker, of Lineham, is ac 
curately recorded by Prince, Risdon, and Pole, and exhibits a descent 
of no less than 11 John Crokers in almost uninterrupted succession. 
The last male of the elder branch was Courtenay Croker, Esq., whose 
only daughter and heir, Mary, carried the estate of Lineham into 
the family of Bulteel. But tlie male line was preserved by the de- 
scendants of Thomas Croker of Trevillas, the 2d son of the 8th 
John Croker, of Lineham, &c. Croker, (Ireland,) founded by the 
2d son of the 8th John Croker, of Lineham, Thomas Croker, of Tre- 
villas, county of Cornwall, who acquired, about IfiOO, the estate of 
Ballyanker, county of VVaterford, and was ancestor of the Crokers 
of Tallow, represented by the Right Honorable John Wilson 
Croker, of the Crokers of Ballynagard, county of Limerick ; and 
a numerous branch settled in Dublin, of which was Anne, dau'r 
and heiress of Thomas Croker, and wife of Sir Edward Crofton- 
bart, created, in 1797, Baroness Crofton, and Thomas Croker, Esq., 
the well-known writer.) Ar?ns, Crest, and Motto, as Croker of 
Lineham, and six other coats for this name. (See Biirk's Her- 
aldry.) 

CROSBY, WM., the servant or hired man of James Olmsted, of 
Hartford, in Olmsted's will he gave Qrosby £5, and directed him 
to serve out his time with his son Nehemiah. Will dated Sept. 28, 
1640. This was the first of the name in Connecticut. At a much 
later period there was a Benjamin Crosby at East Haddam, and at a 
still later period a Samuel Crosby, of Hadlyme, where he was a 
Deacon before 1750. The name of Corbe was one of the first pro- 
prietors of old Haddam, (perhaps Crosby now.) The name of 
Crosby came into some of the eastern towns of the colony at a late 
period of the settlement. 

CROSBY, EBENEZER, m. Chloe Hooker of West Hartford, 
June, 1763. Issue, Chloe, bap. Dec. 13,1765; Job, bap. March 10, 
1685 ; Ebenezer, bap. June 3, 1785. Harriet Steel, dau'r of widow 
Britty Crosby, of West Hartford, bap. Sept. 12, 1824. Asaph re- 
ceived to full communion and baptism, Nov. 10, 1783, at West 
Hartford. 

CROSBIE, HANNAH, m. John Johnson, of Ipswich, 1655. 
Thomas, early at Eastham, an inhabitant in 1695. Dr. Anthony 
Crosby m. widow Prudence Cotton, 1673. Anthony, aged 23 in 
1659 ; Joseph 25 in 1665 ; widow Prudence, relict of Dr. Anthony, 
m. Rev. Seaborn Cotton, 1655, maiden name Prudence Ward. 
Hon. William Crosby, b. at Billerica, 1770, d. aged 80, (Belfast.) 



760 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Oliver, b. at Billerica, of Atkinson, Mass., lawyer at Dover, New 
Hampshire, 1798 ; removed to Maine, and d. July 29, 1851, aged 82. 
Anthony, 1659. {Hist. Reg.) 

SIMON CROSBY, farmer, aged 26 ; his wife Ann, aged 25, and 
son Thomas, aged 8 months, came to New England in the Susan 
and Ellen. 

Farmer names Anthony, a chirurgeon, of Rowley, before 1652, 
and his sons, Nathaniel, b. 1667, d. 1701 ; Nathan, b. 1669. His 
widow, 2d wife of Rev. Seabord Cotton. Joseph, of Braintree, 
probably son of Simon, of Cambridge, Rep. 1690, d. 26 Nov., 1695, 
m. Sarah Bracket, 1675; sons Thomas, Simon, Ebenezer, &c. 
Simon, Cambridge, 1635, free 1636, selectman 1636-8. His son 
Simon first innholder in Billerica, representative in 1691-7-8, m. 
Rachel Bracket, July 15, 1659, and had several sons. Thomas, 
probably an elder brother of the preceding, graduated at Harvard 
College, 1653, settled at Eastham, and living in 1698. His children 
were Simon, b. July 5, 1665 ; Sarah, b. 1667 ; Joseph, b. Jan. 27, 
1669 ; John, and perhaps others. 

THOMAS CROSBY, early at Cambridge and RoWley. This 
was an early name in Mass., and not so in Conn., except William 
the servant of James Olmsted, at Hartford, Crosbey has 1 coat of 
arms, Crossbie 6, Crosby 6, Crossby 2. Minot Sherman Crosby 
graduated at Amherst College in 1850. Joshua graduated at 
Brown University, 1792. Five graduated at Yale College before 
1824; 14 graduated at Dartmouth College before 1855; 10 grad- 
uated at Harvard College before 1805. 

CROSWELL, Rev. ANDREW, graduated at Harvard College, 
1728, and ordained at North Groton, the 4th settled minister, 1729, 
or Oct. 14, 1736 ; he had more zeal than prudence, and an anxious 
and fervid supporter of Whitefield. He remained their minister 
until 1746, when he left the society and went to Boston and became 
the first pastor of the 11th Congregational church in Boston, and was 
installed Oct. 5, 1748, and continued until he d., April 12, 1785, 
aged 76. (See Caulk. Hist. Neio London.) The north society of 
New London was embodied in church estate in 1729. 

CALEB CROSWELL, of West Hartford, m. Hannah Kellogg, 
Feb. 26, 1767. The manuscript of this family is either mislaid or 
lost. Three of the name had graduated at Harvard College in 
1798, and three at Yale College in 1822. 

Dr. CROSWELL of New Haven is supposed a descendant 
of the West Hartford family. Little is found of the early 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 761 

family of this name. It has proved too good a family to lose its 
ancestors. 

CROSS, WILLIAM, of Windsor, was an early settler there, he 
also owned several lots of land in Wethersfield as early as 1644. 
He was fined 40s. in 1644-5 for having wine sold in his shop with- 
out a license. He was defendant in court in Hartford at the suit of 
Richard Butler, for £6, in 1649. William Cross appears to have 
been a seafaring man. He died at Fairfield, and the inventory of 
hi? estate was presented in court at Fairfield, Oct. 25, 1655. He left a 
widow, and perhaps children. William Cross, of Fairfield, was 
sued by Thomas Olcott, of Hartford, for £60, in 1650. 

CROSS, SAMUEL, of Windsor, supposed son of William of 
Fairfield, m. Elizabeth Chapman, widow of Edward Chapman, de- 
ceased, of Windsor, July 12, 1677, and had children, Hanna, b. 
June 11, 1678, d. July 7, 1680; Samuel, b. Dec. 10, 1679, d. the 
same day, and other children. He purchased land in Windsor of 
Jacob Gibbs, in 1678. He also had 40 acres allotted to him in Suf- 
field. May 16, 1671, it being the ninth recorded land in Suffield. 
He d. in 1707. He had sons-in-law, Simon Chapman, who was 
cousin to John, Samuel, and Jonathan Bates. The following shared 
in his estate, Sarah Ketchum, Jonathan Jagger, Hannah Welch, 
James Picket, Mary Hoyt, and Ephraim Phelps. 

Captain SAMUEL CROSS, of Windsor, and wife Elizabeth, 
had children, as appears by the will of his son-in-law, Simon Chap- 
man, who calls John and Nathaniel Cross his brothers, and gave his 
cousins John Bates £3, Jonathan and Samuel Bates each j£3, his 
cousin Sarah Ketchum j£3, and his cousins Jonathan Jagger, Han- 
nah Webb or Welch, James Picket, Mary Hoyt, each £3, and 
Ephraim Phelps £5 when of age, with the prefix of cousin to each 
of them ; and gave his son-in-law, Simon Chapman, all his lands at 
the swamp next to Hoil's meadow, and ten acres Mr. Cross pur- 
chased of John Eliot, Esq., near Gravelly Hill in Windsor, his cart, 
&c., and provided for his brothers John and Nathaniel Cross's sons, 
provided they had sons live to be of age. His will dated July 1, 
1707. Samuel Cross, of Windsor, June 11, 1676, gave 25. and 6d. 
to the poor of other colonies in the great contribution there lor this 
purpose. 

CROSS, NATHANIEL, of Stamford, and his wife Abigail, had 
issue b. there, viz., Hannah, b. July 23, 1687 ; Abigail, b. April 8, 
1694. By his second wife, Hannah, he had Deborah, b. Jan. 17, 
66 



762 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1701-2 ; Nathaniel, b. April 13, 1703; 2d Abigail, d. Sept. 6, 1707 ; 
3d Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1710; John, and perhaps others. 

CROSS, PETEPv, and his wife Mary, of Windham, (from Ips- 
wich,) had children, viz., Mary, b. April 20, 1679 ; Stephen, b. 
May 15, 1681 ; Elizabeth, b. June 14, 1683 ; Peter, Jr., b. Nov. 8, 
1685; Daniel, b. March 8, 1683; Experience, b. Dec. 1, 1691; 
Abigail, b. June 23, 1694; Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1695, d. same day; 
2d Mary, b. 1697, and Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1699. One Mary and 
Wade by his 2d wife. His wife Mary, d. Dec. 9, 1695, in child- 
bed. Some of his children were probably born before he settled at 
Windham. 

CROSS, JOHN, of Windsor, son of Samuel, m. Mary Grant, 
Nov. 3, 1686. He had a dau'r Hannah, b. at Windsor, April 10, 
1694, and probably others. He d., and distribution of his property} 
in 1721 ; widow Mary ; children, Nathaniel, Mary Picket, Hannah 
Jagger, and Sarah Bates. 

CROSS, JMr. JOHN, secured his farm near Rowley, " for ten shil- 
lings yearly toward a free school in Dec, 1650," &c. He did much 
for the Ipswich grammar school. John Cross lost his wife Mary ; 
buried in Boston in 1640. Captain Ebenezer Cross, of Portland^ 
Maine, d. Jan. 9, 1851-2, aged 88. Robert Cross, son of Stephen, 
1660. John, sen'r, of Ipswich, 1647. Isaac, of Exeter, 1651. In- 
ventory of John, 1652. Stephen, of Ipswich, 1667. Robert m. 
Jordan, 1671. Robert, aged 24, in 1666. Robert of Ipswich had 
sons Stephen and Robert, 21 in 1667. William' Durkee m. Martha 
Cross, dau'r of Robert, in 1664. {His. Gen, Reg)) 
' CROSS, HUMPHREY, d. at Hatfield, May 25, 1663. 

JAMES- CROSS, William Crooke, &c., embarked in the Thomas 
and John, for Virginia, from England, Jan. 6, 1635. (Somerby.) 

Cross has 7 coats of arms. Cross or Crosse 3; Crdsse 16 coats of 
arms. Farmer names John of Watertown, d. Sept. 15, 1640. John of 
Ipswich, 1635. Hampton, freeman, 1639, rep., 1640, d. about 
1652. Robert Ipswich, 1639, a Pequod soldier. Few if any of this 
name are now found in Conn. Peter Cross was settled early at 
Norwich. Three of the name had graduated at Harvard College 
before 1843, three at Dartmouth College, one at Amherst College in 
1838. 

CROUCH, WILLIAM, a Scotchman, was one of the first set- 
tlers of Stafford, Conn. A Scotch name. 

CROUCH or CROUTH, ARTHUR, a settler at Saybrook be- 
fore 1660. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 763 

ROBERT CROUCH, aged 15, embarked in the Globe of Lon- 
don for Virginia, August 7, 1635. 

CROUCHE or CROWCHE, has one coat of arms,CROWC[I 
has seven, Crouch or Couch 1. 

SIMON CROVVCH, of Fairfield, was accepted to be made free 
in Coun., 1664. (See Couch.) 

COUCH or COUCHE, has one coat of arms. Or. two plates, 
gu. a canton sa. Crest. — A semi bear ramp. 

CROW, Mr. JOHN, was one of the early and most respectable 
settlers of Hartford, thougli young when first here, he drew 20 acres 
in the first land division at Hartford, in 1639, and had 590 acres in 
tiie division of land in East Hartford, in 1666. He is not known to 
have been a relative of John Croic, of Charlestown, Mass., who was 
one of the original proprietors of Yarmouth ; as the genealogy of 
John, of Barnstable, has been traced, (so says Otis.) John, of 
Hartford, became the largest land-holder in Connecticut, and 
received many of the honors of the Colony ; juror at Hartford, May, 
lfi47_49. He appears to have settled in East Hartford, where two 
of his son.s also settled, after John, sen'r removed to Hadley, Mass. 

Mr. John Crow, early m. Elizabeth Goodwin, the only child of 
Elder William Goodwin, one of the pioneers, proprietors and settlers 
of Hartford, and one of its large land-holders. Mr. Crow after a 
few years, removed to East Hartford. After Mr. Goodwin and his 
son-in-law, Crow, had resided at East Hartford and Hartford, until 
1659, they became dissatisfied, though Mr. Goodwin was then a pro- 
prietor of Hartford and Farmington, he wished in his old age to 
become the proprietor of Hadley. And " at a meeting at Goodman 
Ward's house in Hartford, April 18, 1659," (see page ante, 97, note.) 
Mr. Goodwin and his son-in-law, Mr. John Crow, signed the agree- 
ment entered into, by many of the Hartford, Wethersfield and Wind- 
sor settlers, to remove themselves and their families out of the juris- 
diction of Connecticut, into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, and 
settled the town of Hadley. As they had stipulated they both 
removed with their families to Hadley, in 1659, though Elder 
Goodwin, in his old age returned to Farmington, and soon after d. 
there March 11, 1673-4. By the death of Mr. Goodwin, his large 
estate in land and the original right of Bartholomew Greene, by vote 
of Hartford, fell into the hands of Mr. Crow, and his wife, which 
made him one of the largest land-holders in the Colony, and of great 
wealth. Mr. Crow and his wife Elizabeth, had children, viz.: 

1. John, Jr., settled at Fairfield, and was concerned in trade and coniuierce 



764 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

in company with his brother-in-law Hon. Giles Hamlin, and died at sea in 
1667, supposed unmarried, left no issue. 

2. Daniel, settled in East Hartford. 

3. Nathaniel C, also settled in East Hartford, and was there with Daniel 
Crow, 16S3. 

4. Samuel, m. Hannah Lewis, at Hadley, May 17, 1671 ; remained in Hadley, 
where he d. ; widow Hannah Crow, m. Daniel Marsh, Nov. 5, 1675 ; Samuel 
and Hannah, had Mary, b. Feb. 5, 1671; Hannah, b. Dec. 6, 1673; Samuel, 
Jr., b. Feb. 11, 1G74. 

5. Esther, or Hester, m. Hon. Giles Hamlin, of Middletown, in 1655. (See 
Hamlin.) 

6. Hannah, ni. Thomas Dickinson, son of l^Jathaniel, of Hadley, formerly of 
Wethersfield. 

7. Mehitabel, m. Mr. Samuel Partridge, of Hatfield, son of Worshipful Wil- 
liam, of Hadley, Sept. 24, 1668. 

S. Elizabeth, m, 1st, William Warren, or Marvin, of East Hartford, and 2d, 
Phineas Wilson. 

9. Mary, m. Noah Coleman of Hadley, Dec. 27, 1666; Noah, d. July 20, 
1676, (or his father.) 

10. Sarah, b. at Hartford, March 1, 1646-7, m. Daniel White, at Hadley, Nov. 
1, 1661, and lived in Hatfield. 

11. Ruth, m. Wm. Gaylord, at Hadley, Dec. 21, 1671. 

12. Anna, b. July 13, 1649, born at Hartford. 
John Crow, d. in 1685. 

CROW, JOHN, Jr., son of Mr. John Crow, of Hartford and Had- 
ley, was concerned in trade and commerce at Fairfield, Conn., with 
Hon. Giles Hamlin, of Middletown ; he d. at sea, in 1667. He left 
no children and probably never married. The inventory of his prop- 
erty taken at Fairfield, Jan. 1, 1667. In part, viz., New England 
silver, £5 5s.; English money, £6 Ss.; Spanish money, .£9 1*. 
lO^d.; 2 silver cups, a silver hat-band £1 10s. ; silver shoe buckles ; 
silver stopper and seal, £0 12s. OOd.; 5 gold rings, <£2, &c.; Inven- 
tory, £298 lis. Id, Feb. 5, 1667, Mr. Marvin and his wife, Eliza- 
beth Marvin, John Crow, sen'r, Giles Hamlin and Hester his wife, 
stated to the Court their agreement for the division of the estate of 
John Crow, Jr., deceased, in New England, Barbadoes, or else- 
where ; 1st, all debts being first paid; that one-third of the whole 
should be allowed to Esther, sister of the deceased and wife of said 
Giles Hamlin, and their children ; and the other two-thirds of said 
estate should be left to his father, John Crow, sen'r, and by him dis- 
tributed to his other children at his discretion. The Court approved 
of the proposition, and allowed John Crow, sen'r, and his son-in-law 
Giles Hamlin, to close the estate as had been proposed. The pro- 
perty was finally distributed to his brothers and sisters. John 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 765 

Crow's daughters m. into the best families, but his sons did not do as 
well. The name has become extinct in Connecticut. 
^ CROW, CHRISTOPHER, first came to Hartford, not as early a > 
some others ; he remained a few years and then removed to Windsor. 
He m. Mary Burr, dau'r of Benjamin, of Hartford, Jan. 15, 1656. 
He had two tracts of land recorded in Hartford, one " where his 
house standeth," in 1652, and a piece of wood land he purchased of 
Wm. " Heirs " (Ay res,) in 1659. He was made a freeman. May, 
1656. His children, found on the distribution of his estate, were, 

1. Samuel, aged 21 years in 16S3, m. Martha Moses, Jan, 30, 16S9, and had 
Martha, b. at Windsor, Nov. 13, 1690. 

2. Mary, aged IS, Oct., 16S3. 

3. Hannah, aged 15, Feb.,16S3. 

4. Martha, 14 years. May, 16S4. 

5. Benoni, 12 years, 10S3. 

6. Margaret, 11 years, April, 16S4. 

7. Thomas, 5 years, 1GS4. 

He was made freeman at Hartford, May 1658. 

Christopher Crow, remained many years in the Conn. Colony at 
Hartford and Windsor. His farm where he last resided in Connec- 
ticut, was at Greenfield, in Windsor. In 1675, Major Treat, ap- 
pointed commander of the troops raised to repress the Indians, and 
ordered to march to Westfield and Northampton, in Mass. ; on his 
way at Windsor, he learned that four Indians between Windsor and 
Simsbury, had assaulted and shot at Christopher Crow ; that the 
whole company of Indians were eight. Major Treat halted his troops 
long enough to consult the council, and they ordered him to leave 
30 of his men at Windsor, and proceed with the remainder. But on 
the following day the council learned other signs of Indian hostilities ; 
that John Colt had been shot at by them, &;c. ; that Indians were 
lurking about the Hartford meadows, dec. These facts considered, 
the council ordered Major Treat forthwith to return to Hartford with 
his troops. (See Record of Council.) For some cause Christopher 
left the Colony, and afterward, about 1680, his wife also left, and left 
behind her three young children in a suffering state ^ in mercy to the 
children an order was made Dec. 11, 1680, to preserve the estate 
the parents had left, to pay his debts, and Samuel and Thomas Burr, 
were appointed by the court to take an inventory of the estate and 
dispose of the children the best way they could, and pay the debts, 
&c. An inventory was returned to the Court in Hartford, in 1681. 
In 1684, administration was granted on his estate to Josiah Clark, 
administrator, who had £73, besides some property in the hands of 



766 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Samuel Burr, and an axe and gun in Samuel Crow's possession, and 
was ordered to distribute £10 of the personal estate to the relict and 
her heirs, and one-third of the real estate for her life. To the eldest 
son £16; to her other children £8 each, to the sons at 21 years 
of age, and to the daughters at 18 years. Inventory dated March 
6, 1683; amount of inventory, £109 IBs. 6d. 

i. There was a Christopher Crow, who had a son Reuben, bap. at 
West Hartford, Feb. 11, 1739, and Roger, bap. at West Hartford, 
July 19, 1740. There was also a John Crow, who d. about 171.5. 
Hannah, his relict and son Nathaniel. 

CROW, NATHANIP:L, of Hartford, d. and distribution made to 
John his only son, presented by Daniel Dickinson and Debora Crow, 
Oct. 4, 1714, and received by the court, though he probably d. as 
early as 1709. Daniel Dickinson's children in right of their mother 
Elizabeth, deceased. Lieut. Olcott, guardian for Debora Crow ; dis- 
tribution in 1711. This is a rare name in Conn., at this time, 1854. 
Philip Crow, deputy, 1642. Wm. Crow, May 1, 1663, with Eph'm 
Treckham, took the inventory of Francis Cook, of Plymouth. Deliv- 
erance Crowe, aged 30 years, in 1654. {Hist. Reg.) 

The sons of Mr. John Crow, of Hartford and Hadley, partook very 
little of the blood of Elder Goodwin, or his daughter. Crow, or 
Crowe, Ireland, has 1 coat of arms ; Crow, 4 ; Croe (Croestoun, 
Scotland.) Gu. three buckles or. 

Crowe, (Llanherne Co., Carmarthen, as borne by Sir Sackville 
Crowe, of that place, created a Baronet, in 1627, and allowed to 
Gyles Crow, of Brasted Co., Kent, in 1586.) Gu. a chev. or, betw. 
three cocks arg. Crest, a cock ar, combed, wattled and membered, 
or. Nathaniel Crow, son of John, of Hadley, d. before 1697, and 
Andrew Warner, administrator in right of his wife Deborah, relict 
of Nathaniel Crow, deceased, and presented to the Court several 
sums as debts due from his estate. Daniel Crow, of East Hartford, 
d. Aug. 12, 1693, inventory taken Aug. 24, 1693, £330 19*. 



Note. — A list of many of the soldiers in the famous battle against the Pequot Indians, in 
1637, can most of them be seen on pages, 117 and 118, in " Hartford in Olden Time," by Sceeva. 
Though Jonathan Ince, shared in soldier's field lands in Hartford. He did not share in the first 
house-lots in Hartford, with the original proprietors, in 1639. And his lands in Hartford, were 
afterward assigned to Mr. John Cullick, for the reason that Mr. Ince, did not come and possess 
and improve them. I have supposed he never settled in Hartford, yet he might have been in 
the Pequot battle, as several others, who came to Hartford, left there before the first house-lots 
were distributed. Thomas Fisher, John Friend, Samuel Whitehead, (to New Haven,) and John 
Gibbs, of VVethersfield, (to New Haven,) and others, and perhaps others left before any record 
was made of them. 



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GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 767 

CROW, JOHN, supposed a grandson of John, sen'r, of East Hart- 
ford, m. Mabel, and liad a son Nathaniel, b. July 11, 1711. 

CROWFOOT, CROFUT, CROFOOT, JOSEPH, of Springfield, 
m. Mary Hillier, dau'r of John, of Windsor, April 14, 1658 ; and had 
issue b. in Springfield, viz., Joseph, b. 29lh of 4th mo., 1660 ; Mary, 
b. 4th of 10th mo., 1661 ; John, b. Aug., 1663 ; Samuel, b. Oct. 13, 
1665 ; James, b. Jan. 23, 1667 ; Daniel, b. Jan. 23, 1669 ; Mathew, 
b. April, 5, 1672, and David, b. Oct. 11, 1674 ; (seven sons and one 
dau'r.) Joseph, d. at Northampton, 1678. 

CROFOOT, JOSEPH, son of Joseph, of Springfield, b. 1660, 
removed and settled at Wethersfield, Conn., and the town of Weth- 
ersfield granted him 20 acres of land there in 1697. His wife was 
Margaret, m. Dec. 30, 1686, and had children b. in Wethersfield, 
viz., Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1687, d. 1689 ; Margaret, b. March 8, 1689 ; 
Joseph, b. June 12, 1692; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 14, 1693; 2d Mary, 
b. Jan. 11, 1695 ; Mehitabel, b. July 1, 1697 ; Sarah, b. March 19, 
1700, d. young, and Ephraim, b. July 27, 1705 ; widow Margaret, 
d. in 1733. 

CRAWFOOT, STEPHEN, son of Joseph Crawfoot, of North- 
ampton, who d. there in 1726, and grandson of Joseph, sen'r, 
of Springfield, who died in Northampton, in 1678 ; this Stephen 
settled in Belchertown, Mass., (says Doolittle,) before 1737, and 
was a soldier in the French war from that place, baptized May 16, 
1756, and d. 1765, aged 55. His daughter Abigail, married Joseph 
Billings, in 1756, d. 1813, aged 80. Ebenezer Crawfoot, son of 
Stephen, m. Elizabeth Billings, she d. 1783, aged 42. Ebenezer 
was killed by the fall of a barn in Pittsfield, in 1764. (Dool.) the 
name at Belchertown, is spelled Crawfoot. Ebenezer Crowfoot, of 
Lebanon, m. Joanna Smith, of Suffield, Nov. 5, 1724; Stephen 
Crowfoot, m. Abigail Graves, of Hatfield, March 14, 1716 ; Cro- 
foot, Stephen, of West Springfield, had a son Stephen, bap. there 
April 30, 1727, and Ebenezer, bap. Nov. 7, 1725; Benjamin Crow- 
foot, of the east parish, had a dau'r Eunice, b. June 30, 1734. 
There was a Joseph Crowfoot early at Windsor ; Joseph Crofoot, m. 
Esther St. John, of Norwalk, Conn., May 15, 1776, and had Ebene- 
zer, b. May 10, 1777. This Ebenezer, m. Sarah Gregory, of 
Norwalk, Sept. 3, 1795, and had Esther, b. at Norwalk, Aug. 20, 
1796 ; perhaps others. The name of Crofoot, went from Wethers- 
field, to Middletown, at an early period, and where it yet continues. 
Dr. Eveline, now of Hartford, is a descendant of the Middletown 
family. The Crofoots, Crawfoots and Crofuts, of Conn., all appear 
to have descended from Joseph and Mary, of Springfield, Mass., but 



768 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

SO early scattered to distant places, it is expensive collecting them in 
form, being in two states. 

CROWFOOT, (as borne by William John Crowfoot, of Beccles, 
Esq., M. D.,) has 1 coat of arms ; Craufurd, has 3 ; Crawfurd, has 
28; Crawfurde, 1. (Perhaps originally Crawford.) 

CROWELL, BENJAMIN, from Wethersfield, settled at Middle- 
town ; he m. Sarah Johnson, of Middletown, Sept. 30, 1708, and had 
children, Benjamin, Jr., b. June 16, 1709 ; William, b. Sept. 25, 
1712; one other son perhaps John, obliterated. Mr. Benjamin, the 
father, d. Jan. 24, 1752, and Sarah, his widow, d. Dec. 5, 1767. 

CROWEL, JOHN, Jr., of Windham, m. Mary Hows, March 18, 
1747, and had issue b. there ; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 8, 1748; Lydia, b. 
March 18, 1750 ; Eliphalet, b. April 8, 1752; Deborah, b. Feb. 8, 
1755; John, b. Feb. 28, 1757; Susannah, b. May 26, 1759, d. in 
'59; Silas, b. June 20, 1760 ; Mary, wife of John, Jr., d. Aug. 18, 
1762. This has been an old name at East Haddam. 

CROWELL, Rev. ANDREW, was settled at Groton, 1736, and 
dismissed. 

CROWELL, ROBERT, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1811 ; 
Judah, at Harvard College, 1844; Josiah B., at Yale College, 1845; 
Edward P., at Amherst, 1853. 

CRUMP, THOMAS, of Hartford, was a servant of Gov. Hopkins, 
and d. in 1644-5. Andrew Bacon and George Graves, March 5, 
1644-5, testified in Court, that they were with Thomas Crump, when 
he was sick, not long before his death ; he said " his debts being paid, 
he desired his master would doe w'th yt as he pleased," (his estate,) 
probably left no family. Thomas, was a defendant in Court, at 
Hartford, in an actionof slander, in 1643 ; Gov. Hopkins settled his 
estate, 1644-5 ; George Crump, of Hartford, d. in 1644 ; Crombe, 
Alexander, 1663 ; Crompe, Bridget, &c., aged 18, embarked in the 
Merchant's Hope, Hugh Watson, Master, for Virginia, in 1635. 
This name is now found at New London, in Conn., and in Virginia. 

Note. — In July, 1665, Robert Chapman, Major Mason, Ensign Avery, Thomas Minor, or any 
three of them, were appointed by the General Court, a committee to consider some way to dis- 
cover the approach of the enemy, from Southerton, to Guilford, in Conn., at the time De Ruyter, 
the Dutch Admiral was expected on the coast. 

John Chatfield, of Derby, was granted by the town of Derby, a piece of swamp land, near 
horse-hill, in Derby, about 1681, and was the first of the name there. 

Collins, Daniel, had three acres of land in his list in Derby, in 1681, two acres of which was 
his home or house-lot at £3 10s. QOd., two loads of wood to the minister ; and George Beman, 
at the same date, was listed, two acres home-lot ; and John Beach, three acres of home-lot, £1 
10s., in Derby, 1G81, and two loads of wood to the minister. 



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CROMPE, has 4 coats of arms; Crumpe, Crump, or Crompe, 
(Kent,) has one. 

CULLICK, Hon. JOHN; (tliis name is occasionally spelled Cul- 
lit.) He was for a time in j\Iass., and did not come to Connecticut 
to reside with the first company of settlers at Hartford. He was a 
citizen of Hartford, about 1641, and soon after became one of the 
prominent men of the Colony of Connecticut. In 1642, he was fore- 
man of the jury, at a particular court at Hartford ; deputy to the 
General Court, in 1644, '46, '47, d:c. ; magistrate and assistant, in 
1648, '49, "50, '51, '52, '53, '54, &c.; and Secretary of the Colony 
from 1648 to 1657, inclusive. He was one of the selectmen of Hart- 
ford, in 1643. He, with Major John Mason, were appointed by the 
General Court of Conn., Commissioners for the Colony, and " Mr. 
Tailecoat," chosen as a reserve, May 17, 1655, to agitate with other 
Colonies, &c. He appears by the colony records to have been 
called upon by the General Court, with other leading men of Conn., 
to many important places of trust. He was uniformly after 1643, 
while he remained in Conn., a member of the General Court, either 
as deputy or magistrate, or juror, or judge, which he performed, 
even after he held the office of Secretary of State, to the satisfaction 
of the good people of the Colony. Capt. John Cullick and Hon. 
Roger Ludlow, were appointed commissioners to the convention, of 
the United Colonies, of New England, in May, 1653. Yet Capt. 
Cullick, was absent from the General Court, May 18, 1653, and Mr. 
Ludlow and Mr. Cullick, were desired by the General Court, to attend 
the next meeting of the commissioners, at Boston, in Sept., 1653. 

Major Mason and Mr. John Cullick, were chosen commissioners, 
June 3, 1654, and desired to go down to the bay and attend the ser- 
vice there, as occasion should present, " men of approved fidelity 
and discretion." July 11, 1654, the General Court appointed Mr. 
Welles, Mr. Webster, "Mr. Tailcoat," Mr. Steele, Andrew Bacon, 
Mr. John Cullick and Samuel Fitch, a committee to draw and send 
one letter to the " Caratyon," one to Gen. Monck, and one to Mr. 
Hopkins, and to provide for the commissioners. (See Col. Rec.) 

Mr. Cullick, Mr. Steele and Mr. Allyn, were a committee on Mr. 
Whitting's will, Sept., 1654, which was approved by the General 
Court, as far as they all agreed. The same court gave Mr. Cul- 
lick liberty to draw and sell a hogshead of claret, and a quarter cask 
of red wine to his friends and neighbors, free from the country excise, 
at the same time had free license for the future to draw and sell to his 
neighbors and friends what wines and liquors he see cause free of 
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duty. At this court a severe law was enacted against selling wines, 
liquors, cider and strong beer to the Indians. Sept., 1654, Mr. Cul- 
lick, Mr. " Tolcoat," Allen and Hollister, were to receive the amounts 
for the Fort-rate, of the constables for the several plantations for the 
year past, upon the river, &c. In Sept., 1654, Mr. CuUick, (if his 
occasions permitted him, if not,) Mr. Clark and Mr. Mason were 
appointed to go to Pequot, and with Mr. Winthrop, to hold a particu- 
lar court, before Avinter, &c. In March, 1654-5, Mr. Webster and 
Mr. Cullick,* were appointed by the General Court to audit the treas- 
urer's account for the preceding year. (At this time and for many 
years after, there was no such officer as controller of public accounts 
in Connecticut.) A committee was appointed by the General Court 
and with auditors to adjust the business, now performed by the 
controller. March 7, 1654-5, Mr. Welles, and Nathaniel " Dicker- 
son," were appointed for Wethersfield ; Mr. Webster, and Mr. Cul. 
lick, for Hartford; Mr. Clark and Mr. AUyn, for Windsor; Mr. 
Steel and Stephen Harte, for Farmington ; Thom.as Allyn and 
Robert Webster, for Middletown ; to receive, allow and sign to 
the treasurer the bills of debts from the country, to any particular 
person presented to them in their several towns, (against the Cjlony,) 
and Mr. CuUick and Mr. Webster, to audit the treasurer's account. 
The General Court appointed Mr. Cullick, Major Mason and Mr. 
" Tailcoat," to go to Pequot, to hold a court there and perform other 
services. In 1656, Mr. Cullick, with the Governor and Mr. Steel, 
used all their power and exertions to heal the bitter quarrel in the 

Note. — As there is so large a number of facts connected with the life of Mr. Cullick, in Con- 
necticut and Massachusetts, in a work of this kind, it can not be expected, that but few of 
ihem, can be published. Jlr. Cullick, (as agent of his brother-in law, Mr. Fenwick,) after the 
return of the latter to England, had received from the several towns their annual payment, to 
the " Fort-rate," stipulated for in the agreement between Mr. Fenwick and the Colony of Conn., 
in 1C44. By one of the articles of this agreement Mr. Fenwick, had engaged to secure to the 
Colony, "if it came into his power," the right of jurisdiction to the territory, embraced in the 
Earl of Warwick's grant to Lord Say and Sele and his associates. This engagement remaining 
unfulfilled at the death of Mr. Fenwick, the General Court sought to recover from his agent a 
portion of the monies which had been paid, as was alleged, without valid consideration. They 
therefore, refused to surrender Mr. Fenwick's estate, which by his will had been devised to his 
sister, (Mrs. CuUick,) or to grant administration thereon, until an equitable settlement of accounts 
should be effected. By the conditions of this settlement, Capt. Cullick, compromised with the 
Colony, by the repayment of £500, and an acquittance of all claims against the Colony grow- 
ing out of the agreement for the purchase of the river, &.C., and the court released the estate of 
Mr. Fenwick, from the restraint formerly imposed, and discharged Mr. and Mrs. Cullick from 
all existing liabilities " so far and no further, as the estate bequeathed to them had any reference 
to the agreement." (See Appendix. Note by Trumbull, of first volume of printed Records of 
Connecticut, pages 573-4. Also, pages 318-329, 338, 345, and 357.) 



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church at Hartford. Mr. Cullick and Mr. Lord, were requested by 
the General Court, March 24, 16.57-8, to take in the treasurer's 
account for the Commonwealth. This was the last record of Mr. 
Cullick, as secretary, in his hand-writing, and the Hon. Daniel 
Clark, of Windsor, is recorded as deputy and recorder, under date 
of May 20, 1658. In May, 1657, the General Court requested Mr. 
Cullick, to write a letter to Mr. Winthrop, of New London, forth- 
with ; informing him to what place the country had chosen him, 
(Governor,) and desire his present assistance, as rnucii as may be. 

The General Court, October session, 1649, desired Mr. Hopkins, 
Capt. Mason, Mr. Cullick, Mr. Allyn, and " Mr. Taylcoate,"to prose- 
cute the works to be about the fort (at Saybrook) and dwelling- 
house to be erected for the service of the country with eflect, as had 
been before ordered. In 1651, the Governor and Mr. Cullick, with 
Mr. Clark, were desired by the General Court to hold a court at 
Stratford, for the trial of Goody Bassitt, for her life, (supposed for 
witchcraft.) and if the Governor could not go, to have Mr. Welles 
supph'^ his place. These facts from the Colony record, show the 
estimation of the people of Connecticut, of the e.xalted character of 
Mr. Cullick, without a recapitulation of the history of the purchase 
of the f^'ort at Saybrook, and the lands which were claimed by Mr. 
Fenwick, and the useful part taken in that purchase and final settle- 
ment by Mr. Cullick. A Mistress Cullick, d. at Hartford, about 
1648, perhaps the first wife of Hon. John Cullick. Mr. Cullick, m. 
Elizabeth Fenwick, a sister of Mr. George Fenwick, of Saybrook, 
May 20, 1648. She became a large legatee in the will of Mr. Fen- 
wick ; they had children b. in Hartford, viz., John, b. May 6, 1649 ; 
Elizabeth, b. July, 1652 ; she m. Benjamin Batton, of Boston. 

John, son of Hon. John Cullick, graduated at Harvard College, in 
1668, and Farmer says, d. before 1698. Secretary Cullick, though 
he signed to remove to Hadley, removed with his family to Boston, 
about the time his friend Elder Goodwin removed to Hadley, in 
1659 or 60, where Hon. John d. Jan. 23, 1663. In Oct., 1660, the 
General Court of Conn., after a long controversy as to the settlement 
of the estate of Mr. Fenwick, empowered Capt. Cullick, in behalf of 
his wife Elizabeth, and their children, freely to possess and improve 
the estate in the Colony of the late Hon. George Fenwick, deceased, 
according to the true intent of the will, with power to administer on 
said estate in behalf of himself, his wife and children, as legatees to 
said estate ; Mr Cullick, in Oct., 1660, with his wife Elizabeth, then 
of Boston, for themselves, heirs and legatees to this estate of said 



772 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Fenwick, in New England, discharged and acquitted the Colony of 
Conn., tiie General Court, and all and every plantation therein, from 
all sum or sums of money paid, or any way payable to George Fen- 
wick, Esq., or his assigns, by virtue of the agreement and purchase 
made of the river, &c. (See discharge Col. Rec. ; also, see Trum- 
bull, Col. Rec, p. 573 and 4 ; also 345, 327 and 329 ; also, see Col. 
Rec. as to Cullick and Fenwick.) Richard Sawyer, a hired ser- 
vant of Mr. Cullick, d. in 1648. 

Mr. Cullick has but two children recorded at Hartford, though he 
must have had at least two sons, in 1657, as Mr. Fenwick, the 
brother of Mrs. Cullick ; in the codicil of his will, speaks of his 
" sister Cullick and her children," and of " her eldest sonne,'' hav- 
ing a double portion, &c. Hon. John Cullick was an early, import- 
ant and most useful citizen of Hartford, in the early settlement of the 
town of Hartford and Colony of Conn. He acted as captain, juror, 
deputy, magistrate, judge, secretary of the Colony, and often a mem- 
ber or commissioner of the United Colonies of New England, and 
upon many of the signal committees appointed by the General Court, 
and by the Governor. His son John, graduated at Harvard College, 
in 1668, and died soon after 1690. There was an ELI CULLICK, 
who m. Sarah Foote, of Colchester, Conn., in 1758, not a known 
descendant of Hon. John, of Hartford and Boston. 

CULVER, EDWARD, sen'r, is found at Dedham, Mass., first, 
where he and his wife Ann, had three children recorded, viz. : 

1. John, April 15, 1640. 

2. Joshua, Jan. 12, 1G43. 

3. Samuel, Jan. 9, 1644-5. 

Edward, sen'r, was next at Roxbury, where two of his children 
were baptized, viz. : 

4. Gershom, Dec. 3, 1648, and Joseph. 

5. Hannah, April 11, 1651 ; m. John Burrows, Dec. 14,1670, and had issue. 

Edward, sen'r, appears to have removed to Pequot soon after, as he 
had a grant of land in Pequot, in 1653, and purchased the house-lot 
of Robert Burrows, and became baker and brewer for New London. 
In 1652 or 3, Nov. 20, he had a grant of a farm at Mystic, and a 
house-lot in the town ; the Indians called this farm Chepadaso ; he had 
removed and was at Mystic, in 1664 ; as early as May 5, 1662. 
GOODMAN, Culver, was chosen and allowed by the town of Pequet, 
to make bread and brew beer, for the public good. In 1664, Edward, 
sen'r, " wheel-right of Mystic," released his homestead to his son 
John, and removed to near the head of Mystic River, in New Lon- 



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don, at Cliepadaso. In Feb., 1G61-2, a small grant of a portion of 
the water side, next south of the fort land was made to Joh« Culver, 
May 7, 1663. John, was elected to drum on Sabbath days for the 
meetings, as formerly, — (drums used instead of bells to call the peo- 
ple to church.) Goodman Culver, was allowed by the town to sell 
liquors, if he should brew also, "else not; " and would engage always 
to have good beer, good diet and lodging for man and horse, and 
keep good order. John, son of Edward, resided some time in New 
Haven, where his dau'r Abigail is recorded as b. in 1676, and son 
James, in 1679. After which he returned to iMystic, and in 1695, 
confirmed to Thomas, son of John Lamb, land sold by Edward and 
Ann Culver, to John Lamb. In 1734, a colony of Rogerenes, at 
New London, removed to New Jersey, and settled on the west side 
of Schooly's mountain, in Morris County, consisting of John Culver, 
his wife and ten children with their families, being twenty-one in 
all. Edward, sen'r, was a noted soldier in Philip's war (at Hartford.) 
In 1675, the Council " ordered John Stedman and Edward Culver, 
with som of the Indians, to goe forth upon the scout betwixt this and 
Springfield, to make what discovery they could upon the enemie to 
the eastward of the river.'" Culver had great influence with the 
friendly Indians. 

CULVER, EDWARD, of Norwich, in 1680, from his name is 
supposed to have been a son of Edward, sen'r, and b. at New Lon- 
don, after his father removed there, though not recorded, with his 
wife Sarah and children, and their births ranging from 1681, to 94; 
in 1700, he became an inhabitant of Lebanon. (See Caulk. His. 
New London.) 

CULVER, JOSHUA, (son of Edward, sen'r,) b. 1642-3, was for 
a time at New Haven, where he m. Elizabeth Ford, Dec. 23, 1676. 
He settled at Wallingford ; his dau'r Elizabeth, d. at New Haven, 
May 2, 1676, and his dau'r Ann, d. there Sept. 8, 1677. 

CULVER, SAMUEL, son of Edward, sen'r, eloped with the wife 
of John Fish, about 1674, and nothing farther was known of him. 
She was a woman of bad character. 

CULVER, JOSEPH, son of Edward, settled on his father's farm 
in Groton. 

Samuel, Hezekiah and Daniel Culver, removed from Lebanon to 
Litchfield, and were original proprietors and settlers there, about 
1722 or 3. Mr. John Culver, of Lyme, N. Hampshire, served in the 
war of the revolution, d. April 15, 1852, aged 91 years. (Hist. Beg.) 

CULVER, SAMUEL, of Farmington, m. Elizabeth Spencer, 



774 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

Dec. 23, 1663 ; issue, Sylvia, b. Oct. 10, 1664 ; Shalor, b. April 
13, 1666 ; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 28, 1673, &c. 

CULVER, ANDREW, had children, Philolopa, b. June 4, "66 ; 
Mary, b. Feb. 5, '68 ; Ruth, b. Jan. 28, '70. 

In July, 1726, six Rogerenes were apprehended at Norwich, for 
traveling on the Sabbath, and imprisoned ; one of them was Sarah 
Culver, called by them the singing sister. In defence they stated 
they were on their way from Groton to Lebanon, to baptize a person 
or see him baptized. One of their party named Davis, they declared 
had apostolic commission and authority to preach and baptize. 
Some of the Rogerenes, had before been arrested and fined .5*. 6(Z., 
for Sabbath-breaking, and in this case traveled in defiance of the 
law, and boasted they could buy the idolater's Sabbath, for five shil- 
lings each. (See His. Nor., p. 149.) 

GUMMING, CUMMINS, COMINS, JAMES, a first settler at 
Stafford, Conn. 

CUMMINS, STEPHEN, had a son Thomas, Jr., who m. Polly 
Mumford, of Ashford, Dec. 31, 1797 ; Stephen, Jr., had sisters, 
Anna, b. 1778, and Betsey, b. 1781, &c. He and Polly, had chil- 
dren, Charles, Edmund, William, Eliza, Stephen, John, Mary Ann, 
George, Maria and Sophia. Stephen, Jr., the father, d. Jan. 2, 1844 ; 
Polly, his wife, d. Dec. 28, 1843, aged 65. 

CUMIN, has 2 coats of arms; Cuming, has 1 ; Cuming, or Gum- 
ming, 1 ; Cummin, 3 ; Gumming, 3. 

CUMINGS, JANE or JOAN, will, 1644 ; Sarah, (Cumings,) 
dau'r of Thomas Howlet, and wife, 1666 ; John, (Cummens,) of 
Salem, d. 1663 ; Isaac, sen'r, aged 65, of Topsfield, 1666. Isaac, 
sen'rs will, 1676, son Isaac, son-in-law, John Jewett and John Pease. 
Cummings, Joanna, made her will. May 31, 1644, grand-children, 
Mary and Joanna Bourne. Thomas, aged 60, in 1665 ; Thomas, 
sen'r, aged 60, in 1666 ; Cummins, Dr. William, surgeon, on board 
ship, was taken prisoner and transported from Canada, in 1648, to 
Louisburg, and from thence in the Brittania. (See Hist. Reg.) 

COMINS, EDWARD, aged 28, shipped for Virginia, in the Assur- 
ance, in 1635. 

CUMMINS ; this name is early found at Killingly, Conn. Jacob 
Cummings, went from this place to what is now Ware, in Mass., 
near " the Elbows," about 1731. Soon after, Jabez Olmsted went 
there, from Brookfield, Mass., and was the moderator of the first 
Precinct meeting in March, 1742-3, and appointed one of the Pre- 
cinct committee, at the meeting. In Sept., 1750, he was made one 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 775 

of the committee to build a meeting-house there. 1 Cummins and 
7 Cummings, graduated at Dartmouth College, before 1854 ; 6 Cum- 
mings and 1 Cummins, graduated at Harvard, before 1849 ; 1 Cum- 
ings, graduated at Yale College, in 1847 ; 1 Gumming at Williams 
College, in 180G ; 1 Cummins, at Amherst College, in 1847; 2 
Cummings, at Brown University, in 1776 and 1822. This is neither 
a familiar or early name in Connecticut. 

CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS, of Windham, m. Martha Ginnings, 
Nov. 3, 1747 ; issue, Robert, b. July 8, 1748 ; Anna Cana, b. May 
17, 1750. The father d. March, 1751. 

CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT, son of Thomas, of Windham, m. 
Hannah Sawyer, Sept. 10, 1783. Issue, Lucy, b. April 8, 1784 ; 
Thomas, b. Feb. 2, 1786, d. 1796 ; Joel, b. Aug. 15, 1788, d. 1796 ; 

Isaac Sawyer, b. March 28, ; Hannah, b. Oct. 2, 1795, d. 1825 ; 

Thomas Wilson, b. Dec. 18, 1797; Robert, d. April 10, 1825. 
Robert Cunningham, taken prisoner at the expedition against Que- 
bec, 1775. (See Henry Asc.) 

William Cunningham, aged 21, embarked in the Speedwell, for 
Virginia, examined at Gravesend, dec, May 28, 1635. Conyng- 
ham, has 3 coats of arms ; Cuningham, 1 ; Cuninghanie, 4 ; Cun- 
ningham, 4 ; Cunninghame, 18. 

CUNxNINGHAM, GARWOOD, a Scotch Irish gentleman, came 
to Woodbury, Conn., before 1750, where he m. Mary Hinman, b. 
March, 1720, dau'r of Capt. Andrew, of said Woodbury, Dec, 1751, 
by whom he had one child, Garwood H. Cunningham. Soon after 
which, the father d., and his widow m. Peter Hinman, son of Eleazer, 
by whom she had several children. (See Peter Hinman.) After 
the death of Peter, her second husband, she m. Mr. Munn, of Wood- 
bury, by whom she had no issue. 

CUNNINGHAM, GARWOOD II., son of Garwood and Mary, 
became a man of considerable importance in Woodbury, as a mili- 
tary otlicer, and Major of the 13th Regiment of Infantry. Repre- 
sentative to the General Assembly from Woodbury, three sessions; 
twice in 1799, and once in 1801 ; also a selectman, &c., and sheriff's 
deputy many years in Litchfield County. He ni. Sarah Hawkins, 
of Derby, Conn., a sister of Joseph Hawkins. He removed early in 
the 18th century, to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he remained 
several years as keeper of the principal hotel there. In the war of 
1812, he was connected with the American army, near Canada, 
where he was taken sick and died ; his wife d. some years previous. 
They had children b. at Woodbury, viz. : 



776 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

1. Garwood, m. Miss Myers, of Poughkeepsie, and had one child; Garwood, 
d. young. 

2. Joseph H., m. L. Robinson, of Durham, Conn. 

3. George, d. single during the Creek war ; private secretary to Gen. Jackson. 

4. Walter, m. Miss Davis, dau'r of Henry, of Poughkeepsie. 

5. Sarah Augusta, rn. Mr. Thompson, son of Judge Thompson, of Goshen, 
Orange County, New York. 

6. Horace, d. shigle at Mobile, Alabama. 

7. Maria, d. single at Poughkeepsie. 

8. Frederick, d. single, on his way home from Georgia. 

This family are now all deceased except Joseph H. 

CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH H., son of Major Garwood, of Wood- 
bury and Poughkeepsie, m. Louisa Robinson, of Durham, Conn., 
and had children ; Prisse, Marietta, Sarah, Jane, Joseph and Charles 
Tilton. Joseph H., was Lieutenant of the Poughkeepsie Fusileers. 
He volunteered his company consisting of about 80 men, to Gov. 
Tompkins, immediately after the declaration of war by Great Britain, 
in 1812, and served three months on Staten Island. He now resides 
in the City of New York, with his pleasant wife and family, and is 
himself a broker in Wall street. 

CUNNINGHAM, Qen. WALTER, son of Major Garwood, of 
Poughkeepsie, m. a dau'r of Henry Davis, Esq., of Poughkeepsie, 
and had ten children, viz., Sarah, Henry, Hannah, Wilkin, Augusta, 
and five others. Gen. Walter d. some few years since. Two of 
this name graduated at Yale College, in 1S06 and 1844 ; also 2 by 
the name of Conyngham, in 1846 and 1850 ; 1 at Dartmouth, 1848; 
6 at Harvard College, before 1847. 

CURRIE, CURRY, WILLIAM, of Long Island, in 1643. Curry, 
has 5 coats of arms ; Currie, has 4. 

CURTIS, CURTISS, COURTIS, CURTIES, CURTICE, COUR- 
TISS. — This name is found spelled as above upon the various records 
in Conn., but more generally spelled "Curtice." There appears to 
have been several distinct families of this name upon the different 
Connecticut records, at an early period of the settlement of that 
Colony. Each of which will be noticed in this schedule. The 
name has been one of high standing in England, even previous to 
the settlement of New England. William was made a freeman in 
Mass., March 2, 1632. {Hist. Reg.) It is also stated that ''Rich- 
ard, Thomas, John and William Curtis, four brothers, came early to 
New England, and probably from Kent County, in England," and 
that " John left no family." If so, there were others, who came to 
this country in the first settlement. This name has long been found 



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in England, and in great numbers in London and Liverpool, if we 
can judge by the city directories of those places. 

" There was an ancient family of the name of Ciirieis, resident in 
Appledore, county of Kent. Stephen Curteis, of that shire, was great- 
grandfather of Thomas Curteis, of Appledore, living in 1527, who 
wedded Joane, daughter and co-heir of Edward Twaights, Warden 
of the Cinque Ports, and was succeeded by his son William Curteis, 
Bailiff of Tenterden, in 1591, who had issue. Thomas, another son, 
Mayir of Tenterden, in 1606, married Joan Pattenden, and left sons, 
George and Stephen." Arg. a chev. sa. betw. three bulls' heads 
cabo6sed, gu. Crest. — A unicorn pass., or. between four trees ppr. 
In an ancient pedigree of the family, under the sign and seal of 
Segar, Garter, transcribed by John Phillipot, Blanchjo-Lion, and also 
in several MSS. in the Harleian Collection, the above arms are 
recorded. They were remaining on a glass in a window on the 
south side of Romney Church, in 1612, and are to be seen in the 
roof of the cloisters of Christ Church, Canterbury. {Burke's 
Heraldry.) 

CURTISE, SAMUEL, was an early settler at Hebron, Conn., 
from Southold, Long Island, and is described in a deed from John 
Parker, sen'r, of Saybrook, (one of the Legatees of Joshua,) as of 
Southold, Long Island, May 3, 1703, in the County of Suffolk, New 
York; weaver; deed dated May 3, 170 3^ Samuel Curtice and 
Obadiah Hosford, at a town meeting held atljF house of said Curtice, 
Dec. 21, 1709, were chosen in Hebron, to run the bounds twixt Col- 
chester and us, (Hebron.) In 1712, Samuel Curtice was elected 
town-clerk of Hebron. The Curtis's, of Windham, are supposed to 
have been the descendants of Samuel, the weaver, of Hebron. 
Samuel appears to have had a brother, who came from Barbadoes, 
to Long Island, and thence to Saybrook with him. Samuel went to 
Hebron and settled, (not known what became of his brother.) Caleb 
Curtis, who was an original proprietor and settler of Sharon, Conn., 
removed from Hebron to Sharon, where he d. Nov. 20, 1777, aged 
74, and probably a son of Samuel of Hebron. Caleb's sons were 
Caleb, Jr., Jeremiah, Daniel and Nathaniel. 

SETH CURTIS, who removed to Sharon, in 1782, from Dan- 
bury, was a descendant of the Stratford Curtis's, as was Daniel who 
removed from Stratford to Danbury, and from thence to Woodbury. 
CURTIS, THOMAS, was the first of the name in Wethersfield, 
and one of the first in the Colony, where he settled and became a 
man of reputation, with a large estate. He left on his decease, an 
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778 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

estate of £717, 135. 9d., a much larger estate than most individuals 
left at that time. Administration was granted on his estate at Hart- 
ford, in 1681—2 ; and to his sons John, Joseph, James and Isaac Cur- 
tice. Ruth, the wife of Hon. Eleazer Kimberly, (Secretary of the 
Colony,) and Elizabeth Staddar, were his daughters ; his son 
Samuel, received his portion by deed, before his father's death. His 
children agreed upon a division of his estate, and the Court appointed 
distributors to set it out to the heirs. Elizabeth, was the wife of 
Thomas, sen'r. His son Joseph, and his wife, received of their 
father's estate, more than the other children, for services performed 
for his father, being £140. Ruth, wife of Hon. Eleazer Kimberly, 
and Elizabeth, wife of John Staddar, were not recorded in the births 
with his other children. Thomas, sen'r, had several lots of land in 
Wethersfield, in 1650. He purchased a home-lot, of Richard Mon- 
tague, Feb. 20, 1659. They had children b. in Wethersfield, viz.: 

John, b. Jan. 1, 1639. 

James, b. Sept. 15, 1641. 

Joseph, b. March 31, 1644. 

Samuel, b. April, 1645. 

Isaac, b. (no date ; dau'rs liuth and Elizabeth, not given.) 

In another part of the record it is said Thomas, d. Nov. 13, 1681, 
aged 83 years. Thomas, was freed from training, watching and 
warding by the General Court of Conn., May 21, 1657; as was 
Jasper Gunn, " during^his practise of phissicke." 

CURTIS, JOHN, ^1639, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, m. 
Lydia, Nov. 20, 1666 ; lived in Wethersfield, and had issue, viz. : 

1. John, b. Dec. 10, 1667, d. 1712, aged 45. 

2. Thomas, b. Sept. 15, 1670. 

3. Lidiah, b. March 1, 1673. 

4. Dorothy, b. May 15, 1674. 

5. William, b. Oct. 12, 1677. 

6. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 13, 1681. 

7. Jonathan, b. Aug. 13, 1682; m. Hepzibah Hastings, of Hatfield, June 5, 
1705. 

John, was made free 1658. He drew 16 acres of land, and 
Thomas 216, in the land division in Wethersfield, in 1670. 

CURTIS, JOSEPH, b. 1644, son of Thomas, sen'r, m. Mercy, 
Feb. 8, 1674, and had children, to wit, 

1. Meribah, b. March 10, 1674-5, d. Jan. 15, 1684. 

2. Joseph, Jr., b. Jan. 10, 1675-6. 

3. Mary, b. Sept., 2, 1677. 

4. Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1679. 

5. Thomas, b. Dec. 24, 1680. 

6. David, b. Nov. 29, 1682. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITAN3. 779 

The father d. Dec. 31, 1683, inventory of his estate offered in 
court at Hartford, in 1684, and Mercy, his widow administratrix- 
The children here named, are Joseph, Henry, Sarah, Tliomas and 
David. Inventory, £271, 9s. There was a Joseph Curtis, m. Bethia 
Booth, of Stratford, Nov. 9, 1676. Distributed to his widow Mercy 
JG20, personal estate forever, and one-third of the real estate for life. 
Eldest son, £11 ; two other sons, £39 each. To his two daughters. 
£38 each. Inventory £271, 9s. ; children named on the inventory, 
are Joseph, aged 9 ; Henry, 7; Sarah, about 5 ; Thomas, 3, and 
David one year old. (Henry is substituted for Mary.) Mercy 
made oath before Samuel Talcott, commissioner, 1683, as truly pre- 
sented. 

CURTIS, JAMES, b. 1641, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, m. 
Abigail, July 8, 1686, no children are found, and perhaps he left 
VVethersfield. 

CURTIS, SAMUEL, b. 164.5, son of Thomas, sen'r, m. Sarah, 
Feb. 20, 1683, and had children b. in Wethersfield, viz. : 

Samuel, Jr., b. Nov. 23, 1GS4-5. 

Elizabeth, > ^y^- ,-,_ j^j 17 ^gg? ; Elizabeth, d. in infancy. 
Ruth, J ' .» ' ' J 

Samuel Curtis, the father, d. Nov. 26, 1688, aged about 43. His 
estate distributed in 1706, by Phillip Allcock and Nathaniel Bow- 
man, and agreed to by Samuel his son, by Ruth Hale, wife of 
Ebenezer Hale, and by Sarah Curtis, his wi^w. 

CURTIS, ISAAC, son of Thomas, sen'T^of Wethersfield, the 
youngest son of Thomas, is not found as a settler at Wethersfield ; he 
perhaps went to Woodbury and settled, where (Cothren says) an 
Isaac Curtis, a late settler had a house-lot in 1682. 

CURTICE, JOHN, Jr., son of Sergeant John, of Wethersfield, m. 
Elizabeth, dau'r of Joseph Wright, April 3, 1690, and had issue : 

1. Martha, b. Jan. 17, IG'Jl, 

2. Lidia, b. Nov. l.'j, 1094, d. 

3. Mary, b. July 5, 1696. 

4. Rachel, b. Oct. 25, 1698. 
r>. John, b. Feb. S, 1701. 

6. Josiah, b. Nov. 17, 1703. 

7. Elizabeth, b. March 18, 1707. 

8. Hannah, b. Dec. 12, 1711. 

John, Jr., d. Nov. 8, 1712; his negro Jacob, he gave to his wife 
Elizabeth. ■ 

CURTICE, THOMAS, son of Serg't John, m. Mary Goodrich, 
dau'r of John, Dec. 30, 1703, and had cliildren : 

I.Rebecca, b. April 28, 1705. 



780 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

His wife Mary, d. and he m. second, Rachel Morgan, dau'r of 
John, of Groton, March 17, 1715, and had issue : 

2. Ambrose, b. March 23, 1716. 

3. James, b. Sept. 11, 171S. 

4. Experience, b. Nov. 12, 1720. 

5. Waitstill, b. July 22, 1723. 

6. Rachel, b. Feb. 5, 1727. 

Thomas, the father, d. at Wethersfield, Feb. 5, 1730. 
CURTICE, JONATHAN, son of Serg't John, m. Hepzibah Has- 
tings, of Hatfield, Mass., June 5, 1705, and had issue : 

1. Anna, b. March 31, 1706-7. 

2. Abigail, b. Oct. 11, 1708. 

3. Thomas, b. Oct. 8,1710. 

4. Eleazer, b. Sept. 16, 1712. 

5. Jonathan, Jr., b. Dec. 26, 1714. 

6. John, b. Jan. 5, 1721. 

JOHN CURTIS, of Wethersfield, son of John, and grandson of 
Serg't John, was elected treasurer of the " New London Society of 
Trade and Commerce," in 1730, to which place he removed to exe- 
cute his office. 

ZACHARIAH CURTICE, of Wethersfield, son of Joseph and 
Dorothy (Edwards) Curtis, b. Sept. 13, 1719, removed and settled in 
Goshen, in Litchfield Co., about 1748. Flis brother Joseph, pur. 
chased a farm in Goshen, April 18, 1740, and removed there, where 
he remained about ten years ; May 17, 1750, he sold his farm and 
removed to Dutchess ClEnty, New York. He had children, viz. : 

1. Mary, b. May, 173—. 

2. Hezekiah, b. May, 1735. 

3. Hannah, b. Dec, 1736, d. 

4. John, b. May 17, 1738. 

5. Honour, b. Sept. 12, 1740. 

6. James, b. Feb. 10, 1743. 

7. Dorothy, b. Jan. 12, 1745. 

8. Joseph, b. Jan. 24, 1747. 

Perhaps others b. in Dutchess County, New York. Joseph, father 
of Zachariah, d. at Wethersfield, Dec. 31, 1765, aged 92, and 
Dorothy, his wife, d. April 18, 1760, very aged. 

CURTICE, JOSEPH and JAMES, of Wethersfield, about 1671, 
with Thomas Holy butt, Jr., (Hurlbut,) and Thomas Wickham, for 
agreeing to rob Richard Smith of his " water-millions and stealing 
five of them," and then in a boasting way, bragging of it, were sen- 
tenced by the Court to imprisonment, and there to remain in dur- 
ance, at the pleasure of the Court. The above were descendants of 
Thomas Curtice, of Wethersfield. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 781 

CURTIS, ELIZABETH, widow, and sons John and William 
Curtis, came from Mass., to Stratford, Conn., at an early period of 
the settlement at Stratford; widow Elizabeth, d. there about 1657 
or 8, as her will was proved Nov. 4, 1658, and names her sons John 
and William, and grandsons John, son of John, and Jonathan, son of 
her son William. The exact time this family came to Stratford, is 
uncertain, but it was quite early in the settlement, as John's son 
John, was b. in 1642. Elizabeth, could not have been the widow 
of William, of Roxbury, Mass. ; he did not d. until Dec. 8, 1672, and 
she was a widow at Stratford, as early as 1642. 

Note. — John and William Curtis, sen'r, of Stratford, became useful and important men in tlie 
Colony of Conn. Mr. Curtis was exalted to the office of a Captain of a military company in 
Stratford, an office to which no ordinary man could then aspire. And was often a Representa- 
tive from Stratford, to the General Assembly of the Colony. Lieut. VVm. Curtis, was a member 
of the General Court, 1671. Lieut. Joseph, (probably an error,) in May, 1C71. Lieut. VVm. Curtis, 
wasappointed a commissioner for Stratford, in May, IGTl, with Samuel Sherman; deputy, May, 

1672, also commissioner. At the General Court, held May 9, 1672, liberty was granted to Mr. 
Samuel Sherman, Lieut. VVm. Curtice, Ensign Joseph Judson and John Minor, themselves and 
associates, to erect a plantation at " Pomperoage," provided " it doth not prejudice any former 
grant, to any other plantation or person ; also, that any other honest inhabitant of Stratford 
should have liberty to join them in settling there, &c., and " that they settle there within the 
space of three years. {Col. Record.) He was deputy, June 26, 1072, a special session called 
by Gov. Winthrop, on his receiving a letter from the king, announcing a declaration of war 
against the states. General, that New England should make speedy provision for a defence 
against the Dutch, (at New York.) The letter had been sent by the Governor of Massachusetts, 
to Governor Winthrop. He was again a Representative, Oc^l072 ; Capt. Wm. Curtice, was 
again elected in May, 1673, and comm'r of Stratford, andWt a special session of the Leg. 
islature called by Gov. Winthrop, Aug. 7, 1673 ; also, Oct. 9, 1673 ; at this session, Capt. William 
Curtice and Lieut. Richard Olmsted, were appointed to lay out a grant of land to Thomas Blach- 
ley ; also, Representative to a General Court " by special order " from the Governor, Nov. 20^ 

1673, at which General Court, Capt. Wm. Curtice was appointed Captain of such forces as 
should be sent from the County of Fairfield, against the Uutcli nation of New York, under Major 
John Tallcot, who was appointed commander-in-chief of " such military forces as should be 
raysed in this Colony, and sent against New Yorke." Major Robert Treat, second in command 
Lieut. Thomas Bull, Capt. of the forces raised in Hartford County. Capt. John Nash, for New 
Haven County. Capt. Wm. Curtice, for Fairfield County. Lieut. James Avery, chosen Captain 
for such forces as should be sent from New London County, and Mr. Thomas Trowbridge, ap- 
pointed commissary for the expedition. The General Assembly considered the "Dutch nation* 
at New York, " not only open and professed enemies " to our nation," but that they, in a hostile 
manner, had invaded a part of " his Majesties Dominions in New England," and continuing in 
their hostile acts, and threatening to do more, as they should be enabled, seizing our vessels and 
ghedding English blood. The Legislature found themselves necessitated forthwith to raise and 
send such forces by sea and land " (in conjunction with the restoftlie Vnited Colonyes) "as should 
defend their persons and property, " both on the mayne and on the east end of Long Island," 
against the outrages of the Dutch, and repress the power and violence of so dangerous an enemy. 
And accordingly resolved with all expedition "to attend the same, tru.-ting in Almighty God 
that he will bless and prosper us in this our righteous cause, being necessitated there unto in our 
just defence." The management of which required speed and secrecy. The Assembly therefore 
appointed a "standing councill of warr," in the Colony, with full power to manage the affairs. 



782 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

CURTIS, JOHN, son of^vvidow Elizabeth, of Stratford, was twice 
m., 1st, m. Elizabeth ; she d. March 9, 1681-2 ; 2d, Margaret ; she d. 
1714. His children were 

1. John, b. Oct. 14, 1642. 

2. Israel, b. April 3, 1644. 

3. Elizabeth, b. May 2, 1647. 

4. Thomas, b. Jan. 14, 1648. 

5. Joseph, Nov, 12, 1650. 

6. Benjamin, b. Sept. 30, 1652. 

7. Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1654. 

John, the father, d. Dec. 6, 1707, aged about 96 years. These 
children are recorded at Stratford, and were by his first wife. 



consisting of the " Governor or Deputy Governor and assistants, viz., Capt. Benjamin Newbury ; 
Ensign John Wadsworth ; Capt. Thomas Topping, Lieut. Wm. Fowler, and Lieut. Thomas 
Munson," vvlio by special order (on all occasions) from tlie Governor, or Deputy Governor, or 
Secretary, by their, or either of their appointment, to convene, giving lime and place to convene, 
and when assembled or a major part of them, that any five or seven of them concurring, the 
Gov. or Deputy Gov. always being one, to have full power to act as a councilof war, and their 
acts to be as valid as if done by the General Court of the Colony. (See Conn. Col. Rec, 1673.) 
Capt. Wm. Curtice again elected Representative, in May, 1 674 ; this session changed the name 
of " Paumperaug," to Woodbury, and freed it from country rates four years. Capt. Wm. Curtice, 
Deputy, Oct., 1674 ; also Deputy to May, 1675 ; at this session, Capt. John Nash, Capt. William 
Curtice and Lieut. Thomas Munson, were appointed to lay out the highway from Woodbury to 
'' Pawgasuck," to the most convenient place for a ferry, and to lay out a parcel of land for a 
ferry-place. And the town of Stratford, appointed to lay out a county highway from Stratford, 
to " Pagasuck," to the place where the above committee should establish the ferry aforesaid. 
(See Col. Rec, 1675.) In July 1B25, the Governor called another meeting of the General Court, 
of which Capt. Wm. Curtice, was^ member. The cause of which meeting was the " trouble of 
the Indians now risen against the English, spoyleing and distroying of them by fire and sword ; " 
■' also some motions of Major Andross," and particularly as to a letter sent said Andross; from 
the Governor, Deputy Governor and assistants, in answer to a letter received from him &.C., &c. 
Capt. Wm. Curtice, was also a Representative, Oct., 1675, at which session he received a fur- 
ther command of troops raised, and he also was put in nomination for an assistant, the nest May, 
(1676.) In May, 1676, Capt. Wm. Curtice and Mr. Samuel Sherman, were appointed commis- 
sioners for Stratford and Woodbury. Capt. Wm. Curtice, Representative, Oct., 1676, and again 
nominated to stand for election the next May ; also, deputy in May, 1677 ; also, Oct., 1677, with 
Mr. Francis Hall, of Stratford. Capt. Wm. Curtis, nominated for an assistant for the next May, 
and so continued to hold the various offices conferred upon him by the town or Colony, during 
his life. He and his brother John Curtice, are both found in the list of freemen at Stratford, in 
1669. Capt. Wm. Curtice, though he was one of the committee to lay out the town of Wood- 
bury, never removed there with his family, but his sons Israel and Joshua Curtice, were among 
the first settlers of Woodbury, where the name has to this time been respectable. Capt. William, 
appears to have been the most important, prominent and useful settler of the name in Connecti- 
cut, and while he was much of his time devoted to public business, his brother John, was retired 
upon his farm in Stratford, and a man of less importance in the public business of the Colony. 
There was also Joseph Curtis, who went from Stratford, to Danbury, and from thence to Wood- 
bury, as early as 1700. 

• I find no satisfactory evidence of the relation, if any existed, between Elizabeth, John and 
I William Curtis, who settled at Stratford, with either Henry, of Windsor ; Thomas, of Wethers- 
field ; Samuel, of Hebron, from Long Island, and John, of Woodstock, (or Roxbury.) 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 783 

CURTIS, Capt. WILLIAM, son of Elizabeth, and brothc-r of 
John, sen'r, of Stratford, d. at Stratford in his old age, Dec. 21, ]70"2. 
His will, dated Dec. 15, 1702, names his children, viz., Daniel, 
Ebenezer, Zachariah, Josiah. Joshua, Sarah, Elizabeth and Jonathan. 
There is found on Stratford record a William Curtis, who had chil- 
dren b. there, viz., Elizabeth, b. Feb. 26, ; Jenar Henry, b. 

Nov. 14, 1659 ; Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1662. The father of these 
three children, perhaps was or might have been an unrecorded son of 
John, sen'r, or William, sen'r. Capt. \Vm. Curtis was one of the 
leading men of Stratford. In October, 1667, the court (probably in 
consequence of the trouble in Mr. Walker's church at Stratford) 
gave liberty to Lieut. (Wm.) Curtis, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Fayrchild, 
Ensign Judson, Mr. Hawley and John Minor, (then of Stratford,) to 
purchase Potatuc (now Newtown) and the adjoining lands to be 
reserved for a village or plantation. In May 9, 1672, the General 
Court, granted power to Lieut. Wm. Curtis, Mr. Samuel Sherman, 
Ensign Joseph Judson and John Minor, with their associates, to set- 
tle a plantation at " Pamperodge," (Woodbury,) if it injured no 
former grant to any other plantation, or person, with the privilege to 
other honest inhabitants of Stratford, to settle there within three years. 
Capt. Wm. Curtis, though an original proprietor of Woodbury, lived 
and d. at Stratford. Two of his sons Joshua and Israel Curtis, 
signed the fundamental agreement for the settlement and government 
of Pamparauge, Feb. 14, 1672. It was na#ied Woodbury, by the 
General Court, in 1674. John Curtis, of Stratford, witnessed a deed 
from Tautannimo Sachem of " Pagassit," and other Derby Indians. 
To Lieut. Thomas Wheeler, dated April 20, 1(559, embracing a 
large tract, extending into what is now Litchfield County. Israel 
Curtis, witness of a deed of a part of Woodbury, recorded May 29, 
1699. 

John Curtis, made a freeman in Conn,, May, 1658. John and 
Thomas Curtis, in the list of freemen in Welhersfield, in 1669. 
William, John and Israel Curtis, in the Stratford list of freemen, in 
1669, and Wm., one of the selectmen. Lieut. Wm. Curtis, deputy 
to the General Court from Stratford, in Oct., 1667, May, 1668, Oct., 
1668, May, 1669, May, 1670, Oct., 1669, Oct., 1670, May, 1672, 
and frequently afterwards. He was commissioner for Stratford, with 
Mr. Samuel Sherman, and in May, 1672 ; Lieut. Wm. Curtis was 
qonfirmed Capt. " of the train-band of Stratford," June 26, 1672, 
with Joseph Judson, Lieut., and Steven Burritt, Ensign. At a spe- 
cial session of the General Court of Conn., Aug. 7, 1673, by an 



784 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

appearance of" clanger from the Dutch. The Legislature ordered 
that the committee then appointed by the assembly, composed of the 
Governor, Deputy Governor and Assistants, Capt. Benjamin New- 
bury, Mr. Giles Hamlin, Mr. Wm. Wadsworth, Capt. Wm. Curtice. 
Lieut. Wm. Fowler and Lieut. Thomas Munson, to act as the grand 
committee of the Colony, in establishing and commissioning military 
oflicers in pressing men, horses, ships, " barques," or other vessels, 
arms, ammunition, provision, carriages, or any thing needful for 
defending the Colony ; to manage, order and dispose of the militia of 
the Colony, in the best manner for the defence and safety of the 
Colony, &c. Many other scraps of record evidence, might be offered 
to prove the exalted standing of Capt. Wm. Curtis, in Conn., during his 
life. The Curtis family of Stratford, has been uniformly respectable 
from the first settlement of Wm. and John Curtis. The Curtis families 
of Fairfield County and New Haven, and Litchfield Counties, are 
generally descendants of the Stratford family. One or two of the 
Stratford Curtis family, removed and settled at Durham, after which, 
on the settlement of Granville, Mass., David, Aaron and Ebenezer 
Curtis, removed from Durham, to Granville, in company with Enoch, 
Aaron and Samuel Coe, of the Stratford family of Coe's, and Dan, 
Noah and Timothy Robinson, from Durham. 

CURTIS, ZACHERIAH, b. Sept. 13, 1719, son of Joseph, of 
Wethersfield, removed to Goshen, in Litchfield County, where he 
purchased land in Juire, 1740. His children recorded at Goshen, 
are Joshua, b. Oct. 30, 1742 ; Salathiel, b. July, 1744, d. ; Elias, b. 
AuCT. 10, 174-5. He removed after about five years residence. 

CURTIS, JOSEPH, of Wethersfield, also removed from Wethers- 
field, to Goshen, on to land he purchased there in 1740, but in 17.50, 
he sold his land in Goshen, and removed to Dutchess County, New 
York. His children recorded in Goshen, were Mary, b. May 22, 
1733, b. at Wethersfield, and the following b. at Goshen, Hezekiah, 
b. May, 1735; Hannah, b. 1736, d. in infancy; John, b. 1738; 
Honour, b. 1740 ; James, b. 1743 ; Dorothy, b. 1745 ; Joseph. 

CURTIS, JOHN, of Durham, perhaps from Wethersfield, and 
pei'haps one of the Stratford family, probably from Stratford, to Dur- 
ham, as many from Stratford moved to Durham. He m. Dinah 
Norton, dau'r of Samuel, Nov. 18, 1747, she was b. at Durham, 
Nov., 1723, his. children b. in Durham, were 

1. Abijah, b. March 2, 1750 ; m. Ann Bishop of Durham. 

2. Phebe, b. June 18, 1752; m. David Scranton, of Durham. 

3. Hannah, b. Jan. S, 1755; m. John Hall, of Durham. 



GENEALOGY OF THK PURITANS. 785 

1. John, lj. May 5, 1757 ; in. Lydia Hall and Riitli Parniak'. 

5. Lois, b. July 15, 17G0; m. Deacon John Johnson; no issue. 

0. Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1762; m. Ehiathan Cainp and Deacon Ab'ni Pierson. 

7. Dinah, b. Jan. 21, 1766 ; d. aged 20. 

CURTIS, SAMUEL, son of Abijali, who was son of John and 
Dinah, of Durham, ni. Lucretia Brooks, Oct. 10, 1810. He began 
life at Durham, and had children, John, Samuel, Anna, Elizabeth > 
Phebe, Sarah, Hannah, and David, b. 1823, d. young. The family 
removed to Medina, Ohio, and had several children b. there. Wil- 
liam Curtis was a Deacon at Medina. 

CURTIS, HENRY, was an early and original settler at Wind- 
sor, Conn. He m. Elizabeth Abell, May 13, 1645. He lost one 
child in Windsor, in 1647. (Rowland.) He also had sons Samuel, 
b. April 26, 1649, and Nathaniel, b. July 15, 1651, at Windsor. 
He remained some years at Windsor, and little is recorded of his 
history. He became a proprietor and settler of Northampton, Mass., 
in 1653, where he d., Nov. 30, 1661. Henry Curtis had 5 lots of 
land in Watertown, Mass., early. (See Watertown Record.) This 
Henry was from England at an early period. 

CURTISS, Deacon's, estate was assessed at Guilford, at j£60, 
175., in 1642 or 1650. 

CURTICE, JOHN, of Hampton, Conn., and Flannah, his wife, 
had children bap. there, viz., Frederick, bap. July 27, 1760 ; Epa- 
phras, bap. Oct. 17, 1762 ; Ebenezer, bap. ijjj 1765 ; Anne, in 1767, 
and Elizabeth, March 4, 1770. 

CURTICE, HOSEA, of Colchester, had a dau'r Abigail, bap. 
at Colchester, April 6, 1746 ; perhaps from Hebron, not traced. 

At a General Court holden in Boston, Nov. 7, 1683, in answer to 
the petition of William Parke, John Boulds, Joseph Grigs, John 
Ruggles, and Edward Morris, selectmen of Roxbury, Mass., in their 
behalf, dated Oct. 10 and 17, 1683, for a tract of land for a village, 
to be laid out about Quialtesett. to the quantity of 7 miles square. 
The Court granted the petition, with two provisions ; the second was, 
that thirty families should settle on the plantation within three years 
from that time, and maintain " amongst ym an able, and orthodox. 
Godly minister." (See Woodstock Proprieter's Record.) The first 
discovery of Woodstock for a plantation, " Oct., Anno Dom.," 1684. 
The town of Roxbury, aforesaid, in prosecution of the above grant, 
empowered JOHN CURTICE, Lieut. Samuel Ruggles, John Rug- 
gles, sen'r, and Isaac Morris, to view the wilderness, and find a con- 
Yenient place, where they could take up said grant ; and after due 

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786 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

time they found, in 1684, a convenient place in the " Wapaquassen 
Country," westward of the " Mj'^anekessen River," afterward 
called New Roxbury and Woodstock, in Conn. It appears John 
Curtis, one of the discovei'ers of New Roxbury, had no house-lot given 
him in the first division of the land, or in the good or bad meadow 
in 1686 or 1690, and from this fact it is supposed he did not settle 
at Woodstock, but continued in Mass. 

CURTIS, DANIEL, of West Harttord, a descendant of Thomas, 
of Wethersfield, m. Rebecca, Oct. 14, 1736, and had issue baptized 
there, viz., Solomon, Jan. 30, 1737; Sylvanus, April 8, 1739; Lu- 
cretia, Dec. 20, 1741 ; Frederick, .^ept. 30, 1744 ; Juliana, March 
22, 1747 ; and Gabriel, April 8, 1750. 

CURTIS, ICHABOD, of Durham, son of Abijah, and grandson 
of John and Dinah Norton, dau'r of Samuel Norton, of Durham, 
m. Silence Camp, and removed to Ohio after 1800. Samuel Cur- 
tis, son of Abijah and Ann, of Durham, m. Lucretia Brooks, and 
had children b. in Durham, and removed to Medina, Ohio. 

CURTIS, Rev. JEREMIAH, graduated at Yale College, 1724, 
ordained in Southington, Nov. 13, 1729, m. Hannah Burnham, 
dau'r of Rev. William Burnham, of Kensington, Jan. 7, 1730-1, 
and had 

1. Sarab, b. April 12, 1733, m. Noab Gridley, nSl. She d. 1S05. 

2. Hannah, b. Sept. 1, 1735, m. Job Lewis, March 13, 1755, d. ISIO. 

3. Samuel, b. Nov. 15, 1737, m. Margaret Root, May 13, 1766, d. 1769. 

4. John, b. Jan. 20, 173^-40, m. Mary Lewis, Dec. 3, 1762. 

5. Mary, b. August 20, 1742. 

6. Lucy, b. August 5, 1744, m. Elisha Root, Jan. 10, 1764, d. 1773. 

7. Jeremiah, Jr., b. Nov. 7, 1752. 

8. Abigail, b. — no date. 

This name has produced its full share of public men, ministers, 
lawyers, and doctors, as well as merchants, though a large portion 
have been farmers. 

Hon. WILLIAM CURTIS, and JOHN, his brother, sons of 
widow Elizabeth, of Stratford, tradition says were from Stratford- 
on-Avon, in England, I have no other evidence of their location in 
England. William d. in Stratford, Conn., Dec. 21, 1702. His will 
dated Dec. 15, 1702. His children then living, and named, were 
Daniel, Ebenezer, Zachariah, Josiah, Joshua, Sarah, Elizabeth, and 
Jonathan. From these two Stratford families have descended most 
of those of the name in New Haven, Woodbury, Southbury, Dan- 
bury, Durham, Granville, Newtown ; indeed, those of Fairfield 
County ; a large share of those in Litchfield County ; also, John 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 787 

Curtis, of Newark, New Jersey, who was a Deputy to the General 
Court there, with Thomas Huntington, Jan, 1, 1684-5, from New- 
ark. This John, son of John, sen'r, renioved from Stratford to New- 
ark about 1667 or S, and signed the regulations of the town. James 
Curtis and Samuel Fairehild, of Stratford, settled at Durham about 
1707, and in 1766 James was a deacon, and d. there, aged 80 years. 
David, Aaron, and Ebenezer Curtis, left Durham about 1756, and 
settled in Granville, Mass., with the Baldwins, Goes, Bateses, Robin- 
sons, Parsons, Bartletts, Barneses, &;c., from Durham. John Curtis 
and Asa Barnes, of Southington, were members of the convention 
to ratify the Constitution of tlio United States, in 1788, also Ebenezer 
Curtis, of Warren. Josiah, Bonjaniin, and Matthew Curtis, sons of 
Josiah, of Stratford, settled in Newtown, Conn., ancestors of Hon. 
Holbrook Curtis, and others, of Watertown, Conn. 

The name of Curtis was numerous in the early settlement of New 
England. Farmer names Deodate Curtis, of Braintree, Mass., about 
1643, who had a son Solomon. Henry, of Marblehead, from Eng- 
land ; his descendants in North Bridgewater. Henry, of Sudbury* 
where he d. May 8, 1678 ; son Ephraim, b. 1642. Henry, a pro- 
prietor of Northampton, (and Windsor,) 1653. Lieut. Philip, of 
Roxbury, slain by Indians, at Hassanamesset, (Grafton,) Nov. 9, 
1675. Richard, of Marblehead, 1648. William, of Roxbury, 
free, 1633, d. Dec 8, 1672, aged 80; sons, Thomas, d. 1652; 
Isaac, b. 1642 ; probably others, neither of whom appear to have 
come to Conn. Also, George, of Mass., free in 1640. The His- 
torical Register, with others, names Henry, aged 34 in 1654 ; Wil- 
liam, aged 34 or 37 in 1667 ; William, aged 37 in 1668 ; Zacheus, 
aged 53 in 1672 ; William, aged 40 in 1670 ; early settlers of Es- 
sex and old Norfolk, Mass. ; the last family connected with the Far- 
rar family, by the marriage of Thomas Farrar with Keziah Curtis, 
of Hanover. John Curtis "ex-representative," (was accepted into the 
town of Dover,) New Hampshire, in 1057. William and Richard 
free at Scituate, Mass., as early as 1650 ; they, with John Curtis, 
were approved inhabitants of Scituate in 1673, and had common 
land assigned them. William, a brother of Richard, bore arms in 
Scituate in 1640. Thomas had a dau'r Elizabeth, b. at Scituate, in 
1649. {See History of Scituate.) Zacheus, of Downton, a laborer 
from England, shipped at Hampton, in the James of London, for 
New England, in 1635, William Cooper, master. Jo. Curtis, 
Richard Cotton, Martin Church, George Castell, Ann Crofts, &,c., 
embarked in the ship Safety, for Virginia, in August, 1635. There 



788 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

appears to have been several distinct families of this name in Mass., 
as well as Conn., in the early settlement, and generally very respect- 
able families. Twelve by this name had graduated at Yale College 
in 1842, 12 at Harvard College in 1846, 1 at Amherst College, 8 at 
Dartmouth College in 1844. 

Curteis, has 10 coats of arms ; Curtess, Curtiss, and Curteys» 
has 1 • Curtisse, 1; Curteys, 1; Curtis, (Catccombe, county Hants, 
Bart.,) has 1 ; Curtis, (Culland's Grove, county Middlesex, Bart., 
Lord Mayor, 1796,) 1 ; Curtis, (Kent,) 1 ; Curtis, (London, con- 
firmed May 9, 1632,) 1 ; Curtis, (Tuddmham Hall, county Suffolk,) 
1 ; Curtis, (borne by George Savage Curtis, of East Cliff House, 
Teignmouth, county Devon, Esq.,) 1 ; and 3 others for Curtis. 

CURWIN, GEORGE, the first in New England, was b. in Work- 
ington, Cumberland, England, Dec. 10, 1610, as Camden says, " is 
the stately castle-like seat of this ancient, knightly family ; " and 
settled at Salem, with Hugh Peters, and became the founders of the 
mercantile enterprise of Salem, and built the first vessels there, and 
Curwin was largely engaged in commerce there during life. He 
was in the London trade, as early as 1653. Dr. Bently, in his 
sketch of Salem, says, " this year (1695) Salem lost another import- 
ant man, Capt. George Curwin, who came here in 1638, with his 
family, and was rich." Captain of a troop of horse, representative 
in General Court. His portrait was preserved in the hands of his 
great-grandson, Samuel Curwin, Esq., son of Rev. George. He d. 
Jan. 3, 1685. Estate inventoried at £5,964, 195. Id., which em- 
braced his homestead, four dwelling-houses, four ware-houses, two 
wharves, in Salem, and three farms in the vicinity, of 1,500 acres. 
A warehouse and wharf in Boston, and vessels, the George, the 
Swallow, John and William, valued at £1,050 ; merchandise, 
£2,232 ; gold ana silver coin, <£93, 7s. ; 1621 oz. of plate ; a silver 
laced cloth ooat ; velvet do. ; a satin waistcoat, embroidered with 
gold, &c,, &c. His widow Elizabeth, was dau'r of Hon. Herbert 
Pelham, one of the assistants, and sister-in-law of Gov. Josiah Wins- 
low. His fifth dau'r m. Hon. James Russell and Edward Lynde, 
Esq., of Boston, Wm. Browne, Jr., Esq., and Josiah Wolcott, Esq., 
of Salem, and Wadsworth, President of Harvard College. His son 
Capt. John Corwjn, b. in Salem, July 28, 1638, was a merchant and 
deputy at Salem, m. Margaret, third dau'r of Gov. John Winthrop, 
of Conn., in May, 1665, and granddau'r of Rev. Flugh Peters, by 
his only child ; Capt. Corwin, d. in 1683, and left an only son George, 
b. 1666. Bartlinlompw Corwin, only snn nf tlie last George, re- 



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789 



moved to, and settled at Amwell, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, ni. 
Esther Burt, and had four sons. Viz., George, John, Joseph and 
Samuel, and d. May 9, 1747. Joseph, removed to Canada. The 
family of George, removed to Kentucky ; this George d. 1780. 
John, a great-grandson of Bartholomew, settled at Baltimore. 

CORWIN, Hon. JONATHAN, son of George, sen'r, was b. in 
Salem, Nov. 14, 1640 ; assistant in the Council at Boston, 1691 ; 
Judge of the Supreme Court, 1702 ; he resigned in 1715 ; he died 
July, 1718. His widow was a dau'r of Sir Henry Gibbs, of Dor- 
setshire. His children, Anne, d. young; Elizabeth, m. James Lin- 
dall, Esq., of Salem ; George, b. 1682, graduated at Harvard Col- 
lege, 1701, and settled in the ministry in Salem; d. at Salem, Nov. 
23, 1717, aged 34. (See Mass. Collections,) m. Mehitabel Park- 
man ; sons Samuel, b. 1715 ; George, b. 1717 ; he m. Sarah Pick- 
man, dau'r of Benjamin, Esq., of Salem, and d. in St. Eustatia, in 
1746 ; children, George, b. 1739, drowned on a voyage to the West 
Indies, in 1761 ; Sarah, d. single ; Mehitabel, m. Richard Ward, 
Esq., of Salem, and d. 1813, aged 72. (See Journal and Letters of 
the late Samuel Curwin, Judge of Admiralty and a Loyalist, Refu- 
gee in England, by Geo. A. Ward.) Jo. Curwin was an inhabitants 
of Southold, Long Island, and accepted to be made free by Conn., i 
with others in Southold, Oct., 1662. {Col. Record.) It appears frorn^ 
the facts in this family, that the original name was Curwin, and the 
name in this family has changed to Corwin ; and both names are 
used in the same family. The last John, of Southold, was probably 
son of George, sen'r, of Salem. 

~ CURWITHEE, CALEB, and James Chichester, of Huntington, 
Long Island ; John Carpenter, Thomas Carle, of Hempsted, and 
James Christy, of Newtown, Long Island, and others were accepted 
by Conn., to be made freemen in 1664 ; also, Jo. Curwin, Cory, 

Note. — I here publish the Colony record, of Conn., upon Robert Coe's first coming to Conn., 
viz : "Whereas, there was a dismission granted by the C(hurch) ofVVaterton, in the Massachu- 
setts, dated 29th of Mafrch] last, to Andrevve Warde. Jo. Sherman, Jo. Strickland, Rob'te Coo, 
Eoli'te Reynold, and Jonas Weede, w'l' intent to forme, a newe in a Ch. Covennte in this River 
of Conectecott, the saide p'ties have soe accordinly done w''' the publicke allowance of the rest 
of the members of the saide Churches, as certificate nowe p'^duced app". It is therefore in this 
pi'sent cort ratified and confirmed, they p''missing shortlie publicquely to remove the (said) 
Covennte vppon notice to the rest of the Churches." Of the above named persons who came 
to Wethersfield, in 1636, Ward, Robert Coe, Reynold and Weede, went to Stamford, and 
Ward removed from Stamford, in 1644, to Hempsted, Long Island, and returned and died at 
Fairfield. 

About 1639-40, Connecticut, purchased Waranoke, (Weslfleld,) of Ilic Indians, and began a 
plantation, and >fr. Hopkins built a trading-house there. 



790 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

John Coiiclin, seii'r, and Jr., of Southold, Long Island, were 
accepted to be made free in Confi., in Oct., 1662. 

CUSHMAN, SOLOMON, and Easter, his wife, of Stafford, had a 
dau'r Sibbel, b. Feb. 5, 1752 ; Isaac, b. Feb. 11, 1753. 

CUTLER, NATHANIEL, d. at Middletown, Conn., June 5, 
1706, in the 100th year of his age; buried at Middletown; (grave- 
stone;) this must have been the oldest of the name in Conn. 

CUTLER, DANIEL, of Windham, m. Mary Woodard, July 9, 
1736 ; issue, Sarah, b. Jan. 30, 1738 ; Eliezer, b. Nov. 20, 1739, 
d. 1759; Daniel, b. Jan. 22, 1743; Samuel, b. Feb. 6, 1745; 
Mary, b. Oct. 8, 1746. 

CUTLER, SETH, of Windham, m. Elizabeth Babcock, Oct. 22, 
1734; issue, Elizabeth, b. July 19, 1735; Hannah, b. March 30, 
1737, d. 1743 ; John, b. Jan. 17, 1738 ; Dinah, b. Nov. 12, 1740 ; 
2d Hannah, b. Feb. 17, 1743 ; Joanna, b. March, 20, 1740 ; Olive, 
b. Jan. 27, 1748 ; Sarah, b. July 18, 1750 ; Seth the father d. Feb. 
9, 1751. Seth Cutler, was from Killingly, first church, to Hamp- 
ton, and joined the church in Hampton, Feb. 20, 1738, and his 
children all recorded as bap. in Hampton Society. 

CUTLER, Rev. TIMOTHY, LL. D., graduated at Harvard 
College, in 1701 ; became a learned divine. He was in the Conn. 
Colony, soon after 1700, and became the third minister of Stratford, 
where he was ordained Jan. 11, 1709, and was made the second 
Rector of Yale College, in 1719, where he remained until 1722. 
He was the successor of President Pierson, at Yale. (See Yale 
Catalogue.) He became rector of Christ's Church in Boston, and d. 
in the 82d year of his age, Aug. 17, 1765. On the 30th of Sept., 
1709, Joseph Curtis and John Hawley, of Stratford, by authority 
of the town, made a grant of 100 acres of land to Rev. Mr. Cutler, 
on conditions for his encouragement to become their minister, &c., 
which was confirmed by another instrument, Dec. 20, 1710, also 
executed by Joseph Curtis, &c., and at " ye same time to receive of 
ye s' Mr. Cutler, now Rector of Yale College, at New Haven, an 
instrument for the releasing and conveying back to ye town of Strat- 
ford, ye house and an acre and half of land, &c., which the town" 
had given him, when they gave the 100 acres, according to an in- 
strument, executed Feb. 14, by Joseph Curtis, Ambrose Simpson, 
Jno. Coe, Jno. Hawley and James Lewis, a committee of Stratford, 
with Mr. Cutler, &c., which settled the ditierences between Mr. 
Cutler and the town. The principal instrument between them was 
dated April 27, 1721, and then acknowledged. When the commit- 



GKNEALOGY OF THE I'UKITANS. 791 

tee laid out to tlie Rev. Mr. Joseph Webb, two parcels of luiid in 
Stratford, in lieu of his lot of land on the Great River, originally 
laid out to Mr. Isaac Nicholls, of 94 acres. After Mr. Cutler, 
located himself and family at New Haven, he sold his other lands in 
Stratford. 

Rev. Timothy Cutler, is said to have been the son of Major John 
Cutler, of Boston, or Charlestown, Mass. He settled in the ministry 
at Stratford, Conn., in 1709. President of Yale College, in 1719 ; 
went to Boston, where he was pastor of Christ's church, in ] 723, and 
d. Aug. 17, 1765, aged 82 years. While at Stratford, he m. Eliza- 
beth Andrew, of Milford, March 21, 1710-11, and had children b. 
in Stratford, and recorded, viz., Martha, b. Dec. 30, 1711, and an- 
other dau'r, twins; John, b. June 19, 1713; Elizabeth, 2d, b. Aug. 
1715, and Timothy, b. Oct. 22, 1718, perhaps others b. after he left 
Stratford. 



MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. In the front rank of the female writers of America, stands the 
name of Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Her talents are of a high order, and her style in botli 
prose and verse, is simple, chaste, and purely classical, charming the reader by its elegance, and 
winning the admiration of all who can fully appreciate the beautiful and th6 true. 

The subject of this sketch, was the only child of Ezekicl Huntley, Esq., of Norwich, Connec- 
ticut, where she was born on the first of September, 1791. Her parents took especial pains with 
her early education and training, and lived to be more than repaid for all their care, and 
sohcitude. She began as early as her eighth year to evince a decided talent for poetical com- 
position, inspired, as she doubtless was, by the wild and picturesque scenery about hcir native 
place, where nature has revelled in some of her wildest moods, and rock, and stream, and hill, 
and vale, assume every variety of aspect, and these haunts of early childhood, which are still 
among her fondest recollections she has thus feelingly commemorated in her verse, 
" Sweetly wild. 

Wore the scenes that charmed me when a child : 

Rocks, gray rocks, with their caverns dark. 

Leaping rills, like the diamond spark, 

Torrent voices, thundering by. 

When the pride of the vernal floods swelled high, 

And quiet roofs, like the hanging nest, 

Mi'd cliffs, by the feathery foliage drest 1 "' 
She enjoyed all the advantages the schools of her native city afforded, and also attended a 
boarding-school in Hartford. Upon finishing her education, she returned to Norwich, where, in 
connection with an esteemed friend, Nancy Maria Hyde, she opened a school for young ladies, 
which was carried on for two years, and then relinquished. Miss Huntley, subsequently 
removed to Hartford, where she kept a select school for young ladies, which proved very suc- 
cessful, and acquired for her the reputation of being an able and kind instructor of the young. 
All her pupils became very warmly attached to her, and many now recollect with affection her 
gentle way of imparting knowledge to the tender, opening mind. 

In the year 1815, the first voluxne of poems, by Miss Huntley appeared. Daniel Wadsworth, 
Esq., of Hartford, who was a particular friend of the authore.ss, and a great-admirer of her 
writings, selected the articles of which the volume was composed, and defrayed the expense of 
their publication. The volume was entitled, " Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse." 



792 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ELIZABETH, wife of Samuel Cutler, at Gloucester, March 17, 
1693 ; James, of Watertown, and Anna, his wife, had James, b. there 
6th day of 9th mo., 1635, and owned land there. They also had 
dau'r Elizabeth, b. in Boston, in 1637, and dau'r Hannah, b. in 1638; 
Samuel, of Marblehead, in 1654. Samuel, aged 71, in 1700. Mr. 
Oliver, of Medfield, a soldier of the revolution, d. Aug. 25, aged 91. 
{Hist. Reg.) 

CUTLER, JONATHAN, of Colchester, Conn., had issue Abigail, 
b. Aug. 28, 1711 ; Jonathan, Jr., b. Aug. 17, 1713, and Beach, b. 
July 4, 1716. {Colchester Record.) Farmer, notices James, of 
Watertown, where his son James was b., 1635 ; John, of Charles- 
town, representative, 1680 and '82. He also says, " probably the 
Major Cutler, father of Rev. Timothy Cutler, D. D., of Boston, who 
d. Aug. 17, 1765, aged 82. (The same who was President of Yale 
College named above.) Robert, deacon at Charlestown, d. March, 
1665. His son Nathaniel, graduated at Harvard 'College, 1663 and 
d. Aug. 13,' 1678. Seth Cutler, from the first church in Killingly, 
admitted to the first church in Hampton, Feb. 20, 1738. Cutler, 
has 9. coats of arms ; Cutlers, one. 7 of this name graduated at Yale 

In the following year, 1816, her former associate, Miss Hyde, was called away, and she per- 
formed the task of writing her biography, and editing a volume of her remains. 

In the year 1819, IMiss Huntley was married to Cliarles Sigourney, Esq., a gentleman of edu- 
cation, possessing a taste for hterature, although he confined his attention through life to mer- 
cantile pursuits, and became one of the most eminent merchants in Hartford. He was a 
descendant of a French Huguenot, Andrew Sigourney, who was born in France, in 1639, and 
left at the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, in 1686, for Boston, Mass., where he died in 1673, 
leaving one son. Charles Sigourney, Esq., died December 30, 1854, aged 76. 

The writings of Mrs. Sigourney, are too well known to need special mention here ; they consist 
of numerous volumes in prose and verse, and have ever been kindly received, and highly eulogi- 
zed. Mrs. Sigourney is one of the most popular prose writers of the age ; and her poems, which 
include almost every variety of subject, are all made to subserve a high moral sentiment. 

In the month of August, 1830, Mrs. Sigourney sailed for Europe, where she was well received, 
and every attention paid to her, that a stranger could desire. She was in Paris when the 
remains of Napoleon, were brought from St. Helena, on which occasion she wrote one of the 
most beautiful and heart-thrilling poems that ever fell from her gifted pen. After vising Eng- 
land, Scotland and France, she returned and gave to the world that charming volume, " Pleasant 
Memories of Pleasant I^ands," a very popular book, which has passed through numerous 
editions. 

Her "Letters to Mothers," "Letters to young Ladies," and "Letters to mj Pupils," are too 
well known to need comment in this place, they are exceedingly popular, and will always stand 
foremost among works of that character. 

After her return to America, she received from the Queen of France, the wife of Louis 
Phillippc, a beautiful bracelet, set with diamonds and pearls, and ornamented with blue enamel, 
a just tribute to the talents of our much loved poetess, of whom the nation may well be proud. 

Mrs. Sigourney, at present resides in Hartford, where she is much beloved, and respected for 
her rare talents and many virtues. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 793 

College, before 1844 ; 15 at Harvard College, before 1848 ; 4 at 
Dartmouth College, before 1853; 2 at Amherst, before 1826 and 
1840 ; 3 at Brown, before 1823 ; 4 at Williams College, before 1826. 
CYNKER, JOHN, early in Conn. 

The anxiety which appears in some persons to brand Conn, and 
Mass., as being the first in this country, who were alarmed about) 
and punished witches. It was made a capital otFence not only by 
the laws of Pennsylvania, but New York, and trials for witchcraft 
(spiritualism) were had in these two colonies for the otfence, before 
they were at Old Salem, (see Matson's Annals of Phi/adelphia,) 
where is found the trial of two Swedes for witchcraft, with Wm. 
Penn, instructing the grand-jury on the "Subject, and he presiding on 
the trials; but they escaped conviction, by technical defects. 

DABOLL, NATHAN, the school-master, mathematician and a 
self-taught man ; he resided in Groton, and is familiarly known in 
New England, as the author of the well-known Daboll's Arithmetic, 
for many years a standard school-book. The name was not known 
in Conn., among the first settlers. 

DAGGETT. This was rather a late name in Connecticut, 
and came first on the east side of Conn. River, after 1700, where 
the name is yet found. Hon. David Daggett, late deceased, of New 
Haven, was a native of Rhode Island. Rev. Napthali Daggett, who 
was President of Yale College, was professor of theology as early as 
1755 : president in 1766, until 1777, when Mr. Stiles took the presi- 
dency. President Daggett, d. in 1780. He was b.- at Attleborough, 
Mass., and graduated at Yale College, in 1748; studied theology 
and settled on Long Island, where he m. Sarah Smith, dau'r of 
Richard ; he continued to preach there, until ho was appointed pro- 
fessor of divinity at Yale College, and accepted the ofFer and re- 
moved to New Haven, 1756. President Clapp, d. in 1766, and Mr. 
Daggett, was appointed in his place the same year, and continued to 
officiate as such, until 1777. In 1779, Dr. Daggett, became as 
much distinguished in war as in literature, being one of the volun- 
teers who turned out with his musket to defend New Haven, against 
the attack by the British troops, and was taken prisoner or forced to 
surrender, and though a prisoner, was so severely treated by the 
enemy, beaten, bruised, wounded, robbed, insulted and marched in 
his enfeebled state for miles, and forced forward at the point of their 
bayonets, while his wounds were yet bleeding, which so greatly 
reduced him in health that he was hastened to his grave in 1780, 
(See Dr. Daggetfs deposiiiony Barber^s His. of Conn.) 
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794 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

President Daggett and Hon. David Dagget, both have descendants 
at New Haven, where they both died, neither of whom were early 
settlers in Conn., though were adopted ornaments of the state. The 
name is occasionally spelled Dogget on the early records. Thomas 
Daggett, aged 21 years, embarked from England, for Virginia, in 
the Primrose, July 27, 1635. Eleven of this name had graduated at 
Yale College, in 1839; Napthali, 1771, at Harvard; 3 at Brown 
University, before 1827. Daggett, has one coat of arms. {Burk.) 

DAILEY, DALEY, DAYLEY, DALY, NICHOLAS, made free 
in 1663. 

DAILEY, JOSEPH, and wife Patience, of Colchester, Conn., had 
a dau'r Frances, an adult, bap. June 28, 1741, and a son John, b. at 
Colchester, Dec. 11, 1708; Joseph Dailey, resided in Middletown, 
where he died, and his son Field Dailey, aged 14, chose Joseph 
Dailey, for his guardian, in 1748-9. 

DAILEY, BENJAMIN, and Elizabeth, of Colchester, had a son 
Benjamin, b. at Colchester, June 3, 1744; Lucretia, b. April 4, 
1742 ; Joseph Dailey, Jr., of Colchester, m. Rebecca Dewey, 1747. 
This has been an old name in Woodbury, and is a frequent name in 
Ireland and England, Several families of this name have within 
a few years past immigrated to this country. 

DALY, has three coats of arms, all Irish. 

One (Co. Galway, Ireland.) One Benmore, Co. Galway. An 
ancient family, now represented by Malachy. Daly, of Paris, Esq., 
banker, eldest son of the late Dominick Daly, Esq., by Joanna 
Harriet, his wife, sister of the first Lord Walscourt, same arms, &c. 
One (Dunsandle, Co. Galway,) same arms, crest, Sj-c. {Burk.) 

DALGLESH, DAGLICH, ROBERT, was one of the signers at 
Branford, Conn., to settle a town upon Passaic River, in New Jersey, 
and went there in 1667, and aided in settling Newark. The name 
was for some years spelled, Dalglesh, which is supposed to have 
been Douglass. (See Douglas.) 

Michael Tompkins, in his will of 1688-9, in mentioning his chil- 
dren, Jonathan, Micah, Seth, Mary Rose, names ABIGAL DALG- 
LESH, and Elizabeth Bishop, note, p. 83, Steam's History of Newark. 
Dr. McWhorten, in his manuscript history, mentions four men who 
had fled from Scotland, to avoid persecutions there under Charles 
II., and names them Young, Nesbit, Clisby and Douglass, who, for 
their zeal and piety, had been admitted by the first settlers (of Ne- 
wark) to great privileges. Stearns' Flis. of Newark, note, p. 86. 
This is the Robert Dalglesh, (now Douglas,) who signed the contrac 
named above. In 1663, Robert Douglas and Wm. Douglas, were 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 795 

both of New Lomlon. Dalgliesh, has a coat of arms, (Scots craig 
Scotland.) Sec Bark. 

D ALISON, GILBERT, and his brother James, were early at 
Milford, James the eldest (Lamb't s'ays) d. in 1042, unmarried, and 
his estate settled by Capt. Astwood as judge, being ihe first estate 
settled in Milford, by the probate court. Gilbert Dalison, is noted 
by Lamb't, as principal after planter in Milford, in 1647. And he 
with Charles Deal, Samuel Coley, Jr., and Robert Ilaughton, were 
at Milford, in 1676. Richard Haughton, was one of the second class 
of planters at Milford, with Dalison, &c. Rev. Timothy came over 
to New England, with Rev. Samuel Eaton, Rev. John Fisk, &c., in 
1637. Dalison, has three coats of arms. One (Laughton, Co. Lin- 
coln.) One (Hamptons, Co. Kent.) One ar. a pile engr. sa. One 
Dalisone, (Scotland, see Dalyson.) Burk. 

DANA, JACOB, Jr., settled in Ashford, Conn. ; he was descended 
from Richard Dana, a French Protestant, who settled at Cambridge ; 
Jacob had a son Anderson, (who became a lawyer at Ashford ;) when 
his son Sylvester, was quite young, he removed to Wyoming, Penn., 
in 1772. The father of Sylvester, was killed in the hori-id massa- 
cre at Wilksbarre, in 1778, together with his son-in-law. White, and 
his mother, who was the dau'r of Deacon Caleb Huntington, of 
Lebanon, escaped the conflict, and with her children fled to Conn., 
on foot, which was even a harder fate than when she moved tliere on 
horseback, with Sylvester on the horse behind her, and a young 
child in her arms. Sylvester graduated at Yale College, 1797, and 
settled in the ministry at Concord, New Hampshire, where he d. in 
1849, aged about 79 years, so that Sylvester, when he rode behind 
his mother to Wyoming, was about y years old. Ho was b. at Ash- 
ford, Oct. 14, 1769. 

Dana is not found to have been an early name either in the Conn, 
or New Haven Colonies, though at a later period it has been promi- 
nent in the State, by the exalted rank the Hon. Mr. Dana, deceased, 
of Middletown, held in Congress, for several years, as well as by 
the high reputation as a divine, maintained by the Rev. James 
Dana, D. D., of New Haven. Dr. Dana, came into Connecticut from 
Cambridge, Mass., about 1757 or 8, and became a candidate for set- 
tlement at Wallingford, Conn., where the people agreed to settle him 
as their minister. Some feared he was not orthodox, and inquired of 
him his views of original sin, fiilling from grace, free will, &;c., all 
which he answered shortly. And when he was asked what he 
thought of the platform ; he answered, he had not seen it, but re- 



796 GENEALOGY OP THE PURITANS. 

marked if he settled he supposed he should settle upon it. They 
finally inquired if he had seen the doctrines of faith used by his pred- 
ecessor? He answered he had; they then wished to know if he 
liked them ? Dr. Dana, being probably impatient, asked why they 
did not inquire of him how he liked John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Prog- 
ress and yEsop's Fables ? A violent quarrel arose in the town against 
him, but he was ordained by the ordaining council, but they ordained 
him against the will of the consociation. Mr. Dana remained their 
preacher a few years and was dismissed, and afterward settled and 
died in New Haven. 

DANE, DANES, EBENEZER, of Windham, (this name per- 
haps should have been recorded Dean, or Dana,) had by his wife 
Mercy, issue, viz., Zuruiah, b. March 31, 1720 ; Hannah, b. Aug. 
9, 1722; John, b. June 29, 1724; perhaps others. Ebenezer, the 
father, d. May 22, 1753. 

DANE, NATHAN, and wife Sarah, from Abington, united witli 
the church at Hampton, Conn., in 1755 ; issue, recorded, Nathan, b. 
May 11, 1752, d. 1752; Lydia, b. March 8, 1754; 2d Nathan, b. 
March 16, 1756 ; Aaron, b. Jan. 21, 1758. 

DANE, THOMAS, aged 32 years, carpenter, sailed for New 
England in the Elizabeth and Ann, in 1635. 

Nine by the name of Dana, graduated at Yale College, between 
1760 and 1845. Hon. Samuel W., graduated at Yale College, 1775 ; 
17 at Harvard, before 1849, and spelled Dane; 2 at Brown Univer- 
sity, before 1831 ; 3 at Amherst. Dane, has 4 coats of arms. 16 
by the name of Dane, had graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1854, 
and one Dane, in 1800. 

DANFORTH, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Elizabeth, and had 
issue, viz., Elizabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1789; Thomas, Jr., b. July 6, 
1792 ; Almira, b. 1794. His son Thomas, m. Mary Ann Butler, 
Sept. 14, 1827. This was an early and very respectable name in 
Mass., but a late name in Conn. 

DANIELL, DANIELS, STEPHEN. This name is Daniel, gen- 
erally, upon the early records of Conn. Stephen was an early 

Note. — ^The original records of StratfordI', from the first settlement in 1639, to 1650, were 
destroyed by the burning of the building in which they were kept, so that the direct evidence 
from record showing who the first settlers were, is somewhat uncertain, though some things 
were recorded again, grants of land, some births, &c. But the dates to the grants are often 
omitted, yet the births give some light ; still a tolerable correct account can be given, though 
probably some of the first settlers left the town, before the records were burned ; of such no 
account is found. 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 797 

settler at New Haven, and the llrst found in the two Colonies. His 
children b. in New Haven, were Joanna, b. Sept. 1, 1652; Eliza- 
beth, b. Oct. 1, 1655; Rebecca, b. 30th, 11th, mo., 1657, probably 
others. Edward Daniel, d. in New Haven, Aug., 1662, Mrs. Anna 
Daniel, of New Haven, d. May 3, 1709. Stephen Danyell was 
fined 40s. and Greenfell Larreby, fined £5, for disorderly carriage, 
by the General Court, of Conn., Nov. 3, .1650, and both required, 
that if Joshua Jennings (whom they rescued from authority) came 
on board their ships again on the river or at Saybrook, to deliver 
him to the authority. The name Daniel, was at Hartford, in 1643, 
perhaps not a settler. John Daniel, of New London, as early as 
1663. Thomas Daniel, was one who was paid " for fetching guns 
from Saybrook to New London," in 1691. John, was of New Lon- 
don, when the patent of the town was sanctioned by the Gov'r and 
Company. John, of New London, d. about 1709, or 10, and his 
widow Mary, named. Miss Caulkins says, he m. Mary Chappell, 
Jan. 19, 1664-5, after he came to New London, and had nine chil- 
dren, viz. : 

1. John, b. Jan. 19, 1665-6; m. Agnes Beebe. 

2. Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1667. 

3. Thomas, b. Dec. 31, 1669. 

4. Christian, b. March 3, 1671. 

5. Hannah, b. April 20, 1674. 

6. Rachel, b. Feb. 27, 1676. 

7. Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1679. 

S. Jonathan, b. Oct. 15, 16S2. 

9. Clement, (not recorded.) 

John, sen'r, the father of the above children, divided his land to 
his four sons. He gave Thomas his homestead, which joined the 
farms of John Keeney and Samuel Man waring. This Thomas d. 
Oct. 12, 1725. The sons of John, sen'r, m. and all had children. 

DANIEL, JOHN, Jk., b. 1665, m. Agnes Beebe, dau'r of Samuel, 
Dec. 3, 1685, d. Jan. 15, 1756, wanting only 15 days of being 90 
years old. John, of New London, in 1709, was one of the petition- 
ers there for a grist-mill, to be built upon the falls of Jordan Brook, 
" where it falleth into the cove," in place of the old and neglected 
grist-mill, of Governor Winthrop's, which was built in 1712, by 
Richard Manwaring, on the falls of Jordan Brook, as petitioned for 
in 1709. (See Caulkins and record.) 

DANIELS, JONATHAN, of Colchester, Conn., perhaps son of 
John, of New London, d. 1750, aged 72 ; his wife d. 1743, aged 60. 
He had a dau'r Jemima, bap. June, 1740 ; Jonathan, (supposed) Jr., 



798 GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 

ot Colchester, m. in Colchester, Feb., 1744. His wife bap. May 
29, 1737. 

DANIELS, NEHEMIAH, of Colchester, m. Elizabeth Worthing- 
ton, Dec. 19, 1743, and had issue, Rhoda, b. 1744; Jonathan, his 
eighth child, b. 1760 ; Amasa, b. 1762. 

DANIELS, EZEKIEL, of Colchester, m. Elizabeth Olcott, of 
East Haddam, Oct. 28, 1787. 

DANIELS, LEMUEL, of Colchester, settled at Middle Haddam, 
about 1750. 

DANIELS, DANIEL, of Bolton, Conn., d. 1758 ; estate £29, 
16*. Ad., and his son Daniel Daniels, adm'r. 

DANIELS, JOEL, of Bolton, d. 1763, and Daniel Daniels, 
adm'r; estate, £25, 2s. Id. 

DANIELS, PELATIAH, m. Abigail Daniels, of Colchester, 
1750. 

DANIELS, WILLIAM (Massachusetts,) m. Katherine, dau'r 
of John Greenway, of Dorchester. He was the first applicant 
to be made free from Dorchester. His wife had for three years 
previous to 1653, bestowed much of her time to educate Indians, for 
the trifling sum of £6. This humane and praiseworthy act, 
induced the commissioners of the United Colonies to allow her £9, 
more for her past services, and to encourage her in further exertions, 
allowed her £3 in advance for the then ensuing year. 

DANIELS. "Davey Danell," taxed at O. R., 1661 to 1672. 
" Daniell Teage," b. 1647, taxed at O. R., 1666 to 1671. John 
had a grant of land Sept. 23, 1701, New Hampshire. (His. Reg.) 

Farmer names, Richard Daniel, of Billerica, 1675, and Andover. 
Robert, Watertown and Cambridge, free 1638, d. at Cambridge, 
July 6, 1655 ; also Thomas Daniel, of Cambridge, d. Nov., 1644 ; 
Thomas, Kittery, 1652, perhaps afterward of Portsmouth, and one 
of the first council of New Hampshire, under President Cutt., in 
1680 ; William, Mass., made free 1648, and Wentworth Daniels, of 
Lynn, 1640. [Lewis.) Elizabeth Daniell, aged 2, came to New 
England, in the Increase, in 1635 ; Edward Dannell, aged 18, em- 
barked for Virginia, July 27, 1635 ; Daniel Daniell, embarked for 
Virginia in the Merchant bona venture, 1634-5. This name has 
been many years at East Hartford, and Hartford, and in several 
other towns in Conn. ; Daniel, of New Haven, was there soon after 
the settlement of that Colony, and perhaps was a part of the New 
London family. The coats of arms are variant, and the spelling of 
the name as much so ; viz., Daniel, Daniell, Danyell, Daniels ; 



GENEALOGY OF THE PURITANS. 799 

Daniel, (Ireland and England ; as borne by Nicholas Charles Daniel, 
of Westbrook House, Co. Dorset, Esq.,) has one ; Daniel, (Ireland,) 
1 ; Daniel, (Trelissick, Co. Cornwall,) 1 ; Daniel or Danyell, has 
one; Daniell, (Cheshire,) 4 ; Daniell, (Cliflon, and Roslherne, Co. — ^ 
Chester,) 1; Daniell, (Cheshire, Suffolk, and Wells,) 1; Daniell, 
(Truro, Co. Cornwall,) 1 ; Daniell, (Durham,) 1 ; Daniell, (Glou- 
cestershire,) I ; Daniell, (Little Berkumpstead, Co. Hertford,) 1 ; 
Daniell, (Scotland,) 1 ; Daniell, (Aldridge-Lodge, Co. Stafford,) 1 ; 
Daniell, (Suffolk,) I; Daniell, (Beswick, Co. York,) 1; Daniell, 
(Beswick, Co. York and Wiltshire,) same as of Scotland ; Daniell, 
(Yorkshire,) 2; Daniell, (Tideswell, Co. Derby, a co-hieress, m. 
Meverell,) 1 ; Daniels, (St. Austins, near Lymington, Co. Hauts,) 
has one ; Danyell, has 2, and several others. One Daniel, and two 
Daniels, graduated at Harvard Collge, before 1847 ; David Daniels, 
at Brown University, 1824 ; one Daniels at Dartmouth, in 1844. 

This name was so early scattered in different towns and Colonies, 
it is now not only expensive, but difficult tracing them. 

DANIELSON, JAMES, Joseph Cady, and Eph'm Warren, were 
early settlers at Killingly, not far from 1700. Barber says, the 
first white person buried there, was a member of said Cady's family, 
the great-grandmother of Nell Alexander, who was living quite aged 
in 1836. N. Alexander was a nephew of Levens; he lived near 
Alexander's Lake, in Killingly. 

DANIELSOxN, Gen. JAMES, of Killingly, m. Sarah Lord, dau'r 
of Elisha Lord, of Pomfret. James Danielson, is the first found at 
Killingly, soon after 1700 ; Danielston, (Danielstan, Scotland,) haa 
1 coat of arms. 



ERRATA. 

Here is entered gross errors. 

Page 15, for John Abbot, on 2d line from top, read Robert Abbott, 1641. 
Same page, read Win. Abernatha, sen'r, wife Sarah Doolittle, named in her 
father's will. 

Page IS, for Accorly, read Ackerly. 

Page 23, Jacob Adams, of Suffield, d. in Boston, Nov., 1717, while a mem- 
ber of the General Court ; son of Robert, of Newbury ; he m. Anna, at Newbury, 
and had 2 children b. there, and 7 afterward. 

Page 27, Adkins, Josiah, had 2 or 3 children by a previous wife, and Thomas, 
of East Hartford, was one of them. 

Page 29, for Aiken, read Joseph Ea.son. 

Page 36, Allen, Col. John, had two wives. 

Page 42, the 4th line from top, read Leek, for Leet. 

Page 44, 12th line from top, for Deeriield, read Ipswich. 

Page 44, the two children entered for Eldw'd, Jr., put Edw'd, sen'r. 

Page 47, 15th line from bottom, read Feb., 1797, for 1697. 

Page 51-2, Samuel did not go to Saybrook, but d. in Harttbrd. 

Page 58, Joseph, son of John ArnoUl, was not an original proprietor in 
Hartford, in 1639. 

Page 99, Nathaniel Bacon did not act as Justice of Peace, but was present 
and interested in the depositions taken, Oct. 17, 1661. 

Page 126, Thomas Barber, sen'r, of Windsor, d. in 1662, and his son Thomas, 
was of Simsbury, in 1677. 

Page 130, 3d line from top, for Barclay, read Barlow ; his dau'r Mary Barlow, 
m. John Nash, of Norwalk, in 1684. 

Page 141, Thomas Barnes, of Hartford, and Farmington, not connected with 
Thomas, of Middletown. Thomas, of Middletown, was in New Haven, as 
early as 1644, and his children b. there, and nearly as old as Thomas, of 
Hartford. 

Page 146, Wni. Bartholomew, of Branford, was ancestor of the name in Conn., 
a mill-wright, and built the first mill in Woodstock, where he and two sons 
held lands. 

Page 74, in note, for brother, read " nephew." 

Page 157, for Wm. Bascum, read Bassura. 

Page 174, Thomas Beers, not a constable in 1647, but Thomas Bunce. The 
first Beers, was in Fairfield Co., in Conn, 

Page 182, Mathew Bellamy, was a school-teacher in Conn., in several towns ; 
he probably d. at sea, and not being heard from in some time, in 1689, the court 
appointed guardians for his son and dau'r. 



ERRATA. 801 

Page 444, lith line from top, read 1639, for 1689. 

Page 344, on 10th and 11th lines from top, erase all after daughters, to tha 
bracket, and insert, Anna, b. Oct. 5, 1675; Ab'm, Jr., b. March 2y, 1677, d. 
single; Mary, b. March ^I, fOSO, and Elizabeth, b. Au;^. 1'2,.1GS2. 

Page 639, note, 20th line from ^)Qttoin, for father, read brother-in-law. 

Page 644. 4th line from bottom, read Rev. John Calvin, and erafe Maftin 
Luther. ' Allen Josejih, of Coventry, was fEithervftf Col. ■ Ejhan, and son of 
Samuel ^AUen, who d. in Windsor, ii> I64s. , , 

Hon. Joel BarloVj author of Hasty Pudding, was born in the town of Read- 
ing, Conn., March ^4, 1754, son of Samuel B., by his second wife lEsther HuU^ 
and grandsoA of Samu(^ .lo'el Barlovv was the wondei; of his age and more so, 
in this age, by having foretold in his writings, the electric wires, the great' 
western canal, and navigation by steam, many years before Fulton and Morse, 
were known as inventors or discoverers. He was licensed to preach in New 
Haven. (See E. Stiles' Diar?/.) Chaplain in the 3d and 4th Mass. Brigades, 
17S0, 17S3. Embarked from New York, for Havre, in France. Wrote his 
" Hasty Pudding," while in Savoy, in January, 1793. Went to Algiers, the 
last of 1795, and returcd to Paris, in the summer of 1797. Hed. at Zarnawica, 
a small village 20 miles north of Cracojl, In Poland, Dec. 24, 1S12, when on his 
return from Wilna, to Paris, whither he had been to confer with the Emperor 
Napoleon. Married Ruth Baldwin, Jan. 26, 1781, dau'r of Michael Baldwin, 
and had no issue. She d. at Washington, D. C, May 30, 1818. Samuel Bar- 
lovv, the son of Samuel and father of Joel, the poet, m. Eunice Bradley, dau'r 
of Daniel, Aug. 2, A. D., 1731, and had issue: 

1. Daniel, son of Samuel and Eunice, b. Nov. 24, 1734. 

2. Ruhamali, dau'r of Samuel and Eunice, b. Jan. 22, 1737. 

3. James, b. Jan. 29, 1739. 

4. Jabez, b. March 21, 1742 ; Samuel, m. for second wife Esther Hull, dau'r of Nathaniel Hull, 
Aug. 7, J 744 ; and had children, vi/. : 

5. Nathaniel, b. May 13, 174."). 

6. Aaron, b. Feb. 11, 1750. 

7. Samuel, b. April 3, 1752 ; d. at Rhinebeck, New York. 

8. Hon. Joel, (the Poet,) b. March 24, 1754. 

Huldah Barlow, d. April 14, 1809, m. Nathan Bennet, and d. in Dunning 
street, Malta, Saratoga Co., New York. Samuel, father of Joel, the Poet, d. 
Dec. 20, 1773, aged 63; Esther, the mother of Joel, the Poet, d. Aug. 28, 1775, 
aged 54 ; Col. Aaron, full brother of Hon. Joel Barlow, d. in Norfolk, Virginia, 
Aug. 12, ISOO. Few of the great and good men of this country, have been as 
much and as maliciously misrepresented by the politicians, religious fanatics, 
and historians, as Hon. Joel Barlow, when few deserved it less, and much of it 
was probably to be attributed to the fact of his being fifty years ahead of the 
day in which he lived, and foretelling most of the important discoveries since 
his decease, mechanically, politically and religiously. (See his original letter.* 
and other writings in the hands of Olmsted, who will probably do him justice, 
with the facts in his possession, a\id with a pen few can wield to better advan- 
tage. See note, page 131, of this work.) 



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